Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-08-31

dlCOnS. Inc vice PRESIDENT OF the reDel-
lion is put forward to demand of you,
Americans, your sword and your Govern
ment; and he is instructed to say to you
Georgia will accept no conditions in your
surrender Are you ready for the sur
render? Victors of Donelson, at Corinth,
at New Orleans, at Vicksburg, at Antie-
tam, at Gettysburg, on Lookout Mountain,
and Richmond, are you ready for the Sun
conditional surrender" Grant, who went
through "on that line to the conquest of
the continent and to the fame of the ages,
are you ready for the surrender? Sher-
man, who 'marched down to the sea, are
you! Shades of Lyon and Mcpherson,
and of your three hundred thousand slain
comrades, will you come, in the bloody
cerements in which fame hath wrapped
you, and be present at the inexpressible
shame of this abandonment of the govern
ment you deemed you had rescued into
the control of the same treason you thonght
you had vanquished.
This, verify, is folly-nay unutterable
madness-compared to which to unchain
and put at helm, in the midst of the storm
and rock, the convicted pirate and mutt
neer is prudence ITSELF
Fellow citizens, do not deem that in this
exaggerate or paint. Inconceivably in
adequate and poor is the delneation of the
danger which is just before you. By far
the most important statement Of the i'm
pending perils of the republic which can
be made to an American audience is ut
tered when you are told that the ruling
mind and purpose-the controlling leader
ship of that combination of the Southern
traitor and his northern ally, is now demand
ing control of the government of the United
States. do not say that each individual
is thus hostile. 1 say the controlling
mind and purpose is. do not say that
this controlling leadership is always or per-
haps generally avowing that hostility
These same men, at the first of 1861, did
not generally avow such hostility. Such
avowals then, as now, were not polite.
Let me beg you, my countrymen, to go
with me moment into the company OF
the wiunesses-ghastly and bideous-
which come in troops to tell lis that this
people remain intensely disloyal. l review
these facts not to excite alarm-not to per-
ptuate resentments-not to keep alive ali
enations. profoundly wish that it were
safe to bury all distrusts forever. But it
is not safe; and in appealing to these facts
I invoke the merest instinct of seF-preser-
vation-t that which the poor worm will in
voluntarily use.
This entire people waged against their
Government, war to destroy it The ap.
palling events of that warts causeless
origin-its strange cruilties-the fiendish
malignity of its prosecution-the four
wears of its relentless struggle for the de.
struction of the nation, and the suller
and unyielding spirit in which the rebel.
lion received its crushing defeat, are al
too fresh in the agonized heart of the ma
ton to permit their force being heighten-
ed by any recital of which speech is capa
BILE. AS a crime against liberty this peo-
ple's rebellion stands in history unmatch
led. As conspiracy against republican
government, contrived through thirty
wears, it is wholly without parallel o.
proxinate. AS treason against all fret
Igovernment its wickedness is wholly un
approachable. To erect an empire O
Slavery upon its country's ruin, itlaugheC
to scorn all the restraints of religion, hu
manity. government and law. 1t tool
command in our armies, so that it nigh
betray and surrender them. 1t accepted
of its governments nurture so that j
might fatally stab the breast from which
the nuature was drawn. 1t grasped thu
positions of Ministers Cf State that The
powers these gave, might insure to then
ability, at blow, to destroy the State
They obtained elections to the Congress
to the end that, in the Congress they
might cut off from the nation all means
of life. They took the oaths to supper
the Constitution so that they might ge
opportunity to destroy it, and, in the ma
toms Council Chamber, where they swor'
to study the nations safety, they, literally
Invented and sent out the plans for it
death. And, when gone from thence
they went to their thoroughly meditateC
work with the purposes and implement
of devastation and cruelty such as N
treason ever had before. In garb o
friends their agents met on the boats q
your lakes and rivers, killed their defence
LESS passengers and burned them up. L
every country of Christeudom, wher
they were permitted, they manned an,
fitted pirates, which lighted the seas wit
your burning commerce.
Their spies were concealed in you
houses to murder your women and child
ren-with poison and plague and tore
and knife and pistol, and with arrange
plans for the starvation of prisoners 9
war; they executed more ofpiracies, mul
ders and assassinations against your peopl
than ever blackened before the chronicle
of barbarian's or tyrant's wars. The YER
land was filled with living skeletois-yic
toms of their refined method. and sixt
thousand of the victims are dead. Thel
{ mountains became pregnant with the hum
ed patriots-men, women and children
who escaped from their relentless fury,
the befriending darkness of dens an
{ caves.
Their butcheries, when put together
one fearful aggregate, count up TIRE
HUNDRED THOUSAND. But l quit tn
ghastly recital. Men turn from the stor
| of this monstrous treason, this stupeI
dous wickedness, with new ideas OF tn
\ poverty of speech, and appalled, by the
\ proximity to the cRIlE OF HISTORY. An
: to-day, scarcely sixteen moons remove
D from that crimes fitting end, when the
killed the President of the United State
! we are here tasking our logic to show thu
i, the authors of that crime are not, by pr
5 eminence, the patriots of the land,
. whom it is safe and fit to surrender tt
. government '.without conditions"
S Next, enquire of my intelligent aud
t ence to name me which one of all the al
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