The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-12-17
A BrORdside.

The Philadelphia Pass, Col. Forney's paper.
opens very severe broadside against the UNION,
aud is evidently in earnest. OF course it takes
care to save the person of the President but it
severely denounces the attempt of the central or
gan to COMMIT THE DBMoCRArlc PARTY TO THE Doc
fRTNR OF INTRODUCING SLAVERY INTO ALL THE FREE
STATES, which squints very directly towards cen.
sure of the President for the New Haven letter.
The following clip from the Pass of Friday will
be read with interest
0nr able contemporaries have not forgotten that
after Governor Walker had exposed the criminal
frauds in Oxford aud MGhee when the fire eat
ers and extremists were hunting him down like a
felon when all honest men were applauding h i'm
for his courage and integrity, the Washington
UNIoN had not word to say in his support. 1t
was as silent as death, and dared not so much as
raise whisper for the gallant statesman absent
from his family and his friends, fighting against
as graceless set of trcksters al ever lived. Tho
UNION waited like a cautious politician, till the
hour came when it could take ven geance on those
who stood by Gov. Walker in that crisis And
we, thank God I've were among the first TO do
So and SO receive the first stab
But, more than this. " lille Governor Wal
ker was still absent, and nothing was yet known
of his actions on the Calhoun contrvauce, the
UNION in an editorial ecstacy that would not have
been an inappropriate picture of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence. eulogseI the mi
nority Convention at Lecompton, applauded the
doings as wise aud sagacIous, and sJate,maniikr,
and then proceeded to present the Calhoun Con
stitutlou to the democracy of the free states
to swallow, failing in which, they were to
be handed over to the abOlltionists. A few
days after this most deectIbie piece Of editorial
sgIIity, Gov. Walker made his Appearance, and
took exactly opposite ground to the UNION the
ground, indeed, occupied oy the entire Lody of
the Democracy of the North. Indignant at this, its
most pIteable dilema, and desperate at the scorn-
ful independence of those Democrats who will
not be dragooHed by any into submission to
confessed wrong, much less by 50 awkward a drill
surgeon as the UNION, it has lost its patience, and
Attempts to intmdate with an infauJlle vig0r truly
dismal to behold
We have only to say, finally to the Washington
USIoS, that We despise aud reject its censorship.
" hen 1t speaks of Abolition sympathIss, it
should look closely to its own household. We de-
fend great principle. We oppose no slave states
fairly made. We resist wrong and fraud, whether
existing for or against the South. We stand BY
the anthOr of the Nebraska bill. Is he an aboll-
tionst We stand by the Governor of Kansas. Is
he a dlsOrganIEer. We follow the public opinion
that elected James Buchanan. 1t was not false in
lS5b-Is Is not false now. Supported by such au-
thorities We can afford 10 look down wish Inetfa.
BILE contempt upon a newspaper which, ike ON
Thumb before an audience OF Iull grown men, I'M
aglues himself a King, when he 10 ouly the pup
peL of a set of grasplng Ipoculatots.