Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-02-12
THE FALSE CRY THAT SLAVERY is AL.
READY DEAD.

From the Anti-Slayery Standard.
We fear that not few earnest friends of
freedom are in danger of being lulled into
fatal security by the siren song, heard on
every side, that slavery is already dead
1t is indeed writhing in agony, but it is
not dead-far from it. There is still need
of the utmost vigilance to guard against
the possibility of compromise that may
leave the disease to prey for generation,
or perhaps for generations, upon the heart
of the Nation. The enfeebled condition of
slavery and the growing spirit of freedom
at the North, instead of lulling us to sleep,
as if our work were all done, should en-
courage us to strike harder blows at the
monster than ever, and thus ensure his
death.
The following extract from the VAST
ington I" Editorial Correspondence" of the
Chester Co., Pa, Republican is so peril
nent to the hour that we give it a promi-
nent place in our columns, and entreat our
readers to lay to heart the counsel it con-
| tains
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 8, 1864.
One of the most earnest-minded Union
lists l have met here or elsewhere a native
of Kentucky, but for many years resi-
dent of Iowa) called at my lodgings just
before the Christmas holidays, and said he
came to me as an editor to mention mat
ter which he thought every loyal newspa-
per in the land should notice as a rock on
which our tempest-tossed ship of state was
more in danger of being wrecked than al
most any other 1t was the widely dissem
mated and entertained opinion, that let the
aUar stop achen 1T qc6uld the iustitatioe of
slavery acas dead He thought that no
more false or mischievous idea was abroad,
and his fear was that the loyal men of the
country, through newspapers and other
wise, were impregnating the public mind
with this erroneous opinion. This gentle
man is thoroughly acquainted with the en-
tire mental status ofslaveholders as body,
and says there is no class at the present
time more busily engaged in circulating
the notion that slavery is irrecoverably
dead, than these men. They know that a
patched up peace would enable them to
heal the wounded snake, giving itpower to
again fasten its deadly fangs on the ma
tons heart, causing our children to be the
inheritors of a curse which would bring
the stream of strife, desolation and frater-
nal blood-shedding to their thresholds, as
it has brought all these deplorable evils to
ours. This man pleads with the voice and
heart of apatriot, that the people should
not be deceived into the belief that slavery
is dead He AYERS that it is not dead
that it has still within it abundant vitality
to recover from It's wounds, and be as tyr
annical and insolent in the future as it has
been in the past. | take the word and
the advice of one intimately acquainted,
with this brutalizing institution, and in this
correspondence call upon our friends, the
true and the loyal, to continue to strike
hard and telling blows at the writhing rep
tile, until the tail gives out the last muscu-
lar twitch with the going down Of the sun
of the rebellion For Heavens sake, let
us not be affrightened from high and pat
riotic purpose by the howl of traitorous
demagogues The blood and treasure nee
essary to purchase anew the liberties OF
our country have been well nigh spent, and
if we falter now, in the very hour of tri-
umph, there is no plummet will ever faith
ON the depths of our national degrada-
ton. Let us all say, no peace, no COM
promise, no conservative diplomacy short
of the well ascertained death of slavery
In this result is involved the happiness and
the prosperity of our country. When men
venture to assert that slavery and freedom
hare lived peaceably together in this ma
ton, they assert what is not true. From
, the beginning there has been constant
conflict between the two antagonistic prin-
ciples, until at last it breaks out into wal
. of more frightful proportions than any
other that has ever convulsed the world
Garrison's Lberator and the Charleston
Mercury were not the causes Of the war
it was the eternal animosity in the hearts
of freemen against a human being wear
ing the chains of slavery, and the intent IL
the bosom of the tyrant that those chains
should be worn, that brought about the
, clash and the conflict of war and thest
antagonisms will bring it on again if W.
E fail to cut out the cancer and cauterze thu
wound.
SENATOR sHERMAN's SPEECH.