Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-05-26
The Real Issue.

THE Mobile Register, which, after fierce
ly upholding human slavery as the corner
stone of free institutions, and struggling
to the last to overthrow mild and equable
government which promised to curtail in
in the Territories of the United States the
precious right of the Southern gentleman
of selling at the auction-block the mother
of his colored children, with her offspring
which cherished a system that was the
degradation of slave and stakeholder to-
gether, and the foul stencil and disgrace
of the American name-which was utterly
foiled in its hope of destroying the Con-
stitution and Government of the Republic
of the United States, to rear upon its ruins
an empire of slavery--nOw begs its Demo-
cratic friends and allies not to oppose the
wonderful institution known as Tam
many, but to turn all their guns ION the
Jacobin tyrant who sits enthroned at
Washington to the terror of all patriots,
and to the peril of free government" This
is its description of the modest and honest
soldier who finally frustrated the plans of
the Mobile Register and its fellow rebels,
and who, by the will of the loyal and intel
ligent friends of the Union and of equal
liberty-who are great majority of the
American peoples to-day in very truth,
and to the Joy of every honest believer in
equal rights, "the terror" of such patriots
as the Mobile Register, and "the peril of
the freedom of the Ku-Klux, the Mobile
Registers friends.
The precise feeling of the Southern
element of their party, upon which the
Democratic leaders rely for success, is
shown in the ardent appeals of the Reg
lister for harmony Its one fond remem-
brance is the rebellion. Its one passionate
hope is the destruction of the results of
the Union victory. All its illustrations
spring instinctively from its most familiar
associations. Be friends be friends it
cries to its allies. Don't underate the
power of Tammany. "Tammany is the
right bower of the Democratic strength.
We fire no shots into Tammany
while it stands bulwark of strength, an
adamantine wall, betwixt the Empire State
and the Jacobin traitor to the constitution
of his country, What could haze been
thought Of Lees men firing into StOnetOaH
JdckSon'S BLucIter corps aolten 10 came uD 30
sioeep the 0rdy-eOdtS on 10 Utct0ry on the
CltjckdhOmiRy?. :. The Democratic press
and politicians would do far better to inf.
tate Tammany than in making war
upon this StontioaN s0tag Of the grand Dem
ocrdttc party"
This is no insignificant newspaper. nor
uncertain sound. 1t is the voice of what
Democratic authority calls the most in.
tiuential journal now published in the
State" Americans Republicans! it is
with the same old rebel cries and aims il
is by gladly and proudly identifying itself
with the lost cause that the Democratic
party enters upon the Presidential cam.
paign. We appeal to every intelligent
man Of every party in the land, what ad.
vantage to the peace and prosperity of the
country can be hoped from its success ?
The policy OF disturbing the settlements is
the only policy it proposes. Those who
demand it are those who have always dom
mated the party, who will contemptuous.
ly leave 10 Tammany and its lackeys the
plunder which they desire, and to whom
Tammany and its lackeys will be absolute,
ly subservient. Its voice." saws the
World, speaking of the Mobile Register,