Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-02-10

non-slayebolders Of the Union who have
borne all the oppression, to sacrifice oil sho
liberty we have, TO return 10 those rules and
regulations Of despotisin, against which We
rose up in arms in 1f76.
What do you propose to give us 10 lieu
Of this great Union as protectioni Why,
the Charleston Mercury and the Richmond
Enquirer say, ave will send 10 Louis Ma
poleon, and we will ask him TO lend us some
troops todefend us y Oh, shame shame
Are you going TO bring us to thisi Is this
the reward you offer us, that you will call
on Louis Napoleon, the despot Of France,
and his troops, and he will defend us against
these Northern traitors and fanatics. Are
you ready for that, DemocatsG We havo
been led long by Democratic lenders. Is
this tho feast to which you have invited us,
that after you can no longer be preserved,
that they will get Louis Napoleon, (tbey
can't trust Victoria, she has too many no.
tions of freedom about her,) to preserve usi
What does it meant 1t means going alb
solutely back into French despotisIn. Are
you ready for thatG
The Vice President is unfortunate in bis
alluson to the great Athenian orator. 1t
is we who defend the liberties of the people,
and they who propose to call in Philip Of
Macedon-Louis Napoleon, is it mott The
battles in Kansas, which were fought for
the common liberty, is the reproach Of
Eschines Not only these, but all the glo.
ry ofthe illustrious dead is in vain, if the
Democratic party consummate the subject
ing US to foreign and alien despotism -
| would that could evoke the genius Of
the llustrious defender of Grecian liberty,
that my voice, like his, could touch the
hearts of my countrymen with the divine
fire of my own aspirations, till they would
be again ready to cry out with one voice,
''Let us march against Philip !"
No, gentlemen. That is the reason /
came here tonight, because heard this is
talked of-because it is threatened. l come
to tell you as l live, as we all live, there is
not single true Republican but will she'd
his last drop of blood before he will submit
to this; they will fight you for thousand
years ere they will submit; they will not
relapse into French servitude.
| We pTSdCu uO new uOCLIIuO, W6luNOhO uO
new god, but standing by the old doctrine
of '76, upon which our fathers fought and
died, we say, with Crittenden, that 'that
which is good TO stand upon is good ground
to fall upon" We invoke the people of the
North and South to stand by the Constitu-
ton of the United States, and vindcate it
beyond possibility of doubt Who are
the men that have avowed the intention to
dissolve the Union?
Look at all ourrecord. Nota single coun-
ty meeting, nor district convention, nor
State assembly, nor national convention of
the Republican party has ever declared that,
in any emergency, will tney dissolve the
Union. No, sirs, we say all the time that
we submit because we know of no other
policy, no other alternative, except it be
force, and when that is used all law is ST.
lent, and the Government becomes despo-
tism; whenever you resort to violence you
have an anarchy as has Mexico, which is
continually at war because it does not stand
by any Constitution or law. All our pled-
ges and our antecedents prove that we are
bound TO be loyal to the Union of these
States, and, therefore, l say we can safely
claim your suffrages, not taking US by our
avowels, but taking US by our acts. If we
have submitted for eighty years, we are
willing to submit for eighty years more, un-
less we can persuade you to take hold of
those glorious privileges which we feel to
be right.
HELPERS CRISIS.
There is a man in Carolina whose father
was born, it is said, upon North Carolina
soil, and we know not how many centuries
before his ancestors lived there, and it so
happened that be belonged to that large
class of North Carolina that may be called
the working class, the Observation-Disclosures
He saw the influence of slavery upon the
interests of that class Of men, and he broke
away from the trammels of that party, and
published book, and he tells US however
good thing slave labor is for the slavehol-
der, free labor is better for the non-sIavehol-
ders. He takes up the census of the Uni
ted States and he complies at all unques-
toned, and shows how the institution Of the
South affects the mass. He appeals to
these masses and asks them to see for them-
selves and act upon their knowledge thus
obtained, if this thing is not according to
the doctrine of Jefferson, this which be.
lieve was pretty good authority.
Now about this book l am going to be
frank. did recommend this book. / say
l have read this book carefully, and there
is not single incendiary doctrine in it,
there is not single appeal to the slave. II
it be insurrection among people protesting
to be free to appeal to the legal white vo-
tiers of tho country, for whose protection the
constitution processes to be made, to rise
from serfdom to the same power and con.
troll of the government. that the free labor
ers and free people of the North have done
: it is insurrectionary.
Let me 60 one step further, and say, that
there we're some places in that book pub
lished by him that we did not regard al
just; and inasmuch as we conceived thattht
. Shareholders held their property on the ten
! ure that the British held il, we thought i
/ was political question-we thought tha
q the shareholders should not be taxed.
: wrote to him that that was foolish thing
g but it was understood that all these objec
t tional things should be expunged, as Nj
{ Blair, of Missouri, has said He says it wa.
8 understood that these parts were to b
$ stricken out, not that they were incendiary