The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-07-08

opening of Nebraska and Kansas to slavery,
| by repeating an act of congress by which
slavery therein was forever prohibited is an
anti-slavery measure We said no such
thing. Maumee Valley Democrat.
Let us see if you didn't. You will not.
pretend, we think, that any further legisla-
ton is now necessary to enable shareholders
to take their slaves into either Kansas or
Nebraska and hold them there; but if you
do pretend so, you are probably the only in
telligent gentleman in the Union who will
pretend so, and the pretence cannot be sup
ported by either authority Or fact. If we
mistake not every Shareholder, proslavery
and anti-slavery member of congress under
stood this point as we do and the slave
holders of the southern states are hurrying
forward to take exclusive possession OF the
territories. There was prohibition of sla-
very there, that prohibition is repealed, and,
as natural sequence, slavery is admitted,
tolerated and allowed until again prohibited
by law. That slavery prohibition Our neigh
Dor calls restriction upon self govern
ment''!!! Being prohibited from holding
ones fellowbeings in slavery is "restric-
ton upon self-government," according to the
Maumee Valley Democrat Here is its Ian
guage
CHOW that the Missouri restriction upon
self government is repealed By the Nebraska
bill, many of its opponents admit that there
is not the least chance of slavery ever going
into these territories. The fact is. it is an
anti-slavery measure TO leave the subject to
the people of the territories, for they are GER
tain to decide itright, &c.-[Dem. June 49,
That is what you said, sir. Is it not in
substance, though not in terms, precisely
what we charged? 1t was not for the pur-
pose of ''grossly misrepresenting' you, nor
Of nisrepresenting' you at all, that we
chose to use our own instead of your Ian
guage in stating your position; but we sta
ted the point you made, with the inevitable
result to be deduced from it, in the shortest
terms, to show the absurdity of your argu-
ment AS to the people always deciding
right, it is a species of aattery precisely anal
ogous to the saying the king can do no
, wrong" fawning sycophancy practiced by
r those who-wait upon its rewards If the
people of those territories, when they come
to adopt state constitutions, (Which will be
A the first independent action they will be able
to take upon this subject,) shall decide in
Y favor of freedom, we shall say they decide
right; but if they decide to have slavery, as
: we greatly fear one OF both will, we shall
: say, and civilized mankind generally will say,
: that selishness has overborne justice and
: that they decide wrongly. What will our
e neighbor of the Democrat say? According
o to the rule he lays down above he must have
no opinion of his own on the subject; but
t all freedom, all manhood, all sense of right
and wrong, must be " crushed OUT and sac
rificed to his tyrannical master, the party
he must just as readily declare that they de-
eide right in the one case as the other. II
must be an intolerable thraldom of the soul
4 to never be able to express free thought Of
: believe and cherish great principle Or truth
: for fear of getting crosswiSe with 50 the peo
t pie" What horror such willing suppliant
: must have for the very name of an ''aboli-
!, tionist,' one who hates slavery He mus
s look uDOn Jefferson as a dangerous and bloody