The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-21
IN guTE BELLUJI Days.
Great Rejoicing Over Buchan-
ans Election.
How Fred Douglas Spoke to a Chicago
Audience on Sunday
Afternoon.
An Interesting Copy of the "Weekly
Union and American" Published
at Nashville, December
1, 1856.

The HERALD has been loaned a
copy of the Weekly Union and
American, published Monday, De-
cember l, 1856 at Nashville, Tenn.
Messrs. e. G. Eastman, f. G. Dun
nington and G.. G. Torbet were
editors and publishers, and the
paper was strongly Democratic in
principles.
At the time of the publication of
this issue, Buchanan had just been
elected President of the United
States, and great deal Of space is
devoted to articles bearing upon
this subject, from which we select
the following:
"POLITICAL EXULTATIoN.-Some of
our Democratic friends will require
hopping, or they will burst with
effervescent rejoicings over the election
of Buchanan. AS a specimen brick of
the entire fabric thus blown out by a
brilliant success, we cannot refrain
from letting our readers see what kind
of gas our brother of the Doylestown,
Penn, Democrat uses to initiate his
political balloon, and it is thus COM
pounded:
"'HaVe you nedru Jne news!
Thunder from the Blue Mountain
Buchanan Elected President!
A Bachelor in the White House and the
'Old Maids Tickled to Death!
Black Republicanism Buried and
A Hickory Pole Raised on the Coffin
To Keep the Lid Down!
The Woolly Horse Without Either
Wind or Bottom.
Kentucky Shakes Hands with Penn
sylvania, and New Jersey Salutes
Virginia Across the AL
leghanies.
The Nebraska Bill Endorsed,
The Missouri Compromise Whistled
Down the Wind,
And the Little Giant the Lion of the
Nation!
Border Ruffians About,
And Black Republicans Pumping
Thunder at Ten Cents Clap.
Democratic Victories Everywhere!
Peace and Tranquility Secured to the
Nation on the Slavery Question.
The North Answers to the South in
Favor of Democracy.
The People Have Spoken, and
A White Man is Decided to be as Good
AS a Niggerp"
Another piece worthy of special
mention is an article from the
Chicago Times, about lecture of
ger" as the "Union aud American"
calls him-which we reproduce in
part as follows:
metropolitan Hall presented sim
gular scene on Sunday afternoon.
There were white men and sooty
wenches, and black men and white
women, all listening with open mouths
to this negro, who boasted that white
and black people were disappearing,
and that mulattoes were fast increas-
ing. He rejoiced that this amalgama-
ton was progressing, and his
white and black audience responded
with cheers and tumultuous applause
to the disgusting sentiment.
"Fair white maidens were there,
smiling upon the champion of Freedom
and Fremont, and applauding with
gloved hands his earnest wish that the
distinction between the white and
black races would be lost, and that in
stead of them there would soon be one
race-descendents of black men and
white women and black women and
white men. He thanked God that the
mulatto race was on the increase in
Chicago, and his audience cried
-'Amenr
"Here was freedom, free love, free
living, Fremont, and free everything
else, presented to a Chicago audience by
free negro, on Sabbath after
"Let us do the speaker Justice; he
spoke not only to negro men and negro
women, whose grosser instincts might
be gratified by the vision of white hus.
bands, white wives and mixed blood
children; he spoke not alone to men OF
infatuated notions upon the subject OF
human liberty. His audience was the
! very cream of the Fremont party in
| Chicago. Men of high social position
were there with their wives and daugh'
! ters; merchants from Lake street and
! Water street, whose names figure con-
/ spicuously upon Fremont calls and
Republican subscription lists. Mich
| igan avenue, Wabash avenue, and the
! palatial residences of men who earned
! their present wealth by mechanical
/ pursuits, and who now, by silks
satins, diamonds. hoops, feathers and
! broadcloth,' crowd out of places the
! laboring men and mechanic, 1--WE quote
the Democrat), were represented there
! These representatives Ogling the sooty
beauties and ogled by colored dandies
in return. These persons, embracing
]
were there listening with delighted
hearts to treason and threats of murder
and civil war.
"There were merchants and theil
wives-Fremont merchants and theil
| Fremont wives-whose cheeks did moi
blush, whose hearts did not swell in
/ dignantly when a negro stood erect in
| their presence. on Sunday Afternoon
and proclaimed that white men anC
women-that fathers and mothers, anC
! little babes, American citizens, fellow
countrymen-should be made to dream
of death in their sleep, should feai
death at their meals, should be met by
/ fire in their beds and poison in theil
/ bread! This atrocious sentiment
caused no horror in those hearts. or
/ the contrary, this terrific invocation, in
/ the name of Fremont and Jessie,
| elected enthusiastic applause. This is
| Fremontism in Chicago. This is Ere
/ montism of Loveioy, who said thaI
/ Fillmore should have received an
/ electric shock sending him to hell, be
cause he signed the Fugitive Slave
| Law. This is the Fremontism of JohT