Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-03-16
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when the Shareholders rebellion was
crushed, when the cause their hearts love
and their judgments approve was sup
ported by twenty-three out Of the twenty
five loyal States, that the administration
they had entrusted with power. would
give the coming three years to patriotism
and liberty, justice and humanity. They
INDUCED the hope that the executive, leg
islatiye, and judicial branches of the Gov
eminent would crowd these years with
deeds that should consolidate free institu-
tions, guard and hedge about popular
rights, extend the rule of justice, and
quicken the charities and humanities of
the people. Their hearts are now throb-
bing heavily with a great sorrow, for they
see that instead of spending the coming
three years in Strengthening the patriot
ism, securing the liberties, and extending
the mild sway of equal Justice to men Of
every race, these precious years are to be
wasted, squandered in wicked wrangles,
and in the use of the corrupt and corrupt
ing patronage Of the Government to de-
bauch the public morals and to de-
grade the nation in the face of earth
and Of heaven. Surely the spectacle is
enough to make the patriotic people, who,
in November, 1854, eensecrated their
treasure, life and blood, to the mainten-
ance of the unity of the country and the
preservation of the menaced lie of the
nation hang their heads in modification,
shame, disappointment, and sadness. The
loyal people who stood by their country
amid the storms Of civil war with unwa-
vering constancy will hold their public
servants in all positions, in Congress, in
the Cabinet, in the executive chair, to a
stern responsibility. .9 Eosi'-rl7
Sir, why is it that the heart of loyal
people throbs heavily with disappointment
and sorrow? What, in Gods name, have
the loyal people of America done that
they should be so disappointed, so pun
ished, SO humiliatedl What has the
House of Representatives done that it
should be threatened with violence by
revolutionary utterancesf What has the
Senate of the United States done that
Senator should rise here this day and en-
phatically proclaim that 7H.-a5
by the eternal he would advise the Presi-
dent to say to men elected to the Senate il the
Southern States, Come here, unite with the
Democrats and Conservative Republicans, call
yourselves the Senate Of the United States, and
l will recognize you as the Senate Of the Uni
ted Siates2'" s14 l asff
What have we done that we should be
forced to listen to these revolutionary and
treasonbale utterancess These times re-
mind me of those dark days four years
ago, when our cars were panied with rev.
olutionary and reasonable avowals; when
in the secret councils of the Knights of
the Golden Circle, plans of treason were
matured; when the Legislature of Illinois
attempted to impair the power Of faith
full Executive who was arning and send
ing her gallant sonsto fight the battles of
the endangered country. Sir, in those
dark hours, when there were mutterings
and threats of insurrection in the North,
the heroic sons Of the Northwest, from
battle-felds they had made immortal by
their constancy and valor, sent home mes
sages Of rebuke to the men who were or
ganizing incipient treason, and those gull
ty men quailed and covered before the
patriotism of the nations defenders. The
Senator from Kentucky, Mr.. Davis, as is
his wont, INDUCES iu prophetic utterances
regarding the temper and action of the
people. He will find, others viii find,
that the patriotic, liberty-loying men OF
the free and loyal States, who furnished
the money to put down this rebellion, who
filed the ranks of the armies, who furn-
ished the talent that guided the civil and
military councils of the country during
the rebellion, viii see to it that the men
who utter these words, who make these
threats, shall never control the destinies Of
the regenerated nation. 0
Why all this vituperstion Of the Sen
ate and House of Representatives. Why
these fierce attacks upon the long-tred and
long trusted public servants whose devo-
ton to country and to liberty should shield
them from imputations upon their motives
and characters Its answered that Con-
gress differs from the policy of the Presi-
dent. Surely the members of Congress
have right, constitutional right, to diff
fer with the President upon some matters
of public policy, and the President of the
United States has a right to differ from
the policy enunciated by Congress; but it
is the part of patriotism for the President
and for Congress to endeaYor by thought,
word and deed to harmonic differences.
Unwise words may have fallen from the
lips of men in Congress, from Cabinet
officers, and even from the Executive, but
a patriotic and hberty-loying people will
forget the unwise words of Senators and
Representatives and Cabinet officers and
the President, if they perform deeds that
will cement the unity of the Republic,
hedge about and secure the rights. Of the
laborisg poor and bring enduring peace
and prosperity to the country recently
swept by the storm of civil war.
On the lst of May last ten months
ago, the rebel States were PROSTATE at the
feet of the nation, completely conquered
and subjugated. They had fought, and
fought brayely, Tor tour years against tne
authority of the country; but they had
been defeated, and the people could then
have been moulded at the nations will.
Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated.
The people of the rebellious States saw
that the. Government of the United States
had a million men in arms, and they were
ready to accept any policy the nation
chose to impose upon them, and to accept
it freely. The leaders of southern opin-
ion, in May and June of last year, all ex-
pected the reorganization of the insur
gent States upon the basis of the equality
of all men before the law. The public
sentiment in the South was fast settling
down into complete acquiescenee. in any
conditions the Government should de-
mand. Many of the eminent men of the
South cheerfully ayowed their readiness
to accept the enfranchisement of the black
man, and Mr.. Reagan and Mr.. Mallory,