The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-04-10
THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.
1t has been resist


ing assaults from without.
Let Congress retrace it's steps, and declare
in explicit terms that it will not hereafter
legislate either for or against the existence OF
slavery in the States and Territories, and all
cause for strife will be at an end. The peo-
pie of the North and South, the East and
the West, will soon learn that they are
brethren, with common interests and COM
mon destiny the Union will receive new
strength, and the enemies of liberty, who
now watch for our halting, will find that
their hopes are vain. Our country will be
better loved at home, and more highly re-
spected abroad.
Such are the views of one of your con-
stituents who has thought good deal of
this matter-who holds no political office,
never intends to hold one, and is not con-
scous Of anything to warp his judgment.
For uttering such sentiments he will be call
ed Il prosavery man by the abolitionlsts;
and yet he is as much the friend of the slave
as the best of them.
| am very truly and sincerely yours,
GREENE C. BRONSON
Hon. F. B. CUTTING, M. c., Washington,
D. G.
Judge, Bronson may be very great man,
but truth, and history, and the laws of ma
ture are still greater than Mr.. Bronson.
Mr.. Bronson says that slavery will not
go into Nebraska, yet 4000 900 square miles
Of territory lie south of what would be the
northern boundary of Kansas, territory too
lying in the same latitude as such slave states
as North Carolina and Tennessee. All ex-
perience shows that emigration goes west
ward on parallels of latitude, and it is
perfectly rotten absurdity for Mr.. Bronson
to assume, that slavery won't march west
ward from Missouri, with the regularity of
a law of nature, if not shut out by positive
enactment, as it now is. Besides it is the
design and purpose of the bill to open the
soil to slavery. 1t opens the great pathway
to slavery across the whole of New Mexico.
Keep this pathway closed, as the south by
solemn compact have closed it, and slavery
is shut out from territory large enough for
ten States, leaving out all north of Kansas
Mr.. Bronson says that slavery is not ag-
gressive, while we are aggressors. Here
truth and history are falsified again. Was
not the suppression Of the right of petition
an aggression Was not the attempt to
rifle the mails under cover of law, an ag-
gression? Was not the declaration of Cal
houn that Texas must be secured sc to ensure
the permanent duration of slavery, an ag-
gression? Was not the passage of law
making you and me slave catchers, and
abolIshing trial by jury and habeas corpus,
an aggression? Was not the intrusion of
bulies of slavery into the death bed cham
Der of President Taylor to coerce him into
their measures, an aggression? These are
all aggressions apart and distinct from any
involved in present issues Toledo Blade.
The London Times. referring to the release
of Smith OBrien by the British Government,
says, she is entitled to the respect of his
countrymen and of his opponents, as far as
his personal character is concerned. No
man has given more terrible proofs of his
sincerity, and we are fully disposed to admit
that the manner in which he has conducted
himself during his exile, and his respect for
his plighted word, fully entitle him to favor
able consideration. Others will respect the
man who has respected himself. AS for the
other paltry renegades who have lied and
run away, all that can be said of them is,
that they have saved their necks-their honor
they have left behind them in Australia"
Doctor Harriet X. Hunt, of Boston, will
shortly visit the west on lecturing tour
Her object is to give medical advice to wo-
men, and she will be accompanied by Miss
Sarah Pellet, of Syracuse, n Y. Miss Hunt
we believe. was the first female graduate of