The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-10-23

ENllOssINa MAN,

AAROYING MAN,
What is your duty? Have you not oitei
cast your eye over society and witnessed, will
pain, modification, and perhaps little anger
a large class of naen, whom you call by n,
name 50 appropriate as paupers--men whc
are professional office seekers, or poliiica
gNnblersG We toll from day TO day to ear,
our daily bread---we labor ten and twelve
hour day the year rodnd-merely to feed
and clo'he ourselves, while these poitica
black-legs fare sumptuously every day and
Sc m TO labor not, except to tbwart the viii
Of The telling people, (who have neither the
time or the means 10 attend upon caucuscs
and political conventions, )and secure to them
selves fat and easy cffces. Have we not all,
time and again, wished for au opportunity to
vote for honest, industrious men in preference
| to those political leeches Nay, is it not our
duty 10 vote foi worthy laboring men when
an opportunity offers ? Is it not our duty to
ourselves and our fellowl .borng men TO ele-
yate 10 offices of trust, honor, and profit, men
from our own ranks, and thus raise the stand
ard Of cur responsibility and secure honest
and capable public officers from the working
bees Of society. We have too long submit
ted to The rule Of professional politicians,
lazy aristocruts, and puAed up buffoons. 1t
is time change was made in the programme.
/ Wei, fellow laboyer, what is your duty,
] lIor At .1,ot,on D,,,l,n,, =.
most emphatically professional politician
man who, like Jim Steadman, makes polit.
ical gambling his business. This has beea
Lis Employment from youth up, He has been
quite successful, and has had many fat har-
vests, but TIE laborers of the country sweat
rs they toiled to raise the means to foot the
bills. He has been supported and made rich
by the public but we have yet TO see record
ed the first act ever performed by him that
was Of any special benefit to any body but
himself. lie is, therefore, one of those drones
which we, as laboring men, believe should
not be upheld by any people. ..
The same remarks will apply to Fillmore.
They belong to the same class of corrupt of
flee seekers, who think the great laboring class
of people mere instruments to be used for
their promotion.
In Fremont we have a different man. lie
is what we call a self-made man. In his car
ly years, he was hired out, and while thus
employed by southern slave driver, who
looked upon laboring people as a species of
chat,el property, eating at a side table pre-
pared for him, he learned to abhor the insti-
!ution Of slavery as n great moral and social
evil, bra'azing alike the slave and the free
lahorirg man While thus subjected to the
bitter cruelty and mean degradation which
ever must attach to the free man wh, rs-
duced to the level of slave, his inward ge-
MUS revolted-his independ, Mt mind could
not be subdued by, or induced to yield to,
the threatning commands CT his assumed lord
and master. Like the immortal Burns, he
exclaimed
Ii I'm dr.guoi ynn lorilings slare--
.' BY Natures law dssign'd
Why was An independent wish
T. er planted in mind
II not, why am subject to
His c1fIcltv or scorr /"
Or why has the will mad pow'r
To make hi3 fellows mourn"
Twas there, at thai side table, surrounded
by naughty and arrogant assumption of su-
periofiLy, that he learned the important truth
that LJue genius and pure worth are not alone
TO be found beneath show OF titles and tin
sei-and that other important truth that eve
ry man i0herits from his Creator certain un.
aliensbie rights, among which is the right to
life. liberty, and the pursuit of happin,s S.. He
despised the feigned superiority of wealth,
and learned to respect and venerate the men
who obey Gods Law and earn their bread by
the sweat OF the brow.
Whatthouch on hamely fare We Iiae
|W,tr hoILin-gray and ~ that
Gle foods their silks and kna'es their wine;
\ mans man for a that;
For a that and a that,
Their thsul show, and a that. "
Tie honest man, though e'er puir,
is hIng o men f'T a that
Gifted with extraordinary talent, energy,
and perseverance, he marked out course
thnt would lead to usefulness and secure an
ho1ora5le support for himself and widowed
m1.her, In the pursuit of his business, he
&C cIGirod position which commanded the at
ten'on and admiration of the elightcncd world.
lie has most empha!ically been q practical and
u.s. fHi Inan-jusL the reverse of politician.
Upon The question at issue, his position can
be Objectionable tono intelligent laboring man,
and his election to the Presidency would be a
worthy tribute to genius an honor to labor,
and blessing to the country.
Fiitfs Congressional District.
We have now the fIii returns, believed to