Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-30


We have before usa copy of the remon-
STRANGE which our Bowling Green friends
have been circulating so industriously
throughout the county for the past two
months, and which they claim have been
signed extensively. 1t may be matter
of ONE interest to our readers through
out the county to know just what that
remonstrance amounts to when closely
scrutlnized. q
1t represents first that the majority in
favor of removal In 1866, was "over 400
votes" Now this falsehood has been re-
peated until 1t Is worn threadbare-re-
peated so frequently, that those VINO first
uttered 1t, probably begin to believe 1t by
this time. The truth of the matter is that
the vote showed majority in favor OF
removal at tn t time of 279, and the Cffl-
cal vote will show 1t.
We had certainly given our opponents
credit for more shrewdness hani shown
by them in their appeal to the gislature.
ID they suppose that onr Representatives
with the facts before them, can be hood
Winked by such Misrepresentation
Truly, a cause that Is bolstered up by
talshood has but little merit, and Is un.
wCr;hy the support of the people.
Next, it is claimed that nothing has
occurred In the development or history
of the county to require the removal Of
the county at from Bowling Green
What-nothinb? Ia the great Increase o.
population In the northern portion of the
county anl along the several railroaf
Ines nothingp Is the improvement art
development Of every portion of the
county, securing only the immediate vi
ciuity Of the county seat, nothing? L
wading through the {" 8 ough of De
spond" the greater portion of the yea
by nine.tenths of the taxpayers of tn,
county, nothing? Such thing nigh
have been tolerated before telegraph line
and railroads were known, but at this en-
lightened day such notions are shelved.
The Court-house and Jail at Bowling
Green, claims the remonstrsnce, "wer
built with funds mainly contributed b,
private means" This is very pleasan
piece Of ficion, and would sound muc'
better were it true. But we do not pro
pose to discuss that matter just at thi
time. 1t may be matter OF Investigation
and elucidation which we shall resorg
for future discussion.
The old hobby is also set forth YER
prominently that the present location
in the center of the county, and it Is I'm
blushingly asserted that the population
of fourteen out of eighteen townships
nearer to Bowling Green than to Perrys
burg. This we have 80 clearly refute
heretofore, and shown so conclusive J.
that the reverse Is the fact, that we vii
not now enter upon details in the refuts
ton of that little fiction.
The question, also claims the remor
STRANGE, has been decided in favor {
Bowling Green in every Court in the STATE
This is another pleasing hallucination
that woul read better if it did net carr
the fI!sehood so palpably on its face.
Truly, this remonstrance is sorr
mess, with which to appeal TO "the hon
esty Of purpose, the high sonse of justc
and the superior Intelligence" of the l.
i]ature of Ohio. Truly, the cause Of on
opponents Is indeed of frail tenure,
they have exhausted the strength of the
: argument In this pleasant fiction O
theirs. Tley have given poor eviden'
indeed for the faith that is within then