Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-01-27


,ound to take the oath Of allegiance, and
uasmnch, rs they cannot do that, they do
iot vote or hold office; but not SO with the
.adical abohtionists; they hold that they
lave q right not only to vote but TO abolish
Slavery in the States. They TOO have
'hghcr law" and say that iuasmuch as
ilaveholders have proclaimed that Slavery
$ higher law they make issue. and say
hat liberty is above all constitutions and I
avs. and that the slave is allowed entirely |
The use of his own discretion as to where
and how he may liberate himself if liberia .
ton is within his reach. To that party be- /
longed John Brown. To thatparty belong
ed Cook, and to that party belonged every
man decidedly and ascertainedly implicated
in that raid. Not one belonged TO the Re-
publican organization. No Srs. After all
attempts in every quarter to make capital
out of the affair, there has not been proved
to be one single Republican standing in al
lance with Seward and myself that they
have been able to implicate remotely or di-
reclly in this raid of John Brown.
| rejoice that those resolutions of inves-
tigation have been passed in the Senate of
the United States, that they may call for
me, that they may call for Gov. Seward,
that they may call on any other Republican,
North or South, and bring them before the
proper committee of the Senate of the
United States, and there make them fairly
and fully disclose all that they know upon
the subject tell you, now, it will result
in our vindication, and in the modification
of those who have attempted TO do Seward
this signal injustice.
HANG-DoG TESTIMONY.
What is the testimony upon which your
papers, and the papers Of Madison, have ar
raigned before tho committee these men,
Why, that certain infamous English rene
gado, one Forbcs-who avowedly fought for
pay in Kansas, and whose pay ceased as the
contest there ceased; who fought for money
in that territory where your children and
my children met to seek homes, when driven
out by tho strong competition of unpaid
wages-publishes and declares that he in
timated in conversation with Mr.. Seward,
that such raid was going on, as he after
wards said he did not understand it to be
anything but raid to collect together and
carry out slaves from the slave States by q
kind of stampede. What does he say that
Gov. Seward saidl "Sir, l will have moth
ing to do with any such project. You have
no business to talk to me, a Senator of the
United States, upon any such subject" y
But what does Mr.. Seward say Of all this
when he heard of it on his distant travel ?
Said he, / saw man by the name Of
Forbes, but utterly deny, upon the honor
of a man, that l ever had any intimatiou
directly or indirectly touching upon any
such raid. put it to every honest man,
to Mr.. Magoffin, to Mr.. Breckenridge and
all their supporters. Is there single one
of you, Oh such testimony as this by an in
famous renegade who deserted his comrades
in arms, who would put to death the mean
est sheep-killing dog9 l will speak foryou
! l know you would not--not one Of you
would Yet this is to implicate Gov. Sc
ward, and through him to cast a slur upon
the great Republican party of these United
States. No, gentlemen, we may go down,
but | tell you here, now, | tell all these
gentlemen, we will never go down upon such
testimony as that Therefore | reiterate,
We challenge you to the disclosure. We
boldly hurl back the imputaton as untrue,
whatever may be its intent and purpose,
and we defy you to the testimony and ap'
peal to the country. That is what we do.
ABOUT INSTRUCTIONS.
While upon this subject, allow me to say
a word upon the subject of Instructions
| believe have made more speeches in
vindication of the Republican party, than
any man in the United States, north OF
south. l believe, from my correspondence
with individuals, associations, and other
combinations of that party, | am as init
mately acquainted with tho purposes of that
party as any man in America, and l will
tell you what believe those purposes now
to be, according to my understanding, and
their views with regard to this whole sub.
ject of the Liberation of slaves by force, and
servile insurrection.
We now and always have regarded the
poor African as of an inferior race, and al
though we do not pretend to divine the in
scrutabe designs of Deity, although we
cannot say what may be the design of the
great 81 AM" whether they shall ascend
in the scale of humanity, and we go down
or they go up stll higher, we leave these
questions entirely to the philosophical spec
ulator, saying that is not a subject of politi
cal action at all; but so far as practicability
is concerned, we say that the black man i
now Of an inferior race, and although tht
poet says ''that the worm feels a paug a.
great as when giant dies" yet we believe
that is all poetry and not truth. The lifi
of man or of woman is desirable as it is ele
waited and removed from the condition of Tho
beast of the field that perisheth. There
fore it is, that when Great Britain held he
supremacy over the immense millions of In
dia, attempting by the despotic power o
force, to rule it by no amalgamatiou of in
terests, taking it under a common protec
tion and into common glory those untold
millions of Eastern men, but ruling by force
and when upon the abstract proposition
every man was bound to confess that thC
right was on the side of the Indians, ye
my sympathies were on the side -four com
mon ancestors, and imagine, that outside
of few fanatics, that there were no mel
among these thirty millions Of people tha
did not sympathize with the British. Th,
Uhite raco as ao,ainst the. rod and colora,