The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-03-24
The st. Clair Flats and st. Mary's River.

The st, Clair Flats and st. Mary's River.
When we congratulated our readers upon
The passage through the senate and house re-
opectvey, of the bill approprating $45, 900
tor the improvement of the st. Clair flats,
and $4,000 for the improvement of the st.
Mary's river, we had no conception that there
was any more danger Of the miscarriage OF
the bill in the hands Of the President, than
that the world would come to an end within
a week and when we say that we are deep
lY disappointed and mortified that the bill
has miscarried in his hands, we very family
express the unanimous public sentiment, and
OF the administration here.
We assure the administration at Wash
ington-and In doing so aCe intend to speak
plainly, as aCG do truty-thnt the democracy
Of the northwest not only cannot and aoiU
not sustain the policy aohich has denied these
appropriations bit 2CW rGpudidte it.
The president mast abandon Sach ground,
or so far as this question is concerned, the
democracy of the north-loeSt aUW abandon
Dim To attempt to sustain him would be
80 invite annihilation.
We are emphatic because The occasion de-
mands emphasis. We desire to support the
administration in all its measures but we
stop far short of countenancing such alb
sractions as apparently lie at the bottom of
the Presidents objections to this BILL Do
troit Free Press.
Such is now the language Of the support
p-S of the administration in Michigan
Some singular recolections crowd our mem
Ory as we listen to the discordant tones Of
this Michigan organ grinding. For some
ten years, more or less, Gen. Cass has been
4 senator from Michigan. There has never
been day nor an hour since, when by haz-
arding his popularity with the south and
throwing his whole influence i'll behalf of
the despised interests Of his constituents, he
could not have changed the policy of Polk
Dy Pierce on this vital subject. He threw
contempt on the Chicago convention, be-
cause it was designed as be declared, to dis
tract the democratic party. His statesman.
ship and patriotism he thus limited by his
party, not by his country.
In 1852, the opponents OF Pierce every
where, all over the state. through the press.
and on the stump, proved from records that
Pierce was narrow, bigoted, and partzan
in his views and conduct on lake. river and
harbor protection. Cass, Stuart, and the
rail of their train Of political missionaries,
While acknowledging that the record was
against him, pledged him to be man of
enlarged views, who might vote one way as
4 representative Of district, but as Presi-
dent of qChole nation, sanction more
comprehensive and national policy. They
ach and ALL from Cass down. avowed them
selves friendly to liberal river and lake inn
pgoyements, and resented an imputation to
the contrary, with most dramatic and we'll
ieigned indignation. The article quoted
above is most conclusive ackno Wledgment
that the argument and persuasion Of Cass
and his coadjutors was delusive, specious,
not reliable, in fact, imposture, while their
opponents presented The case just as facts
have proved to have been correct.
The truth is, that so long as the great
northern men are compelled to sacrifice eve
ry interest Of their constituents; iii fact,
ilumbug and swindle them, or be cut off
from all hopes of the presidency just so long
7qll the north be placed in the humiliating
predicament which the Detroit Free Press
leplores-[ Toledo Blade.
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