The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-05-31

ment." "The fuss about the
rights of the States in the Cincln-
natl Convention was merely rhetori
cal" "The Confederate sys-
tenn has been twice tried upon this
continent. and proved fat failure |
both times" The people Of
the United States constitute a ma |
ton, and will for evermore."
The rebel Democratic element has
had reason to know this, and hence
this lusty opposition. Their con
federates sympathized with them
then, and now they join in their
wAilings. The government owes its
existence to the fact that it was and
is a government of the people and
for the people of the United States.
BEFORE GREELEY conceived the
idea that he had been neglected by
the administration and therefore
must ruin it ifhe could, his opinions
of it we're entitled to consideration,
for he had no cause of enmity
against it. Here is what he said of
President Grant then, Judge of how
it comports with his utterances of
late. If the principles which are
embodied in the following extract
from the Tribune of February, 1871,
we're ever correct, they are equally
so to day; and no change of front by
their enunciator can invalidate their
truthfulness. Yet Notwithstanding
all here said, we find him at the head
of the opposition to Republieanism
to day, and ready to lead the hosts
of Democracy to a National triumph
if he can, which in his own language
"means a restoration to power of
those who deserted their seats ia
Congress and their places under the
last Democratic President, to plunge
the country into the Red Sea of Sc
cession and rebellion? Read his con-
demnation of himself:
ne like General Grant; but we
care far more for Republican ascen-
dency than for any mans personal
fortunes. 1t is in our view of great
importance that the opposition shall
be kept out of power, while it is of
comparatively small moment that A
or B should tenant the White House
For q Democratic national triumph
means q restoration to potgeT Of those
a0ho deserted their seats IN Congress
and their places under the last Demo
cratic Pres't to plunge the country IN
the Red Sea Of fSeceSstoR-aRd Rebellion
Though yoH paint an inch thick, to
this complication yow must come al
last. The brain, the heart, the soul,
| Of the present Democratic party is the
rebel element at the South aUjtb as
Northern allies and sympathyseTs. II
IS rebel at the core today, hardly
able to reconcile the defeats of Lee,
johnson, Bragg, Hood and Price,
and the consequent downful of its
beloved Confederacy, with its ira
ditional faith in Divine Providence.
| It would hail the election of a Dem
ocratic President in 1872 as a virtu-
al reversal of the Appomattox sur
sender. It would come into powei
with the hate, chagrin, the wrath and
modification Of ten bitter years, tc
impel and guide its steps. Itwould
devote itself to taking of or reducing
tax after tax until the treasury was
out of the means of paying interest
on the national debt, and aOouId bai
the tidingS Of national bankruptcy
1Cifh W7aloyed gLadnesS and tlacon
cegH. Whatever chastisement may
be deserved by our national sins, WE
must hope that this disgrace and
humiliation will be spared us.