Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-10-19
Letter from an Old Democrat

Tho following letter was received last
week, but was not published owing to the
crowded state Of our columns. Our corre-
spondent before this time will have heard
the result of the late elections, and no doubt
will rejoice that true Democracy has tri-
'umphed everywhere where elections have
been held, and we congratulate him that
he has seen the error of his ways and uni
ted himself with the only party that can
redeem and save the country in this great
crisis Of its history:
SANDUsKY Co., o., Oct. 9, 1860.
Mr.. EDIToR:-
Aud to all Ohon, itn,dy concern:
After reading the Democrat for many
years, and the $4,000 Messenger from its
birth up to its last issue, and the JOURNAL
for some time past, and occasionally looking
into my neighbors papers, and after attend
ing political meetings of every party that
came within my reach, and after voting in,
with, and for the Democratic party, land an
unscratched ticket at that,) do this day an
nounce to you, and to the rest of mankind,
that feel as though 1 have this day done
what every honest laborer should do, voted
the entire Republican ticket, both for State
and county officers, without a scratch or
blemish. The Republican is the only party
that has any regard for industry or freedom
in any sense of the word whatever, for the
Bell, or Knownothing party, disfranchises
the foreigner, and the Breckenridge, or
southern wing of the Democratic party, dis
franchises every thing that does not begin
with "nigger" and end with "slave." 1t
even murders ministers of the Gospel for the
same reason; it destroys the use of the mail
in the south which we of the north pay
thousands upon thousands of dollars every
year to sustain, for if every nonpaying mail
line should be struck from the list there
would not be one left south of Manson and
Dixon's line; it also muzzles the press, de,
strovs its prints, murders and banishes its
editors, and Furnishes free speech and free
thought. AS for Douglas and johnson, OF
the northern wing of the Democratic party,
it is in colleague with NnownothiDgsm
buys il at price, votes with and for it, as in
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. II
tramples on free labor by supporting the
slavery ticket; it falsifes the press, and vii
lilies and maltreats'its editors; it raises the
goad over the heads of the most faithful
expounders of Holy Writ, as in the case o.
the Rev. Mr.. Nudge of Tifin; itsuppresses
free speech and is using all its influence and
power to curse our free territories with sla
very. Therefore you and all others can sec
that the three parties above named, are buj
one party in fact, inseparable as far as prin
ciplc and oppression is concerned. They
may have some difference in bringing il
about Just to hoodwink the dear people il
different localities, for they must have votes
or they can not even elect a Congressman
in short they cannot effect anything
without first binding the people. Fellow
Democrats read, for the above is strictly
true as verify believe.
Old Abe, the only National candidate i
a worthy man, and the platform on whicl
he is nominated is the only one embodyini
the principles of Washington, Hancock, JET
ferson, Henry, Franklin, Jackson, and al
the fathers and preservers of our Nationa
liberties. Then depend on me for Lincol
and Hamlin, too, in November. lam nov
eagerly waiting for the returns of to-day
elections, for the purpose of seeing wha
the true Democrats have done for thei
country-whether they have voted for thei
own interest, or whether they have cor
signed us to a mean serfdom.
Democrats, on you rests the doom c
this nation. If you stick to yourname an
vote against your principles as you hav
done for the past eight years, you ma
bring woe and lamentation on your ow
heads, and destruction on the entire Unior
Mr.. Editor-Asa a certain scribler for tn
Messenger signs his name Republican,
sign mine OLD DEMOCRAT.