Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-03-18

trust the wagon in the hands Of unskiful
drivers There was danger Of upsetting.--l
When we were unable to drive our own
wagons it would be time enough to call on
the aid Of foreigners
Like his friend from Perry he had had
some experience with the foreign vote in his
own county. He had seen good many
Irishmen in his day, but he had never seen
one who professed much love for the negro.
The Germans we're rather different in this
respect. They had hearts for freedom as
big as tea kettles. All he asked from them
was to renounce their allegiance to foreign
power, and as Americans to stand by their
adopted country. lie was an American
He stood with both feet upon the American
plank. But he was not an American in the
southern sense of the term, which meant
nothing else than the further extension Of
human slavery. Every issue in the South
meant a negro. Americanism, Prfsbyte-
rianism, Methodsm, and every other ism
means negro. In Virginia they pass laws
TO prevent the running away Of their church
es. Last year $4,000 worth of church
members walked away, many Of their minis
tiers of the gospel had started on their mis-
sion to publish the gospel to every creature.
1t was his humble opinion that when the me-
groes leave Virginia, but little pivty would
be left in the State.
Some fellow in the Philadelphia Conyen-
ton had made motion to have him ex
PEELED from that body because he had been
charged with being an abolitionist, while
many Of the papers and politicians in his
own State charged him with being pro-
slavery man. As one charge would offset
the other, it would make him about even,
he though, and he would let that pass. He
, never intended to pursue after human chat
lie to carry them back into slavery. A
great ado had been made about the Union
1t reminded him of lazy lrishman who
was engaged in digging deep well, who
every little while would call to his compan
ions to pull him up, as the damp in the wei
was choking him.
Supposing there was danger, in reality
/ Of such catastrophe, his companion
, pulled him up several,imes. but at last get
ting tired Of the unnecessary labor, at tn,
next alarm they resolved TO teach him les
! son. After pulling him up about half wa,
e they let him hang there. In vain were al
Q his threats, in vain were all his denuncia
tons, he could neither get up nor down
when in perfect desperation he took out hi
knife and swore if they did not release hin
t from his unpleasant position, he would GU
the rope.
So it is with the people Of the South
They had been calling out, the damps, tn
, damps, and it was about time he thought
: teach them lesson, let them hang in mi
air awhile. and if they choose to cut tn
:. rope, why let them, and they would &
where the .Irishman did.
1t was the time the men Of the Mort
proved that they had souls, and there wa
/ no use in trying to get along with two gia
: yards as they had been doing.
: The qualification for voters was settle
6 by the sovereign States and to them W
should look for proper legislation. In Obi
0 if a man was little over half white he coul
o vote, in Massachusetts if he vas black }
;, could vote, and in Kentucky he could n,
! vote if there was any black blood in him.
!. It WINS about time that freedom had b.
come naturalized. He had become COZ
yinced of that fact by his intercourse vii
IS Southern men. The crisis is upon us an
e must be met. The danger from slavery ar
J. foreigners was equally to be apprehendc
;. and we should occupy such position ns
. defend ourselves against the encroachmen
~ Of either.