Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-08-02

"There is but one party in the country that
can save it from eternal destruction and that
is the Democratic party, and it is by keeping
up its organization that it can accomplish this
great work. ."-Aessenger.
For eight long years the Democratic party
have had control of the Government, ending on
the 4th of March last. They had the President,
the Cabinet, and both branches of Congress-
All the offices within the gift of the Govern
ment were in its hands. 1t had the control of
the army and Navy. When it came into pow
er the United States Treasury was full, and the
receipts from the customs were more than am
pie to meet all the requirements of the Gov
ernment. Peace abounded throughoutthe land
and all was quietness and prosperity. The sla
very agitation had been stopped by general
acquiesence that it should not be renewed Ell
ther in or out of Congress-"
This was the state of affairs when the Dem
ocratic party came into power. Now how is
it? 1t commenced by repeating the Missouri
compromise, although the few Wings then in
Congress begged of it not to do so unhallowed
a thing. Then came the Kansas and Nebraska
bill, and the attempt to force slavery upon peo-
pie against their expressed will. Every man
known to be opposed to the extension ofslavery
was denounced as an abolitionist and as an en-
emy to the country. Republican members Of
Congress were bullied in their Seats and United
States Senators pounded over the head with a
loaded cane. The doors of the White House
were closed against any one who favored free
dom in preference to slavery. Traitors to the
Government were placed in the Cabinet, on the
Judiciary, and in all the various offices in and
around the Capital Traitors were sentas Min
listers to foreign countries and traitors placed in
command of the army and navy. Open bribery
and corruption was the order of the day. For
eign missions and other appointments were Civ
en- to members of Congress for their votes, and
obscure country editors could command $4,000
for their services in aiding to break up the Gov
eminent. The Government was robbed; the
free North was robbed, and it is safe to say,
every three out of five officers of the Govern
ment were thieves and traitors. The Treasury
was bankrupted, and the country impoverished;
aye and dismembered, for five States had de-
clared themselves out of the Union, and others
had taken the initiatory steps to the same end.
All this was accomplished by the Democratic
party III Just eAdCuy eiBuJ years. W ndI iuT-
ther degradation it could have plunged the
country into we are at loss to tell. 1t had cer-
tainly reached as low depth as the ingenuity
of its leaders could devise, and it seems to us
as the height Of impudence for any Democrat,
especially for one who comes from Washington
among us reeking with corruption, to ask that
that party be restored to power, or to even inti-
mate that it is capable of rendering any good to
the country. AS well might the felons in the
Ohio Penitentiary ask that the Government be
placed in their hands, as that such men as the
editor Of the Messenger should ask that the
thieving and traitorous set who have been
set adrift by the people should be reinstated to
power. There would be just as much sense in
one as the other.
OF course our remarks do not apply to the
great body of the Democratic party, who are
honest, and no doubt act from patriotic motives
Now that they know they have among them
aman who acknowledge that he received a bribe
from the pilferers Of the Government, and
who aspires TO be their leader, it stands them in
hand TO see that their skirts are clear Of uphol-
ding and approving his conduct.