The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-09-29

y oPtcu lol the ulSpOSal OF the bridge tunu but
was only whipping me over their backs
Messrs. Russell and Laskey are both older
commissioners than myself, and are a ma
jority of the board that adopted that princi-
! Pile. Now if Mr.. Way had no personal ILL.,
will towards me, and has "paid but little
attention to cuItiUating the art of saying one
thing and meaning another" but it was the
official acts of the board of commissioners
! that he was finding fault about, why was it
/ that he singled me out and used the bridge
fund for club to lash me over the other
commissioners backs, and let them 90 scot
! free
/ | never told Mr.. Way, nor any other per-
son, that must spend the McCuchensylle
road funds near the Ten Mile House, nor that
Perrysburg was able to make her own roads
All that ever said to him on the subject
was, when he insisted that all the funds
should be laid out in Perrysburg, remarked
/ to him that the road out towards the Ten
Mile House was in worse condition than
it was near town, and that | considered it
my duty to use some of the money for it's
repair. Mr.. Ways assertion to that effect is
a mere ruse, conceived in falsehood, to pre-
judice the people Of Perrysburg against me-
and make them believe that am opposed to
their interests. The array of figures in his
last grand flourish, showing the amount of
taxes collected and expended in Perrysburg
township for the benefit of the McCutchens-
vile road, is for the same purpose, convey
ing the idea that there has been a large
amount of that fund expended outside of the
town illegally, and that it was my duty to
make an illegal expenditure of the present
fund so that two wrongs may make one right.
Mr.. Way has no data by which he can tell
what amount of the taxes collected in Per-
rysburg has been laid out there his figures
| to that effect are all moonshine ; nearly all
the certificates given by the superintendents
for work done on the road for the last five
years at least, have not Disseminated in
what township the work has been done the
auditor has no means of knowing, much less
Mr.. Way.
1t is we'll understood that the citizens of
! Perrysburg have adopted the system, from an
early day, Of taxing themselves literally and
donating freely, for the purpose of opening
and extending roads out into the county, in
order to attract the trade of the country TO
their town. In the first pening of the Find
lay road from town to Hull Prairie, many Of
the citizans gave from $40 to $50 for that
purpose, and have been crediby informed
that Mr.. Way himself subscribed one dollar
for the opening of that important thorough
fare The course that Mr.. Way has pursu-
ed towards me, and the means he has used
for that purpose, show conclusively, to my
mind at least, that after he became satisfied
he could not persuade me into his selfish pro-
| jects upon the McCutchensville road fund,
he determined he would try and levy black
mail upon it By suspending his vindictive
pen over my head, with the threat that if his
'' moral lecture" did not have the desired eff
feet, he would answer the main question, or
in other words, do me all the personal inju-
ry he could. From the excessive indulgence
of that remarkable organ of his, phrenologl-
cally called mulishne8s he has imbibed the
principle and adopted the motto of rule or
ruin, and he is living up to it with venge-
ance.
In what have said, have endeavored to
give true statement Of facts in regard to
the question at issue, with their proper in