The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-09-01

Some, III their simplicity, may eXclaim, 1t
cannot be so but it is SO, and the Infamous,
dlabolical statute is to go into effect the 18th
of the present month. Not only has terrific
~, solemnly dedicated to freedom been fraud
ulently thrown open to the black tread Of
slavery, but the ruffian violators of personal
liberty and public freedom in very wanton-
ness of insult and outrage, thrust the above
execrable law into our faces. 1t is com
pound Of meanness, insult and defiance.
Notwithstanding acts like these, which
should "stir fever in the blood of age" we
have greater or less number of doughfaces
among us, who, for some petty office, still
cry keep cool, it will all come out right in
,,.e emu ', ne. -. patriotism is c""llowedup
in their love for spoils they would wiling
ly see half million square miles subjected
to the whitening curse Of slavery, if they
might thereby become sharers in public plum
der. For spoils, they would sing hosannahs
to Pierce and Douglas, fellowship with Atch-
ison and Stringfellow, and vote for Medill
and Steedman. But it will avail them moth
ing, for the edict has gone forth, "poltical
extinction to all doughlaces.' F.
A WIsH.-We wish all anti Republicans,
into whose hands this number of the Journal
may fall, to preserve it, and on the morning
of election to read the foregoing law, and
,hen vote for Medill if they can. They can
not thus vote, and at the same time look an
honest man in the face. Such an act would
be false to freedom, false to humanity, false
TO God, false to the noblest impulses of the
SOUL and could be performed only with avert
ed face and downcast eyes. F.
ENQUIRy-A man at our elbow wishes to
know whether the Stringfelow Democrats
OF Ohio have any other capital upon which
to trade during the present campaign besides
Know Nothingism. We know of nothing
else; can any of our friends inform him !?
To what pitiable condition has the great
democratic party Of Ohio sunken, when it
can do nothing but make mouths at the
Know Nothings! F.
FREEMEN OF KANSAS IN CoNvENTIoN. "A
mass meeting OF Free Sellers was held at
Lawrence, in Kansas, on the 18th inst; over
six hundred persons present. Gen. Schuyler
presided, assisted by the usual number of
Vice Presidents and other officers. Strong
resolutions were passed denouncing the cleo
tion of the 18th of March as great outrage );
denying the legality of the Legislature now
sitting, pretending to enact laws, regarding
it as acting without authority. They pledge
themselves to resist its authority, recommend
ing. elections of delegates to Convention
to form State Constitution with view to
Immediate State organization and applica-
ton TO the next Congress for admission to
the Union as a State. Resolutions of thanks
to Reeder were also passed unanimously re-
solved that sgreeably to recommendations of
the Territorial Free State Executive Commit
ice to call Convention, five delegates to
each of the several districts, on the 25th Of
August Ito meet at Big Springs on the 5th of
September, for the purposes recommended
and other action necessary.
The Washington Union learns that from
recent information received at the General
Land office from the surveyor general of
Kansas territory, the surveys of the public
lands are progressing rapidly. 1t is estima-
ted that they will be finished hy the first of