Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-02-03

way" But "are you sound on the goosel"
That was what they asked them, in other
words, "are you for slaveryi" Not"are you
for the Constitution and the laws, and for
the support of Republican institutions and
principles as our fathers handed them down
to us 2" No but "are you right on the
goose ?" and if man did not answer that
way that pleased them, they caught him
by the collar and elected him, and many
who upheld the Constitutional right of cleo
ton were compelled to fly for their lives,
and many we're wounded and killed. Where
then stood the Democratic press of the
United Statesi Aiding and abetting all
this treason. The free-soil citizen from the
State Of Kentucky, as well as he from the
free States, who had seen by actual expert
, ment the glorious benefits of free institu-
tions, and others who had seen the woe Of
slavery, and who found that the pledges of
the Democratic party had been kept to the
, word and violated in fact, late in the day
sent TO their homes both in Kentucky, the
slave and the free States and took up arms,
and upon every field, and by the whole
, power that God and nature had bestowed
upon them they resisted this attempt to
ensave them. What then did the Presi-
; dent Of the United States9 All the time
he by the forces Of the United States dis
, armed the Republican party. and left them
at the mercy of those invaders of theirrghts.
l JOHN BROWN AND HIS RAID.
; Then sprung up this John Brown. Isay
o he is the legitimate son of the acts and
Q avowals of the Democratic party that they
! intended to take possession Of Kansas by
force of arms, "peaceably if they could, but
y forcibly if they must" and it was only
, when these descendants of revolutionary
r fathers took up. arms in their own defense,
e and thank God there were Kentuckans
S as we'll as Yankees fighting there in that
! battle for freedom, and they drove back
d the invaders, and now great and over.
'r whelmug majority Of the people of Kan
n sas say that it shall be free, notwithstand
d ing James Buchanan lifts up his impiou
is hands, and perhaps praying that it may b.
m so, says that "Kansas is as much slave
1t territory as South Carolina" Is that dem
h ocracyl In the name of that God Il
Ie whom he 50 impously appeals, is it so-i
Is it slave State? Not at all. History tell
es us that Just there began John Brown. How
it is will state, as it comes to me autheu
nt ticated To the best of my knowledg
lg and belief, before he shed the blood of
ne single man, ono of his sons was chopped
" pieces in cold blood; and another son wa
he dragged in chains by vehicle, until fror
to the heat, the exposure, the ignominy, an
o. the torture of the moving chains, his bra
be was crazed, and be went mad; and his sis
th ter, looking upon all these sad calamitie
and scenes of horror was also crazed. The
b. this man took up the knife, and made wa
to Of determination upon the Shareholders an
ty the invaders of the soil. There is the Sc
ed cret of the whole matter, so hell me Goo
al as | believe am Cassius Clay, as l stan
er here tonight, say that was the beginnin
IS of this raid on Virginia. John Brown fe
n that there was no protection for him in th
nj Democratic party, tnat the laws of Nilsson
. and Kansas gave no protection 10 him, an
no that he had once more to appeal to th
God of Hosts for defense, and he carrie
that war on in Kansas, and in Missouri, an
he Virginia. The whole story is told; it WI
is nothing but the raid of man injured t
he aggressions made upon him, and these prove
ch to have been began and completed by Il
tes Democratic party themselves. Therefore
ed hurl back the imputation, and history W
ri stand by the record, and will record the u
ex- welcome truth. That is all of it. 1t W
DO, no servile insurrection at all. l see befo
tly me tonight, a man who committed Jol
,tic Brown in Virginia, and hear from 9th
nly sources, as Senator Mason, that there W
,s." not slave rose in insurrection. It was
not raid the fruit of Democratic action and
nor Justice, and if it is the thing it is said to
The that will yet threaten the peculiar instiI
ate ton of the South along the whole bord
to- they, the Democrats, are responsible for
go by reason of their avowals and their aci
the but the Republicans arc not. repudia
led the charge and appeal to the country for
gu verdict.
lelr THE VICE PRESIDENTS ALLEGATIONS.
''u- Gentlemen, having said so much preli
PIE mary and in explanation, / come to the d'
'.l"S laration of the Vice President of the u
nm ted States, as formally sent me under
A'ic own hand, but which speech l am told
rs Is very distinctly different from that he ma
A'.c in this State House.
'IIC You will pardon me for the length
vi this argument if it may be so called, e
= barrassed as l am by the difficulty of l
lass position here. 1t is rather more desultC
mo, than intended it should be, but the
olu portance of the questions to be discuss
not will, think, plead my justification.
ana The Vice President of the United Sta
oe makes ten formal allegations against
anu Republican party. He says:
ARK 81 charge that the present and utter
ow- purposes of the Republican party are:
S'er ''To introduce the doctrine of ne
re- equality into American politics, and
make it the ground of positive legislat
hostile to the Southern States;
the "To exclude the slave property of
hey South from all territory now in the Un
ul it or which may hereafter be acquired;
dust "To prevent the admission, in any
uen- tude, of another save-holding State;
blue "To repeal the Fugitive Slave Law,
ress- practically refuse to obey the Constitut
to on that subject;
%; | "fo refuse to prevent or punish by 81
ay) action the spoliation of slave property,
S so on the contrary to make itacriminal off