Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1858 — The Two Johnson Co. Fremonters. [ARTICLE]

The Two Johnson Co. Fremonters.

We expressed the other diy an anxiety to have a personal acquaintance) with the 'wo men in Johnson county wKo voted for Fremont as against the* l.HMfor Bucharan. We have some further information of them from a reliable source. O;ic of them was a German. Long may he live, and when he dies, as the best men must, die above proof of his love of freedom should be mentioned in the epitaph. The other Was a schoolmaster. The day after the election the whole school district met ip a body and turned him out, declaring, unanimouly that no such dangerous man should teach their children.— Galena Advertiser. Both the Johnson county Fremont voters were school-masters. Th'eif'names are 11. M. Ridenhower and M. Spence. The latter has removed from the count/, but Mr. Ridenhower still remains, and is Still engaged in teaching. He is from one,of the Southern States, where, he says, life “learned to hate the institution in its midst" — and he “emigrated to Illinois for ihe express purpose of enjoying freedom.” He is an ardent ■nd active Republican. Hie fig not. alone in the county now. Several Republicans from the north have moved in. Yankee schoolmasters” and others, and shine of the natives are “on the fence.” The Democrats down there are all Douglas men, and are just now “shrieking for freedom” and in the most approved style. We have been handed a Wter from Mr. Ridenhower to a Springfield friend of ours, from which we have gathered some of these facts in regard to Mr. Ridenhower and his colleague.— Bloomingtoi Pantograph.