The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-10-07
\ spirited Portrait Of vallan-
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We clip the following portrait Of Clement
/. Na)audigham from that excellent aud
live newspaper that Indianapolis Gazette
Ehat it is q correct likeness, all who truly
know the convicted end would-5c Governor
Of Ohio. can not but acknowledge. 1t
would bc "a national calamity" indeed,
20 elect such y man Governor OF Ohio
1t there is what may TO truly denomi-
mated political scouudrcl in America, that
man is Clement l., Nalaudighatu He has
all thC qualities which go 20 maks up po.
litcal scouu3rcl. We know him we'll
know him like book" He is a mean
mau, any way YOU can take him. lie has
no moral integrity or principle; he don't
know what such feeling is. He looks
! Imtiu, lac acts mean, and we elways thought
when looking at hun that he ftlt mean.
/ We have heard him make number of
speeches, and have yet TO hear him make
[ the first one which was not devoted mainly
or almost exclusively to defense of him
self against assumed, supposed or imagin.
ary attacks upon him or his reputation"
to personal defense or to seltglorifca.
ton. He never advocated anT great moral.
social or political principle; lie don't know
what such a thing is. He is always abus
ing somebody, and generally because some.
body, as he says, has been abusing him.
lie never appeals to any thing but the low
est passions and feelings of his audience
'nua aIways trcs 20 make his bearers or
friends believe that he is prosecuted man,
that his political opponents are afraid OF
him and his popularity, and wish to pms
him down auA ont Cf the way. When he
talks Of any thing else, it is usually appeals
to the base passions and fears of the tx
II. 81. ,,1l h,,y
personal rights and liberties by the op-
.positc party, He never advocates any thing
alhrmativcly, but is always on the negative.
Hence this popularity with the ignorant, the
base, the corrupt and tho bollgcrent poI-
tons of community.
lie prJfcsscs great hclligcrent powers and
propcnsitjes, always talks about defending
himself, his principles and rights, and
about being ready to " die in the last ditch y
for those rights and the rights and liberties
of his friends and his party" and hence
the hu0cs, the roughs, the rowdics, and
the more ignorant part Ct the bellgcrent
Democracy, usually all go for him. He is
the ideal ota political demagoguc. There il
, no man in America that exceeds him, not
even Fernando Wood
IMt the leading and most prominent and
marked characteristic of the man is rasiig
nifty. 1t sticks out and shows itself in all
his looks and all he says and does. Aud
next to this il his cgotism or sclt.impor-
taucc. Add to all this that he is at heart a
, traitor, and YOU have some idea of tho man
! II there is II mean man, bad man, and a
traitor in America to-day, we believe that
C. l.. Nalandigham is first of all, that man
This il our candid solemn religious belief
, and we speak from actual knowledge OF the
man His election, should such thing be
possible, as Governor of the great State OF
' Ohio, would be national calamity, more to
c be deprecated than the capture of Wash
lington by the rebol armies, or the loss OF 1,
dozen great battles. We trust that God IL
; His mercy or His anger has no such aegrc-
:, dation and misfortune in store for our M
tive State or for the Nation.