Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-02-17
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that the expiring throes of great social
wrong will be terrible in proportion to the
numbers of those involved, and the ex-
tent of the interest they may have at stake
in its perpe'uation.
1t has b,en manifest to all who have
observed tho current of events, that for
some reason, the slave power of this coun-
try has wrought itself into a state of utter
desperation out of all proportion to the os
tensible cause Of the excitement. They
profess to believe their institution of slave
iy to be of Divine origin, and sustained
and cherished by an ever watchful Provi-
dence for the most benefcent purposes;
that they have the sanction of Heaven
the benediction of the church-the pro-
tecting ;egis of the constitution of the
countly-the cordial support Of the lovers
of social order--the unanimous adhesion
of their own race in the South-the will
ling submission and happy contentment of
the slaves themselves, and pecuniary in
tercst of untold millions pledged to its per-
petuiIy. They further profess to believe
that the existence of the Union and the
progress of civilization is all involved in
the continuance Of the system. And yet
they act as if the merest breath Of discus
sion would sweep the whole fabric out of
existence forever.
The philosophy of all the rant and fa-
naticism of these chivalric patriarchs has
been a mystery to most persons; for every
one knows that people united in senti-
mcnt and conscious of pursuing an honest
course, instead of abandoning all propriety
in an insane fury against those who differ
from them in opinion, will calmly smile at
the unavaling efforts of those who would
attempt to win them from their convic-
tons. Those however, who have looked
deeper into the construction of Southern
society have all along seen the true reason
of the violence there practiced. In the
very nature Of things there could not be a
union of sentiment in the South. Society
there is constructed on the same basis OF
the oligarchys and despotisms of the old
world, where the usurped privileges of the
few are held paramount to the natural
rights of the masses.
In the slave States there are only about
3C0,000 slaveholdes in population O.
100000. The interests of these slave
holders being necessarily antagonistic tc
that of the mass of the people, binds then
together in community of feeling ant
effort to maintain their ascendency, and as
Is the case with the petty nobility of Eu
fopcan countries, their inherent weakness
drives them TO excess in the support o
theirillegitimate power They well know
as the despots of Europe know, that if th'
people were permitted to discuss the mat
Ter at all, they would hurl from their pla
ces their arrogant oppressors, and assert
ing their own manhood would soon com,
to know their right, and knowing woulc
maintain them.
Hence it is necessary to the very exist
cnce of slavery that the non-slaveholdiny
whites be held in the most abject subserv
iency to the behests of the domineerin!
minority, And it is becoming apparen
from recent movements, that the rant an,
blustcrwhch has so long frightened North
ern dough-faces was designed to perform
the additional Office of keeping in subjec
ton the more dangerous class of non-slave
holding white men at home; and that thei
pretended unity of sentiment in the Sout
is all sham. The spell is broken, an
there is now being inaugurated in Nilsson
ri party upon whose banners is inscribe
he thrilling motto of universal emanci
patton"
Three papers in that State have alrcad
hoisted the banner, and although it may
years before the object is attained, yet tn
fact that the question is mooted at all is e,
idence that the despotic chain is broker
and the final consummation sure.
N-.N.-