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The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-07-23
An Infamous Speech.

From private letter dated 7th inst.
from upper East Tennessee, we learn that
Colonel VIM. B. Stokes made speech at
Jonesboro on the 4th inst, of the most Vi
olent and incendiary character. 1t sur
passed anything delivered in that section
since the war, as bitter and revengeful as
many of them have been. The letter
says:
"Ashburne, in all his infamy, could not
approximate the baseness of Bill Stokes in
his harangue. He told the negroes 10
arm thcmsclrsS-erery one Of them-and
should any id Rebel, or Copperhead,
or Conservative insult them, TO shoot
them dOwn in their tracks-not 10 suf-
fer them TO liue. He said the day had
passed for submission to Rebels.
"Most of the leading Radicals left
Jonesboro and attended the Democratic
celebration at Greeneville; and majority
of those appointed on the committee of ar
engagements at Jonesboro, declined to have
any thing to do with it, assigning, as a
reason, that they wanted to get rid of the
negro. This, it appears, incensed Stokes,
and he had advised the negroes to spot
every man who went from Jonesboro to
Greeneville, and see TO Them His speech
was full of oaths and curses, and his own
party was Disguised with its profanity
Nothing so abhorrent and loathsome was
ever delivered in this section"
If this statement is to be credited, and
our correspondent derives it from Radicals,
Stokes must have been drunk. Such SEN
timents coming from sober man would
indicate that he was in spirit bandit or a
bravo, the common enemy of his race.
Union and Dispatch.
The Winsted Herald, is a radical pa
per of a country town in Connecticut, and
one of its subscribers mis-interpreting the
sending of his bill, (now the custom
among all publishers,) comes back on the
editor with the following badly spelled
missive':
"RIvERToN June Is 1868,
You will find enclosed the pay for your
paper and you need not send it any more
if have got to bee dund every week |
will take paper some WHARF else and one
of more sence than the Herald.
Please send recete for the money"
Jox says that if man feels much like
getting married, yet imagines he ought
not to, the best remedy he knows is to helE
one of his neighbors to move house full
of furniture-borrow about. nine of his
children and hear them cry. If that fails
build up a fire of damp wood and wher
the smoke in the room is thickest, hire ;
woman to scold him about four hours
If he can stand all these, he had better gel
married the next day-give his wife thu
pants and be the "silent partner" in thu
great firm of matrimony. The remedy il
severe, but as every man is liable to thes
things after he yokes himself, it would d,
no harm to try it before. -
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28
PERSONAL.

IT is said Gen. BeauFegard is 10 marry a
New York heiress. Asn
Mas. LINCOLN is at Bedford Springs, Pa,
living in strict seclusioa.
BRreHAM YouNe's boy is candidate for
the Legislature of Utah. -l
MAGGIE mitchell is building q block o.
seven hOnsns in New York, 90 f04s
HE4DFET, The sensational biogfspher, is
now life insurance agent. o'H7 H-fa
Hon. EDWARD MoPHEksox, CLERK Of the
United States House of Representatives, is
writing life Of Thad. Stevens.
AUeUsTIEE ITURBIDE, brother of the Prince
Iturbide who was adopted by the Emperor
Macmillan. now keeps a beer shop at
CourbevOie, in the suburbs Of Paris.
JAMES HlrpHINRs, Of Maiden, Mass, died
recently, leaving Is children, 10 grand-chil-
dreu, IL children of the third generation,
and one of the fourth. Fere r
THE late Mr.. Stevens inclined to the
Baptist faith. He treated religious gues-
tions always with great reverence, and said
he was guided by what st. Paul and his
mother said. sH
Mrs. August BELNONT drives a lovely
pair Of cream-colOred ponies in low bas-
ket phaetOn; value of ponies, $4,000. Her
husbands four-in-hand light bays, sixteen
hands high, are said TO be the finest team at
Newport.
/ Az English reporter, describing, the ap-
pearance Of Mr., Jefferson Davis and family,
who arrived in England at the commence
ment of The month, says that Mrs. Davis
looked as if she had ''dash of mulatto
blood in her, and her children looked as if
they had the same. adj De-, -.-...--
TEE remains of Mrs. Senator Trumbull
were buried at Oak Ridge, Springbsld,
Illinois, on Thursday. A large cOncOurse
of people, embracing the oldest citizens Of
the place, accompanied the remains to the
tomb. Mrs. Trumbull was the first child
born in Springfield. 4eo, n5sl -H'
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28
THE CRAWFORD COUNTY BoL,

THE CRAWFORD COUNTY BOLT.
The Democracy of this District have
not been able to fixup matters yet.
The split IS wider than ever.
The Convention to nominate an
other candidate to Congress, called by
Crawford county, met at Crestline, last
Wednesday, and nominated Judge
RoBT. LIE, of Crawford. Every county
in the District, save Ssndusky, was re-
presented in the Convention. Mr..
NOBLE was there trying to patch up
matters. He sent a note TO the Con-
vention offering to withdraw. But the
Convention laid his note on the table
and went on with its work. s
Mr.. NOBLE attended the Erie county
Convention last week and there pledged
himself not TO Withdraw unless all the
counties that nominated him gave their
CONSENT whereupon Erie county unani-
mously resolved not to give its consent.
Did Mr.. NOBLE make the offer at Crest
line on his own hook, or was it with
the knowledge aud consent of the
counties that nominated him at Mon
roeville? H
1t is supposed chat they will yet try
to effect compromise, by Withdrawing
both NOBLE and LEE and nominating a
new mau-say WATsoN HUBBARD, of
Erie, or Judge DIckINsoN or WM. E.
HAYNES of this county. But, Judging
from the temper of the rival factions at
present, no such pacific couusels will te
needed. Ifsuch an arrangement were
made, it would be futile. The quarrel
has been carried to such an extent that
the Democracy cannot recover the
ground they have lost
We have now three candidates in the
field for Congress, to-wit: BILLY GIB-
SON, Republican, and Messrs. NOZZLE
aud LEE, Democratic. Does any body
want TO bet against GIBsoNg
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28
THE NEXT REBELLION.


The Democratic party have resolved
by unanimous vote in their National
Convention, that the Legislation of Con
gress, having for its object the re-estsb-
Hsbmeut of governments in the rebel
States, and the enforcement Of the ma
tional authority therein, is reyol4ion-
ary, unconstitutional and void" The
election of Seymour and Blair is to
furnish remedy for this Legislation.
Let us trace this declaration of the con-
ventiop to its logical and unavoidable
% ,runlu f-f f1 S-fif f..IH af=.ia ia-sit
If Seymour and Blair be elected it is
probable, but not certain, that major
ity of the House of Representatives will
Be their friends. But in any case the
political majority in the Senate must
remain where it is, and cannot legally
be changed before March 1878, at the
close Of the term of Seymour and Blair.
What then is Seymour tQ do with refer
ence to the legislation WHICH he pro-
nounces Revolutionary, 4neonsttutiOn-
al aud void - So long as the Senate
continues to be Republican, a repeal of
the legislation win not be possible, and
it will be Mr.. SeymOur's duty to take
care that thst alsRs are faithfully exc
cuted." The Democrats of Kentucky,
Maryland and Missouri, as well as of all
the rebel States, have accepted the de-
claratientOf the platform as an sdjudiea-
tion by the Democratic party thsttho
laws are Uoid and, whether repealed or
not, are to be treated from the day of
Seymour,s election as of no binding
force. In all of the States which con
stituted the Southern Confederacy, ar
rangements have been made for the
overthrow and expulsion Of the-govern-
ments erected since the war, and for the
establishments Of the organizations
which once seeded, and which once
repealed" the National Constitution
and Union, and raised the standard of
armed rebellion. These people are un-
douBtedly in earnest tits no matter
of disguise in these States that the cleo
ton of Seymour and Blair means the
immediate termination of the existing
State governments, and that any at
tempt to continue the authority of such
| governments is to be resisted and over
come by force.
Mr.. Blair in his letters before and af-
fter his nomination, iearlessiy avowed
Ibis purpose to Treat such laws as null
lities, not requiring the formality of re-
peal but to be summarily "tramPled
into the dust" He declared that the
! first duty of the Democratic President
would be to set aside these laws by the
sword, and to use the army to restore
the gOgernments which Sherman, Sher-
| idan, Grant, and Thomas set aside in
pursuance of law as hostile to the Unit
ed States. BE-
Mr.. Seymour in his letter accepting
the nomination admits the impossibility
of a repeal Of the Reconstruction laws
during bis term of Office, and be, there
fore, necessarily falls back, with Blair
and the Southern Democrats, upon the
only means by which these laws can be
annulled, and that is by violence. The
A fourteenth amendment Of the constitu-
ton must of course be nulifed and re,
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28

Trade at Home.-Some people have a
mania for going away from home 10 trade.
They will go abroad and pay higher prices
than at home for the same articles. The
true policy is to support home institutions
There is no reason why our citizens should
leave here to do any trading. Iu the way
of-Dry Goods aud Groceries, we compare
favOrably with any town in the northwest
of double the size. Our Lawyers, Doctors,
Dentists, and other professional men rank in
skill and experience with the best in the
State. Our TailOrs understand their busi-
ness, and have good stocks to back them.
Our Shoemakers can turn out work fine
enough for any man to wear. Our watch
makers and jewellers keePa large assortment
of wares, aud can do anything required of
them in their line. We have good.machines,
aud the best of doors, sash, blinds, farming
machinery, &c, is manufactured here. We
have furniture stores well stG cked, millinery
stores, Photographic galleries, and fancy
goods. Our house ard sign painters are as
skillful and experienced as any in the Coun-
try, We have one of The best equipped
printing offices in the State, and can do work
as we'll and as cheap as it can be obtained
abroad Keep the money at home, help one
another, and build up thriving community.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28
ODDS and ENDS.

A Paris fashion letter advises us that "an
attempt is being made 10 restore the high
tortoise she'll corlb of our granduOthers
JoBN CnrSAMAN takes a csrving- knife,
cuts a potato in sections, places one on. the
the poius of bis carver, and with the blade
Pares his onion without inconvenience to his
eyes.
A professor was explaining in ayoung
ladies school in France the theory according
TO which the body is entirely renewed every
six years. "Thus Mademoiselle F." said
he, addressing pretty blonde With vide
awake face, ''in six years you win be no
longer Mademoiselle F" 81 hope So" re-
piled the unsoPhist'cated, casting down her
eyes.
Is Hamilton, Canada, a lew days ago, in
consequence Of wager. twenty pocket
books were prepared, each having number
Of insOlvent bank notes and other worthless
paper in it. These Pocket-bOOks were drop
ped in different streets. and an advertise
meRt published offering reward for the re-
turn OF one. Out of all those dropped, only
six were returned Some bogus pronissOry
notes, containedgin the POcket-books, Eere
sent through the post in two instances, but
without word of explanation.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28
Po1ITIcs nv soHODL MATTERS.

POLITICS IN SDhOdtb NA = ms
The Board of Education Of this city
is composed of Democratic politicians,
with the exception of one Republican
member, Mr.. VAs Mss, who is, of
cOurse, powerless . check the action of
the majority. Being Democratic, it is
naturally so mean as to run school mat
ters for the benefit of the Democratic
party, in a community where at least
three-ffths of the taxes are paid by Re
publicaus. The recent action Of this
Board in the matter Of teachers salar-
les is, to use a mild term, outrageous.
Mr.. Ross, Superintendent of the Schools,
is Democrat, Mr.. GINE, teacher Of the
Grammar School, is Republican.
The salary of the former has been ST.,
200, and of the latter 81, 600 per year.
Now the Board has cut Mr.. GIEN's sal
airy down to 5000, and increased Mr..
Ross salary to 81, 800 per year. Mr..
Ross is good Superintendent and Mr..
GEN is an accomplished Teacher. If
the services of the former have become
more valuable to the extent of requiring
additional pay, those of the latter GER
tainly have not become less valuable,
and should not be less literally reward
ed than formerly. If economy were
the object, why not reduce the salary
of the Superintendent as well as that
of the Teacher? Mr.. Ross will now be
paid for his services Gas superintendent,
not as stump speaker) at about the rate
of one dollar per hour for every hours
employment in school, from one years
end to another. (school about eight
months in the year; five days in the
week; six hours in the day. Econ
Omy with vengeance! But such con-
siderations had nothing to do with it.
The action Of the Board was prompted
solely by partizan motives. Mr.. Ross
salary was raised because he is Dem
ocrat, and for no other reason; and Mr..
GINE's salary was cut down because he
is a Republican, and for no other reason.
If Mr.. GlNN were to make a Republi-
can speech the Board would discharge
him at once. as htr ysira@
Broachiug the subject of removing
the Lutheran College from Columbus to
this place has occasiOned no little COM
meut among our Republican citizens,
especially since the recent action of the
School Board-as one Of the Demo
cratic members of the Board, the Rev.
Mr.. LANG, is the prime-mover of the
College project; and it has been de-
elared that if the same influences and
the same partlzan spirit are to control
that Institution, the inducements to Re
publicans 10 invest money in the enter
prise are not particularly inviting. We
do not believe the College will permit
any political influences to have weight
with it We. think it viii, in almost
every respect, be benefit to the town,
and we L IDLY second the move to
bring It here .'aas'g '@'E'
But since it Is, in. the main, the mon
ey of fRepublicans that must be procured
to aid all the public projects as well as
the educational and charitable enter
prises of The place, tits just as well that
the Democratic leaders of this town
should understand that they can't run
their internal politics into everything
with impunity,. Bear that in mind.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28


THE Spanish fever, which now prevails so
fatally among the cattle brought on to the
North from Texas, it's asserted, was Obser-
we'd fourteen years ago. In the spriHg and
summer Of 1854, when Texas cattle we've
first brought in 10 Illinois disease broke
out among the dioves resembling yellow
fever in the human race, and proved so
contagious that all along the track where
they travelled the farmers lost great Por-
ton Of their stock in few days. So seri-
Gus was the damage that the people Of
Southwestern Missouri held meetings and
took measures to forcibly prevent the pass
ing Of any more Texas cattle through the
country. 1t is not known exactly when or
how this particular epidemic of 1854 disap-
peared, but there seems 10 be no doubt
that the cattle plague now so widely diff
fused also had IFS origin in Texas
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28

pudiated with the Reconstruction laws.
We have said that the ex-rebels have
accepted the declaration Of the Demo
cratic Convention iu- good faith, and
they do not propose to wait for sey (
mour's Inauguration to commence the
work Of revolution. They propose to
accept the result of the election as
+, final authority for them to proceed
| and, in case Seymour be elected, the
first of December will, in all probabil-
ity, see a civil war in full blast in all
the Southern States. Before Mr.. Sey-
mour could reach the White House the
rebellion which Grant closed ia April
at Appomattox will be renewed under
the expectation that the Democratic
party at the North honestly meant to
carry out its declaration. Before Sey.
mour shall be sworn ia, Hampton and
Forrest, Toombs and Beauregard, Cobb
and Breckenridge will, if they are sin
cere in their declarations, be in the
field with their troops jeff Davis will
have returned from his travels in
Europe, Lee will have left the college
for the war Office, and the country viii
have once more entered upon a career
of civil butchery. The war was carried
on by the people Of the North to main
tain the supremacy of law, and il may
be confidently assumed that they viii
continue to maiptain it at all hazards
and at any cost. a.it
We invite the rehecting men of the
Democratic party TO pause and ask
themselves: '1f We vote for Sey-
mour and Blair, do we not vote for a
renewal of the rebellion, and the de-
struction of national and personal credit
and authority, resulting in the dismen-
berment of the Union, the overthrow
of the government and an anarchy
from which there can be no escape ex-
cept through blood3 Can We vote to
nullify the law, aud hereafter expect
the protection of law? Can we vote to
substitute force for law, and expect the
continuance of peace in the land Can
Seymour be elected upon a declaration
that laws regularly enacted are void,
and expect that the country will permit
him TO set them aside without resist
ance?" But if he does not proceed to
set them aside he will be guilty of the
grossest deception. His platform re-
quires him to treat them as though
they had never been passed, and he
cannot fail so to treat them without
perfdy to his party. If elected, he
must be false TO his country, and his
oath of Office, or false TO those who
nominated him. CkicGgO Tribune.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28
Pungent.

Did you ever hear the story Of the
Irishmsn and the horse-radish!
"No; how was it9"
"Well, seeing dish of grated horse
radish on the table where they had
stopped for dinner, each helped himself
largely TO the sauce, supposing it to be
eaten as potato or squash; and the
first, putting a knifeful into his mouth,
jsrked his handkerchief from his
trowsers and commenced wiping his
eyes.
"What troubles yer, JemmyG" in
quired his comrade.
"Sure, and l was thinkiu' of my
poor old fathers death when he was
hung he replied, shrewdly. !
Presently the other, taking as greedi-
ly of the pungent vegetable, had as
sudden use for the handkerchief, where
at Jenny as coolly inquired:
"And what troubles YET, Pate"
'TFotb,p , he replied, "that you wasn't
hung with yer father"
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28

A New England paper tells this story;
There is a man in Vermont who cannot
speak TO his father. Previous TO his birth
some difficulty arose between his mother
and father, and for considerable time she
refused to speak with him. The difficulty
was subsequently, healed, the child was born.
and in due time began to talk, but when
sitting with his father was invariably silent.
1t continued so until the child was five wears
old, when the father, having exhausted bis
powers Of persuasion, threatened it with
punishment for its stubborunes. When the
punishment was INFLICTED it elicted nothing
but sighs and groans, which told but too
plainly that the little sufferer cOu Id not
speak, though he vaiDly endeavored to do
so. III who were present united in the
opinion that Il was impossible for the child
10 speak to its father. Time proved this
OpiniVnr 10 be correct. At a mature age his
efforts to converse With his parent could
only prOdnce the most bitter signs and
groans." @ 's
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28
OUR HOWE sPEAkERs.

The present political campaign prom
ises to call into active exercise all the
available speaking talent of both par
ties. On the Republican side in Fre-
mont we have some Of the most eifec-
tive speakers of the State, Gen, Btck-
LAND, who makes a sound, convincing
argument, though not fluent speaker,
has usually done his share Of stump
ing and probably will now. Hon.
HOMER EVERETT, polished, keen, never
at loss for word, and with the knack
of presenting his subject in the clear
est light and best possible manner, will
certainly be called on to fill numerous
appointments. Judge J. L. GREENE,
one of the wheel-horses Of the party,
with his Websteriaa VOICE and figure
and feryid elOquence, who imbues his
hearers with something of his own
earnestness, viii, if in good health,
have a full share of work put on to him.
Hon. J. K. HoBp, logical in argument,
full of points, and with unlimited COM
mand of language, will also be harness.
ed for the campaign: MAHLoE CHANGE,
Esq, who has an eRyiable reputation
more than Statewide as aa eloquent
and forcible stumper, is already on the
war path, and viii, If he can be spared
from abroad, take hand in the fight
on his "natiye heath" J, H. FOWLER,
Col J. R. BARTLETT and J. L. GREENE,
Jr.-all of them ought to be impressed
into the service and made to to duty.
We trust the Executive Committee viii
see to it.
Our Democratic friends are rather
short of timber, and will have to de-
pend on outsiders to furnish the orators
for their local meetings. Messrs. WINS
Low and Al TYLER will do 10 make the
rounds of the school houses once. OF
tener than that would be too much Of
a good thing. DR.. WILMER, we believe,
is no speakist, while our young friend
PUTNAM is too modest 10 make much o.
a splurge. Mr. FINEFRoek only speaks
when he is running for Congress, and
then only in Crawford county. He
isn't candidate now, and Crawford
isn't a very healthy climate for Mobiles
frieadsl We leave w. w. Ross out o
the count, as be can't be depended up
on to do much stumpipg while schOo
keeps. 1t is probable that there may
be others in training; if SO, we will duly
announce their first appearance in tn,
/ field.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28

1t is rank ingratitude in the Democratic
papers to attack the Hon, VIM. H, Gibson.
the Republican candidate for Congress in
the Ninth Ohio District for his conduct in
cOneealiug the defalcatiOn of his Democratic
predecessor in the State Treasurer's Office.
He ought to have exposed Breslin at once.
That was his error. BresliD plead for time,
and promised 10 straighten up his accounts
and make the State good for every dollar
that he had embCzzled.
The Memphis AUala'sche must be poorly
informed of the history of the case when Il
says that Gibson stole apd concealed as
long as he could nearly a million Of dollars
out of the State Treasury, of which he was
the custodian" That is positive false
hood. There was no proof that he ever
took dollar of the States money and ap-
propristed it 10 his own use,-Cin. Com.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28
vALLAND1enAnrs DISTRICT.

There is a threatened rebellion in the
ranks Of the Democracy of VALLANDIe-
HAMS District. DURBIN WARD, who
was an aspirant for the nomination, has
thrown up his appointments to speak,
and the war Democrats don't want to
vote for VALLAEDIGHAM. The fact is,
patriotic men in the Democratic party
can't stand the rebel pressure.