Democrats--and these infinitely infernal traitors to the
Constitution and the Union!
"Col. Fremont was educated in and graduated from St. Mary's
College, in Baltimore, a Roman Catholic Institution. He was
brought up in the Catholic Faith, and is a Catholic. He married
a daughter of Col. Benton. Miss Benton was a Presbyterian. They
were married by a clergyman of that denomination; but a
Catholic priest made a fuss about it as being null, void, and
heretical, and the ceremony was re-performed by him!"--_Auburn
American._
The _American_ might have added, that Fremont is the son of a _Catholic
Frenchman_, the son of a _Catholic mother_, and was reared under
Catholic influence. Nay, Fremont educates his children at the Roman
Catholic Institution at Georgetown, in the District of Columbia! The
placing of such a candidate before the public, seems especially designed
to defy public sentiment, and mock the Protestant American feeling of
the country! We had expected the Catholics, with Bishop Hughes at their
head, in a few years more, to come out openly, and run a Catholic for
the Presidency, but we had not supposed them bold enough to attempt it
in 1856. To show beyond all doubt that the nomination of Fremont was the
result of a coalition between Seward and Hughes, more in reference to
the _Catholic question_ than the _Slavery issue_, we present the record
of Fremont in the United States Senate--his _ultra-Pro-Slavery
course_--his voting against justice to the Colonization Society, and
_seven hundred and fifty_ captured slaves--his opposition to the
abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia!
HE IS EXTREME SOUTHERN AND PRO-SLAVERY.
John C. Fremont held a seat in the United States Senate, in 1850, for
the space of a few months. During that time he made no speeches; indeed,
he has scarcely ever been known to utter any sentiments, or sanction any
opinions. Yet his votes, as a member of the Senate, did make for him a
record; and it is this record that will stare him in the face as long as
he lives--a record in direct conflict with his present professions and
position before the country:
LOOK AT IT!--JOHN C. FREMONT'S STATESMANSHIP.
[From the Congressional Globe--Vol. 21, part 2d, p. 1803, etc.]
"IN SENATE OF UNITED STATES, Sept. 11, 1850.
"Mr. Underwood, of Kentucky, called up the bill for the relief
of the American Coloniza
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