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

no earthly power can make me vote, directly or
indirectly to spread Slavery over territories
where it does not exist Never, while reason
holds its seat in my brain-never while my
heart sends the vital fluid through my brain
never I"
"Whai would they, who thus reproach us, have
donef If they would repress all tendencies to-
ward Liberty and ultimate emancipation, they
must do more than put down the benevolent oil
this tColoniEation1 society. They must go
back TO the era of our Liberty and Inpepend-
ence, and muzzle the cannon which thunders its
annual joyous return. They must revive the
slave trade, with all its train of atrocities They
must suppress the workings of British Philan-
thropy, seeking to ameliOrate the condition OF
the unfortunate West Indian slaves They must
arrest the career of South American deliverence
from thraldom They must blow out the NOR
al lights around us, and extnguish that greatest
torch of all, which America presents to a be-
nighted world, pointing the way TO their rights,
their liberties and their happiness, and when
they have achieved all these purposes, their
work will be yet incomplete. They must PEN
citrate the human soul, and eradicate the light of
reason, and the love of liberty. Then, and not
till then, when universal darkness and despair
prevail, can you perpetuate slavery, and repress
all sympathy and all humane and benevolent
efforts among freemen, in behalf of the unhap-
py portion of our race who are doomed to bond
age. Henry Clay.
! We have many other extracts from speeches
and writings of eminent men, similar TO the
above, which we had intended to include in this
article, but its length compels us to omit them.
When our columns will permit, we will give
them.
A jury of honest men would convict any or all
of the above named persons of being "Aboli-
al. la
haps these are some of the men whom ParSoi
BroTnlo,c according TO the Messenger wanted
to include with the "hundred Abolitionists" he
wished TO hang along with an equal number Of
traitors. Wouldn't it be grand spectacle tC
witness the Parson exercising the functions of {
hangman upon such men, We imagine we se'
him swinging off Henry Clay along side of JEFF
Davis; Gov. Mcdowell with Gov. jackson; Joh
! Wesley, the founder Of Methodsm, with Rev
Brigadier- General Polk; Thomas jefferson witt
4 Gov. Wise; George Washington with Toombs
/, and so on. We wish TO make no attack upor
Parson Brownlow, for he has shown herOisn
and patriotism during this accursed rebellion
that should commend him to the warmest cor
ner of every patriots heart in the land W.
refer to this sentiment of his-if it be his-mort
in sorrow than in anger. Nothing but the de
basing influence ofslavery, which has constant
ly surrounded him from his cradle up, coult
so have warped so noble mind We can read
lily forgive such a sentiment uttered under sucl
teachings, but the pusilinamous secession sym
pathisers here at the North, who gloat over i
with fiendish exultation, and endorse it as right
deserve the utter execrations of all honorable
men. The English language does not contair
words enough for us TO express our loathinI
!, and abhorance of such degraded and contempt
i ible, sneaking pukes. If we were not oppose
t to putting coat of tar and feathers even on
sheep killing dog, we would say such whelI
f richly deserve such treatment.