Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-09-07


Anne, Of Austria, said to Cardinal Rich
lieu, thoorafty priestand unprincipled states
man: "God does not pay at the close Of
every week, butin the end he alscays does"
Bad men often prosper, and retribution here
does not roach every individual case. But
the sins Of communities aud nations never
fail TO bring down a just and visible .retri-
button. 1t may linger and move too slow
for the hasty wishes of men, but at last VEN
geSuce overtakes the guilty. And the or
der of things is such, that the crimes which
masses Of men commit against justice, truth
and liberty, are always the direct cause of
their own punishment. Some power that
shapes the destinies of men, has linked the
crimes of communities so closely to their
evil results, that no human cunning has yet
availed to separate them. In the sight of
the world, guilty nations and guilty parties
are compelled to drink to the dregs the cup
of their own iniquities. The Democratic
party in this nation has long been triumph
ant In its pride and arrogance it has
called itself invincible. 1t has believed it.
self able 10 reverse that order Of things
which in all times has made the road Of
wrong doing the road to ruin. 1t has be-
come the advocate and defender of human
slavery. 1t has employed its whole power
to spread that system which chattelizes men,
debauches women, rends the family tie, and
makes human being as horse or an OK
in the eyes of the law. 1t has by robbery,
rape and murder, labored to crush those
who would resist the establishment of sla.
very in Kansas. 1t has denied the doctrine
of human rights, and employed its whole
power to make this nation believe it is right
to introduce the accursed system of Amer
ican slavery into territories now free. These
crimes against truth, and liberty, and man
the Democratic party has believed it could
commit with impunity. 1t has scorned
those who have lifted up any voice for hu.
man rights. Wherever it has the power il
has been, and still is ready, to enforce its
doctrines by the lash, the halter, and the
stake. 1t needed only that Democracy
should be as powerful at the North as it is
at the. South, and death or banishment
would be the fate of every lover of freedom
here asthere. But the day of retributior
for this proud and wicked party has at length
come. It's crimes have proved its ruin. Il
is exploded into fragments by the force Of
its own wickedness. 1t tried to fill the era.
wing NAV of slavery but found it Unsuitable
Its curses have come home to roost, and its
own children are devouring its vitals.-
Stern experience has taught it that villainy
is rottenness in the bones. The day of its
humiliation has come also. Once it de.
Ispised its opponents and trampled them
under foot. Now it begs, aye, begs for a
morsel of comfort from those whom it scorn.
ed in the days of its prosperity. 1t fiatters
its ancient enemy the Wings, and sleeps in
the same bed with the hated Knownothings
1t trembles in every joint as it sees the day
Of its doom approaching. 1t hears thu
laundering tread of the mighty host who
believe in the rights of man, who are op
posed to the spread of human slavery, whc
mean that free labor shall own and occupy
the vast regions Of the West who will
trample the rotten party and its accursec
doctrines into the mire together.