Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-02-24

welLnourished progeny of prejudices, are
their most active coadju'ors Upon these,
however honest, unblushing falsehood,
poured out by unblushing demagogues,
is relied upon to do its perfect work.
Let us glance at this game of prejudice
the most common and successful that
is played by this cunning oligarchy, and
see how adroitly the means are adapted to
the double. object in view, namely: to Sc
cure the votes Of those SO duped, and to
make themselves the unconscious instru-
ments Of their own degradation.
| The slaves were originally negroes, and
many of them are not bleached white yet
This, in connection with their native bar
barism. and subsequently constrained ig-
norance and brutality, have made them
objects of repulsive aversion to all who
have not been reared amongst them. Ia
king advantage Of this fact in the condi-
ton ofthe slave this feeling in the free is fan
nedinto malignity by everyarta demagogue
can practice. With a glori rifcation of the
Caucasian race. the natural inferiority of
the negro is dwelt upon, and the abolition
istS-every body that wont worship slavery
is an sbolitonist with them-are denounced
as striving to place the "nigger" on an
equality with white men! And strange
as it may seem, by such transparent gull
feed, thousands of white skinned fools are
wrought into feeling Of intense rivalry
with poor Cuffe They do not perceive
the utter and immeasurable contempt Of
themselves which is implied in this posi-
ton They claim to belong to superior
race in natural endowments, and which
oyershadow him in numbers, as the leaves
do the tree they cover, and yetin their alb
surdity they proclaim that nothing but the
crushing weight of an omnipresent des-
potism can prevent Cuffe from rising up
to their full equal, if not taking the lead
as the dominantrace And so these men,
whose every interest, if they could but
see it, is bound up in the final destiny Of
free labor, are made to shout in the train
of those who despise them, vote the found
alton truths of our government lie, and
labor degradation, in order to maintain
their superiority to "niggers ~
We have extended this article beyond
our intended limits; and yet we must beg
the indulgence of our readers while we
give them at least one extract from the
"Union." Let it be remembered that
those, there dcnominated "abolitionists, "
comprise very large majority of the peo-
pie of the free States. With this in mind,
study the charges there gravely preferred
against them Remember, the whole
slave interest in TN South, and the unre-
deemable villains in the North, who are,
for selfish purposes, playing into their
hands, are daily flooding the country with
such deliberately planned lbels This
being SO, whatever you may say or think
of the leaders; be charitable to your neigh
bors, who, having no other sources of in
formation, are deceived by such means.
They are honest at heart, and if they be-
lieve their papers, they do we'll to oppose
what they CONCEIVE to be abolitionism.-
Work and wait Be patient. Falsehood
has none of the vitality of truth, and must
die 1t may, and often does, triumph for
a season, but truth in the end will prevail.
"Trnth struck to earth will rise again,
The eternal years Of God are hers;
| While error wounded, writheS in pain,
Ard dies amid her worShipperS."
"That the abolitionists look forward to
conspiracy, insmrection, and servile war
as means for bringing about the emancl-
patton of the southern slaves-and that
too, with complacency, if not downright
approval and co-operation-is but too evi-
dent. They send their secret agents to
the South in the disguise of preachers and
teachers, male and female, whose chief, if
notonly object is to sow disafection among
the slaves, entice them to run away from
their masters, and shed their blood if they
attempt to reclaim them; they instil into
them certain dogmas, which not only JUS
tify, but render meritorious, a violation Of
all law, divine and human, and convert the
most atrocious crimes into acts ofheroism;
and they gloat over every rumor of con-
spiracy and insu rection among the slaves
with zest that must be evident to all who
read their speeches, sermons, lectures, and
public declarations. We could cite scores
of examples where they have invoked the
British bayonet to aid tho slaves in the
massacre of their masters"
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