Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-08-19
..pIIr NoT yoIn TR,Isr ry pRINt,Es.,,

ssPUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES.''
We were never more struck with the truth Of
the aboveaxiom than we were upon reading the
diatribe Of senator B. r. Wade and Hen. Vim.
Ter Davis upon a recent proclamation Of Psesi-
dent Lincoln in regard toa bin passed by Con-
gress iixing the conditions whereby the rebel
lious States could regain admission into the
Union. This bill the President very justly re-
fused tosign, as it only provided for the adj
mission of those States after the rebellion shall
have been put down, and also contained one fea-
ture at least that we believe to be unconstitu-
tional. 1t was not only the Presidents privi-
lege 10 do as he did, but his duty to do 50, aud
his reasonings in the Proclamation are clear and
conclusive But these gentlemen Wade and
by the Union party to enact laws, and not to
villify and misrepresent the President consid-
cred their dignity and capacity as Legislators
impeached by the Proclamation of Mr.. Lincoln,
and they have Illuminated an article three col
umns in length, reviewing the Proclamation
and containing structures on the President un-
worthy to have been written by the most invet-
crate Copperhead in the Union. Not content
with this, they fabficatc falshood by signing
the document as Chairman of the Senate and
House Committees on Rebellious States, thus
conveying the idea that the article was an Off
cial paper, while the truth is the ill-considered
and. senseless thing is but the effusion of the
added brains of the gentlemen themselves
What do these men want? What do they ex-
pect TO accomplish? They both pretend to be
loyal and anti-slavery, but to read their article
one would think their chief aim was to secure
the election of traitor to the Presidency
Wade is man of some ability, and has hereto
fore stood high in the estimation of his political
friends, but he ought to know that he cannot
retain the esteem of any decent man moment
if he persists in endeavoring 20 weaken and di-
vide the Union party If he must turn traitor,
a sense of modesty should admonish him that
heshould have the decency to resign his place
in the Senate that the Union party may fill it
with man who has discretion sufficient TO make
war upon the enemies of the country instead of
its friends Even the Southern Senators had
modesty enough to resign when they became
traitors.
We say to the people, ''Put not your trust in
Princes Too many of them care for nothing
but their own individual advancement The
height of their aspirations is that they may be
the masters and the people their servants If
the Union spreserved, if Liberty and Freedom
is established throughout the land, if the rights
of the people are maintained, the people them
selves must do it, They must frown upon ev-
cry attempt to weaken the Union strength, come
from whatever source it may. No man stands
SO high, that he can with impunity endanger
the liberties of his countrymen without being
rebuked.
The time hasnOw arrived that will try men's
souls The calamities of war are now, TO a
small extent, beginning to reach us. Iti now
TO be tested whether the free sons of the North
possess the virtue, patriotism, and self-sacrifc-
ing spirit, which will enable them to carry to a
successful issue a cause as noble as any people
ever fought for, or whether they are the craven
towards and cringing sycophants that the Slave
masters charge, with souls SO small that they
vail than go without coffee for breakfast or su-
gar in their tea. If they are the men we be-
lieve them to be, they will stand by their coun-
try, by the President who is their friend by
our brave armies who have stood between them
and destruction as avail of living fire, and by
all the measures that are intended to advance
the cause of the Union.