Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-09-06

4 srroRT STORY.
Rsspeegfrlly Dedicated to those Democrats
wko believe in the Rump Platform.
THE CAUSE OF THE WAR.

Netete"oiNh ~ WI ~ houths --fthAAP EtAVN"s
COMMENTS Slavery question is
mere excuse. The election Of Mr.. LINCOLN
is mere pretext The present secession
movement is the result of an enormous con-
spiraey formed moro than year since,
formed BY the leaders Of the Southern Con-
federacy more than twelve months ago. =
STEPHEN A DoueLAs.
"ResolUed, by the House of Representa-
tives Of tho Congress of the United States,
That the present deplorable civil war has
been forced upon the country by the dis
unionists Of the Southern States, now in
revolt against the Constitutional Govern
ment and in arms around the Capital
CRITTENDEN's resolution voted for By the
Republicans and all the Democrats ercept
VALLAEDIeHAM, and BURNETT Of kentucky.
"The President of the United States has
made no threat against the law-abiding
citizens of Tennessee. Under the govern
ment Of the United States we have enjoy
ed as nation more civil and religious free
dom than any other people under heaven.
We believe there is no cause for rebellion
or secession on the part Of the people Of
Tennessee" address ofthe Un,on men of
Tennessee.
COMPROMISE AND A NATIONAL CONVENTION.
TKxr.--"w We recommend that the Legislatures Of
the several States adopt the proper for calling
National Convention for the purpose ofsettng pres
ent difficulties, and restoring and preserving the Union
RHnp Platform
CoMMENTs.-"The South, first by seced-
ing, and second by firing on the flag, has
closed the door of reconciliation. l am for
meeting them on their own ground.
would have no half way measures no com
promises. Let us settle the thing speedily
and surely."-DANIEL S. DICKINSON.
81 am speaking now of the talk about
compromise. Traitors and rebels are stand
ing with arms in their hands, and it is said
that we must go forward and compromise
with them. They are in the wrong; they
are making war upon the Government; they
are trying to upturn and destroy our free
institutions. l say to them that the COM
promise have to make under the existing
circumstances is, ground your arms; obey
the laws; acknowledge the supremacy of
the Constitution; when you do that l will
talk with you about compromise. All the
compromise that [ have to make is the
compromise Of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States 1t is one of the best compro-
misses that can be made."-ANDREw JOHN
SON.
81 como to the Government, and l do
not ask it as suppliant, but l demand it
as a constitutional right, that you give us
protection, give us arms and munitions, and
if they cannot be got there in any other
way, to take them there with an invading
army and deliver the people from the OPP
preston to which they are now subjected"
Ibid.
~ know no neutrsliy between my coun-
try aud its foes, whether they be foreign or
domestic, no neutrality between that glor-
ious flag which now floats over us, and the
ingrates and traitors who would trample it
in the dust. My prayer is for victory, COM
plete, enduring and overwhelming to the
armies of the Republic over all its enc
mics. am against any and every compro-
mise that may be proposed to be made un-
der the guns of the rebels. ."-JosEPH Holt
"When the government of our fathers
shall be again recognized when the Con-
stitution and the laws to which every citi-
zen owes allegiance shall be observed and
obeyed, then will the armies of the Con-
stitution and the Union be disbanded, by a
common impulse, in obedience to unani-
nous popular wilL"--DANIEL s. DIoKIN-
SON.
"Let the rallyiug cry be, The supremacy
of the Constitution, and no compromise
with traitors but at the cannon's mouth -
This is the popular sentiment While
the brave soldier is facing death on the bat
tie field, to protect his Government, let no
man be guilty of the craven act of begging
for peace from a bastard and traitor foe
No peace is wanted, or should be asked or
the part of the North, short of uncondition
al submission by the rebels, to every lega
obligation they owe the Government
DAVID TODD.
at seems that some of my friends are
unable to comprehend the difference be
tween arguments used in favor of an equit
able compromise, with the hope Of averting
the horrors of war, aud those urged in sup
port of the Government and the flag of oul
country, when war is being wsged against
the United States with the avowed purpose
of producing permanent disruption of the
Uuion and total destruction of its Gov
eminent.
"All hope Of compromise with the Cot
ton States was abandoned when they as
sumed the position that the separation ot
the Union was complete and final, and that
they never would consent to a reconstruc-
tion in any contingency-not even if we
would furnish them with blank sheet Of
paper and permit them to inscribe their
own terms."-DoUeLAs' letter to his Secre-
tGry, May, 10, 1861.
The compromise with armed and
nnconquerable traitors, to which Northern
secessionists invite the friends, is a repast
so unsayory and revolving, so fraught with
cowsrdice, treason and corruption, that hon
est men shun it as they would the plague"
Columbus Fact (Democratie).
aCompromise might always heal the diff
ferences between the sections. But since
the sword had been unsheathed, only trai-
tors and towards would dare talk of com
promising with armed rebellion. We
cannot sustain the Union by compromising
with treason. The issue has been chosen
and let those who take the sword perish by
the sword" d."-DAEIEL s. Dickinson.
SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAs CORPUS WRIT
TKxT.-" That the late attemt Of the President t.
suspend the privilege Of the same Haoeas Corpus IS un
hv the Federal ConstitutOn "-REsD Platform