Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-09-28

black man iu his sufferings, will find sooth-
ing consolation in the Judges philosophy.
When Sambo is 1ogged down South, and
the whip lacerates his back, the benevolent
Judge will tell the poor fellow that he has
got to be whipped for the sake Of variety
great laughter and Sambo will smile in
the sweet consciousness Of being whipped
for very great principle. Renewed
laughter And when the Judges bill has
passed, and he has opened for you the pris-
on cells wherein he blaudly invites you to
"drag out your miserable lives," you will
with pride remember the old Roman prov
erb, "Dulce ct decorum est pdtri n,ori;;"
and improving upon the text, you will ex-
claim: at is most sweet and honorable to
die for variety's sake.'
This, then, is Judge Douglas philosophy
Of government; not an idea occasionally
dropped in speech, but his great, original
conception. This shallow, ridiculous, child
ish nonsense is what he emphatcally pro-
claims to be the fundamental doctrine of
his whole political wisdom! Oh, Douglas
Democrats, how proud you must feel of your
"greatest statesmen alivel" Permit me to
offer you, in the name of the Republican
party, our sincerest congratulations
ARRAIGNMENT OF THE LITTLE GIANT
But, as to Judge Douglas, here l stand up
before the great jury of the sovereign peo-
pie, and bring in my bill of indictment.
l Iarraign him for having changed his po-
sition in regard to the Missouri restriction,
time and again, according to the interests
Of Slavery.
l arraign him for having broken the
plghted faith of the people by the repeal
of the compromise of 1920.
l arraign him for having upheld the most
atrocious violations of the balot-box; for
having trampled upon the most sacred
rights of the people of Kansos, so long as
the struggle between Freedom and Slavery
was doubtful.
l arraign him for having committed a
fraud upon the people by forging and adul-
terating the principle of popular sovereignty,
and making it the machine of Slavery pro-
pagandism.
l arraign him for having deserted the
cause of Free Kansas when the people, hav-
ing complied with all reasonable conditions,
applied for admission into the Union.
arraigu him for having repeatedly
made the attempt to disturb the system OF
constitutional checks and balances, by placing
the war-making power in the hands of the
President.
arraign him for having attempted, by
his conspiracy bill,-a thing more outra-
geous than the Sediton of Law of 1908
to put the liberties of speech and press at
the mercy of political inquisition, and to
make the judicial persecution of opinions a
standard system of policy.
arraign him, lastly, for having attemp-
ted to pass off upon the people the doc
trines of political philosophy, which is an
insult to the popular understanding. No, |
beg your pardon, l do not arraign him for
that, for this is free country, where every
body has right to make himself as ridicu.
lous as he pleases, "subject only to the Con.
slitution of the United States" Loud
laughter. And yet, I arraign him for that
also, for protest that he has no right to
make the Republic ridiculous with him.
Here is the charge. 1t is for the people
to give the verdict.
DOUGLAS AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
Mr.. Schurz closed his remarkable speech
with an exposition of Douglas attempts tc
get himself nominated for the Presidency
and of his conduct since the nomination wa
obtained, showing the trickery by whicl
the nomination was procured. The orato
also showed how the candidate had beer
overwhelmed by his own devices, and h
asked:
Where is the bold, powerful agitator
whose voice sounded so defantly on every
contested field? Behold him on his senti
mental journey, vainly trying to find hi
mothers homo and his fathers grave, apollo
gizing with squeamish atfectation for his un
called for and indecent appearance in pub
lie, like one of the condemned spirits yor
read ofin the myths of fby-gone ages, rest
lessly perambulating the world, condemned
to more terrible punishment than Tantal
us, who was tortured by an unearthly thirst
with grapes and water within his reach
more terrible than that of the Dannaides
who had to pour water into the seive, fo
he is condemned to deliver that old speecl
of his over and over again. Applause anC
cheers and laughter. AS often as heRrriye
at hotel that has balcony, as often a
his hasty journey is arrested by spontane
GUS gathering, when you hear subterrane
an spectral voice cry out ''my great princi
pie Of ION n-intervenlion"- that is the deaC
squatter sovereign atoning for the evil deed
he committed in his bodily existence, Pro
Ionged laughterand cheers. Not long ag
he haunted the railroad crossings and clam
bakes of New-England; then the cross-road
of the South, and the ghostly appartiol
was last seen is this neighborhood. Pre-
longed laughter and cheers. Where
that formidable party tyrant whose wishe
} once were commandsi who broke down ss
, cred compromises with mere stroke of hi
, fingerl whose very nod made the heads {
those who displeased him fly into the ba;
. ketl whose very whims were tests of Dc
mocracy? Where is he who once, like MAJ
beth thought himself invulnerable by an
man ''who was Of woman born"-inyinciblC
great,
Great Birnam wood TO high Duushaue hill
Shall come against him"
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