Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-10-27
THE REPUBLIC.

The South must admit that the peculiar
institution has never been at any time
very great blessing. There was the con-
tinued dread Of insurroction, lest the slaves
would rise and cut the throats Of thoir
masters. Was that blessingi To meet
such an event the masters were obliged to
invest millions of dollars in bowie knives
and revolvers, which they carried by day
and put under their pillows by night. We
ask IL the South regarded that as bles-
sing2 The Slaves could not read nor
write; the poor whites could not read nor
write. In many cases the slave thought
it was a fine thing to be Slave and the
poor white was too big fool to know
that he was a watch dog, to bark and bite
treemen and runaway niagara" Is ig-
nornnce blessing2 Too help the Slave
holder in his efforts to answer some of these
questions, we ask him to take The
place Of a Slave, let black mas
ter, MS n breaking-in process, apply the
lash to your white, delicate skin until II
assumes the beautiful striped color Of blnck
and blue, and then, as a further process of
depletion and of degradation, by the use
OF his revolver and bowie-kniic, let the
aforesaid highly colorcd Shareholder, take
out from your veins all the pure, super
| houa, saxon blood and then because you
do not feel quite ready to be a Slave and
to have your children sold before your
eyes as litter of pigs, let this African
blooded master of yours give you the force
of the slnve-pen duly fe,tered aud hand
cufed. Would YOU not say that such n
systein was an unmitigated curse, aud that
before you would submit to such treatment
you would be hanged, or as n rebel die in
the last ditch? But this system has turned
your heads and y our hearts against liberty,
caused you to break your oath Of allegiance
to the republic and made you tho vilcst OF
traitors for which the Republican army
was obliged to slay your sons and empty
your purses in self-defcnce, aud hnd full
! justice been mcted out to you, your officers
and Generals at least would have been shot
or hanged on gibbet and the property Of
every Shareholder confscnted. Ought not
the people to be taught to say With one
voice 30 loud that all the nations of the
earth could hear-curscd be the foul sys
TEN Of slavery; let the curses of high
heaven DO upon il forever and forevermore;
for il is bitter and an utter curse 10 both
master and slave!
| In ssfV he, L. -
cipntion, the republic conferred benefit
upon the South which cannot be estimated
by dollars and cents. To enforce this
proclamation and to compel the South to
loosen her grip on this great evil; this
concentrated essence of pure cussedness,
cost the republic more than Ten Hundred
Millions OF Dollars, debt which the pres
ent generation is too poor to pay. Had
the republic by a let alone policy permitted
you to secede and establish a confederncy
the evils of slavery would have been in
creased an hundred fold. The republic
would have received your run-a-ways.
They could have crossed the line all along
the borders, and you would not have been
permitted to capture them. This would
have led you to hate the republic more in
tensely this would have led TO scenes OF
violence and finally to bitter war OF ex-
termination. This is where Slave holding
nations have been brought in all past ages.
and where they will always come. Slave
holders are doomed; Jehovah will sweep
the systcnl away from the Garth, with the
becon of destruction. Those men who per-
sist in holding on to slavery will as nsur-
edly perish, as the man who tics mill
stone about his neck and casts himself into
the depths Of the sea. The day is coming
when the South will freely acknowledge
her obligations to the republic. Already
throughout the whole North the blessings
Of liberty have been scattered with a lib
eral hand. Foreigners in seeking home
in the New World, do not generally set
sail for Southern ports, that bowic-knifed,
horse -pistoled, slave-penncd, veplowed,
God-forsakencd country, where blood
thirsty III m2rchants have provoked the wrath
of Almi5h God, by making merchandise
of the bodies and souls of men. When
Southern soil is enriched by free labor, and
her sons are taught in school houses con
secrated to liberty, where each one is taugh,
how TO take care Of himself, by honest
means aud can sip the sweets Of conscious
innocency, then will the South begin tt
form just cstimate of the value OF tho
republic. We ask how it can be possible
that the Democratic party can form an al
lance with slave holders who, IN cold blood
murdered innocent freemen? Is the ranl
and file OF the Democratic party so iguo
rant that they do not know that they ar,
the political friends of ruiIians and muir
derers? Have they chosen Tildcn as n can
didate to preside over this Republic be
cause he il political thief and rObber
that he was an intimate friend of Bos
Tweed, States prison convict trying tC
escape punishment? Even il it were pos
sible for one OF the vilest thieves 10 b,
, elected to fill the Office OF Chief Magistrate
does not the Democratic party know tha
| he is liable and ought to be sent to tho pen
! itentlary. As an act OF Justice due to thu
republic let Tildan and Boss Tweed b,
yoked together, marched up to the rogue
gallery, have their likeness taken in cas-,
they should runaway, and then put then
} on mud scow, to scoop out the mud from
= our rivers and harbors. 1t cannot be thu
} the Democratic party all dishones
men, Then why do they not leave part,
made up of Slave-holding proclivitieF
men ALREADY convicted of political crimes
Jesuits, plug-uglies, ballot-box- -stufFen an,
whisky-gulpers, with a thief as a leader
G Why cling to a set Of traitors, murderers
e thieves, rebels, all, who have brought npol
); the republic debt OF over billion o
:; dollars, and are already making arrange
;. ments to incrense this debt to one half o
!. two-thirds more! We appeal to you, tn
% honest wing OF the Democratic party
" Why do You not leave such n polluted OI
y niyatinn0 II pannnl hn fnr tho ami