Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-01-27


give him what the constitution guarantees
to him as bis right. Therefore | could not
stand by Fec and his associates. believe
he is as pure a man as l ever knew, vet |
did not believe his position was tenable.
and was not willing to take ground with
him. not only proclaimed this on the
stump, but at a later day when was asked
by men sympathizing with him, coming
from other portions of the United States, Il
| could not conscieutiously lend him my
aid and countenance in carrying on his
work and enforcing his doctrines, declined
by letter announcing that could not stand
upon the platform Of Mr. Fee; upon that
} ground we must split. He was RESPONSE
bic for his acts, and for mine. That has
, been my whole course in connection with
, these parties.
1t is untrue-it is absolutely and entirely
untrue--on the other side, that l said that
these men ought to be expelled from the
Commonwealth. My position was one OF
strict neutrality. | said that while was
willing to see these men removed by law,
if they violated any law, was the sworn
and eternal enemy of mobs, come they
from what source they might. AS soon as
| heard that my name was connected with
this transaction in that way, that l, who
had fought against some eight or ten mobs,
had come and sanctioned mob, | immedi-
ately wrote to the editors of the Richmond
Messenger and the Cincinnati Gazette, ut
terly denying it, and stating my views.---
What was the result9 l was told eight
days after it was sent, with the influence of
my name, he of the Messenger received my
letter In eight days he received it, at a
distance of about an hours ride from my
office. That was what Judge Field told me
The day before left. l have enquired in
regard to the other letter, to the Cincinnati
Gazette, and have learned that there has
been no such letter received in that quarter
FEE AND JOHN BROWN.
, What further7 Mr.. Fee is stated here
as sanctioning the raid of Brown upon Vir.
ginia. A voice on the outskirt-Hurah
for Brown Let us be honest. Fee is an
exile; he is native Kentuckian; he has
away from this, explained himself, and l
have received report of the speech at
Brooklyn, and he there stated that while he
admired the self conservation, or in other
words the devotion, of John Brown, he did
not approve of his course, nor of his way
of settling the slavery question; in othe
words, he was opposed to insurrection. Il
was his view of the matter that he should
go to Shareholders, and by argument induce
them, and by the force of divine teaching
persuade them to rclinquish their hold up
on the slaves.
SORRY HOAX.
Well, gentlemen, the report reaches us o.
boxes of Sharp's rifles having been trans
ported through tho ordinary channels O
commerce to Berea. After these men arc
removed, we are now told that this was al
a hoax. All have to say about that is, il
was very sorry hoax. A sorry hoax as
far as Fee is concerned, doing him great in.
justice, imputing to him criminal intent
that he did not entertain and purpose he
did not design and, so far as the Common.
wealth is concerned, certainly it is sorry
hoax.
So much in connection with that subject
admit that great many very respectable
gentlemen in the county of Madison were
in this affair--men for whose character and
lives l have a profound respect personally
! and good feeling and friendship. All
can say is that | regret on their account
/ this transaction, but more especially do
regret the influence this thing must have
upon the large class of the people of tn,
county, who were receiving the benefit o
the education these men were bestowing
: MIR. Fec has nothing to lose-he will q
: where he will be paid as time serving
= man, or as other preachers of the Gospel o
: Christ, but the number of the uneducated
!. constituting two thirds of every born chill,
!, in the mountains around that little colony
= will be the sufferers of his absence.
, THE NEW GOD.
: We are told in that report that this MAJ
r imported new God-that the slavehoIder'
God was not good enough for him and hi
? associates, and this is attributed as re
D proach. | knew the community in anC
, around Berea when | was a boy, and say
e they were of the most vicious people eve
f did know; a drunken, tobacco chewing
3 whiskey drinking people; debauchery anC
l IhSh'hS Soulu buSIc OS SCSu Ms pldluly ~
t the MONDAY sun. But now, how is all thi
{ changed The price of land has advanced
0 as those gentlemen themselves admit, anC
: morality reigns where disorder was predom
e inant. Why, sir, they have invaded thu
e great state of Kentucky How9 Will
t Sharp's rifles, pistols and bowie knives
S No but with the New Testament, tn
| school house, the church and the saw mill
1t has even beer objected that they wer
o erecting saw mill. Where before, the in
o habitants dwelt in huts without window
and with mud floors, these men have intro
o duced neat frame buildings The childre
e that before were indulging in idleness an
dissipation, had been reformed and were &C
o ing to one of the best schools in Madiso
d county, and in so saying, make no singl
l. exception. A certain degree of self respeC
IS has been inspired in the people, and veG
| ture to say that now there is no better pee
It pie in the State than those who surroun
@ the colony of Berea in tho county of Mac
d ison. This is the new God they introduced
d II is the same God who before the long Gel
I turtles created the heavens and the cart
10 who based His Throne upon the etern
d principles of justice, and draped it in Il