Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-07-06
results OF LIncoIn,. Eleotlon.

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unquestionably be followed BY an abate-
ment Of all sectional excitement, and an al
most complete subsidence Of the Slavery
agitation, so far as that agitation can be in
huenced or controlled by the national gov
eminent, giving the Legislators of the couu-
try time and opportunity to turn their at
tention, and the attention of their constitu-
ents, to questions which concern the materi-
al development Of the Republic. Tho Chi
cago Press and Tribune says: "That such is
the indsputable, the rational and logical
result of Republican rule, is evident from
the plain considerations which we present
below:
I. Mr.. Lincoln will be impelled by his
oath Of Office, his long cherished opinions
and his duty to the country, 10 put his foot
on all schemes Of territorial aggrandise-
ment entered into for the sole purpose Of
giving wider area to Slavery. Hence fl
libustering in Nicaragua, Mexico and Cuba,
will como to dead halt; and the mad caps
Of the South, among whom are nine-tenths
of Mr.. Douglas Southern friends, will labor
in vain for acquisitions to the national do
main, which shall serve as the nucleus Of a
new slavery agitation, or which will give
new force to the fire that is now burning
/
Without new territories in which the power
of Congress may be exercised the political
results of the anti-Slavery war cannot be
feared; because,
II. The condition Of all the existing ter
ritories in regard to this question of slavery
is already determined. Kansas and Ne
braska will inevitably be free, and no power
can force slavery upon them. Dacotab, to
be organized by Republican Congress,
and settled by men going thitber to avail
themselves of tho benifcent provisions of a
future Homestead law, will never feel the
tread Of a slaves foot on its soil. The ter
ritory which must at the next session Of
Congress, be carved out of the country the
centre Of which is Pixies Peak, will inscribe
Freedom in its coat-of-arms. New Mexico
was provided for in the Legislation of 1850;
and we have no apprehensions that among
the causes which are degrading and brutify-
ing the polygamists of Utah, slavery will
ever be numbered. The new States to be
organized on Texan territory have their ad-
mission into the Union secured by the act
which added the Lone Star to the flag of
this Republic. A Homestead bill will make
two of those States free; and the faith of
the nation is pledged to the admission of
all whether free or slave. There remain,
then only the Indian Country west of Ar
kansas, and Arizona, to serve as theatres of
pro-slavery strife. The one is yet in the
sole control of the Indians, where it will
remain, until the extirpation of the race,
closed against the occupation of white men.
Arizona has no capacity for the support of
population free or slave. 1t is barren and
forsakcn, valuable only for the minerals it
is supposed to contain. But it will be free.
III. No act of Congress, no line of pol
icy on the part of the President, no party
schemes, can touch slavery where it exists
in the States by the guaranty of positive
law. No party contemplates, no party de-
nands, no President, bound by his oath of
office and his obligations to the Constitu-
tion, will permit interference in that quar-
ter Moral, social and religious endeavor
may, and doubtless will, continue. Ap-
peals, having their basis in Christianity, in
the equality of all men in the liberty with
which their maker endowed them, and in
the lower, but not less powerful, considera-
tions of an economical character, will con-
tinue to be made to the conscience and self
interest of the slaveholding States; but
\ Republican President in power, who will
prevent the acquisition of new and unnec-
'ssary slave soil, about the status and gov
'rnment of which new quarrel may be
provoked, the slavery question will be so
horn of its political proportions that the at
ention of the people must be turned to
'ther and less exciting things.
Up to this time the agitators have been
he restless and ardent politicians of the
south; but they have been powerful to do
vii only when able to command the servi-
,es of the Federal Government in aid Of
heir schemes. Their repeal Of the Missou-
i Compromise; their subsequent outrages
IN Kansas, eliminating 10 the Infamous Le-
compton Constitution; their Dred Scott de-
,ision, the greatest of the indignities with
which they are charged-these have been
The results of their supremacy in the coun-
ellis of the nation. Reverse the influences
which have prevailed at Washington, and
thence extended to every hamlet in the
and; put the Government moderately but
on the side of Freedom; !. entrust
power TO hands that will WELD it honestly
and firmly, and all may be assured, that,
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