Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-10-13

OF our National Government, and in the
Dred Scott decision, shall become the es-
,ablishef principle Q: our governments.
| We have said that one or the other OF
these principles must triumph. There can
be no compromise, no middle ground, for
Il is an anxiorn Of Holy Writ, as true in po-
lticul science as in rcli zion. that 1.-TWO can
not walk together unless they be agreed, =
you cannot reconc lie principles as totally
opposed in their natures rs light and dark
ness.
We have also said these principles are
embodied in the two great political parties
of the day--lhe one, active, buoyant, Wig
orous in its youth, has, ploenix like, sprang
out Of the ashes of former political parties;
created by tile exigencics Of the times, it
has in The two or three years of its exis-
tence, with the strength Of its early main
hood, swept over the noblest, the most in
telligent, and most enterprising portion Of
our Republic, and has attacked and shaken
TO its foundation, tho citadel OF Slavery in
Missouri, and made, as We trust, lasting
impressions in other portions Of the South
LIS reliance is upon the patriotism and in
telligence of the people; it seeks full, free
and fair discussion Of It's principles; seeks
their investigation in every respect, wheth-
er regarded morally or politically, as ques-
tions of natural right or political economy.
We claim and have demonstrated a thous-
and times that We stand upon the platform
upon which Washington, Jefferson, Madi-
son, and indeed every statesman, with few,
if any exceptions, stood, from 1896 down
to the adventof the patent Democracy OF
the present day, and that our principles
are in strict accordance with the unvarying
principles and practice OF our Government
during that period Of time.
The principles of the Democracy are an
humble Submissions to every behest of the
South. They want southern territory foI
the expansion of their peculiar ins.itu-
tion"-a territory so situated geographic
cally as to be inaccessible to Yankee emf
gration-and Texas, California and the
Masilla valley are given them they wan
slave State to sustain Missouri, and 9
territory is cut in two 20 that State may
be formed immediately westward of it, in
accessible to Eastern emigration, only by
crossing Missouri, (tle river being CLOSED
against them, and which. as was suppos
ed, would be completely overrun and con
trolled by the blue Lodges" of Western
Missouri. Still insatiate, the Os.end Cir
cular is promulgated, and fll;bustering il
Central America springs into full life
Again their demands are pressed, anc
"Squatter Sovereignty" is spread before
US, so marvellous in its character that il hao
an adaptation to the theory of every portion
of the Union, but which now is understood
to mean just nothing Again. the "Dret
Scott" decision is given as AN additiona
offering upon the Moloch Of Slavery. back
ed by the audacious assertion of Plesiden
Buchanan, that Slavery is the creature o
The Constitution, legalized and established
by it upon every foot of territory in th'
American Union, and the cool iemai K, :"
wonder it could ever have been seriously
doubted"
In our State politics, the true issues ar,
assiduouslyavoided, and negro equality
negro suffrage" "strike the word white
from the Consli turning the slave;
Of the South free to overrun the free labo
rels of Ohio" "Giddings' speeches,
resolutions of disunion meetings." &c.
are the prolific themes carried before thu
ciaizons of our county, for the PurPoee g
enlightening them upon their duty as elec
tors. 1t is worthy Of enquiry who thes'
men are, who are thus peram bulaling th'
C unity, shamelessly retailing such ridicu
lous assertions. Are they the men whc
stand most prominent as party leaders. mer
of responsibility and responsibility in com
muniiy? Have not these men shrunl
from this duty too base to be discharged
by them, and devolyed it upon others less
scrupulous--some at least of whom arr
better acquainted with the walls of pris
on, or the midnight reve!s oflow and ques
Lionable places of resort, than with places
where intelligence and virtue exist.
Our conclusions from the foregoing fact.
are these, that the Republican strength il
in the free States-its prib ciples being con
genial with the interests and sentiments o
a free and enlightened community. Tn,
Democratic strength is in the South-tht
noble principles once inscribed upon its
banners having been sacrificed to their be.
hests, and their place supplied by others
congenial to the Interests and sentimentG