The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-08-07
For the Delta Press.

CAhAIVtA sOfhlNtSJ Juil lOOO
EDITOR DELTA Press:
On the eve of my leaving home, 1 was in
formed that by the Partially of some of my
Dem cratic friends Of Fulton county, and
other portions Of our congressional district,
my name had been announced in your paper
and others, as a candidate for congress, sub
ject TO the approval Of the Democratic con-
vention, While feel grateful to the Democ-
racy Of Fulton county, "a more intclli5 ent
and patriotic Democracy, no county in the
State can boast, and other portions Of the
District, for their confidence, the present at
itude of political parties in tie United States,
forces upon me the conviction of the imprO
priety of my being a candidate for congress,
as proposed Although l am satisfied that
majority of the Democracy of the fifth con-
gressional district, agree with me in senti-
ment, on the all obsoFbing subject of Slave
ry extension, yet am equally satisfied, that
there is minority who would expect a can
didate so nominated, to approve and defend
all the measures of the present administra-
ton, and tie Cincinnati platform on the sub
ject Of slavery, and also the inconsistent and
unprincipled course of Mr.. Douglas, backed
up by the L. S. Senate and to vote for the
admission of Kansas as Slave State, should
she present constitution recognizing it, evey
though such result was brought about bn
fraud and violence, as it now appears will be
The case. These things could not consci-
entously do.
1 have become sati. fed beyond all doubt,
that the democratic organization is now used
BY ambitious and unprircipled men, for their
own aggrandizement, and to effect their OBJ
iect, they have (as far as ir their power)
thrown the democratic party into the hands of
the slave power, to be used as they may d.
rect. Believing as l do, that their measures
are calculated and intended 10 make Kansas
.Slaue State, cannot sustain them without
doing violence to my ow2 principles.
The late acts of Mr.. Douglas, sanctioned
by the U. S, S nate, have removed every re-
naming doubt and hope, upon which l rested
my Justification in adhering to an organiza-
ton claiming to represent the Democratic par
ty, of the country, the only party to which |
have ever for single moment Of my life been
attached, and an organization from which l
could never be separated, while it represen-
ted JefFersonian Democratic principles.
What has been and wha! is now the aspect
of the Kansas question Mr.. Douglas and
his followers, after claiming popular SOW
ereignty as the great virtue Of the Nebraska
Kansas act, and the justification for the re-
peal Of the Missouri Compromise, pretended
to adhere to that principle, while all TIE
fraud and violence was being committed by
the Border Ruflians. By such means, they
forced upon the actual settlers an illegal Leg"
islature, which passed laws not only uncon-
slitutonal, but of the most unjust, oppres-
sive and cruel description, ten fold worse than
all the enactments of the British Pariiment,
from which the fathers of the Revolution re-
volted and so odous that even a Southern
Senator declared that they would justify a
revolution, and Gen. Oass characterized them
as disgraceful to the present age. Yet, the
Senate, of which those gentlemen are men,
bers has been in session seven or eight months
without doing anything to relieve the actual
settlers from those cruel grievances, but on
| the contrary sat silent and saw the president
proclaiming that those laws should be obey
| ed, and to that end he would use all the
means at his disposal, while Mr.. Douglas was
asserting that the free state men "must be
subdued." All this was done under the plea
of carrying out popular sovereignty.
But now different card is to be played fol
the benefit of slavery. Popular sovereignty
! Is 10 NC dDduuOutu' IL appears " HdNS 9NA v
ed the purpose of those who used it as theii
justification for the repeal of the Missouri
compromise.
Under the pretence of carrying out it,
principles, the U. S. troops were allowed tC
disarm the free state men, and the border
rullians permitted to drive them out of thC
Territory, destroy thier presses, burn theiI
houses, steal their property, murder thei
men, indct and imprison their leaders ant
now when all the practicable avenues int
Kansas are guarded by Missourians to proven
the entrance of free state men into the Terri
tory, and after Atchison, S!riugfellow & Go.
have got everything prepared to have ma
jority of pro,slayery men in Kansas, on tn
4.h day Of July, Mr.. Toombs, IN ultra pro
Slavery Senator (who boasted upon the foo
of the Senate, that he would yet call the roI
of his slaves at the foot Of Bunker Hill mon
! ument, introduces bill into the senate, MI
Douglas adopts it, and the senate passes
with Guyer's and Adams amendment,