The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-08-15


financial point of view. II would be the best
investment the American people ever made.
If the Government falls, what becomes Of
the value Of property? What becomes Of
commerce. of pupicand private institutions
and pro 9perity Of cvery kind?
Tho folly Of the man who refuses TO sus-
tain the Government because IT will cost .
largo sum Of money TO do so, is only c1ualed
by him who should refuse to purchase
necessary food because il is expensive and
voluntarily sarvcs himself to death in order
that lac may live to enjoy u large fortune.
financially considered, secession is the
greatest misfortune that could bcral ua-
ton, and especially the people Of these
Western Statos. The Mississippi river
would become the property Of u foreign
Government, and we should hc cut of from
any outlet to tho Cult except upon such
terms as should be graciously vouchsafed
10 us Ivy the traitora now in arus.
The manufactures and agricultural pro-
ductions Of Indiana would not be allowed
TO float down the Mississippi river TO find a
market, except on compliance with the con-
ditions and payment Of tho duties prescrib-
cd by the Dictatorship at Richmond. The
Revolutionary War is estimated TO have
cost two hundred millions Of dollars. How
ranch caster would it have been to have
paid the little duty OF three pence pound
upon tea. And can you doubt that the mon
who now urge the cost OF this war as an
objection 10 il, would, for the Same reason.
have objected TO the Revolution, had they
lived during that period
COMPROMISE.
But It is said that this war might have
been avoided by u compromise, and could
now hc settled by a compromise. While we
were babblng of compromise last winter,
the traitors wcrc stealing arms, plundcring
mints, investing iurtrcssnS, and mnrshaIing
armies into the field. What is there to com
promise now but the integrity Of the Union
and the existence of the GovCramcni? Do
The traitors offer to MS any compromise! No.
On the contrary their utimalWn is the de-
slruG.on Of the Constitution and the Union.
But how would these mon 90 about prOpOs-
ing a compromise to any enemy who has
an hundred thousand mon in the field, and
who gOits in the nations face whenever the
word ia mcntioucd who declares that Seces-
sion and .disunion arc the glorious c0nsum-
nation Of the toll and travail Of more than
thirty years who allirms that the free insti-
buttons at the North arc a failure; that the
only true foundation for Government is
African slavery, and that the lahoring classes
of the North are s'rlB ard vassals beneath
The mental and moral dignity Of the slave
upon the plantation.
IT is now well known that the Secession
movement was iuauguratcd as early as S29.
It's first effort at the destruction Of the Gov
crnmcni was made in 1888, in the nullilica-
lion movement in South Carolina, based
QS'GhS'oi3 upon Ilc G'lin 'llioS.lo.i n.''' Hen
'''h9pi' ''lon IVu'I'.o '''S t'.T i.'sv o',o'
Wo"'h pe Ic'"v''0,' "l'',l '''o '''s ,,GIii GioI
t,,"h anu INC pcoPncr1 mus uco' l"'',l'ov
from ,'' '''' l"I "'I" ''gCv3''o, i'''a Go,'
htP' NY ui'u'I t'i' @ u '''"
l,!,t ct states hS'lS' "' GtI uV"e tIi,, H,;
ii t;,n
or r,ilJ cnr,nrn,nigc ,,l,2trr KIT | tell
YOU. No! The only cure for the cancer is
the knife You must cut ont thc gaugrcnod
and rotten parts; and extract the very root
of HE dcvoring ulcer. Compromises root
and herbs arc of no avail in a case like this.
TIE Southern Commissioners sent to WASH
ington last spring offered no compromise,
and would listen 10 none. THOR naughty
and trajtoruuS demand was that we should
consent to the dissolution OF the Union, and
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF the Government.
They said II lhiS Government would write
its name upon blank piece OF paper and
laliow them to write over ii tho conditions
upon which they would compromise this
difficulty and roturn the Union they had
none to write.
\ proposition to compromise now is sim
Iply proposition to surrender, and the mal
who makes it, disguise it rs hc may, means