The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1860-01-26
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PEItRYSBU RG:
THURSDAY, JANUARY %, 1890.
M,utcrs In Congress.

VI htcrs tu Congress.
Another week has passed awav, and MS yet
there is no Speaker A fdw days ago. mem :
Der from Ohio moved the adoption Of the plu Z.
rality rule, and on that motion demanded the
previous question; but the Clerk, who Is whole
y subservicut to the wish, Of the disunionists
ruled that the motion was not in order On The
debate that grew out Of that ruling the fact
leaked out that some forty Of the dcnocr tic
secionists had bound themselves to resist, by ell
means in their power, the adoption OF the plu-
tulity rule, as also TO prevent the election OF any
republican as Speaker Yet these are the men
who give color aud tone to the assertion that
the republican party is the sectional party
party that would sever every tie which binds
these States ,ogcther--a party that would excite
the slave TO rch i against his master, and wouli
dclugc tn. fair face of the Southern States with
murder and rapine and robbery--a party upon
whose marching banner is inscribed Discord
Disunion and Friternal Warfare. All these
charges are wholly false, aud none know their
alsehu0l better than til so wolves in Sleeps
clothing, who, stationed on the outer wall to
guard against treochery and surprise, are them
selves traitors at heart; conniving at all evil to
accomplish their own selfish aud wicked putpos-
es, their whole purpose is disclosed in few
wolds; it is rule or ,uin"
The republican rariy love the Union, and the
whole Uniun--th" Uaiou us it was bought with
| their fathers blood aud sanclifed by their suf.
t'rings- the Union rs they formed aud left it.
! Tho a., ;,It tL,y H., tLup "a III.
propose to m,intan in the same unsulliel pur,-
ty and unchanged form in which it was trans.
mittcd to them by Washington and Adams and
J, lItrson and their associates
They rccogniz' the ,quliry and SOW reignty
of the States aud the right of each Slate to con
troll its own ,irs, free from any outside iu1u
cnce. They recognize the constitutional obga
lion imposed upon each State, in reference tC
the rights OF every other State aud its citizens
They rrcognz" that other earliest and best set
tied rule OF constitutional interpretations that
freedom is rational ,.ud slavery sectional: and
they condemn and lenouncc those who would
reverse that rule. and holi slavery national and
freedom sectional; aud they further msntain tho
power of Congress to carry the principal of tn,
nationality u freedom INTO all territories of lhes,
United States. Holding seadiast to hese prin
cipts the Republican members of the House
mrt and placed in nomination for Speaker Jons
SHERMAN, mOn we'll tried aud true No soon
CT was the n animation made than tn hittcrncs,
OF party tnCt IONS were arraycd against him. From
the hour that nomination was made down to th,
prcscnt, the whole time has been taken up,
not in voting, for less than a ballot a day ha
been taken,--bul in listening to threats of dis
union made by democratic members on the foo
of the llou" of Representatives.. Have the peo
pie Of the North fallen so low that they mus
crouch at the feet of these dsuuonstsp viii
democratic representatives of free constituen
cy at the North never regain tilhe OF their in
dependence? Is all their self rpspsc ct lost or is
simply NJ ,luid for the timer We trust that th
: day is not far distant when the dignity an
manhood Of the people of the North will be proT
erly represented on the floor Of Congress; an
, that they who so msrrpresont Northern prnci
a pies Snd Northern courage may De driven fro,
I the places they dshonor and that their vscpu
= seats shall he filled by those who truly reflect th
4 wishes OF those whom they profess to represent