The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-03-19


Harper'S Weekly, of the 18th inst, con-
tains a well written leader, which gives many
reasons why Kansas will be admitted as a
slave state. AS it is not a political journal,
its reasoning may be profitable to men of all
parties. After referring to the geographical
position of Kansas--to the equilibrium Of
states-and to the middle-g :ound position Of
Gov. Geary, the writer says;
In this state of things, what is the &C.
ton What has been done The legisla-
ture passes bill for calling convention to
form a state constitution early this summer.
Gov. Geary vetoes the Act. The legislature
passes the law over his head, and, it is said,
by unanimous vote. Now, taking the facts
that the legislature is pro slavery, that the
governor is Northern and a moderate man,
and that time tends directly to strengthen the
hands of the free state party-it is reasona-
bly, to be inferred that the legislature thought
the chance of making the state slave state
depended on immediate action, and that the
governor desired to defeat this immediate ac-
ton with view of preventing the result. In
this skrmish the governor has been defeated /;
the legislature has won the first move, and
the convention is called, in the way and at
the time at which it was, for the purpose of
giving the state Slave Constitution. Will
this purpose be successful?
All the organization is in the hands Of the
pro-slavery party. The Judges or Inspectors
of election are appo nted by the people who
desire Kansas to be slave state. We all
know the immense power that this gives the
party that holds it in an electoral contest. 1t
is quite sufficient to turn a small minority in
to handsome majority. Add to this fact,
that the borders Of Missouri are close at hand;
that illegal voting is thing at least as well
understood in Lawrence as in our own high
ly-civilized metropolis and we see strong
reasons for believing that the election for
members of the convention will result in the
selection of a majority every way pledged to
make constitution for Kansas, recognizing
and permitting the form Of negro-labor which
we call slavery.
II this be reasonable presumption, it is
folly not to admit it at once-to admit it man
fully. 1t is worse than folly for the North.
ern presses-whethcr of the ultra-D emocrat
ic Conservative school--to attempt to keepup
any deluson on the subject. Better far to
admit the coming future-to anticipate it, to
look olt for it, to prepare for it-than to poke
our heads, like ostriches, in the sand wrap
us in delightful deluSion, only to be woke
up some direful day as by u thunder bolt
We assert, therefore, without aspiring to any
reputation as seers, sages, or prophets, that
the reasonable probability is that Kansas will
form a slaveholding constitution and that,
in December next, her senators and repre-
sentatives will demand admission into the
Legislative Halls of Washington, under a
fundamental law as strictly and striugently
slavthoding as that of South Carolina or Ar
kansas. And if we are right in this assump-
ton, we make bold to add that the sooner the
guides or followers of opinion Ito whichever
title they aspire or are entitled) at the North
prepare the public mind for this finale, the
better it will be for the peace and tranquility
of the country"