The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1861-02-14


mendable and perfectly satisfactory 1t is
gratifying to me to see that the proper spirit
"a spirit Of fraternal kindness. OF concilia.
tion and atfection--is adopted by so large a
portion Of my fellow clixens of the State to
which belong. ... .... ..
ADVICE TO THE PHILApKLPHIANs.
have asked them also, in return for per /.
forming my duy on this occasion, that, when
they have arrived at home. they will act in
the same spirit. and manifest their de-
votion to the Union, above all other interests
and all other sentiments, by speaking for the
Union, by vot;ag for the Union, and. If it shall
be demanded, by lending and even giving
their money for the Union, and fighting in
the last resort for the Uniou--taking care
always that speaking goes before voting, vot-
ing goes before giving money, and all go be-
fore blltle, which should regard as dan
gerous, and therefore the last, as it would be
the most painful measure to be resorted to for
the salvation of the Union.
HOPE FOR SERENER DAYS.
This is the spirit in which | h I'VE deter
mined myself to come up to this great ques-
ton and pass through it-for although this
great controversy has not been already set.
tied. do not, therefore, any the less calou-
late upon and hope and expect that it will be
peacefully settled and Sc tied for the Union,
| have not been so rash as to expect that in
the sixty days which have been allowed TO
this term of Congress, this great controversy
would certaialy be adjusted, peace restored,
and the Union firmly established.
THE DARK DAYS OF THE REpupLIc.
know, sir. that these sixt days or ninety
days were fixed for definite objects and pur-
poses, by that portion of my fellow cidzens
who have thought i; would consult the inter
ests of the States to which they belonged, to
dissev1r the Union. have not expected that
reason and Judgment would )me back to the
people and become so pervading so universal
in that time, as that they would appreciate
the danger and be able to agree on the rem
edies. Still have been willing that it should
be tried, though unsuccessful. But my conf
dence has remained the same, for the simple
IT ason that as | have not believed that the
passion and frenzy Of the hour could over
Iurn this great fabric of constitutional liberty,
this empire, in ninety days so | have felt
that there would be time, even after the ex-
piration Of the ninety days, for the restoration
of all that has been lost, and for the re eestab,
'ishment Of all that was in danger.
SURVEY OF INTERESTS.
A great many and very various interests
and elements were brought into conflict by
this sudden crisis. There were great many
personal ambitions and great many section
al interests and it would be strange if they
would all be accommodated, arranged and
made harmonious, SO as to admit and give
full effect to one of the profouudest, strongest
and most enduring sentiments or passions for
the United States that of devotion to the
Union. These, whether you call them se-
cession or revolution on TIE one side, or CO.
ercon or defiance on the other, are all to sub
side and pass away before the Union is to
become the grand absorbing object ofinterest
affection and duty upon the part Of the citizens
of the United States.
POLITICIANS IN DANGER.
A great many partisan interests are to be
suppressed, such as the partisan interests ex-
pressed by the Charleston Platform, the Bal.
timore Platform and the Chicago Platform.
If the Union is in danger and is to be saved,
these intererests, and these platforms. and
everybody standing on them, or connected
with them, are to pass away, before the
Union can be saved. But it will require a
very short time, if this Union is in danger and
does require to be saved for all these interests
and all these platforms, and these men to
disappear. You, and everybody who shall
oppose, resist, or stand in the way of the pre-
servarion of this Union, will appear as moths
on summer eve, when the whirlwind o
popular indignation arises that shall be excit
ed at the full discovery that the Union is
endangert red.
QUESTION OF THE TERRITORIES.
have hope and confidence that this is to
come around Just as have said, aud quite
soon enough; because perceive that although
we may shut our eyes to it, that tho cou TRY
and mankind can't shut their eyes to the tue
nature of this crisis. There has been a ques
ton of slavery in the territories Of real, Vi
tai nature, in this country for twelve years
1t was the strongest in lis development in
1850, when all the Pacific coast, and all the
territory intervening between it and the Lou
isiana Purchase. was thrown upon our hands
all of a sudden, for the purpose of organizing
them into free and independent republican
Governments, as basis offuure States.
ADMISSION OF KANSAS.
1t has been an earnest, and | regrest to
say, an angry controversy, but tie admission
of Kansas into the Union yesterday, settled
at least all that was vital or important in the
question, leaving b hind nothing but the pas.
sions which the contest had engendered,--
Kansas is in the Union, California and Ore
gon are in The Union, and now the same con,
test divides and dstracts this Union for free
dom and slaveryin in the territories of the Uni
ted States, just as before.
TwESTY-FOUR EaBRYo STATES IN THE rERRIToRIEs
What is the extent of the territories which
remain after the admission of Minnesota, Or
egon, California and Kansas One million
sixty y-three thousand FIVE hundred square
miles-au area twentyfour times that Of the
State OF New York, the largest OF the old and
fully developed States. Twenty -four such