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

abroad avowedy to effect sectional ends.
congressman have been purchased, overawed
and converted into sectional tools.
The manner in which the atrocious plans
of propagandism are carried out, is as often
sive as the policy itself. Brute force has
been threatened on both floors of congress.
Senators from the north have been excluded
from the committees of the body OF which
they were members and one has been threat
ened with expulsion for vindicating his right
of opinion and speech and faithfully repre-
Scntlng has constituents. In the house Of
epresentatives, personal threats and assaults
have frequently been substituted for argu-
ment, and III every case to carry out sec
tional designs. The whole power of social
and fashionable life is brought to bear upon
the man who is so questionable as to b.
guilty of manly courage and a conscien.
tous discharge of the duties he was elected
ITO perform.
In view Of all these facts, and many Others
of weight and Importance, which might b.
adduced, we ask you, fellow citizens, if il
is not time that the institution OF slavery
Should be dGHGtjORGizCd and the genera
government brought back to the purity and
of the republicanism Of the rev.
Ioiution? Is it not time that this oligarChv
be made TO understand that slavery must b.
kept entirely within the limits of the states
where 1t now exists; that the whole public
domain Of the nation shall be forever pro
tected from the blight and curse that it in
iIcts; that the treasury Of the nation be Ic-
lieved from all expenses incident to its pro-
pagation and protection that measures be
taken forever to prevent the acquisition or
addition OF more slave states, that men bc
sent to both houses of congress who shall
hereafter represent the institutions Of free
dom and not Of slavery?
In this crisis an important and rcspouei-
bic duty dcyoivcs upon the electors of ;n+
congressional district: You are TO b. r,ure-
sontcd III the halls Of congress either By :,
friend of freedom, or mere instrument in
the hands of tie slave power. You are t.
decide this question at the bal0t-boX, and
now have it in your poHcr, by disrssariing
party d!ct0ton and appeals TO passions and
Iprejudices, used By interested and unscru-
Ipu.ous men, and subsidized and vascilat-
ing presto select such a representative as
will truly and faithfully represent YOU in the
councils of the nation.
We appeal TO yCU to disregard all coreid-
.erations but courage, fitness, truth, fde!;t.
and conscientious determination to reject
your sentim 'nts and opinions, in the candi-
date selected 10 represent you. To sever
yourselves from old party associations, we
know to be 10 very easy task but we feel
bound to say that the representative elected
or dictated by the party leaders in either of
| the old political Organizations will be most
likely to mlsEcpresent you. These organl-
cations have always had and still continue
an alliance with the slave power by whom
they are controlled. The cxponcnts ami
representatives of that power at Washing
ton affiliate with no northern men who are
not its tools. The wings and democrats Of
the south have united in a solid phalanx.-
They go for propagandism as one man-ani-
mated by single purpose. Wings and
democrats of the south with equal zeal. raj
ly around the administration of President
Pierce. y national nomination Of whig
for the presidency, is no longer possible and
will never be attempted. The nomination
by the party now in power Of man not
committed, and pledged to obey the bchcsts
OF the slave power, is impossible
The tWo-thirds rule, rendering it necessary
that presidential nominee shall have two
thirds OF all the votes of national con-
vention makes it impossible for any man to
be nominated to that exalted station, and
vested with all its power and patronage, who
is not the mere tool of the slavery propa-
gandists. The vast patronage of the gov