The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-09-16
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Mr.. Commagey.

Mr.. Commagey.
The attempt to show in this vicinity that
Mr.. Commager is an Anti-Nebraska man,
and that he has not always been an inveter-
ate pro-slavery Hunker, is looked upon with
derision. A dozen of the heretofore leading
democrats of this city, within twenty-four
hours, have expressed their astonishment to
us that any pretence should be set up that Mr..
Commagerhas not always been pro-slavery
man. We have only to say, to show that
this has been his character, that he is a can
didate OF all the ultra pro-slavery men in
the district, and will unanimously receive
their votes.
The country has witnessed during the last
few years a series of enCroachmentS of the
slave power. which almost makes the blood
run cold. When and where has Henry Il.
Commager expressed his Indignation at these
encroachments The Fugitive Slave law
was passed, converting him, and you, and
all OF us, into slave -catChers, repeating the
right of trial by jury and the right of habeas
corpus, and subverting all the laws of evi-
dence and procedure known and adopted in
those courts where Mr.. Commager practices
but where did he oppose or denounce 1T ?
Candidates have been IN the field from time
to time representing the anti-slavery idea,
but when did MIR. Commager ever sustain
one, or refrain from violent opposition to
them indeed, when did he ever refrain from
Joining in that policy designed to SO crush
them out, and extinguish them politically? :?
We have now been in Toledo some six
teen months, and during that time Mr..
Commager has been regarded as the peculiar
exponent of the proslavery sentiment, and
their destined nominee for Congress. He
has not enjoyed the confidence Of free soil
men of any stripe. No such men have
conferred with him, or given him their
confidence, and the attempt at the eleventh
Aour by lip professions, on the eve of his
nomination, to reverse the whole policy of
his political life, strips him of the last YES
rlge of confidence they have in him.
Il the Democratic party wanted men who
5eLi60ed sincerely in the principle, they could
have found a score of them, who have been
frank, bold and outspoken, and always demo-
Gratis, firm and unfinching in the democrat
&c faith, when many of the present support
ers OF Mr.. Commager were most rampant
and noisy wings.
There are other objections to Mr.. Comma
ger, arising out of the circumstances of his
nomination. He is not the choice of even
The democratic masses. He is nominated in
accordance with bargains of politicians
His designation is only the consummation of
contracts long since entered into. So noto-
Giously is this the case, that those who know
Mr.. Commager best know that he will repre-
sent faction, junto, small squad Of
otice-holders and Office expectants. Since
his nomination we have been told by scores
Of men of the dominant party, that they
shall vote against him for this cause only.
We have another objection to Mr. Comma
ger. He may be worthy and respectable
citizen, but no friend ever so partial, will
claim for him that he possesses those natu-
raj endowments, that extent of information,
that clearness of purpose, or wide experience,
desirable in representative of 100000 peo-
pie in the present crisis of public affairs
Toledo Blade.
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