The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-08-16

ar lent the generous, and the Just. kgita
| lion will ensue. then strife, retaliation
| hntlly Blows. II is in vain to deprecate il
--impcssiOle to prevent il. Either justice
or this will come
Ii the latter with what end : A conflict
arising from injustice persisted in by the
States Of the North, and retaliation sor this
cause on the part Of the South, can have no
doubtful issue. The bitter resentments OF
the Southern, whites for past discontinue
are unappeased and implacabe genera
tiOn honea will find them only elumhering
With these passions ranking for revenge
and only glad to have some pretext for fu
ture revolt with the affection OF the South
ern Black, aleuated by our persistent inius.
TO his race; with a powerful auxiliary made
enemies, il not aliens by exclusion, in our
midst with the profound sympathy Of the
just Mt home, and the generous abroad, en-.
listed in his cause, a divided North aud q
united South is the inevitable result. Ma.
tional rupture, or impai tal Justice, is, there
fore, the alternative which the future holds
in reserve for us.
ENFRANCHIsEMENr INEyrTABLE
But do not believe that rupture will
come. The ship of Union is freighted with
the hopes and interests Of too nmany mil
lions to be foundered by IFS crew Upon q
shoal so patent, so easily aud so safely to
he avoided. But enlranohisement will coMe
The North will conform it's policy TO the
rule of citizenship in tho South. To this
it will be compelled by the force of public
opinion ard considerations of political no.
cessity. With impartial suffrage firmly es.
tablished in the South, as it will be, no 10
lihcal organization can permanently main
tain national existence in the opposition.
Such an organization will be as powerless
in Sonth Carolina or Georgia. as would q
pro-slavery party in Massachusetts. Polit.
ical considerations vii thsrefOie ultimately
drive all parties into the support of'impat
tiAl citizenship. Negro acknowledgements
Justice TO the African race, finding root in
the soil where his shuckles fell will sweep
back with resistless force upon the border
aud Northern s tates and raise above them
one common standard of universal manhood
. In this DIRECTION the tide is set. You may
ldeprecato agitation. 1t is but the incident
e of accumulated opinion, as its torrent
breaks through tho dixie and levee of pre-.
iudice which in vain seek to conhne il. You
may obstruotits current but the gathering
flood will overleap the barriers, and sweep
to its destination. 1t may mot be reached
this year or this decade ; but il will be
reached. Kentucky may for a while inter.
pose the resentment of her pride but Ken
lucky will yield. Maryland may for u sea.
son continue to manifest her spiteful impo.
tence but'say to Mary yland, Cease viper,
you gnaw a file" Ohio may repose yet
longer in her obstinate inertin but the tide
will sweep her iuto the wake if she refuses
TO take the van. Her attitude is one of pro-
found interest aud delicate responsibility
She may, by her action Of this year, bury
the African out of sight in the bosom OF i'm
partial Justice, or she may prolong agitation
by the rejection of his appeal. II she pro-
nonnoe favor, it will go far to secure the
acquesoense of that malignant hostility yet
lingering in the South, Invoking for its re-
slraint rho presence of military power. Il II
she pronounce against him, itywill operate
as the g not vote man or a dollar" greet
ing. Of "tw q hundred thousand Democrats
to their brethren in the Snuth,' which en-
couraged sh IN to the madness of hazarding
lOrae against the ineXorable decree oil ulii-
mate emancipation. ,A rs e, riea
a7o' outO's DUTY.
Will Ohio adopt the latter policy? Will
she close lier eyes to those shadows OF the
future which arc the forecast of coming
events Will she read the handwriting on
the wall, and refuse to accept its interpreta
tiouP What can she hope from il? She
cannot delay their coming. Size cannot
forever stand outagainSt immutabe justice,
and the fiat of destiny. She may prolong
the agitation for impartial suffrage; but she
can only suppress it by it's triumph in the
aud. Shemay lend the encouragement of an
example, to the refractory spirit
of opposition in the South, embarrassing
on the basis of enfranchise
ment, and prol0nging the neoessity for it's
military occupation; but it will be recon
structed ON that basis. She may aliehate
the affection and exasperate the resentment
Of race struggling up to better fate, to
which she owes nothing but gratitude for
it's past fidelity and devotion of its alegi.
anoe to her cause but she cannot beat il
down. She may, by the fatal mistake of
attempting to ignore the logic of events
kindred to that which brought emancipation
from a baptism of fire, subject herself to tho
alternative of accepting enfraD-
chisemeht in the throes of dissension but
she cannot defeat the results of that logic.
win Ohio, then, adopt course so possible
of evil, so impossible of goodH Surely, it
is not the part of wise craftsmanship to
pursue policy calculated to prolong agita
ton, engender strife and endanger the pub
lie tranquility. Better, far, conserve the
good will Of all the races in all the States
with which her destiny is linked Better,
a thousand times, be generous by choice in
Che beginning, than reluctantly just by COM
pplson in the end.
1t is not question Of political strategy,
urged for tue mere purpose of partizan sue.
cess; the demagogue Gators to, rather than
popular prejudicesLthe cause of
the despised' Nazarene found fewsupporters
among the political PaganS ofhis day. 1t
s not question of taste If it were. it
night be permanently put at rest by au ad
verse decision. 1t is not a question of
distract regard for the negro, as such
ipartfrom his rights as man, aud his rela-
ions to government il it were, the judg-
nent would be against him. s,r,-ta tr.
Itis1a question oi'immutable justice--of.
public gratitude--of inexorabls necessity,
INVOLVING in its ultimate SO luton the con
ervatipD of national tranquility, national
unity, the nations life. Choose sc, then,
he alternative,
Politics of fOhlO-POsitiOn OF the
Democratic Party. II
Another election is near In Ohio which