The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-02-26
A Violent Dem ocracy--No. 4.

spirit of reckless determination to rule or ru-
in 10 such an extent as 10 greatly alarm the
lovers Of republican liberty. When in office,
all regard for law, justice. and right, must be
subservient to the a)l.rowerful demands Of
party ssd Pariizans. The peoples money is
used under pretence of official authority for
purposes the most unlawful and the least war.
ranted BY the interests Of the people. Par
" euds and party men never cry aloud for
aid, but party officials can le found ready to
rob the peoples money from their treasury
to meet the demand. But we designed in
this article rather to show their persistence in
known and acknowledg social and political
wrongs, than to expose the unbridled corrup-
sion which has characterized their financial
operations for few years past
Let us commence this panoramic scene Of
violence, with the existing state of affairs in
Kansas. HIRE We have the strange specta-
Gle presented, of legislative body, which is
universally acknowledged to have been elect
ed by fraud and violence, in defiance of the
will Of the people, citing with the semblance
OF authority recognized by the government
OF the United States, through its officers, as
aproper law making body, and projected by
the government arms. No sane man in the
country, has SO little regard for his character
for intelligence and veracity, as not TO admit
that the Legislative body now sitting in Kan
sas, sits in defiance Of law, justice and right.
Democratic members of the United States
Senate have publicly acknowledged this, and
characterized its acts as barbarous, anti re-
publican, unconstitutional, and infamous !;
and Steadman, the great belI-wether of the
Northwest, publicly declared in this place
Mat II he we're in Kansas be would resist the
suthonty OF the bogus legislature to the last.
Acknowledging all Of these facts, as the dem
ocrstic party does, is it not strange that they
not only permit it to sit, draw pay, enact laws,
but even endorse those laws by the sigma
tune Of their agent, the Governor of Kansas
Territory?
This mob legislative body is now en-.
gagged in enacting laws, the design of which
are kAown to be the defeat of the wishes of
the people of the territory. They are di,i
ding Kansas into districts for the election of
a constitutional convention, and from the
best information we can gather, every pro.
slavery district in the territory will possess
vast advantages over free state Districts
Less than one hundred pro.slavery men can
send delegate TO that convention, while five
hundred free state men can do no more Thus
the will OF the majority is sought to be de-
fested, and the violence which has character
ICED the modern democratic government Ct
that territory since democratic Vice Presi-
dent resigned his office to attend 10 Kansas
affairs, is to be used, under the protection Of
a democratic administration, to force slavery
into il. True, the free state men have re-
solved not to regard the acts of this mol
assembly, and will not send delegates tc
the constitutional convention, but who can
cay that anything short of civil war will set
tie the validity of their acts, after witnessing
the acts of the United States Senate, and the
trucking subservieney of the northern mod
ern democratic pro-savery wax politicians /?
Free state men will spill their blood rather
than submit to be robbed of their Just con-
stitu.ional rights, and when the violent rule
of the present demagogue politicians drives
them to this extremity, our word for it, the
question Of slavery will never again agitate
the minds of thei American people. Kansas
will not only be made free state, but not a
stain Of the foul curse will be left to blot the
fair surface of Americas free soil.
Nay, more even Judge Lecompte, who
has gone to such great extremes that the elias
tic nature of President Pierce could not follow
him, is sustained by the democi attic United
States Senate, and not democrat in all the
country dares to raise voice in condemna-
ton. Not democratic paper in all the coun-
try, north of a certain boundary line, has the
manly courage and honesty TO even inform its
readers of this important act on the part of
the Senate. The democratic administration
is thus used by osavery men or trampled
under th,ir feet At pleasure, while northern
democratic dough-faces cliDge, fawn. and do
thier bidding on all occasions, and not north
ern democrat, from the leaders down to a
hopeful louuger about some twopeny post Of
Gee, dares to raise dissenting voice. These
are facts, known to every intelligent person,
and their Importance demand the serious, can
did. unbiased attention of every well-wisher
of lis country.
EE We are in receipt Of two Rascalty
Reports, for which we are indebted to Hons.
u d. Peck and w. S. Lunt. One is quite