Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-06-24
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Slavery is dead, and you must pardon me If
| / do not mourn over its dead body; you can
bury it out of sight In restoring the State,
sleave out that disturbing and dangerous element,
aud use only those parts of the machinery which
viii move in harmony. -
Now, in regard to emancipation, want to say
to the blacks that liberty means liberty to work
and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Idleness is
not freedom. I desire that all men shall have
a fair start and an equal chance in the race Of
life and let him succeed who has the most mer-
lit. This, I think, is principle of Heaven.
am for emancipation for two reasons: First, be-
cause it is right in ITSELF and second, because in
the emancipation of the slaves we break down
an odious and dangerous aristocracy think
that we are freeing more whites than blacks in
Tennessee. want to see slavery broken up,
yand when its barriers are thrown down, / want
to see slavery broken down, | want to see in
dustrious, thrifty emigrants pouring in from all
parts of the country. Come Oni Weneed your
labor, your skill, your capital. We want your
enterprise and invention, 80 that hereafter Tenn
essee may rank with New England in the arts
and mechanics, and that when we visit the Pat
| ent Office, at Washington, where the INGENIOUS
mechanics of the free States have placed their
models, we need not not blush that Tennessee
can show nothing but a mouse trap, or some
thing of about as much importance Comeonl
We greet you with hearty welcome to the soil
of Tennessee. Here is soil the most fertile in
every agricultural product; delightful and
healthy climate, forests, water power, and mines
of inexhaustable richness; come and help us re-
deem Tennessee, and make her "a powerful and
fiourishing State.
But in calling convention to restore the
State, who shall restore and re-establish it2-
Shall the man who gave his influence and his
means to des troy the Government? Is he
to participate in the great work Of re-or-
ganization? Shall he who brought this misery
upon the State be permitted to control It's des-
TIMES? If this be so, then all this precious
blood of our brave soldiers and officers so free
ly poured out will have been wantonly spilled.
! Ali the glorious victories won by our noble
armies viii 90 for nought, and all the battle
fields which have been sOwn with dead heroes
during this rebellion viii have been made mem
orable in vain. Why all this carnage and de-
vastatiOn? twas thai- treason might be put
down and traitors punished. Therefore / say
that traitors should take a back seat in there's
toration. If there be but five thousand men in
Tennessee, loyal to the Constitution, loyal TO
freedom, loyal to justice, these true and faithful
men should control the work of reorganization
and reformation absolutely. CLOud and pro-
lOnged applause say that the traitor has
ceased to be citizen, and in joining the rebel
lion, has become public enemy. He forfeited
his right to vote with loyal men, when ne re-
nounced his citizenship, and sought to destroy.
our Government We say to the most honest
and industrious foreigner who comes from Eng