Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-05-30
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Abolition n-EmancipatiOn. r
1t is becoming in vogue with certain class
of self-styled Democratic politicians for the
want of arguments, to denounce those who be-
lieve slavery 10 be wrong, and the cause Of our
present troubles, as 'black-hearted Abolitonists,
negro wOrshippers, and other Opprobious names
equally as senseless. Those who are thus stig-
matsed, comprise the nblest statesmen, jurists,
minister's editors, politicians, and phlanthro-
pists-both living and dead--that this, or any
other country has ever produced. 1t also, at
this time, comprises large majority of thepeo-
pie Of the United States, and of the civilized
world.
We propose here TO reproduce the opinions
and views of some Of these men, and to show at
whom these blackguard demagogues are aiming
their venomous but harmless denunciations:
SLAVERY is system of the most complete in :
justice. Plato.
SLAVERY is a system of outrage and rob
berry. y."-Socrdtes
"By the grand laws ofnature all men are born
free, and this law is universally binding upon
all men. Cicero.
"The law which supports slavery and oppos-
es liberty must necessarily be condemned as
cruel, for every feeling of human nature advo-
Gates liberty. Slavery is introduced by human
wickedness; but God advocates liberty by the
nature which he has implanted in the breast OF
every man. ''-FortcseuC
mo man is by nature the property of anoth-
er. The rights of nature must be some way for
feited before they can justly be taken away
DIR, Johnson
"If you have the right to make another man
a slave, he has the right to make you slave. -
DR.. Price.
at is injustice to permit slavery to remain a
single hour. PHI.
"American slavery is the vilest that ever saw
the sun; it constitutes the sum of all villanies u
John Wesley.
"Man cannot have property in man. Slavery
is nuisance, to be put down, not compromised
with, and to be assaled without cessation anc
without mercy, by every blow that can be lev
eled at the monster"
HIreand and Irishmen should be foremost il
seeking to effect the emancipation of mankind.
1.-THE Americans alleged that they bad no
perpetrated the crime, [that of enslaving tn,
blacks,l but inherited il from England. This
however, fact as it was, was still paltry apol
ogy for America, who asserting liberty for her.
self, still used the brand and the lash agains
others. "-Ddniet O'COnne2
ain regard TO regulation of Slavery, my de-
testation of its existence induces me to know nj
such thing as a regulation of robbery or a re-
strictiOn of murder. Personal freedom is
right of which he who deprives fellow Great
ure is criminal in so depriving him, and he who
withholds it is no less criminal in Withholding.
Charles James For
II would never have drawn my sword in tn,
| aafA bov al 4 tIa
thereby was founding land of Slavery. III
Fdyctte.
II never mean, unless some particular circum
stances should compel me TO it, TO possess an
other slave by purchase, it being among my frs
wishes to see some plan adopted by which sla
very in this country may be abolished by law.
"But there is only one proper and effectus
mode by which it can be accomplished, and thu
is by legislative authority, and this so far as m
suffrage will go, shall never be wanting"
II wish, from my soul, that the Legislature {
this State Virginia. could see the policy of
gradual abolition of Slavery. 1t might proven
much future mischief. = Washington.
"The abolition of domestic slavery is tn
greatest object of desire in these colonies, wher
it was unhappily introduced in their infan
state"
"The hour of emancipation is advancing il
the march of time. 1t will come, and whethe
brought on by the energy of our own minds, O
by the bloody process of San Domingo #"i
leaf in our history not yet turned over"
"Can the liberties of a nation be secure whe
we have removed their only firm basis--a con
viction in the minds of the people that their ii
berties are the gift of God, and are not to be vi
olated, but with his wrath. Indeed, trembl
for my country, when think God is Just; thu
His Justice cannot sleep forever. "-Jetcrsom.
at is wrong to admit into the Constitutio
the idea that there can be property in man. y"
, Madison.
awe have found that this evil lSlavery] hi
preyed upon the very vitals of the Union, an
has been prejudicial to all the States in which
has existed. "-MonrOe.
ais it not amazing that at a time when th
rights of humanity are defined and understoo
/ with precision, in country above all othel
! fond of liberty, that in such an age and such
country, we find men protesting religion tf
most mild, humane, gentle, and generous, adop
D ing such principle, [Slavery] as repugnant
humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bibl
and destructive to liberty y2"-PdtTick Henry
"Sir, l envy neither the heart nor the head
that man from the North who rises here to d
:, fend slavery on principle. john Randolph.
n "The sacred rights of mankind are not to
> rummaged for among old parchments mus
records. They are written as with sunbea
in the whole volume oil human nature by u
n hand of Divinity itself, and can never be eras
'' or obscured by mortal power. er."-AIerdnd
n HpRiton. 4.
II "Little can be added TO what has been sa
and written on the subject of Slavery. l co
cur in the opinion that it ought not to be intr
: duced or permitted in any of the new Stat
and that it ought to be gradually diminish
and finally abolished in all ofthem.--John ia
;. at is among the evils of slavery, that it taiT
lie the very sources of moral principle. 1t esta
~ fishes false estimates of virtue and vice; for wi
can be more false and more heartless than Il
doctrine, which makes the first and hOl
= rights of humanity depend upon the color of
skin. john Quincy Adanas. s.4
On sSir, you may place the slave where you ploi
YOU may dry up, to the uttermost, the fou
y tains of his feelings the springs of his thoul
YOU may close upon his mind every aven
To knowledge, and cloud it over with artifc
night-you may yoke him to your labor, as
OK which liveth only to work, and worketh {
,le ly to live-you may put him under any proct
which without destroying his value as sla
will debase and crush him as a rational being
you may do this, and the idea that he was b'
TO be free will survive II all. 1t is allied to
hope for immoftality--it is the ETHEREAL part
Of his nature, which oppression cannot reaeb-i
torch lit up in his soul by the hand of Del
and never meant TO be extinguished by the ha
N Of man. II gentlemen do not see nor feel
evil Of slavery whilst this federal Union la
Of they will see and feel il when it is gone; II
will see aud suffer it then in a magnitude ofd
olating power, to which the pestilence I
Swalketk at MONDAY" would be blessing
which the malaria that is now threatening