The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-09-12
ISSUES or THE COMING CONTEST.

offices during the coming term. Although
the unity Of this Republic is no longer in
doubt, yet there are questions to be deter
mined, which, iu their influence on the fu
ture, are Of vitabconsequcncc. One qucs
tion is--Shall dominant aristocracy exist
or shall The inalicuablo right Of humanity bc
maintained
The case has been clearly stated hy Alox-
nnder IT, Stevens, in lis celebrated speech
at Savannah, on the 2lst of March, 1861
just three weeks previous to tho lombard.
ncut Of Fort Sumter. The following OK
tracts from Stevens speech are copied
from tho National hioRyoaocr, Of April 2,
! 1861
Jefferson in his forecast had anticipated
! slavery ps the rock upon which the old
| Uuiou would sllit lie was right. What
was conjecture with him. is realized fact.
| But whether hc fully comprchcnded the
! great truth upon which that great rock
stVOd aud stands, may be doubted. The
| prevailing ideas entertained by him and
most OF the leading statesmen ut the time
cl the formation of the oM COHsiitUti0H
Were, HU he eHSidremeM of Me african,
was m rioidtjOn of me lars of hJmdR ma.
| hVe; HW II rcs wroHg m pJ mcipie, mar
! ally, S0cidiy Wid politically. 1t was an
/ owl they know not well how to deal with;
! but the general opinion of the men Of that
day was, that some how or other, in the or
der of Providence the institution would be
cvanescent and pass away. This idea,
! though not Incorporated in the Constitution,
was the prev ,iling idea of the time. These
| ideas, hOIreBer, rerG Fundamentally iorORg.
THEY ,eStcd upoH the egWdtay Qf races,
! THIS mas an error. II was n sandy lOun
dation, and tho idea of a government built
upon it-whcn the storm came and the
wind blew, it feH
"0ur new government is founded upon
exactly the opposite ideas. It's foundations
are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the
great truth, that the negro is not equal to
the white man; that slavery subOTdinatiOn
10 the superior race IL his natural and nor
NAL condition. This, our ,sew G0ee,nmcu
is the frat in the history Of the world,
bnsctS upon this great physical philosoph-
iCal and moral truth"
The object aud intent OF the Confederate
rebels are stated by Mir Stevons without
hesitation, aud from the widespread organ
ization OF rebelionin the Slave States, the
thorough preparation they had made for
tie prosecution fwar; and the apparently
delenseloss condition in which the traitors
of IlucHANAN's Cabinet had placed the FREQ
States, MIR. STEVENS and his associates con-
lidcntly predicted the triumph of tho Con
Ccderacy.
All nj 90, I,, 4 TO Il
the utter failure of that traitor Government.
Based on such unjust principles, Mr.. Ste
vons corncr-stouc OF class subservioncy has
been ground to dust; and the whole super
structure resting upon 1t has been demol
ished, These consequences have resulted
Fl ON the fact, as viewed by tho fathers OF
| the Revolution, aud which is 81 forcibly
stated by Mr.. Stevens. in his speech Mt ga
vannah-that human slavery was in viola,
| ton Of natural laws; that morally, socially
aud politically it was wrong in principle.
With such testimony to Impress the mind
and with such results as have been elected
during the progress of tho late war, to in
spiro rosoluto action, is it not strange tha
there nro yet men among us who still cling
To tho logic of this "sun Of all vihinies.
Regarding ouly thoobiccts ofpolitical powc
and Office, the leaders of tho Democratic
party are now fostering those very princi
pies, which, ma developed in tho South
have cast a blot ON our civilizations dis
tmhed the tranquility of this Republic Gron
ils formation and culmiuatod in tho mos
terrible civil war of which thero is record
By these traitors in tho South, and thoi
domngoguo allies in the North, tho higl
character OF tho Democratic party has beer
debased; its bold advocacy, in past ti6le
of human rights and n free Republic, ha
merged into craven, sophistical sorviit
to tho supporters of human bondage an'
, oppression,
No man can read tho platforms of tn
: twin "pcmocracies of this State, wilhou
porcciving tho sectional paternity aud de
generacy OF the party. Tho lofty and out
spoken tone Of froe mon which once cha
acterSed the public expression of Demo
4 Gratis ip this State, has been dispaced b
, the tyraut's plea of might and prSudic,
| over Justice and right action, The OrgI
5 mcnts advanced 10y them are OF like kin
+ with those which ALgx. II. SrEvENs aud h
. coHfiereS have disseminated. The only di
ference exists in the fact that the stern rea
). itios OF war have taught SoUtte np0Hlicid
the tallacy OF such reasopings; in tho Mort
= nothing less than the overwhelming tide
public sentiment can oluvinco, In view
!. then, of tho spocdy and permanent sottl
mcut of tho diIdcultios which had nt0l
disrupted this Union, let every man of I'll
Union party fully discharge his duty as 4
American freeman at the ensuing eleotio
aud hy one grand, overwhelming effort, bu,
in oblivion this eScreseopce Of the Dem
cratic party, whose principles aud acts a
based only on evil aud oppression.
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Ex.GovERNoR David Tod, in his spooolr
Wooster nu the 18th, made n capital poi
l. whom he said tho Democratic Party OF Oh
. couldn't be trusted. lf il was in pow
- the national debt woult be in danger
X reputation, mlass linked with tho rob
Ne dcht.-nati, nal securities drcline--lnd il
tjoe would not be done the soldiers or So
diols' widows; consequently it was q
~ duty OF every patriot 70 stand 10y the Unt
=, Party.
,e Tho. steam marine OF New York has bo
a