Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-09-29

perceiving The effect Of their measures Of
The people Of the Free Slases. without 70
moment relaxing their efforts to exten,
their Institution, found it necessary to de
esivs the people Of the Free States as I,
their real object and design. Retaining
the name Of Demo rats, the sent thei
purchased Instruments into the Free State
TO blind the people by false issues. in or
derthat euCugh doughfaces might be re
turned to Congress to give the Slave pow
er majority. These demagogues peram
buated the Free States with the hypocrit.
ical pretense Of Popular Sovereignty
and loud professions of Democracy. ane
thousands Of honest. simple minded; men
who loved the name Of Democracy, wer,
swindled into the belief that they wer,
really as anti-slavery as the Republicans
Others. who saw though the cheat. bu
who disliked above all things to sever the
ties which bound them 10 the party. voted
with them, 'hoping against hope" that
enough virtue and power was yet left in
the Democratic party to redeem itself from
the thraldom to Slavery into which it had
been brought by such demagogues and
traitors as Pierce. Douglas d Co. Still
another class were those who wanted Office,
and had sagaci!y enough to see that not
crumb Of government patronage could
be obtained except by humbly acquiescing
In every demand of the Slave power. A
few, who by nature must be either tyrants
or slaves, found their natural resting
place in the Slavery party. And, at the
North, the classes above named compose
the Democratic party. AT the South, all,
SO far as slavery is concerned, are Demo-
Gratis of the modern school,
Now let any reasonable man ask him
self the simple question, Hov can a party
thus constituted be otherwise than pro-
slavery? All the shareholders, and all
their tools and dupes belong to it, They
constitute the bulk of the party. If the
party is not pro-slarery, then the slavehol-
ders are precious set Of fools. But the
shareholders are not fools-the party is
pro-slavery. to its very hearts core, as we
intend to show by its subsequent acts,
e. Look al Kansas. What has becom.
Of popular sovereignty" Are the peo
pie of the territory allowed TO settle their
own domestic institutions in their own way?
Not at all. Read what the President saws.
IN his letter to Professor Siliman, about.
enforcing the bogus laws Of the the Mis-
sour mob of invaders! No matter how
File' how revolving to humanity they are
no matter how tyrannical the usurpalion-
no matter though every citizen in the terri
tory utterly repudiates and scorns them
they must be enforced. though il should
require all the army and navy of the Uni
ted States TO suJdue the settlers. His pol-
icy is fixed. Slavery must BE- forced into
Kansas.
But. again: the doctrine of all parties,
ever since the formation Of our govern.
ment, up the present time--the doctrine
OF Washington, and Jefferson, and Madi-
son, and Monroe, and jackson, and Van
Buren. and Polk, and Fillmore, and Tay.
lor-the doctrine of Democrats, Wings.
Free Soilers and Americans-was. thai
>ldVeTy was the creature Of local Iaw-that
1t existed only by virtue of state laws re-
cognizing it--that it was local institution,
altogether. The policy of the government
from its very formation has been to prob bit
it's extension, and limit its bounds. What
now is the Democratic doctrine? Read
The decision of the Supreme Court Of the
United States in the Dred Scott case, where
the doctrine is clearly set forth that slaves
are property, precisely in the same sense
that cattle, and hogs, and mules, and carts
are property. and that because. they are
property. in that sense, slave-holders have
. right 10 take their slaves into any territory
OF this Union, aud hold them there as
slaves-precisely the same right that any
other person has to take any other property
there and hold it. Not onl y SO. but that
The Constitution of the United States re-
cognizcs property in slaves, and is bound
to protect that property in the territories,
Ind that neither Congress nor Me people
Df the territories, nor, any body else. has
my right to interfere with it--that it goes
there by virtue of the Constitution. Alas
Tor "squatter sovereignty"
But where stands the President. What
does Mr.. Buchanan say to this EXTREMIST
ultraism Of the most ultra southern nulli-
iers--certsiply As---a northern man, who
vas claimed TO be better freesoiIer than
Col. Fremont-upOn whose banners were
Inscribed. "Buck. Breck, land FTss Kan
'as"--cannot favor this doctrine. What