The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-05-21

notified TO come forward and give up their claim
His last opinion. il we may call il an opinion,
is to the effect that the pre-emptions along the
railroad lines are not valid. This falls like a
clap Of thunder on hun lreds all over our state.
and if his opinion is enforced, civil war will ex-
ist in Iowa. If it was just decision, the peo-
pie would submit, but the railroad companies
aye behind the Attorney General. They are the
throne, the poioer behind the throne, and it is
an unjust and tyrancal decision, and one that
cannot be executed without blood shed. A large
number of personswh pre-,mpted have received
duplicate of entry, calling for deed. and
according tothe late decision, their duplicates are
not worth straw. Shame on such vaseillatioa.
Cruelty to misunderstanding for Democrats
to Read.
Especial Correspondence of the Perrysburg Journal
greenfield, Mass, May IL, 1857.
FRIEND HIGGINs:-I herewith send you the
subjoiGed article, taken from the Gazette and
Courier, published at this place. 1t is worthy
the candid consideration of those democrats
who acted with the party from 1913 to 1852 in
Ohio. 1t is whitening condemnation of the
present Slave Democracy, an should convince
the honest and intelligent among them that
their place in the future is with the Republicans
who are zealously engaged in the cause of human
freedom, and il may BE- well TO hold it up as a
mirror before them where they may see how they
stand in the estimation of candid m"n beyond
the influence of our state politics--where such
matters are seen and discussed with more impair
tiality, than in the heat and excitement OF our
political campaign- where all are more or less
personally interested. therefore commend it to
the candid consideration of all who supported
the resolutions framed by democratic con-
vention, and re-adopted BY the Republican Leg
islature of last winter. Can those democrats
who supported those resolutions in 1869 be 9TH
er than Republicans .o-1ay7
Respectfully Yours.
"CRUELrY TO ANlMALs--We suspect there is
no law in Ohio to punish cruelty to animals
Mercy is growth of civilization and gra ce, and
is exhibited less in new countries and settle
ments, where human passions are allowed to
grow without training, like hair uncombed and
unsheared on the head, than in regions longer
subject TO cultivation in physics and morals-
And it is not surprising, perhaps, that it should
be so /; for men are too much hurried to subdue
the forests, exterminate wild beasts and other
NoiuhHNS, uuuaquccLt WCultii ilOW UUS-
| ON. to take time to be punctiliously imerciful.
And even when increased culture begins to rad
late the beams of love and mercy towards other
| beings, time is needed to perfect tn: work Of
| full i,luminat lion and development so that
where we expect to find benevoence in the full
ness of its magnifcence, we are sometimes dis
appointed. .a.
These remarks are suggested by a recent per-
petration in Ohio which seems 10 be as proper
ly classified under the head of cruelty to ami
mails" as any where.
| "The recent decision of the Supreme Court in
the Dred Scott case, aroused the friends of Free
dom everywhere to renewed declarations of sem
timent. The Legislature of Ohio felt called OH
to avouch its unabated attachment to the prin-
cirles of Liberty accordingly, just before its
| late adjournment, a ries of resolutions was ad-
opted by vote OF % to in the Senate, and 60
to "a IN the House. These resolutions deprecated
the existence of slavery as an immoralty and
a dangerous element in Ourinstitulions, contrary
to the spirit and principles of Liberty, and
opposed its furth extension. This was all very
good but the cruelty WAS here the resolutions
were copied verbatim from the reS0lUes tchich in
1850 and 1852 iUere adopted by the democrats of
that State as their platforms! And thus, the
democratic members of the Legislature must,
voting for what was thlir own platform five
years ago, array themselves against the admin
istration and condemn themselves for their pres
ent course or, by voting against them swallow
their own brave words, and confess themselves
TO be hypocrltes and ntional deceivers! II
was tight place. II reminds one of the def
milton of gout. siid to hive been given by a
sufferer from that complaint. Said he, 4" put
your finger in vice, aud screw it up-tight,
tight, TIGHT, till it becomes insupportabe, and
that is rheumatism now give the screw one
turn more, and that sgOm." So here; the screw
was turned to the Point OF compression pro-
dncinS tn govt, and what aggravatAs the act.
while the sufferer was screaming "Oh! 0hr-
th3 perpetrators only became the more merry
Aud it was ridiculous as well as painful
plight for thos' poor pro slavery democrats, hela
in agony hy vice OF their own making. But
| they should have rememb red that the man wne
invented the guilIotina, also died upon il !; and
should have b'en more shrewd ia theirhyBOenisy
than to have fIshi ued an instrument which
would so snon bacom' the means Of their own
tortur' Bat unprincipled m N will never cease
to set trapS for themselves