The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-11-14
AN TNFAMons WAaaR-
An Invitation to Assasslnate Grant

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AN INFAMOUS WAGER.
An Invitation to Assassinate Grant.
Scarcely had Abraham Lincoln
taken his seat in the Presidential
chair before certain newspapers in
the North and and in the South be-
gan to hint vaguely that some cour-
ageous person would perform a pa
triotic duty by taking away the life
of q man whom they were pleased to
call q tyrant. One crazy enthusiast
in the South affixed his own name
to an advertisement offering a large
reward to any william that would un-
dertake the murderous work. But
little attention was paid to these in
famous threats. They were sup
posed to proceed from coWardIy
seoundrels who who would shrink
from the danger attending such an
undertaking. Nevertheless they kept
on with their proposals until at last
one lunatic, possessing more daring
than the rest, struck the fatal blow
and earned the promised reward, but
perished miserably before he clatch'd
the price of blood. .ss.-a Il !,
The same wretched scoundrels are
reViving their old advertisements,
WI intent to persuade some mad
m assassinate President Grant.
2 e -1UcasiGn, a disreptnabIe news
P pc published at Lexington, Mis-
sGu.i, is the subsidized organ of
taese cowardly conspiritars. In the
issue Of the 1Ith inst, the first col
umn of the editorial page is devoted
to double loaded article in which
the duty of assassinating atyrantsT
is enforced by examples cited from
the Sacred Scriptures and from an
eient history. We quote a few SEN
tenees to show the spirit of the whole
column of raving villainy. The first
is a blasphemous paraphrase of a
passage from the new testament, at
is expedient that one man should
die for the people, and that the whole
nation perish nOt.p "a. Lincoln
that ruthless embodiment of knaEery
Vulgarity and triumphant hate-Was
made to bound the river Styx; so
may his every criminal successor
fall by the hand of a patriot assassin" !"
"If the Roman Caesar, surrounded by
the glittering pomp and circnm-
stances Of war, and mighty armies Of
obedient minions, could be reached
and slain by the subtitle blow, why
not our Seizer yet feel the keen blade
of an ayenging hand?" A COM
mnnication addressed to the CaWcas-
iaa, in which the Writer gives his ad-
dress as at st. Louis, is as follows:
ST. Louis, Mo-, Oct. /, 1873. D.
EDITOR OF THE LEXINGTON CAU-
CAsIAN: Please publish the follow
ing card:
1 propose to bet FIVE thousand
dollars ($5,O00) that President U. S.
Grant, unless he dies from other and
natural causes, will be assinated be-
fore the 10th day of April, 1874.
If accepted, the money to be depos-
tied on or before the 10th of NoVem-
Der next. Parties desiring to wager
larger or smaller amounts can ad-
dress me at st. Louis, Missouri, or
through your columns.
( Respectfully, DC, s, m
H. CLAY HARPER.
To this the editor, with a shame
less effroutry which We have never
seen equaled, appends the following:
"We have only to add that it will
afford the Caucasian profound pleas.
ure to announce, on the morning Of
April II, that M. Hopper has i0oa
has Bet"
The Baltimore American says that
this newspaper has a wide cireula-
tion, is read by thousands Of per-
sons, and no editor would write such
an article unless he had good reason
to suppose that it would be pleasing
to a majority of his subscribers.
Each subscriber that reads this re-
voting proposal and endorses it,
has in him a crime like that com
mitted by Wilkes Booth. All that
he needs is the physical courage to
carry out the eWork which this widely
circulated journal declares to be he
rofc- These men must be let alone
to fill up the full measure Of their
Infamous career They IRE without
the pale of public opinion and Sc
cure in the sympathy and friendship
of ten thousand rutfians like them
selves, the execrations hurled against
them by decent people only afford
them amusement. Ifsny demented
adventurer like Wilkes Booth tries
to via the reward which they so con-
spicuously advertise, he will be like
| ly tc take short leap from the
scafold, but the men who tempted
him to ruin will 60 unwhipped Of
justice.
As apart Of the history of the ra-
wages Of the scourge IN North Mem.
lphis, We place on record the fate OF
the inmates of the boarding house
/ - LTaran nor