Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-11-18
Prospective.

The election of Mr.. Buchanan by the
people has, at first sight, the appearance of
an unlimited endorsement of the plans for
the annexation Of territory and the extern
sion of Slavery, which constitutes the sole
policy of the leaders of the party to which
he owed his nomination. Formally, at
least, it is anapprova! of the course of the
present Administration and its subordi-
mates in regard to Kansas, and equally SO
of the plans for the conquest Of Cuba set
forth in the Ostend Manifesto. In this
point of view, the people have said, by their
majority, that lust of territory is sufi-
cient reason for breach of all those max
inns of justice that have been adopted by
common consent of mankind, to regulate
the conduct of one nation toward another,
and that a project to extend Slavery over a
territory is sufficient ground to justify the
determination of the free inhabitants of that
territory, in order to prepare the way for
the institution.
By the leading organs of the party by
which Mr. Buchanan has been elected the
annexation policy has been openly avowed,
and the oppression of the citizens of Kan
sas, holding free State sentiments defended
Part the defense has, tbs true, consisted in
groundless denial Of the facts of the case
but when the facts have been fully proven
when testimony has accumulated upon
testimony, until contradiction was sicnced
then has come the justification. 1t Is
strange; and we do not remember to have
heard or read of a psychological phenom
enon that bears any comparison with Its
gloomy cnormity. Free born Northern
men in tie peace of God and the Constltu
ton, and in the pursuit of their lawful av
ocations, have, by scores, been murdered
They were murdered because they wel'
/ Northern men, entertaining Northern opin
ions. They were murdered by Souther
men, for the avowed purpose of eradica
ting or suppressing these opinions, and 70
, no other reason. The people of the Soutl
combined to send the worst of their pop
, ulation to perform this horrid work, and
: has been accomplished.
Had this case been stated hypothetical
s and followed by the inquiry, What is
Q probable the free people of the North Woul
do under such circumstances? the rcpl
It would not have been delayed. Any II
: tional man would have answered, Th
!. people of the Northern States of this Ur
O ion have not forgotten their free origin an
IS their glorious history. They will rise t
IS a man, and never be at peace until tn
n great wrong is righted. 'Iave'they rise
IS to a man? There should have been b.
= one party, and there were three. Tho'
pf of whom one was composed believed the'
acts to be wrong, and demanded redres
Another party, and that IL The North, ju
tilted them and promise their continuanc
A third took no notice of them as benea
l. their regard. The world has confined
$ everlasting infamy the pope who treat'
n the Vandois no worse than the settlers
re Kansas have been treated by Preside
Pierce; and if the people of the Unite
I'd States have no voice for the condemnati'
S. of those awful cruelties, they can at lea
count upon being included in the judgme
II, which time will pronounce upon both t
actors and the Nbcttors, in the ears Of COZ
y; ing generations.
I'd The election of Mr.. Buchanan has pl
IS. ced the responsibility for these acts pl
an cisely where it ought to be, To The Sou