Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-07-18
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party to "Ihe Constitution as it is" policy. We
will now show, briefly, what these sympathisers
with treason wanted to add to the Constitution.
The Crittenden Resolutions, which that par
ty wished to engraft into the Constitution, were
) in substance as follows:
lst. The herecognition of Slavery and its pro-
lection south of latitude 36 , 30, not only in the
existing territory, but in territory not yet con-
quered, purchased or stolen.
"a. The denial of any power in Congress to
abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia
while 1t existed in Virginia, or to prohibit the
transportation of slaves from one State to an
other, or to territories recognizing Slavery.
Sd. To pay the owner the full value of fu-
gitlye slave when the Marshal was prevented
from arresting him by intimidation and to take
from persons of the African race the right of suf-
| irage which they have possessed in Massachu-
setts since the Constitution passed by the Rev
Olutionary fathers was adopted in $780, and ac-
quire territory in Africa or South America and
send at the expense of the Federal Treasury
such free negroes the States may wish to have
removed from their limits.
Such are some of the amendments the "Dem-
ocratic" party-the party that now so love the
Constitution as it is'-wished to despoil the
Charter of our liberties scarce fifteen months
ago: There was not "straight Democratic"
politician or paper throughout the land, (the
Messenger not excepted, but that favored this
proposition. And now the demagogues have
I the brazen faced impudence to adopt the motto,
"The Constitution as it is |" Just as though any
person ever talked of altering it but themselves.
Now let us come down to later date. No
longer ago than the 7th of last February, VAL
landigham, the "chief cook and bottle washer
n tbp lafa Do,nocr,4;o l.,
and now the recognized leader of that party in
this State, submitted to the Congress of the
United States the following plan for dissolving
the Union:-a plan to break up the nation by 80
changing the Constitution as TO incorporate the
right Of secession in the Fundamental Law of the
Nation. We ask Democrats TO read and ponder.
"Bc a rcsoIve16y tia Senate and House Of Rep-
rcse'lsativcs Of tie U1itcd States Of An,orica IN
Congress assembled (two thirds of both Houses
concurring,) That the following articles be and
are hereby proposed as amendments to the Con-
stitution of the United States, which shall be
valid to all intents and purposes as part of said
Constitution when ratified by conventions in
three-fourths of the several States.
"ARTlcLE MIL SEo. l. The United States
are divided in four sections, as follows:
"The States of Maine New Hampshire, Yer
mont Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jer-
sey and Pennsylvania, and all new States an
neXed and admitted into the Union, or formed or
erected within the jurisdiction of any of said
States, or by the junction of two or more of the
same or of parts thereof or out of territory ac-
quired north of said States shall constitute one
section TO be known the North.
"The States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. ATichi-
gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas
and all new States annexed or admitted into the
Union, or erected within the jurisdiction of any
of said States, or by the junction of two or more
OF the same or of parts thereof or out Of terri
tory now held or hereafter acquired north of lat
itude 36 : 80, and east ofthe crest of the Rocky
Mountains, shall constitute another section TO
| be known as the West.
"The States of Oregon and California, and all
new STATES annexed and admitted into the I'm
ION, or formed or erected within the jurisdiction
OF any of said States, or by the junction of two
or more of the same or parts thereof or out of
territory now held or hereafter acquired west of
the crest of the Rocky mountains and of the
Rio Grande, shall constitute another section. to
! be known as the Pacific.
"Fhe States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia
North Carolina, South Carolina Georgia. Flori-
da, Alabama, Mississippi Louisiana Texas. Ar
kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri and
all new States annexed and admitted into the
Union, or formed or erected within the iurisdic-
tion of any of said States, or by the junction of
two or more of the same or of parts thereof or
out of territory acquired east of the Rio Grande
anu SOulll OF ldllluue % OU, shall constitute
another section, to be known as the South.
"SEo. 9. On demand of one-third of the Sem
ators of any one of the sections on any bill or
der, resolution or vote, to which the concurrence
OF the House of Representatives may be neces-
sary, except ON a question of adjournment a
vote shall be had by sections and majority of
the Senators from each section voting shall be
necessary to the passage of such bill, order or
resolution, and to the validity of every such
vote.
Here follow two sections relative to the mode
of clecting President and Vice President, and
then the following article:
"ARTIcLE XIX.-No State shall sEcEpE with
out the consent of the Legislatures of all the
States Of the section 10 ,chich the State proposi,o
TO secede shat belong. The President shall have
power to adjust with all seeding States all uues-
tions arising by reason of their secession; but
the terms of the adjustment shall be submitted
to the Congress, for their approval before the
same shall be valid"
Such only five months ago, was another Dem.
ocratic plan to amend the Constitution, which
might well be entitled San act to provide for
Secession, and to legalize Rebellion and An
archy." "zHe Constellation as a isp' Can anv
one tell precisely the time when this g-r-e-a-t
Democratic party became converted to this doc
trine? ? When was it? Has it been converted
atall1 The Ohio Salesman keeps standing at
its head the Crttenden plan for amending the
Constitution, as part of the Democratic faith.
so that we greatly fear this pew-born zeal for
the sacredness of that instrument is only assum.
ed for sinister purposes. That party has brought
the country to its present lamentable condition.
God grant that the people may have the wisdom
to keep it in position that it can do no further
harm.
Southern Union Paper ON the Ohio
SymPathizers.
The Nashville Union, one of the ablest and
most earnest Union journals in the south, says:
The so-called Democratic Ohio State conyen-