Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-02-03
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DEATH OF SLAVERY IN TENNESSEE.
The Nashville Times has the following report
of speech delivered by Governor johnson, on
the 18th ult., on the adjournment of the State
Convention which abolished Slavery in Ten
nessee:
Gentlemen: / came here to night TO be a lis
tener, with the rest of you, 70 your nominee for
Governor; but as there seems 10 be a disap-
pointment, ] shall Try to entertain you for brief
time. Gentlemen, congratulate you IN Che
sincerity Of my heart on ths successful conclus-
ion of your lsbors. It is the greatest work Of
the age. In the great revolution which Is GO
ing forward, you have performed your part no.
bly,. This say without aattery; your work
has been well done. In this momentous strug-
gle, in the development Of the great principles
Of human liberty you have discharged your
duty manfully.
Who would have thought, three or four years
ago, that Tennesseeans would have been per-
mitted to assemble in this Capitol, for such
purpose. without being molested, or driven
from its halls7 The mighty principles Of hu-
man rights and liberty have been pitted against
monopoly and slavery. Yesterday you broke
the tyrant's rod and set the captive free. Loud
applause Yes, gentlemen, yesterday you
sounded the death knell Of negro arist0cracy,
and. performed the funeral Obsequies of that
thing called slavery. You have opened the
grave and let the carcass down, aud al that re-
mains Is for you to seal the pit ON the 22d of
February, the anniversary of the day which
gave birth to the Father of his Country Con-
secrate your work on that day.
TRANSPORTATION OF BLACKS AND WHITES.
feel heartfelt gratitude that have lived
to see it done, and that have been permitted
TO perform my little part in this great drama. =
The blow has been struck, and slavery lies
PROSTATE. An insolent, insincere, ignorant. un-
feeling, hypocritical nefarious. disbOlieal slave
aristOcracy has been tumbled to the ground.
They who never learned that
s'worth makes the man, and want Of il the teIlo.
who lived on the real or imaginary honors Of
buried ancestry, have at least learned that an
| ignorant, corrupt aristocracy must 90 down
Your sessions have been, on the whole, harmo-
NOUS, Notwithstanding some little pickering
which think viii all pass away with your sd-
I jOurnment. While you think you have eman-
| cipated black men, tell you that you have
| enancipated more white than black men from
! the insolent domination Of the Shareholder.
/ Yes, the time was not long agowhen you dared
not speak your sentiments. Even In East Ten
nessee, where there were only few slaves, and
we always spoke more freely, do you not re-
/ member the power which the STAKEHOLDER exer-
cisedf how many of our people were compelled
to live on barren ridges and cultivate the stony
/ spots, while few shareholders owned thousands
OF broad acres in the fertile valleys, which they
| titled with their hondsmen. Even you felt their
power, and knew the contempt they felt for you.
Because, many years ago, / dared to SPEAK
| of these things was denounced as an agrariar
and demagogue, whOappealed TO the preiudices
of the people. Thank God, have lived to SEE
| the day when the people Of my State have de-
clared themselves free. must now urge you
/ to redouble your efforts to carry out your work
when you go hence. If you consummate il
with the same resolution, the foul blot of hu-
man slavery will be removed from the escutcb-
con of the State
/ / shall say nothing OF the future condition O
the negro, nor Of the elective franchise First
reorganize; time and experience viii regulat.
the rest Let us first get rid ofslavery let thers
be no pickering or conflict till we get that ou
of the way. This being done, we win take u
other questions, and dispose of them as they
arise. Who could have anticipated three year
ago that we would have progressed thus far9-
Letus, like wise men, hold ourselves In readi
ness to manage the new questions which may
arise in the future. There is no need of giving
ourselves trouble prematurelY