Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-08-18
"ABoLITIoN sCOuNpRKLs.n

| The above is the epithet applied by the Ffe-
mont Messenger to those citizens of Kentucky
who supported the ticket in favor of the amend
ment to the Constitution abolishing slavery
And who Is it that are thus stigmatised as
''scoundrels?" 1t is such men as the gallant
and brave Rosseau; the able and eloquent
Smith; the patriot Randall; that lover of human
freedom, Fry; the editor fthe Louisville Jour
nal, Gov Bramlette, Wickliffe, and thousands
of the ablest and most accomplished men of
| that State And who is this man that thus
stigmatises them2 An editor of little coun-
try paper, without patriotism, with no instincts
in favor of human liberty, with little narrow
contracted views of human rights, and whose
whole ambition is to misrepresent the views
and principles of the Union party and to keep
his readers in total ignorance of the truth
Below we give the sayings of a few ''scoun-
drels,' list which we might extend Gd Ebi-
tun,. Possibly the editor of the Messenger may
have heard of some of them before but we Il
wager red copper that none of them ever did
and never will find their way into his paper:
It (slavery) is so odious that nothing can be
sufficient to support IT but positive law.-T Lord
Mansfield.
Slavery is state SO improper, so degrading
So ruinous to the feelings and capacities of hu-
man nature, that it ought not TO be suffered to
exist Burke. -. s--, f-a....s..e 81. "a
system (slavery) which is not only oppos-
ed to the principles of morality, but, as it ap-
pears to me, is pregnant with appalling and IN
hia dopc crar tot the u,,,.,
boldt. -
Every man has property IL lis own person;
this nobody has right to but himself IT Locke
1t perverts human reason, and induces men
endowed with logical powers to maintain that
slavery is sanctioned by the Christian religion.
-EJohn Q. Adams.
I never would consent, and never have CON
sented that there should be one foot Of slave
territory beyond what the old thirteen States
had at the formation of the Union. Never
Never Il Daniel Webster.
It (slavery) ought not to be introduced nor
permitted in any of the new States.- Jno. Jay.
Natural liberty is the gift of the benefcent
Creator of the whole human race.-[ Alexander
Hamilton.
Slavery is an atrocious debasement of hu-
man nature.--[ Franklin.
Slavery is a system of the most complete in
JUSTICE Plato. ~
1t t(slavery) impairs our strength as com
munity, and poisons our morals at the fountain
head Judge CASTOR, North Carolina.
The evils of this system slavery cannot be
enumerated. Geo. W. Somers, of Virginia.
So long as God allows the vital current to
flow through my veins, I will never, never,
never, by word or thought by mind or viii,
aid in submitting one rood of free territory to
the everlasting curse of human bondage
Henry Clay.
Sir, envy neither the heart nor the head of
that man from the North, who rises here in
(Congress) to defend slavery from principle. y
-[John Randolph.
We have found that this evil Slavery has
preyed upon the very vitals of the Union, and
has been prejudicial to all the States in which
it has existed. James Monroe.
The abolition of domestic slavery is the
greatest object of desire in these Colonies
where it was unhappily introduced in their in
FAINT state.-[Thomas Jefferson.
can only say that there is not man living
who wishes more sincerely than do to see a
plan adopted for the abolition of it (slavery.
L George Washington.
ture herself cry out against the state of slavery
Il Pope Leo X.
We further reprobate by our Apostolic au-
thority all the above offenses (trafic in slaves
and holding them in slavery as utterly unwOr-
thy the Christian name.-[ Pope George XVI.
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A 'DEMOCRATIC'' EDITOR ON DAVIS.
We make the following extracts from an edi-
torial in the Hillsborc Gazette, Copperhead or
gan in Highland county: When such senti-
ments are promulgated by democratic editors,
is it any wonder that the 0opperhead party are
charged with sympathizing with the sworn en-
emies of the Government? by their works ye
shall know them," etc.
"There are fools who reiolced over his capture
vile rabble cried for his blood.
"If Mr. johnson wishes and his party wish to
damn this country with eternal infamy, let hip,
execute Jefferson Davis. se..
AS to the charge OftIeGs0R it is sufficient an
swer that Mr.. Davis is prisoner of war aud is
entitled to be treated as such. When captured
he was President of the Confederate States and
has never resigned that Office. He is no more
guilty of treason than the men who voted to
elect him to high and responsible position which
he occupied with so much ability and dignity
for four years; if there be guilt OF treason at !
tacbing to him then the whole Southern people
ought to be hung, OF if it be humanely decided
to spare the lives of the rank and file and pun
ish all the leaders, then, in justice, all of them
must hang aud we protest against any fayorit-
ism. But we say 10 President johnson, that you
have no right to hang auy of them on the charge
of treason. JEFF. Davis is q prisoner of war and
you should not and viii not hang him under any
pretense whatever
There are Democrat" sentiments foryOu,
reader. How do you relish themG