Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-11-10
yer YEr-rHE TIME HAS scr COVE.


EoT YETlTHE TIME HAS rOT COME.
Seversl Of the leaders Of the Democratic
party have presumed, in Their blindness,
to invite the present Union I,arty % CO.
lapse, expire, aud literally eAtinguisll itself
for its work is ended aud thefeis nothing
more left it to do. Neeyets pot yet the
time has not come. just at this time for
party which has borne itself so mobly,
which has doue the work set fol. it TO do
SO faithfully; which stands up to-day in the
magnitude of its greatfulneSs, in the noon
day of its usefulness, in the pride of its
strength and power 70 submit 10 become.
extinct, to be as though it were not, would
be to leave our dear country to the mercy
of an unstable. wind driven, whimsical
party which would plunge us into new
difficulties we know not Of and ruin the
country forever. No, 10, we must live to
watch this Democratic party. They have
such peculiar ways Of acting; they are SO
very Timber and 50 much like the india
rubber circus man ias9heir movements,
turn and twist aud bend in any direction
to suit the caprices of its own wild fancy.
1t Is necessary FOR these folks to have some
one TO watch over them and we propose TO
live to do this
With the Republican Union party dead,
there Is no knowing what wild Irish dance
these erratic performers might execute
over the body. 1t is perfectly certaiu--
we ask every man Of reason If it be not
absolutely certain that they would at
once amorously affiliate with the red-hand-
ed assassins of the Republic in desperate
attempt la set up once more the idols of
the Man Owning Oligarchy. How do we
know what bad measures they would sup
port, OF what good ones they would repu-
diate. How do we know that they would
not vote to assume the Rebel Debt? How
do we know that they would not restore
many of the worst features of Slavery, and
even Slavery itself! How do we know,
when shifting IN their positions, loose in
their morality, possessed by the demon of
temporary expediency, devoured 10y self
ishness, they do not themselves know what
al III l., 49,, Il,a ,,,ou,ani of fao,ofa
tiou has come, when Rebels bid high for
their assistance, when 'recOnstructed'
States come into the market TO sell the
votes which these spectators are ever
eager to buy? IL the days which have
Just past were perilous, the times which
are 10 come are not less SO. We shall
need men of fixed principle, and these men
are As unstable as water: we shall need
men Of humanity, aud these men are stony
hearted; we shall need men Of generous
impulses, and these are utterly cold, cal
culating merceuary. We would do them
no injustice; but we do not believe that it
would give them moments uueasiness if
the whole system Of Slavery, with its noxi-
Gus political influences, with its bloody
code, with its social cruelty, Nithits devil
ish concubinage, with its ayowed aud sys-
temstic swindling, with its barbarous dis
regard of the family relation, should be re-
stored tomorrow in The whole breadth of |
its badness and the whole length of its |
lawlessness. Certain it is that these North
ern apoststes will he precisely the tools
which the disahected and disappointed sd-
venturers of the Rebellion will require
We should be willing to stake our exist
ence upon the coalition which we regard |
as inevitable between these two wings of
what is left Of the pro-SIavery party-s
coalition which Democratic victory here
would certainly accelerate. Wherefore, |
we propose TO live, and to prevent if pos
sible the mischief of such an alliance.