The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-08-19

One-tnlrQ OF the WnlJe people are represented
by five judges, while more than two-thirds
are represented by four judges. We have
lived under the present government sixty
five years, and during forty-nine years OF
that time, the president has been from slave
state. During the whole period a majority
Of the cabinet officers, the diplomatic sta
tions abroad, and the public Offices at Wash
ington, have been filled by citizens of the
Islaveholding states. The consequence Is,
that the legislative, judicial and executing
functions of the government, with all its
immense patronage, have been unscrupulOus-
~ welded by the slave power for the prop
Iagandism Of that most eXoCrable of all in
stitutions.
The people of the north, for half a centu-
Try, have tolerated this condition Of things
without q murmur If they were wronged,
they Were wrongod under constitution,
which i'll ITS gGnCTaJ features they loved, and
regarded as just and wise, and which secured
to them the blessings Of good government.
But of late, this constitution has been SO
dlsregarded, or perverted to sectional designs,
that the great privileges and blessings, sup
posed to be forever sacred, have been tramp
led out Though our dearest rights have
been outraged, our appeals disregarded, and
the most solemn compact ever made by the
nation violated and set at naught, by the
dictation Of the slave power; yet would we
still protect the slave states in all their con-
stitutional rights, privileges and guarantees;
but we would not allow the money, patron
age and influence Of the national government
to be used for the increase OF their power,
Or the extension Of slavery.
At this iuncture all disguise is thrown off.
a. e
which Mr.. Calhoun boldly declared was 9 to
insure the permanent duration of slavery"
southern politicians and the southern press
have from day to day grown more arrogant
and rapacious, until they have succeeded by
a repeal of the Missouri compromise, and
the passage of the Nebraska and Kansas ter
ritorial bills, in opening a territory en-
bracing nearly half a million of square miles,
colOnizad by slavery. The bold avowal is
now openly made by presses and politicians
of the south, of both the great political par
ties which have heretofore divided the coun-
try, that by conquest or purchase, Cuba must
be acquired, two slave states created, and
four more slave senators sent TO the congress
of the United States. Let US pause mo-
ment ond consider the practical results of
such an annexation. Ohio and New York
have to-day five millions Of people, Cuba
has half million. A voter in Cuba will
possess ten times as much political power in
the senate as free elector in New York or
Ohio When the Nebraska bill passed the
senate of the United States, the six senators
of New York. Ohio and Massachusetts rep
resented as many free white men as all the
senators of all the southern states. Yet
their exercise Of political power was scoifed
at. Are you willing, then, as free men, as
citizens of Ohio, to permit the small share
of political power you now posses in the
senate, to be further diminished by the addi-
tion of new slave states, purchased at an
immense cost, with money from the nation
al treasury? This inordinate share Of power
has again and again been exercised for Sec
tional purposes. Millions have been expen-
ded from the national treasury to obtain ter
ritory to be devoted TO slavery. Not one
dollar for territory to be devoted to freedom,
or even to secure to us the free navigation of
the ST. Lawrence But, OH the other hand,
we have witnessed with modification one
half of free Oregon given up to Great Brit
ain in violation of every principle of justice,
and poor weak, dying Mexico unscrupulous-
ly robbed of the richest of her domain to
satisfy the demands of the slave oligarchy
and we have recently seen the national treas
ury bled to the amount Of ten millions of