The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-07-22

and if it does not we know where to look for
him and that is on the Cincinnati Platform.
New could ask the Republican party after
all the hard names that Douglas has called them
by--ull his repeated charges of their inclination
TO marry with and buy negroes, all his dectara-
tions OF Black Republicauism-b the way we
are improving the black has got rubbed off-but
with with all that Ii he ba in1orsel by the Re.
publican votes where DO you stands Plainly
You stand ready saddled, bridled and harnesSed
and waiting TO be driven over into the slavery
extension camp Of the nation a voice" we
will hang ourselves first Just ready to be
driven over tied together in u lotto be driven
over every man with a rope around his neck, that
halter being held by Judge Douglas. That is
The question. IL Republican men have been in
earnest in what they have done, think they
had better not do IT, but | think that the Re-
publican party is made up Of those who, as far
us they eau peaceably, will oppose the extension
o. slavery, and who will hope for its ulumat
extiuction--who will believe If ii ceases TO
spread that it is in course of ultimate extinc
lion. II they believe it is wrong in graspiug
up the new lands of the settlement, and kee ping
them from the settlement OF the free white la
bofers, who want the land to bring up their
families upon; il they are in earnest. although
they may make a mistake, they will grow rest
less, aud time will come when they will come
again aud reorgauize if moi BY the same name
now has. 1t is better, then, to save the work
while it is begun. You have done the labor
maintain it--keep it. Ii men choose to serve
you, go with them but as you have made up
your organization upon principle, stand by it;
for, as surely God reins over you, aud has in
spired your mind, and given you a sense of pro-
priety, and continues to give you hope, so surel
you will ot last come buck again after your wan
dcrings. merely to do your work over again
Loud applause.I
We Were o(ten--more than once, at least
in the course of Judge Douglass speech last
night reminded that this government was made
for white menthst he believed that it was
made Tor white men Well that is putting it
in shape in which no one wants to deny it, but
the Judge then goes into his passion for drawing
interences that are not warranted. | protest,
now AMI forever, against that counterfeit logic
which preSumes that because | do not want
negro woman for slave, | do necessarily want
her for wife. Laughter and cheers. My uu-
ders,anding is that ! need not have her for either
but as God made us separate, we can leave one
another alone and do one another much good
Thereby. There are wEite mon enough to
marry all the white women, aud enough black
men to marry all the black women, and in
Gods name let them he So hurried. The Judge
regales US with the terrible enormit Ties that take
place by the mixture OF races ; that the inferior
race bears the superior down. Why, Judge, if
we will not let them get together in the Terri
tories they won't mix there. Immense ap-
plause.
A voice" Three cheers for Lincoln" TTho
cheers were given with hearty good will
Mr.. LincOlu--l should say at least that that
is seIf-evidrnt truth.
Now, it happens that we meet together once
every year, sometime about the 4th of July, for
some reason or other These 4th Of July gath
erings. suppose have their uses, Ii you will
lnduIg' me will state what suppose to be
soma of them.
We are mighty nation. we are thirty--or
about thirty miiiuns OF people, and we own and
inhobit ab1ut one-ffteenth part of the dry land
of the whole earth. We run our memory back
over the pages OF history for about eighty two
years, aud we discover that we were then
very small people IN point of numbers, vastly
inferior what We are now, with a vastly less eX
tent of country-with vastly less extent of
everything we deem desirable among men, we
look upon the change as exceedingly advantage
Gus to us aud to our posterity, and we fix upon
something that happened away back, MS in
some way or other b.ing connected with this
rise of prosperity We had "a race of men lv-
ing in that day whom we claim as our fathers
and grandathers; they were iron men they
fought for the prnci pie that they were contend
ing and we understand that by what they then
did 1t has followed that the degtee of prosperity
that we now enjoy has come to us. We hold
this annual celebration to remind ourselves of
the good done in process of time. of how it was
done and who did it, and how we are historically
connected with it and We go from these meet
ings in better humOr with ourselves-we feel
more attached the one to the other, and more
firmly bound to the country we inhabit. In
every way we are batter men in the age, and
race, and country in which we live for these
celebrations. But after we have done all this
we have not reached the whole. There was
something else connected with il. We have
besides these men-descended by blood from our
anceStors--among us perhaps half our people
who are mol descendants at all Of these men,
they are men who have come from Europe
German, Irish, French and Scandlnavian--men
that have come from Europe themselves or
whose ancestors have come hither and settled
here, finding themselves our equals in all things.
II they look back through this history TO trace
their connections with those days by blood, they
md they have none, they cannot carry them
selves back into that glorious epoch and make
themselves feel that they ara part of us, but
WHEN they look through that old D3claral ion Of
Independence, they ind that those Old men say
that We hold these truths to be sell-evident,
that all men are created equal" and then they
feel that this moral sentiment taught in that day
evidences their relation to- those men, that t is
the father of all moral principle in them and
that they have right TO claim it as though
they were blood of the blood, aud flesh Of the
flesh of the men who wrote tnat Declaration,
Cloud and long continued appause) and so they
are. That is the electric cord in that Declara-
tion that links the hearts of patriotic and liber.
ty-loying men together, that will link those
patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom
exists IN the minds of man throughout the world.
(Applause,)
Now, sirs, for the purpose of squuring things
with this idea Of" don't care if slavery is voted
up or down." for sustaining the Dred Scott de-
cision A voice" Hit him again for holding
that ths Declaration of Independence did not
mean anything at ALL we have Judge Douglas
giving his exposition of what the Declaration
of Independence means, and we have him say.
ing that the people of America were equal to
the people Of England, According to his con.
stguctloh, yoa Germans are not connected with