The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-10-10
I11a and 1851.

Now that the fall election Is over IL can
no longer be charged, we presume, that VIC
are making huge cry for the Union cause
in order to distract the attention of the
people from tho local interests Of Wood
county We may premise, however, that
individuals who circulated this story knew
it to be false at the time.
A friend IN the South has sent us q paper, in
the interest of the rebel cause, which in
lengt thy article tries to make it appear thatthe
revolution of &c and the rebellion of 'Gl arc in
principle the samel This idea has also been
expressed by the Dayton Empire and other
papers of alike character, in Ohio. Now,
while we are willing to admit that the colo
nists rcbclled against their government, and
the sccessionists have rcvolted against
theirs, we can sec no moro similarity be-
tween the two than exists between a lamb
and an rhinocoros. Tho revolutionary war
of the early settlers, wogcd for liberty, had
it's glorious fruition in the very government
which the rebels arc seeking to destroy.
In establishing their government our ances-
tors made human freedom its foundation
and keystone, and it is this government the
rebels are trying to destroy, with view to
construct . new one, in which slavery shall
be the controlling element. Washington
and his compatriots undeniably fought only
pcrpctuatc and extend slavery. The rebels
talk much of their rights, but these are the
rights which arstocrats always clnim--
those Of dUninccring over interiors. The
right or wrong of slavery has nothing to do
with our present statement of the case;
what we insist on is the simple fact that in
the principles and spirit inspiring them, the
war Of the colonists aud that Of the seccs.
sionists are utterly and diamctrically y hostile
| to each other. How, indeed, could it posi-
| bly, be otherwise, when the rebels are war
ring against the very government which
our liberty loving fathers establishedH The
men of '7G made war because they were re.
! fused the right of sclI-governmcnt. Theil
war secured to them and their children this
right. Is it right? If not, the revolutions
AIRY fathers were wrong. But if it n right
what is ii except the right to govern, and
the justice of the government to popular
majortics? The fact demonstrates that it is
Il war against government of majorities--
against the only principle in which the self
government of any people is possible. On,
forcfathcrs rebcled in order to establish
republic, but the rebels are trying to sub
vert it. The former believed that popu
lar form of government would secure liber
ty to the citizen, but the rebels have discov
cred that the liberty they seek will ncvc
be conceded to them by the people. Tht
grievance of the colonsts was that the,
were not represented in the ruling power
The rebels do not complain on this point
for they admit that the slave states had
larger proportional representation in Con
grcss than the free states. During the his
tory of the country they have welded a con
trolling power in the government for NOR,
were transforming the Union into slav,
and cotton copartnership, did the othc
members of the firm seriously demonstrate
Notwithstanding the greater Difference pal,
them and the superior representation allow
cd them, when they find they can no longe
rule the nation, they rebel. The American
revolution was II war of the people agains
an aristocracy; but the southern rebellion
is the war of an aristocracy against the pee
pie, in the right of selt-government.