The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-07-09
Plain Talk TO the Democracy
Emancipation and Negro Equality as
Viewed by John w, ForneY.

In the campaign that is about TO be opened
against the Administration and the war, power
uf emphasis is to be laid upon the empty accu-
sstion that the friends of Mr.. LincolI favor un-
conditional emancipation and negro equalty.--
Contemplate as this accusation q, il il frequent
" repeuted by men who, in their heated parti-
sanship, forget thai they aae intelligent and re-
sonahle beings. As usual, the name OF "Democ-
rtcy" is to he invoked as a cover 10 this arrsnt
demOgogueism. In other days, before the peo-
people Of the United States were educated by q
great var, which overturned old expectations
and destroy ed old theories, such ''divertisse-
ment" rs this might have passed credit. But,
unless our masses are indeed suuken into the
deepest slough Of ignorance, this attempt to Sc
duce them into wroog paths will be iearfnlly
aveUged. have very low estimate of the lead
e's who bulled and coaxed The myjority Of the
Democrats of Pennsylvania into the support of
Breckintidge in 1851, and who, with all the
rTaacheies and corrnptons of Buchanan revesl-
ed TO their eyes aud ears refused to denounce
these crimes. The bloody harvest of the seed
thus sown should admonsh them against snoth.
er experiment upon the supposed credulity of
the American people.
The men in the free States who advocate un.
conditional emancipation are very few in Nuns
hers. In the Republican p rty they do not num-
ber one in five hundred. There is not a traitor
any where who does know This to be trne even
as he repeats the reverse. As to negro coca ality.
still more conclusive reply might be m4de TO
this silly ftlsehood. The practicai anna gama-
tioniss are not in ,he free States. The most in
h'uated Abolition fanatic rarely carries his free
thought into free love. L. is only in The armos-
phere OF rebellion that negro equality, in it's
worst phase, has been accepted and illustrated.
The social distinction between the races of white
ard ack, in the tree States, is as broad and
clear as il is in England and France, where, in
the face OF laws that make no distinction ss TO
political right, the one preserves its relations
wholly independent of the other.
But why continue a reply To an argument not
even believed by those who make 4?
This war is productive of great aud new Issues
While iC adds to the responsibilities of the Ex-
ecutive, it reduces the reliance of the demagogue
upon popular ignorance, and to this extent re.
duces the weight OF these responsibilities. It
would have been worse for slavery if treason had
taken up arms ag Iinst Democratic instead of a
Republican administration. Then the ingrati-
tude of the shareholders would have heen more
keeuly ielt, aid more mercilessly punished. The
Democrats, who clamor for compromise now,
and are blind to the atrocities of the rehels, in
that event would have discarded every thing bat
the sword, and believed any hing but rebel hu-
manity. Dir. LncOln's administration ia doing
only what that of Mr.. Douglas would h We done,
aud less. had Douglas ben chosen President
Results have sadly proved that If Breckinridge
had been elected, four years would have found
the free States without a country save that which
was controlled nv the ins'i ution of aavery.-
The rebellion of 1851 2 is the voice of the devil
proelaiming that, in the event of the election of
Breckinridae in 1850, four yearg more would
have found US slave monarchy
These are plain lessons. They need no rheto-
ric to adorn and no witnesses TO confirm them.
They are facts, and facts letter than history.