The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-10-04

but ali in vain. The Republicans are now
calling meetings all over the country, irres-
pective of party, for the purpose of devising
means to sustain the gnvernment,and they are
even successful in deooying some weak-mind-
ed Democrats into their trap. But we caution
our Democratic friends against taking any ac-
tive part in such meetings for after the first
heat of the excitement is past they will regret
having been caught in such silly way"
And as a consequence his own
readers rebuked him for his temerity
and consigned his paper to the
flames. No wonder he grew wroth
to be reminded that when he swal-
lowed Greeley and the Cincinnati
Platform, and confessed that all the
Republicans had done was just and
right, he also swallowed again the
utterances of that day, and confessed
himself a blatant incendiary.
He BoILETH OvER.-Every man,
Republican or Democrat, of any
principle, condemns the act of the
bastard who threw a stone at the
car in which Horace Greeley left
Sandusky, last week. Greeley had
a perfect right to make an ass of
himself and so has Wilmer, except
that it is less trouble with our Cou-
rier feighbor. Referring to the act
spoken of above, he goes off as fol-
lows:
" Radical miscreants are the same still in
in their intolerance, and fanatical hatred
against their opponents, and in their brutal
warfare. They are the same cowardly miscre-
ants who twenty years ago burned Catholic
churches and NunneriesI Who, in 1854 per-
secuted defenseless Irish and Germans to death
in the cities of Louisville, Cincinnati and other
cities; who in 1868 pelted Mr.. Geo. E. Pugh'
here, in Fremont, with stones, and 'oho in
1861, Intoxicated ,oith bad t0hisky and patriot
ism nnob5ed ne Courier Office, for which vail
ant deed they are still praised in the very dig
niied Fremont Journal. Pfeul Balsley. One
ought to be ashamed of such dirty work"
There! If Wilmer has not written
himself an ass, he has come within
one Of it. Twenty years ago, the
Republican party had no existence.
In 1854, it was unknown. And to
think of asserting that 1t did such
things in Louisville, where today
it scarcely has an existence, and
where in 1854, if a man uttered a
Republican sentiment it was sure to
secure for him a coat of tar and
feathers, is piling it on rather heavy;
Eh! Wilmer2 Would it not have
been as well to have charged it
with the riots in New York, in 1863,
and with the burnings which fol
lowed there by those whom Gov.
Seymour styled "my friends" And
then the manner in which he refers
so his Democratic friends being sin
toricated e0itb bad tOhiskey and patrt-
ottsm t0hen they naob6ed the Courier
office IN 1861! is in such good taste
you know, that his appeal to them
for votes will be appreciated. On
the committee which waited Upon
Wilmer at that time and demanded
his papers for destruction, were Col.
VIM. E. Haynes, present Democratic
candidate for Presidential elector,
and Jacob Snyder, then a Democratic
magistrate, and but for the interpo-
sition of C. o. Tillotson, a Repub-
lican, his office would have been des-
troyed by men of the Democratic
party who repudiated his traitorous
insolence and tried to gain entrance.
And those were the men whom he
now says were "intoGicated aOith bad
aUbiskey and patriotism"
Wilmer has said repeatedly that
they were worse than the Republic
ans in that matter, and Of course
they must bear their full share Of his
denunciations, now he raveth. He
boileth over. For he has swallowed
his own filth, confessed that every
thing done by the Republicans was
right, and to-day stands pledged,
if platform pledges anything, to
sustain the measures they have sus-
tanned and pursue the policy they
pursued. And this is the kind of a
man who desires to be elevated to
the plane of the Probate Judgeship!
A confessed despiser of oul institu-
tions, stranded on our "inhospit-
able shores" by an "unfavorable
wind" confessed anarchist, pledg-
ed to disregard the law when suits
are brought for damages resulting
from its violation. We do not be-
lieve the people are ready to surren-
der it to him.