Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-15
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LOOK TO THEM.

While most of us are looking anxiously TO the
South, to watch the tendencies and magnitude
of rebellion, and to know who are the traitors
about to destroy our Constitution and Union,
we fail to discover our most bastard enemies and
the most arrant traitors Suppose we were TO
examine our own community, pray tell me what
should we fnd2 Would we not discover even
greater enemies to the Union and the Govern
ment than those now in the field against us on
the plains of South Carolina2 One can hardly
stop at n cross-road, or step into post-oflice,
but he will confront some blatant "Douglas" man
vociferously declaiming on the business Of the
present rebellion, and insulting sensible men
with their contemplate plea of Northern ag-
gression" and Southern justification. 1t were
as well to combat the wind as TO reason with
one of these Vandals. They deal not from the
stores of history and TRUTH but from their own
fruitful imaginations and prodigious selection
of lies, Appeal to the record place them in
error, and they are like the schoolnon, braccd on
another course. 1t would seem to give them
inexpressible felicity TO publicly gloat over the
idea of joining the traitors in the field, (Which
rest assured they will not do while they can flee
from promising danger) And nothing do they
with more gusto, than laud the miserable enc
mics of Constitutional government, in their
mad frenzy TO tear down the noble structure of
the "immortal fathers" Yet these patriotic (2)
men are jefferson Democrats, (even the dead
cannot escape slander) they know and obey the
Constitution 'just as Madison expounded it
they even outdo the noble Washington in their
ardent love for country and the dear people "
and above all things are they the exact represen-
tatives of brave "Old Hickory" One might
think that human stimulation, and political chi.
canery and venality could go no farther; that
the nature of man conld be no more corrupted
What is it that now leads these men into such
furious eulogy of the acts of petty despots and
rebellious men? Simply this: they have been
terribly, astonishingly, though justly beaten
dethroned from power; dismissed because o
their false stewardship; and rather than suffer
defeat, let the people rule, and obey the Consti-
tuition and the laws, they are willing to doStro5
Government and infict the fatal parricidal blow
uIon their own glorious nation. They were
meanly spit upon by this same secession party
at their Charleston Convention: their own pei
candidate was rcviled nsulted and egged by
secessionists; they have had that climax of "dis
gracing" epithets-"black republican n"-appliet
to Them they were told that republicans were
preferred before them;" they were refused any
allicance during the campaign when secession,
lists had any tolerable showing alone; and yet
after all these insults, abuses, and spurns aftel
they have been kicked out of the company o
treason; to mphoId and applaud the destroyers o
civil and religious liberty-to apologize for re
bellion. During the campaign they were thu
most implacable foes sofsecessonists,n now they arr
their most ardent lovers. Then they wOulC
"hang all traitors high as Haman," now to op
pose treason is oppression, and cause for war
Then slavey must not be extended save by tht
"will of the people, now, they are vociferou
for its naturalization, to satisfy few thousanC
aristocratic Shareholders. Did high Heaven eve
witness such a medley of contradictions, lie,
and miserable doughfaceism before, as this sam
Douglas party has displayed in the past 81.
months. popular Sovereignty" the sacret
+ right of the people to rule, they unhestatingl,
trample upon. 1t has just spoken, it has jus
exercised its great prerogative, and the countr,
now beholds the party that pretended to be it
only representative, clamoring for its subection
Nothing can exceed their laudaton of rebellion
against popular sovereignty and free govern
ment. 1THAcUs.
Townsend q