The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-11-20
Political Items.

Political Items.
Buchanan has majority in but a single
county Of Michigan, i. e. Wayne, where he
has $50 over Fremont. o. AAIAl
> REV. Dudley A. Tyhe, pastor Of the
Church of the Epiphsny, Philadelphia, has
been deposed for preaching against slavery.
, The wooster Repa5iican and Xenia Ns,os
come out for Fremont for President in 1860.
The Madison (Tnd.) Courier does the same,
also the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
1t is w .ascertained that taking away
the vote of New York City, Fremont has a
clear majority in the state over the combined
vote of both the other candidates, Of about
t,celve thousand. .---.........
Senator Charles Sumner was conveyed
to the polls in a carriage on Tuesday. Nine
cheers were given as he entered the room,
and after he had voted, another round of
cheers was given him. ... ..a
The Republicans of New Jersey, as in
Michigan, are taking prompt action to contin-
ue. extend and perfect their organization
This is as it should be, and we hope it will
be done in every State. r.r b. ..uua. .a
AT BAllimore, during the election Of
the 4th, unexsmpled fights took place, which
continued several hours, in which guns and
pistols were used and the result was were
killed: Is wounded fatally; wounded more or
less 93-total 113. eN
Northern Indiana and Northern Illenois
are strongly for Fremont, but the Southern
portions are the reverse. In the Southern
counties of Illenois, and bordering on Miss
ouri, Buchanan's majority exceeds BY hund
reds the whole number of voters.
Know NorH1NoIsM IN yERMoNr.-In sew
enteen towns in Vermont, Mr. Fillmore did not
get single vote in seven towns he receiv-
ed one vote each in six he got two votes
each, and in the remaining towns his votes
ranged between three and forty. ...
THE THREE WAsHBuRYs.- Every one Of
the thee Washburns is reelected. Israel
il Maine by 5000; Cadwallader G. in Wis
consin by 5000 and Elihu B. in Illinois by
II, 551 majority. They are true men, and
their constituents could not have done better.
Last year Chicago, the home of Mr.
Douglas, elected Loco Foco mayor by six
hundred majority. This year Fremont has
/ 500 plurality in the city. Four years ago,
Cook county, once Mr.. Douglas own, gave
Pierce 1878 more votes than Scott. Now
Fremont has about 5000 plurality in the.coun-
ty.
The Hamilton Intelligencer Of last week
announces that Mr. CAMPBELL's majority in
the Third Congressional District, has been
increased from 10 to % by the discovery of
four votes cast for him in clay Township,
Montgomery county. The Intellegencer says
/" 1t is but Just to state that the discovery
was effected by Locofocos hunting for mate.
rials for contest Keep on gentle men!
Fremont has a larger Electoral Vote, with
California, than any defeated candidate ever
had and Mr.. Buchanan has smaller pro-
portion of the whole popular vote than any
man who was ever chosen President by the
people.
New England gave her entire vote to
| Washington, and now gives it to Fremont
No Presidential candidate intervening shares
with them the hnnnr-OAio RepositorV.
Curious CAsE,-The Columbia South Car
Gilman states that the celebrated case of Mr..
| Wilis-wlo took a colored women to Ohio,
freed her, and bequeathed to her and her
children who were all his own all his proper
ty in South Csrolina-has Just been decided
by Judge O'Neall,. at the late term of the
Court at Barnwell. Tie jury gave verdict
against the validity of the will--partly
on the ground that it was procured by
fraud and insanity, and partly because it
was opposed to the policy of the State, as de-
clared by the act of 1871. The decision has
been ap called from.
SLAVERY IN NEBRAsKA.-By the census re-
ttJrp of Nahroelyo tbor. =
the territory. These slaves are held in coun-
ties south of Platte river. By what authori.
ty are they held? There is no law protec-
ting slave holders in the territory. Or has
it come to this, that slavery is wherever the
laws of the Union are and is liberty conf
ned within prescribed limits TO skulk under
th1 protection of local laws?
The nationality OF slavery was one of the
articles of the Cincinnati platform, and now
that that rotten concern is to be the plank
and principle of the next administration. as
il is aud has been, of the present, we may
not wonder that the "pecular" has already
made its insidious advance into the territories,
unbidden and unresrained. Wsimust not
wonder since it goeth where it listeth to see
slavery in Nebraska, and ere long in the
other territories af the west We shall now
see which is national, freedom or slavery -
Burlington, Losoa, Ra'Okeye
WORTHY OF NoTE.-Since the peace of 1893
our territorial expansion has been uninterrup-
tedly progressing. We give tabular state.
ment, showing the data and amount of each
addition:
SO. MILES
1783-Area of the Union at Peace, 82O, $50
l8O3-Purchase OF Louisiana, 500, ,579
6l9-Acquisition of Florida, &c, $50
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