Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-02-10

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you are all men Of sense, and so put it to
you here tonight, if was to get up here
and say that believed slavery was divine
institution, and that all my previous decla-
rations were false, that was convinced l
had been wrong, and that it was preferable
to liberty, and religious institution favored
of God, as Gov. Magoffin has said would
not every one of you put your hand upon
your purse for fear | would steal your mon
ey9 You would at once say, "that man
thinks to-day as he always did, and in ad-
dition to all the rascalties we have charged
upon him, he is an Internal hypocrite; we
will not trust him." 1t is because | como
out and tell you what believe, that you
Today trust me to go among your negroes.
Move the scene over the line, and it is just
the same. The man who has always seen
the sanctity of the hearthstone preserved
inviolate, and who has gone into some com
mon school to receive his education, and
who has watched the unparalleled develop
ment OF the free States, who reads his prim-
er or his English reader and studies the
Bible, and rises from the reading and tells
you that from bis observation the condition
of slavery is the true condition of humani-
ty, will some day teach you that at last the
unjust thing shall not prosper, and lie
shall not live forever. He who has seen
all these things and turns round and tells
| you in the South, II have lived under all
these institutions, and believe slavery to
be good thing a divine institution, the
beststate ofsociety," don't you know enough
to say that that man is not fit to be trust
ed2 Some of your orators said to-day,
state the truth and make them tell the
truth, survive or perish. That is the true
sentiment You ought not to trust them
/ will tell you whom you ought to trust.
trust the man who says: "Gentlemen, l
don't believe that slavery is divine insti-
tuition, that is any source of political, social,
or moral good, but believe you had better
try all the chemical power of Heaven and
in the winds, the steam power and the pow
er of the waters, than to hold the African
in bondage, because after all il is blunder
in an economical point of view; and al
though we are determined to stand by your
institutions, don't ask us to deny the life
which we live out in living letters, so
that all the nations of earth can see
and read We not only believe that
liberty is preferable, but we believe that
slavery is curse to white and black
That is the man for you to trust.
am here to-day and gone tomorrow
but tell you if ever the time does come
when the Shareholders need aid to protect
them from the violence of slaves rising for
freedom, that aid will come from the men
that are opposed to the Northern Democra-
cy, and not from the Democracy of the
North themselves, because there is not a
logical argument on Gods earth that can
bring them to the conclusion they pretend
to draw. Therefore it was that Stephen
A. Douglas was ready to beat you in
1873, when you were attempting TO force
slavery upon Kansas. He has backed down
beyond doubt to-day, but if you had not
elected him Senator, he would have been
in the Republican ranks. You are right
when you say you can't trust these. A
voice-"We didn't say so' You did say
so. appeal to the reports of the conven-
ton to bear me out. This was said, if they
would not march up to that line set down
let them go. Why let them go? Because
you don't trust them of course. II you
trust them you will want them to stand by
you; if they are your friends you want then
all. Mr.. Silver-tooth said that Stephen A
Douglas was outside of the Democratic par
ty already. Why2 Because he stands up
on the Democratic platform of 1856.
A voice in the crowd.-Did the Conven
ton coincide with that view2
Mr.. Clay.-Mr. Graves resolutions wer,
J voted down, which understood to coincid
with Douglas view.
A voice.-Was he named9
Mr.. Clay.-If you vote down the doctrin,
} and the man that makes speech, you dom
leave much of the man. Laughter.]
tell you Douglas stand no chance. Yol
have already degraded him from the Chair
, manship of the Committee on Terrtorie.
} in the U. S. Senate, are you going to takc
} him up again9 Your own Senators won
trust him, can you believe in man who's,
, masters are continually watching him, pisto
! and bowie-knfe in hand. Breckenridge i
the boy believe. Guthrie is an homes
: man, as honesta man as the Democratic par
ty has built up for number of years, anC
that is not saying much.
FLLIBUsTERING.
9. charge the Democratic party witt
fillibustering. You all know what tba
/ means. Going out with armed bands Q
| men from the United States, "extending tn
; are of freedom" performing John Brow
raids, entering upon general invasions t
: set humanity right When the gallant ol
tar, Commodore Paulding received instruc
tions, if he caught Walker, to bring hir
home the old fellow thought the Presider
:, of the United States meant what he sale
: He ordered out his marines, and brougt
, homo the individual, and what did th
President sayl Why, said he, 81 have
= great notion to dismiss you from the Sc
vice. You are a damn'd old fool" [Laugl
y ter. "Did not tell you, Commodore,
: Ostend, before became candidate of th
Southern Democracy, that we wanted O.
: ba, and we would buy it il we could, and
Spain would not sell it we would take it
: any way; and do you suppose that when "
9 say we don't mean to have Nicaragua "
don't want to have itl You are an ol
fool" Therefore, say, as these men al
not punished, and as Walker goes to Wis
the President Of the United States, tn,
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