Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-09-15
PoMERoY, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1857.

learned Judge decides that slavery goes
into the States and Territories in spite of
Congress Or the people. AS Buchanan
endorsed this decision before, and all the
Democratic presses have since its delivery,
it may be regarded as another turn to-
wards the destruction of Estate Rights"
Your readers have doubtless all noticed
the accounts of the late Clarke Co. rescue
case. Six worthless, drunken rascals at
tempted to arrest poor negro for assert
ing the "inalienable rights which Wash
ngton and Jefferson say are irrefragibly
his. Rendered courageous by his love of
liberty, he whipped or drove off the whole
gang. The citizens of the village in which
the negro stopped were ordered to assist
in his enslavement. This they ike free
men refused to do; and being somewhat
amused at the proceedings Of the drunken
posse, they had the untold audacity to ex-
press tBei feelingsby laughter. Yheeen-
sequence has been their arrest by federal
officials, their rescue by the State authori-
ties, with habeas corpus, the nullitica-
ton of State process by federal Judge,
and the re-arrest of these men together with
the Judge, Sheriff, Prosecuting Attorney,
and other State officers who assisted in
enforcing our laws. What the final result
will be, God only knows. One thing how
ever is certain; Estate Rights" have been
totally ignored and trampled in the dust.
But notwithstanding this the Democratic
party has endorsed to the fullest extent
this unwananted exercise of federal pow
er. We have now closed our examples
upon this point. Enough has been said to
make the great change clearly visible
Formerly State Rights were above every
thing else now federal power overrides
the State constitutions and laws, seizes
and imprisons their citizens, and the State
authorities must remain inactive, as they
are incompetent to make even legal in
quiry into the lawfunless of such seizures
So says modern federal Democracy.
Such change as this however has no
been effected without some powerful cause
and that cause we believe to be SLAVERY
The Gag of '3G was avowedly for the in
terests of that institution. 1t smotheret
petitions and prohibited debate upon the
subject, thereby preventing exposures O
it's influence over the national govern
ment
The abominable Fugitive act Of 1850
was passed solely for the benefit of slavery
and that too in the face of the fact that 1T
provisions were at war with almost the en-
tire public sentiment of the North.
The design and effect of the Kane de
cision is to make slavery a national insti
tuition, existing by virtue of the nationa
Constitution, and coextensive with it.
The Dred Scott case has the same objec
and effect The Clark Co. rescue cas-
was for the purpose of enslaving man ant
the decision of Leavitt, according to tn
Gin. Enquirer, shows not only that tn
State cannot prevent this, but, also, if cit
izens refuse to assist and are arreste
therefor, that the State cannot make law
) full inquiry into the legality of their seizure
, Thus it will be seen that slavery is {
the bottom of the whole matter. Slavery
. slavery, in the language of John Davis, {
t Massachusetts, 'rules everything;" and
is the true cause Of this great and alarmin
J change in the views Of the now federi
( Democracy. j..