Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-12-20


The South selects her best men, men of
talents and ability who are true TO her
interest and retains them solong as they
are faithful. They thus become acquain-
ted with the entire workings of the
government. The North sends with
rare exceptions an entire new set OF
men every two or four years. Many of
these men are not only without ability,
but what is still more lamentable, men
who, under the pretext of party neces-
sity, sacrifice the interest of their own
constituents. If rejected by the people
at the close of one term for their treach-
cry, pro-slavery administration has al
ways provided them with some compen-
sation for their services, and thus from
year to year the North has been used
and disgraced, simply because of the
insfSciency or rant OF Jtdetity OF their
representatives. ......,...
The South understands this matter
better. She selects men who are not
only true, but able; and retains them
in position until they become familiar
with the workings of every department
of the government, and in time they
not only become representative men,
but absolutely control, as they have
done for years, the entire Legislation OF
the country, although their section is
largely in the minority.
The North will have change this Gus
tom and adopt such one as prudence
and common sense dictate. Statesmen
are not extemporized out of the ablest
men in a day. Our greatest Generals
worked their way up gradually from
the ranks and our safest and best Rail
road men commenced at the foot of the
ladder. All American statesmen, wor-
thy of the name, have come up from
the ranks of the people, and the South
has produced the largest number simp-
ly because she has pursued the policy
of retaining her representatives until by
education and experie ace, they become
Statesmen. Do you suppose that a
Northern conspiracy against the gov
government could have been as success
fully inaugurated and put into execu-
ton as this Southern conspiracy has
been-that we could have held North
ern Conventions, elected Northern State
Governors on the direct issue of dissol-
wing the Union or compelling the South
to adopt such National Constitution
as we might dictate without the entire
South being familiar with every move.
ment, and unitedly prepared to resist it
In addition to all this, do you believe
the South would ever have been guilty
of voting for Northern men who were
her open and undisguised enemies; that
they would ever placed them as we have
done, in the most honorable and respon-
sible positions in the Government. | ask
you if you believe it possible for the
North, with all her boasted knowledge
to have done as the South have done for
the past twenty years without every
Southern representative, not only under
standing every movement, under what
ever party name or pretext they might
have been disguised; but that their en-
tire population would also have under
stood it and directed their representa-
tives boldly to meet the issue at the very
threshold and defeat it, not by compro-
missing with it, but by meeting the
question like men, and 10y .an,early and
proper exposure of the designs of the
conspirators, nipped their treason in the
bud?
But this secession movement has been
openly advocated for years and its
champions have been placed by North
ern votes and Northern Presidents not
only in the Cabinet, but in the most
honorable and responsible positions of
the Government. If able and true men
pointed out the danger, as did John
Quincy Adams, their voices would be
drowned by the din of commerce and
the cry of demagogues, who either for
the sake of party or Office, or the prom
Use of Office, would in proportion to their
ignorance, denounce with increased We
hemence, all such statements as unqual
ifedly false and only made to iniurt
their party. Then for the sake of party
and the hope of securing some petty OF
fee for two or four years, ignorant an(
corrupt men have usurped in the nam,
of the people the management of polit
ical conventions, and the great interest,"
of the country have been made subordi
nate to the ambitions of men whose
whole lives gave assurances of their un
fitness for responsible positions.
Because of this state of things, the
North, although superior in point o
wealth, population and Intelligence have
been made the "hewers of wood anC
drawers of water'' for the South. Dc
you ask when this state state of thing
shall forever cease? ] answer tha
it will cease as this rebellion will cease
whenever united people earnestly will
it, and not before. ...f
That the over prudent, the timid an
the Indifferent, with the trickster an,
demagogue viii join with coward
hunkerism in condemning the manner il
which am treating this subject. / d
not doubt, and | do not object. In M
opinion, this is no time for honied phrs
ses, and / have therefore called thing
by their right names. This is wa
about slavery and you and / know it,
| The South declare that our unconstitI
| tional interference with slavery is I'll
cause of this rebellion. For this we al
indicted at the bar ofpublic opinion an
required to plead "guilty'' or not "gut
| ty." Instead of responding promptl
and manfully, and truthfully, mot gu
ty," all Hunkerdom holds its breath f
fear of offending its Southern brethre
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