The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-10-09

those priceless pearls, would be subjected
to the tutorsl ip Of villains. Reader do you
turn with disgust and horror from the picture
Would you consider the teachers vocation
thus characterized, honerable-or, ridicu-
lous
Behold the counterpart of this portraiure
in American politics A Republican form of
government is doubtless the purest, though
not the normal mode of exercising power by
man. No other is so well adapted to evolve
and perfect the attributes of the human race.
But it requires too much perfection to ever be
obtained by such fallen beings. There is no
such government and there never will be-
Even our beloved Republic is SO only by
name. What is Repubcansm Self-gov-
eminent by people, under which each sub
ject has voice in the general legislation, and
as guaranteed his inalenable rights, without
regard to ank, age, sex or color. Is this
description of our government? Let the use
Of bludgeon, of bowie knives and revolvers,
in our Congressional Halls,-let the brutal
mobbing and expatriation of Virginians, Ala
bamians and Mary rylanders,-let the mprison-
ment of women for teaching slaves to read, -
let the tarring and feathering of clergymen,
the robbery, arson, murder, scalping, rape,
terrorism perpetrated upon the legal residents
of Kansas by a horde of rutfianly invaders,
simply because the former loved freedom and
hated slavery,-let them unparalleled outra-
ges, committed with impunity, answer
But, admitting that government, though
perfectly republican in form, cannot be strict
ly carried into practice +; is the American In
ion controlled by government theoretically
free? Let the Constitutional recognition of
property IN man !" the three -ffths' repre-
sentation Of this property" in our National
Legislature, while the goods and chatles"
OF another portion of the Union are denied
Ills privilege,-ls the t" rel di.ion Of fugitive
slaves" the Transforming of the whites into
blood hounds to apprehend such fugitives,
and the inhuman penalties inflicted upon those
who dare befriend the escaping Afrcan=-all
sanctioned by an enactment based upon e
Constitutional proyision,-let these glariug
abrogations of the external principles of JUS
lice, liberty and right, be response
And then to think that our great statesmen,
af,er having basely and remorselessly STINK
the nation deeper and deeper in the stygian
abyss of political turpitude, dare with unblush-
ing effrontery, on the natal day of the Union,
load the "mother country" with the fiercest
maledictions because she thought TO retain the
"colonies" as monarchial dependency por-
tray with pathetic eloquence, the unrivalled
excellencies of freedom and point with pride
and naughty triumph to our government as
the beacon light Of nations-as a model re-
public ! Well may our trans Atlantic cous-
ins, with ine fable scoln, direct our attention
to that lovely system Ct negro slavery now
existing in the height Of its glory at the south,
and there infusing its benign influences
throughout the walks of society and indig.
nantly hurl back upon our free government
the charge of oppression
But | wish to point out and hold up to view
a few of the shameful characteristics of Amer.
ican politics at the present day. First, l men
ton the false -heartedness of political profes
sons. 1t would seem reasonable, that mar
would espouse those principles, and those on
ly, which he could conscienciously adopt anc
that nothing would ever cause him to aban
don them; but alas no confidence can bt
placed in the avowa's Of the wire working
leaders of party, upon political questions
So heartless are they, that they will pas
through. all the stages of moulting, and il
the short space Of Presidential term, be r.
ceved as members in good standing by the
whole catalogue of parties, from the Federal
lists down 10 the Republicans. / need bu
cite the reader to every political campaign
ince the Administration of Washington, t
show the dupl city Of partizan leaders. A
the particular time Of the working ofa scheme
but few are let into the secret, and those fey
are men Of tried craftiness and fidelity; thu
wires are pulled by them, and great and in
i fluential statesmen, as we'll as "smsller fry,
yield obedience, do homage and are entrapp
ed while thinking they are about to spring
some dead fall, III, h,mselves bit after the ne
cessiiy of secrecy is past, the plot is purpose
ly though exposed, and while the attention q
S the public is diverted by being directed to til
corruptiea thus brought to light, the artfu
: schemers are cono,ting other designo.
? Another disrepctable thirg connected wit
e politice Tow a-days, is newspaper falsehood
, This is not late invention, but like the sys
d tenn of slavery, its age does not legalize nc
: extenuate the wrong. Parlamt ntary usage
d allow disputants 10 denounce with all possibl