The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-08-17

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been heaped upon him by direct charges
and by most cowardly inuondoes. Iii,
speech will not soon be forgotten by few
who received some wholesome and merited
home thrusts.
Demands wero then made for the with
drawal Of the resolution by the Committee
Every member Of that Committee. with the
single exception Of lie Chairman, earnestly
desired and demanded permission to with.
draw il. But The Chairman of the Con.
vcution clearly manifested his determine.
tion to override every principle Of deco.
rum and parliamentary rule, by insisting
that the Committee had no further control
over the matter, and that a motion had boon
made and seconded that the resolution be
passed, and determined to put this motion
instead OF tho one TO reject. We did not
hear such n motion made, but admitting
that II was made, lie exhibited but little
grace, and less knowledge of parliamentary
usage in his indecorous persistence in
putting main question in precedence to
all Nmendatory one. If there was ainotion
Tor its passage, then tho motion for its re.
lection was clearly an amendment and as
snch took the precedence. No one, acquaint.
ed with parliamentary usage, will dispute
this. The question was put upon the lass
age of tho resolution. A few feeble ayes
were the response, followed by an over.
wheming chorus Of noes. Yet, in spite Of
this the Chairman decided The resolution
tied! We never witnessed more dcl,b-
crate aud persistent attempt, on tho part
of any presiding officer to over.rulc the
expressed voice of q Convention. Dc
mands wero renewed for withdrawal of
the resolution, appeals were made for
division, appeals from the decision of the
Chair-but this immaculate presiding officer
was deaf to all appeal, declared motion
te adjourn would be in order and would
have thus dispersed the Convention, had
not Colonel SnANYoS-probably with
wholesome regard for The storm of indigna,
ton that had been aroused-united his
voice in the demand for division. Then,
and hot until then, did the Chairman accede
to the demand, division was had, and by
vote of three to one, the resolution was
rejected, aud the course of the editor OF
the Perrysburg Journal triumphantly vim
dicued.
We have thus givcns brief and impartial
resume of the action of tho Convention
upon the mendacous resolution introduced. |
All the members of that Committee, except |
its Chairman, wo exculpnte from any intent
to injuro the JOURNAL or malign us rs a
journalist, We know how it was devised
aud maturcd by him at least day or
two previous to tho Convention, for he
spoke to certain party the day before,
with reference to tho propriety Of intro
ducing such resolution, and was advised
not to oit. IIo was determined, however
to carry out his malign purpose, and with
all his energy he urged resolutions upon the
Committee even more obnoxious in language
and spirit than the one reported. We
can regard tho introduction of the resolu.
ton in no other light than that of direct
public assault, intended to cast odium upon
our character and business as journalist. |
That was its wicked and malignant intent.
1t was a puerie attempt to curb the free.
dom of the press, and paralyze our iunu-
enco as an Independent journalist.
p II will require, however, several more
Charmeu, both Of Committees and Conven.
tions, to iutimidate or cause us to swerve
from the right. We shall go straight for.
ward, in what, in our humble Judgment
we conceive to be our strict line of duty,
regardless Of fear or favor, unawed by any
man, clique, juuto, OF cabal, In the
curse hitherto pursued by tho JoURNAr., we
have endeavored, to the best of our ability, |
to promote the interests of the great Union
party, believing as we do, that that party |
which has 80 triumphantly preserved the |
existence aud integrity of tho Republic
against the armed hosts of Treason aud Re. |
bellon, is the party to whom can be on.
trusted its preservation in future. In the
great issue between the President and
Congress-, We have deemed it of paramount
Importance that Congress be sustained and
that its sustenanoe rests in tho unity, |
integrity and fealty of the Union party.
To this end we have labored faithfully TO
secure the nomination in this District, for
Representative in Congress, of man upon
whom we thought the strength of the party
could bo moro thoroughly united than upon
any other. We wanted the strongest Union
maN placed in nomination that could be
selected. For this reason we urged the
claims OF General PArRcK $. SLEvIN, as a man
of unswerving integrity of incorruptible
honesty, aud whose record as q soldier is
Of the most spesess character. Because
we thus desired to unite the eLtire strength
! of the party upon one man, who would have
carried, not only his own party strength,
but would have secured the votes of many
Democrats, aud thus placed the interests
and principles Of the Uuon party beyond
the possibility of defeat-because we have
labored TO secure this, We are TO be placed
under the ban Of the Union party in the
County and District. This has beeG the
head aud front Of our Offending nothing
more.
Our future course shall bo in conformity
with the past Tho JOURNAL has repeat,
edly announced that it's support would be