The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-08-20
"THE SOBER SECOND THOUGHT, >,

THE Toledo Commercial says fully per-
suaded that those of our adopted citizens who
wisely have given heed to the misrepresentation
of the secret enemies of the government in regard
to of the effects of the war, will have reason,
when the record of history is made up, if they do
not before discover and renounce their error to de-
plore their infatuation, and to curse, with bitter
ness, those by whom they have been deceived
IL everything that has been said in regard to the
North being overrun with the blacks were true it
would afford justification palliation for hold
ing back or becoming luke-warm in the support of
the government in this hour of the country's peril
No man should be SO unpatriotic as to make it
condition of his services that his individual wishes
should be in any respect consulted, nor should he
permit any interest or consideration to interfere
with his paramount duty to his country. But so
far is it from being true that the success of the
tonal arms will have this effect, that their complete
and permanent triumph is the only means by
which it can be certainly prevented. Should the
traitors succeed in their design of effectng sep
aration, the northern States would become Cana
da, to which the blacks would fly for refuge or
should the rebel States b. readmitted with the in
stitution still in existence, the blacks who have al
ready gained their freedom from the war, and 9TH
ers who will necessarily do before il is conclud
ed, would flee to the North. But let the rebellion
be thoroughly suppressed, and that event be pre-
ceded by a complete and general emancipation, and
the blacks would as certainly remain in the more
congenial climate, while the greater part of those
in the north would emigrate to the southern States
Thus these measures - the suppression of the re-
bellion and emancipation - would not only protect
the northern States from the evil which is appre-
hended, but, within very short time, free them al
most entirely from the presence of the blacks.
1t is the nvowed purpose Of the leaders of the
rebellion, should they succeed in their mad enter
prise, TO dislranohise the foreigners. OF this we
have abundant evidence, in their own journals, in
the declarations of the leaders, and in the testimony
OF MIR. Russell, the well-known correspondent of the
London Times
The motive which will impel them to adopt this
policy isapparent. The immigration of foreigners
by the introduction of free labor is nnlcal to the
institution; therefore, they wish to prevent it, and
to that end they will deny the foreigner his po-
litical rights. Here he possesses them and always
will. He should be willing to fight, from first to
last, for the government which secures him these
privileges. BY this course, he will best maintain
his own rights and those of his countrymen who
are now in the disloyal States. We write freely
on this subject believing that in so doing, we are
better friend to adopted citizens than those who
have given them different advice. When they re-
fleet calmly upon this subject, giving to it the So
ber second thought" they will reject "evil coun-
sells" and resolve to fall behind none in their deyo-
ton OF services in the common cause.