The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-02-27

OF superio- administration, greater security
o. the citizen. and greater freedom of the
press In addition to these indications of
a public chsracter, it viii DO remembered
that Mr.. Ru'sell, the Correspondent Of the
Lon Ion Tines, in letter date from Char.
lesion, last May, used this language,
"fhaye visited gr,,. many planters, and Ihave
tNlkcl freely and fully with them Every where
have foun the same desire to have prince Of the
royal family Of England to rule over MEM"
A recent number of the Ric6aqond Er.
dniaer betrays TITO same fact, when, yield.
ing its hopes of foreign war, it reminds
England that her failure TO strike the United
States now, will, for all shc can tell, allow
the rebels TO be overwhelmed by the de-
mocracy that threatens hcrself;" while il is
known that, as far hack as lS5O-5l. Mr..
Memminger, tho present rebel Secretary of
tie Treasury, said, in the Legislature of
South Carolina, that he had rather South
CTolna was attached TO the Government
of Great Britain, as she was previous TO the
Revolution, than TO remain o member of this
Union.
The purpose OF the rebellion is transpa.
rent. There is no doubt Us to its authors,
their objects means, AMI ends No rebel
lion WIS ever more gradually prepared, OF
there wero two First, the tariff, and, that
failing savcry--wcre greedily seized and
iugouiously handled. The means were in
dustriou ,ly gathered, massed, and fitted
The achievement wss, for fifty years, the
inspiration Of leagued traitors in high places.
To it all legislation was bent and every pol
icy subordnatcd. No legislation which
could not be tributary 10 this atrocious
scheme was, within twenty years. enacted
by Congress. Scarcely anything not tribu-
tary to il was, except in one bright hiatus,
recommended by the Executive. In its in.
tcrest, diplomacy revealed its valuable sc.
crets, the Treasury was robbed and bank
rupted, the Navy scattered to distant seas
and the Army through the wilderness arms
and warlike munitions were placed within
easy theft, aud even the majestic voice of
the law, when importuned in tho very hear
ing Of the master conspirators, refused to
utter its stern denunciatious of fragrant
treason.
This movement was not intended to cure
actual grievances. for they did not exist, and
IN the nature OF the Gaze could not, for
themselves had administered the Govern
mcut and at the moment Of secession but
one of the three branches was in hands
VIII ch could be consid .rcd at all unfriendly.
Neither could all apprehension of evil be
prcten led for, besides the mutations of
politics, from which they hal moro to hope
than fear, there wasno possibility of pow
er dangerous 10 their safety, or inimical to
their prosperity, obtaining within a gener-
alton control OF all branches of the Govern
mcnt. The movement was wholly without
justification, and was nothing more or less
than the desperate grasp of bold, ambitious,
and INSCRIPTIONS demagogues, who beliov
ed that they would obtain power more east
ly, WELD moro supremely, and hold itmore
continuously, III conrel lcracy more compact
and homogeneous, than they had done in the
Government which their fathers established.
Under the preteuse of oppression, actual or
appr1hended, under tho profession OF de-
votion to the interests of slavery, by the
skillful use of well-adjusted means, and
with the practical connivance of those then
administering the Government of the Union,
the movement was inaugurated, the early
and more embarrassing steps taken, mo.
lncntum obtained, and the cxperimen,
launched.