Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-08-10

Qt southern eAaCtlOu. Wnen your renSOn-
able requests are denied, 1 tell you with
earnestness and emphasis, it is because
eight millions Of men control eighteen
millions, through our representatives, elected
by party pledged to interests adverse to
ours. Slavery educates its statesmen in q
high school, under able professors. 1t
teaches that Northern men are cowardly,
and that their ambition is linked with ava
rice; and unfortunately for US it has argu-
ments to fortfy its faith. Half century
hence it may not be credited that less than
dozen men, trained under those circum-
stances, so alarmed Pennsylvania Presi-
dent, as to induce him to recast Message {;
violate the plighted faith upon which he
was elected; disgrace his native State and
degrade tho high office to which he bad
then but recently been elevated. And yet
not only this has been done almost within
our presence, but the representatives of free
constituencies have been induced to lend
their aid to force servie labor into compe-
tition with that of the white man, and a
slave State into the sisterhood of indepen-
cies, TO throw the balance Of power against
their own people. Some of these are now
not only respectable members of the Doug
las church, but missionaries among the un-
believing and outside barbarians. have
some of them very distinctly in my recol-
lection, and it would be quite refreshing 10
hear their remarks in laudation of Popular
Sovereignty such as they denied to Kansas,
and in denunciation of Southern demands,
to which they succumbed as reluctantly as
thrice seduced damsel to. her lover. /
believe it was Mirabeau who said "the pres
ents of despotism are always dangerous; /"
he should have included in his remark, the
threat of the tyrant as we'll as his reward.
The allegation that Southern combinations
are formed for the purpose Of counteracting
opposition extremists, is a sheer false pre-
tense, resorted to as blind and cheat
No fears ever sprung from such parentage
Slavery does not exist by legal enactment
anywhere; it is the child of force, and as
the sentiment of the world is against it, il
cannot live without the sustaining hand o.
power. Surrounded by an atmosphere o.
freedom, it is necessarily unsafe; and stat.
utory safeguards and defenses become nee
essary. Vassalage and subsection never
impress themselves without violence, upor
the natural man, while, on the contrary
the sentiment of freedom must forever dis
turb the subjects of a despotism. Th'
South to be safe, must, therefore, extenC
through and beyond all the countervaiinl
influences to which l have referred, and
consequently, our frontier possessions mus
be captured. But as the inherent weak
ness of the South is not equal to this task
craft is resorted to to supply the needed as
sistance. Upon whom can this be NOR
advantageously brought to bear than Pres
ident without courage, judge without can
dor, or a legislator without integrity9 W.
are sold or betrayed hourly, and if we hac
not moro forberance than discretion, W,
would terrfy traitors. Millions of acres o
fertile lands, every now and then are filchet
from our industrial classes-who requir
them for the support and education of thei
families-to be turned into barren waste
by those who have already blasted NOR
than one-half of our soil as with an ava
lanche of fire. Factories and workshop
are tottering in ruins, and familic
and neigh borhoods left starvin,
and in rags, because fostered industry is no
required in that region where the laboriny
man has no rights which the owner of me-
is bound TO respect. And ships rot at ou
wharves, and storebouses become but rer
devious for idlers and vagabonds, for tn
reason that uncompensated chattel sinew
yield fruits more cheaply than compensate
skill, and require no shield against the pau
per products of Europe. If change @
tariff laws were required by the South il
stead of the North, they could not fail c
its accomplishment. In that case tn
, President would advocate it with ardor,
! not with sincerity, and our Senators woul
again illustrate the fact of their trucklin
subjection to those who secretly abhor thei
basencss and infdelity. Our earnest wishe
are not only constantly disregarded, but ou
prosperity is remorselessIy paralyzed by ou
servants without an audible murmur on ou
, part; and we are not much averse, as W
; have often proven, TO comforting new lease
of Office upon such as deceive us, to affor
them further opportunities for mischief
Does this seem unaccountable9 / sugge:
, no, in view of the truth l have but jus
, stated, that the party selecting them hs
its heart and brain in the South, and il
J obeying members, merely, in the North
The remedy for this shameless evil is 9
J easy as simple. We need but initiate th
J example set us by those who have cause
} this condition of things. Concord and ii
Aexibility of purpose will accomplish all "
ask. Nothing else ever can or ever will
} We might as we'll expect divided an
: discordant army, marshaled under opposin
generals, to capture the powerful and tho
oughly disciplined and guarded city, as f
| Northern rights and Northern honor to |
. sustained by men in the keeping and pa
q of those who would weaken and reduce u
. In the ordinary business of life we nevc
} trust the faithless and dishonest. l can 10
r agine no reason for engaging such as sci
D tinels over our entire fortunes. Just so Ion
: as our custom houses, post-offices, nav
yards and mints shall be stocked wit
! thousands, selected virtually by those VIII
: are in banded opposition to us, and who's
t principal business we arc instructed to b
t lieve, is compounding politics with per6d,
J il will be impossible to render our conditio
better than it is. These leperyards mu