Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-03-03
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initiating consideration for the boastfrl support
eTs of the sham. But it Is not, by q long odds,
the most humiliating fact IN their condition A
weak nation may beoverrun by a superior force,
without loss of honor or disgrace. This has of
en- happened in human history and may happer
again; although Il does not often happen that
while the heel OF the conqueror is on the neck
OF his prostrate enemy, the latter still Proclains
hisinvineibility.
But the peculiar abasement of the slavehold
ers, not that they are loosing their cause, but
that they are trying 10 save it in the way they
do. they are calling upon Pomp and Juba and
JunIus-their own slaves-the degraded men
whose very manhood they lately denied, to come
to their rescue a bill is before their CONGRESS
providing for the enlistment Of five hundred
thousand negroes in the army; many Of their
generals and statesman approve the measure.
their journals urge il; and their Secretary Of
State. in swelling speech at the capital, de-
clared they was no other salvation for the des-
perste scheme of revolt in which they are en-
barked. What confession for these proud
masters of the African, who have all their life
long derlded his capacity, who have ridiculed
his assumed ability to take care of himself
who have degraded him to the level Of the cat
tie but who now call upon him as if he were an
other Hercules, to help them get their showey
equipage of secession out of the mud in which
it is hopelessly imbeddedi Yea, this god doth
shake; this famous King Cotton, who bestrid
the world like colossus; this naughty lord of
souls and Of acres calls pIaintively to bis despis-
ed and fettered bondrnen TO keep him from
drowning.
Are they men then, after all, these lowiy AZ
ricans? are they capable of the difficult evolu-
tiOns of the field, Of all the honorable arts Of
war? may they win at last by gallaptry and
courage place among the freemen oftbe earth?
Such was not the teaching we heard only four
short years ago. We have before us a book.
published in 1861, and extensively approved
and even applauded at the South, which was
ment to be an elaborate and unanswerable proof
of the negrO's ablect place IN creation We
were told in it that his black color " as an indie
lible sign that the Almighty had set them apart,
by palpable distinction, IN order to guard his
real work, the white man, from possible desecTa-
ton; we were told that his features were So ar
ranged as to be incapable ofexpressing the high
er emotional feelings Of human nature: that his
vocal organs were insusceptible OF the nice and
delicate mOdulatiOns necessary to the speaking
of languages, so that he could only initiate
sounds; that his brsin was Ofso coarse texture.
SO deficient in volume, and 50 rude in organiza-
tiOn that be could not originate or conduct q
process OF thought attain to the slightest
intellectual eminenee; in short that his entire
structure proved him to be, not precisely an
Ourang-Outang, but an approximation from the
human side to the eourang-outang, or a eompronl-
Use between the animal and the human races.
We shall not here gainsay this lofty philoso-
ply; it may be admitted to be true for the nOnce;
but then what shall we say of those equisite
specimens of the Caucasian tribe, of the lordly
and supereilious sons of the cavaliers who look
ed down with contempt even upon the poor
children of the Puritans, with nothing better tn
oh ham
Webster, Emerson, Hawthorne or Sherman
when they are compelled to call Justify upon
Jocko for final assistance. Brother or cousin, OF
second cousin, of Chimpanzee, or whatever else
his relation to the illustrious family Of the spes
it seems that there is yet enough of humanity
in him to make soldier Of and 10 save the fIag-
ments of the wrecked COnfedeTacy when the SUI
perior being had quite given it up.
Worse than that; the slave lords are not only
obliged, by the extremity of their circumstan-
ces, TO confess the virtual manhood Of their vic
TINS; but they are also obliged TO accept for
themselves the detested name, if not the princi-
Piles, of the abolitionists.. They propose to of
er the boon of freedom TO all the slaves who shall
perform the military service required Of them.
Ho therei shouts the Charleston MercHTH still
cling to its ancient delusiOns, to the Richmond
prints that vindicate the new measure, that is
downright abolitionismi Do you know what
you do? If you put negroes in the army, and
free them afterwards what becomes ofthe peeu-
liar social structure of the SOuth3 Have we not
told the.world that we could not cultivate our
semi-tropical soils without negroes, and that we
could not have negroes unless they were slaves;
that emancipation meant butchery, riot, uproar
and "all the horrors of ST. DomiDgo"P and there
you are, decreeing emancipation to the slave as
the high reward ofvalor, as precious boon Of
gratitude, as promise of future well-being and
prosperity and honor to him and his descendants :
What pretty pass you have come to, thus give
the lie To all your best pretensions, thus to ex-
pose the shallowness ofalLthe pretexts for slave-
ry, thus to avow to mankind that your defences
of the sacred system were but a hypocrisy and
shaml
Accordingly, the Mercury and its little origin
al bands of nulli6ers viii hear ofnothing of this
With frankness we commend to the English
admirers Of "a brave people struggling for self
government and independence" and who still
maintain that slavery has nothing to do with
the war, the Mercury declares that ~South Caro-
lima entered into this struggle for no other pur-
pose than to maintain the Institution of slavery
that southern independence has no other
object or meaning, and that Independence and
slavery must stand together or fall together. -
That is brave and true; and we think the Her
curry right. The object of the war was slavery,
al intentions, and not allow themselves 70 be
wheedled out of It BY those sleek and plausible
fellows of the Richmond press. To abandon
that object now; to make soldiers OF the negroes
to grant them freedom as prize, is an iDeonsist
ency so gross and ludicrous that it will cover
them with the ridieule OF the world
e.
The Charleston News in the OhiO Legislature.
1t seems that the news of the capture of Char
lesion happened to reach Columbus on one of the
days when the Legislature was in session. The
correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette thus de-
scribes scene:
A most extraordinary scene was enacted here
this afternoon on the announcement in the two
houses of the capture of Charleston and planting
ofthe flag over Fort Sumter. In the Senate the
dispatch was read by Mr.. Gunekel, aud that
body promptly adjourned. In the House the
dispatch was read by Mr.. Harrison, and all busi-
ness Immediately suspended Suddenly mem
bers spraug TO their feet and seized their hats,
which they threw to the ceiling, and cheered
most Justify.
Mr.. BabcOck, of Ouyahoga county, good
singer and great fayorite was placed in the aisle
and at once started "John Browns Soul is March
ing On, ~ which, being also accompanied by the
members, was taken up by the messenger boys
and outsiders, and as their voices were distinct
| in the Rotunda, hundred or more Of the sol
diers there dressed in blue, repeated it with
great unction. This had scarcely ended when
Capt. Free, member from Pike county, struck
up aWeu Rally Round the Flag, Boys" IN
/ which members, messenger boys, citizens and
soldiers united. 1t seem that all the world was
rejoicing. The scene was one of the most excl
ting and remarkable ever witnessed at this OF
any capitol and viii never be forgotten by those
who participated or witnessed it.
But, as we remarked, there were mourners.-
StiIl and glum sat here and there, in the South
Carolina corner, those who could give no smile Of
congratulaton, and join no voice in the patriotic
choruses. A sorry sight was that South Caro-.
lima corner at this moment. Well did its ten
ants vindicate the name of their locality in tbs
! House.
RICH STORY.
! A late Parkefsburgh paper says that sew
! eral members of the West Virginia Leg
| islature took the ears at Grafton late on
! the evening of the 18th ult for Wheeling, and
| among the numbers was Mr. G., Of some what