The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-08-25
How it is Done, and the Way to Do it.

state. who has just returned from California.
in sending us his subscription for the Jour
nal lets us into some of the secrets of Cali
fornla political management. The detail is
interesting, and explains how and why it is
that the influence of slavery has got foot
ing in that free state. His allusion to the eff
feet Ohio is producing will not escape notice:
| have within.a few days returned from
California, it being my third trip to that
country. And having been there most of
the time since the spring of 1880, | am pre-
pared to know how so large a number of
southern men have got into the head depart
ments of government in that fast country.
With your permission will give you small
insight into the manner of doing it and how
it is DONE
Well, in 1913, '49 and so many slave
holders from Missouri, Texas, Louisiana,
Georgia, and in fact from nearly or quite all
the southern states, went there, taking slaves
with them, Oh this condition, that they were
to have their freedom after having worked
one, two, or more years according to circum-
stances, for their masters and | have never
known a single case where slave refused
faithfully to perform his stipulation to la
Dor, without complaint, and often twice as
long as was agreed, giving his master the last
CCut Vi HIS Cdl llLISS, NOTWITHSTANDING Iucy
frequently dug three, four, six, eight and
even as high as ten thousand dollars within
the time
During this time of profitable service of
the slaves the masters made it their business
to ride through the country, make acquaint-
ances, spending the money in drinking, ga
ming and all manner of ways, to make &C
Iquaintances and render themselves notori-
Gus, cndeavoring all the while to become all
things to all mem By the time there was
an office to BE- filled, their names were up,
and their sentinels out for them in every
town and place of holding elections. Their
friends were posted, and free brandy in abun
dance offered to those who would support
them. In the meantime if any northern
mau was spoken of as rival candidate, he
was instantly set upon by these southern
Iimps and cmissaries until at last north
aru man of any taste and refinement would
seldom consent to have his name used.
While this army Of office seekers was
prowling through city, town and country,
northern men, though greatly in the MAORI
ty, were quietly attending to their business
in the mines earning their bread and cash by
the sweat of their own faces, (not by that
of anotherD instead of seeking after office
and places of power. Hence it is that the
offices were monopOlized by southern slave
holding duelists, enabling the Legislature of
that state to pass the kidnapping fugitive
slave law. But dark as has been the day.
and deep and doleful as is the shade of infa-
my, drunkenness and disgrace which has
hung over the cause of freedom, sobrlety,
virtue and truth, hitherto greatly retarding
the progress of the state and seriously threat
Iening her entire ruin, yet am happy to say
that the noble heroic stand which Ohio and
other northern states took last fall, has arou-
sed and is arousing the lion of freedom in
his lair; and if Ohio which leads the north
maintains her ground this fall, California
will be fully awake in 1856, and can beat
down the slaveholding forces in that state
with half the strength at command.
BY the census it is ascertained that Min
nesota has $4,000 inhabitants. st. Paul has
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