Fremont Journal

The Republican party is not dead, neither is it asleep. The various candidates, or those who would be such, on the democratic side, are already perambulating the county. We are glad that no republican has thought it best to seek office in this way. But our opponents infer because we have not among us a set of persevering office seekers, and another set of drill sergeants, who must commence operations about three months before every campaign, that we are not going to do anything.

Let them possess their souls in patience. At the appointed time we shall nominate a set of candidates for county offices, very likely many of them will be men who have not asked for an office, and do not wish either that or the nomination itself. So much the better. The curse of our political system is that the men who do want office are too often nominated. Nine times in ten the man who goes to work to get an office ought not to have it. We shall nominate good men, and when they are nominated we shall go to work to elect them.—What now is the duty of republicans in this county? Stand fast to your principles.—No more slave states—no more slave hunts on free soil—no more fugitive slave laws,—free speech,—a free press,—an economical government—these are our doctrines and they are worthy of our continued support.

Be not easily alarmed. Our opponents will storm the heavens with their hue and cry about a quarter of a million, more or less, lost from the state treasury. Remember this. The Money Was Stolen By one OF THEIR OWN MEN. Breslin is the thief.—He acknowledges it by running away to Canada. He is at Windsor not far from Detroit, and goes armed to the teeth. Let him run. If he were caught a forty horse steam engine couldn't draw a cent out of him. The account stands thus. One Million was lost by the thieving operations of democratic commissioners for the State House. Asylums and Public Works. Another Million was stolen by Breslin. Gibson deserves the penitentiary for covering up Breslin, but he is not the thief. He can account for every dollar of public money he ever received.

Support your convictions by a firm and consistent course of action. Don't be scared if you are called abolitionist for not being willing to see the area of slavery extended. Don't lose any sleep if you are called a disunionist because you don't believe in the fugitive slave law. Don't let your appetite fail because you are called a traitor for refusing to help catch a runaway slave. You can survive all this. The men who sneer at the Declaration of Independence, and approve Dred Scott decisions, call names.—This is their chief argument. But let us have strong faith in the right, the true and the free. Let us support the men, if they are capable and honest, which are nominated by the republican party; not from any mere partisan spirit, but because this is the only way to sustain the principles we believe in. Thus we believe.