Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-01-27

On the recommendation Of the Judiciary COM
mittee the House indefinitely postponed the bill
passed BY the Senate at las last session. pEoAib-
ting the interrnarriage Of cousins; and passed
the bill to so amend the law to punish the crime
Of maliciously destroying property as TO reach
cases where the property destroyed is Of less
value than hve dollars and move the mimum
limit of punishment
A resolution in favor of general increase of
fees and salaries was laid on the table mem con.
In the Senate little Of general interest was
done.
Mr.. West introduced bill to aid in enforce
ment of the draft .
The House bill to provide for the compensa-
tion to physicians for post morteza examinations
held by them at the instance Of Prosecuting At
torney > was killed by striking out all after the
enacting clause
Bills were introduced as follows: To provide
for the payment OF bounty to such re-euIisted
veteran volunteers as have not been by law paid
a local bounty. To extend the time for epeIos-
ing railroads by fences and cattle ouar4s t,,
March 1867. T0prescribe as one cause Of d;-
vorce cases where .wife or husband resides with
in the rebel States sdhering to the enemies Of
the Government To facilitate convictions for
selling intoxicating liquors, by prohibiting per-
sonsfrOm using blinds screens, or painted win
dOws to conceal their actions in conducting such
sales from the public. To provide for the re-
cording of Justices and constable's bonds.
A convention of Sheriffs from various uarts
Of the State has Just closed It's labors. The
principal subject had under consideration was
the insuticieneY of compensation now allowed
by law. Twenty-seven Of the larger counties
of the State were represented; and after delib-
Grafton 1t was decided TO memorabilia the leg
islators for relief but instead Of asking any in
crease oftaxation, ask that the additional ex-
Pense be paid by Iitigants. L.
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The English werkingmen 20 Mr.. Lincoln.
The following address of the English work
ingmen Of Englandto Mr.. Lincoln, congrstu-
lating him upon his reelection, appears in the
London Dailg Essos Of December q. 1t has
been forwarded to Washington through Mr.
Adams:
10 AbrGhan' LineodIt PresidsAt Of the U,dtsd
! States Of AReTied:
I .'SIR; We congratulate the American people
/ upon your re-electioR- BY a large majority. II
resistance to the slave power was the reserved
watchwOrd ofyOur first election, the triumph
/ ant war-cry of your reelection is death to
slavery. From the commencement of the IT,
| tanic American strife the workingmen Of Eu,
| rope felt instinctively that the Star-Spangled
| Banner carried the destiny of their class The
! epOpee, was it not to decide whether the virgin
| soil of immense tracts should be welded to the
I labor OF the emigrant, prostituted blythe
/ tramp vi the slave-driver? When an oligarehy
of three hundred thousand shareholders dared
| to iTiscribe foT the first time in the annals OF
/ the Of world, Slavery ON the banner Of arm
ed revolt; when on the very spots where hard
| ly aeentury ago the idea Of one great democrat
\ ic republic had first sprung up, Whencst the frst
4 of tho ~,
the first impulse given to the European revolu-
ton of the eighthteenth century; when on those
very spots counter revolution, with systematic
| thOroughness, gloried in resembling the ideas
entertained at the time of the formation Of the
old constitution and maintained slavery to be
| a benefcent institution, indeed the only solu-
tiOn of the great problem of the relation OF cap
ital to labor, 'cynically proclaimed property ia
man the cornerstone Of the new edifce; then
the working classes of Europe understood at
once, even before the frantic partizanship of the
upper classes for the Confederate gentry had
given its dismal warning, that the shareholders
| rebellion was to sound the tOcsin for a general
holy crusade of property against labor and that
| for the men of labor with their hopes for the
future, even their past eOnquests were at stake
\ in that tremendous conflict on the other side Of
| the Atlantic, Everywhere they bore, there
1 FORE patiently the hardships imposed upon them
| " VIC SOoooh OAASt's OfpOSoA cA1uA1tfASbACal1J
/ the prO-slavery Intervention opportunities of
! their .betters, and from the most parts of Eu-
rope contributed theirquOta of blood TO the good
cause. While the wOrkingmen, the true polit-
ical power of the North, allowed slavery TO de-
file their own Republic, while before the negro,
mastered and sold without his concurrence, they
bOasted it the highest prerogatiye ofthe white
skinned labOrer to sell himself aud choose his
own master, they were unable to attain the true
freedom of labor, or to support their European
brethren in their struggle for emancipation;
but this barrier To progress has been swept of
by the red sea of civil war. The wOrkingmen
of Europe feel sure that as the American war Of
independence initiated new era of ascendeDcy
for the middle class, so the American anti-slave-
ry war will do for the working classes. They
consider it an earnest Of the epoch to come, that
itfell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single
minded son of the working class, to lead his
country through the matebless struggle for the
rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruct
tiOn of social world.
Signed on behalfo Of the International Work
ing Mems Association, the Members of the Cen
tral Council" I"