Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-08-25

Congress be instructed and our Repre-
sentaives requested to use all honorable
means to obtain an immediate repeal, mod
lhcation OF amendment Of the net of Con-
gress usually styled the Fugitive Slave
Law, approved Sept. 10th, 1850.
ResotOed, That the Governor of the
State of Ohio be requested to forward to
each of our Senators and Representatives
in Congress copy of the above resolution.
! (Senate Journal l850-5i, page 762.
Mr.. Horton moved to lay these resolu-
tions on the table.
Upon which motion the yeas and nays
were taken, and Mr.. Payne voted NO.
The motion was lost. (Page 1857
Mr.. Linton moved to refer them to the
Committee on Federal Relations. Mr..
Payne voted NO.
Mr.. Geiger moved to strike out the word
''repeap' from the resolution. Mr.. Payne
voted NO. page 1851
Mr.. Linton moved to strike out the words
'be instructed" and insert the word ''be"
before the werd requested" in tie reso-
luton. Mr.. Payne voted NO. page 1854. }
Mr.. Burns moved that the further con
sideration of said resolutions and pending
amendments, be indefinitely postponed
Payne voted No. page 1869
These resolutions were finally laid upon
the table, and were not again taken up dur
ing the session.
But the Senate took other and further
action on this subject. On Saturday,
March 22d, Mr.. Linton, from the standing
committee on Federal Relations, reported
the following resolution
"ReSoLVed, By the General Assembly
| of bn Stota of nI,;o l. Il. n.
eral Assembly would urge the faithful OBJ
servance of law upon all the people of this
State, and upon her sister States of the
Union as the most effectual mode of pro-
noting their best interests, as we'll as a
high duty they owe alike to themselves
and their common county, it would most
earnestly recommend to Congress the ne
cessity of so amending and modifying the
provisions of the fugitive slave law that
while IL secures faithful compliance with
all the obligations imposed by the Con-
stitution of the United States, it WILL as
becomes free government, guard with
Jealous care, the rights of freemen."-
Page 9O9.)
Alter various attempts at amendn lt
the above resolution was passed by vote
of 10 to 1O-and among the list of names
bin the affirmative is thai Of Mr.. Payne
Page 915.)
DuEing the tendency of this resolution,
Mr.. Walker moved an amendment as fol-
lows:
"And if the said law, in the opinion of
Congress, cannot be so amended as to give
to persons claimed MS tugitives from labor
the benefit of every legal defense of their
liberty, we then recommend the repeal of
said law
Mr.. Geiger moved to amend said amend
ment, as follows:
provided, that Congress shall believe
that such repeal will not tend to dissolu-
ton of the Union"
Three Senators, Messrs. Geiger, Hatch
and Howard. voted for the union saving
clause, but all the rest, including Mr..
Payne, voted ogainstH. page Oily He
would not dare to run such a tremendous
risk at this time.
Mr.. Pardee moved to add another reso-
luton, as follows
"ResolUed, That the law commonly
called the fugitive law, being law that
makes er Pdrte evidence conclusive of the
masters right to re-capture and return his
slave; that denies ajury tlaal, here or else
where; that provides for the appointment
of swarms of petty officers to execute it;
that gives double compensation to find
every claim set up in favor of the master;
and pays the expense of any case, from the
public treasury, can never receive the vol
untary cooperation of our people, and
ought, therefore, to be repealed" page
i912.)
Here is a most inhammatory, incendiary,
reasonable, disunion, abolition, black re-
publican affair! Let us, for a moment,
imagine such document introduced into
the Democratic State Convention on the
9th inst, for adoption. What would have
been the response And yet, on the pas
sage of this resolution the vote stood, yeas
22. nays 8, and among the names recorded
for It's passage stands that of Mr.. Payne
Page 916.)
Such is the record Of demagogue =
Such were his sentiments and his vote in
1851. Was he honest then ? Is he hon
est now? What has wrought this won
drous change in him? Why does he now
endorse, embrace and glorify this very self
same Fugitive Slave Act, which in 1851
he denounced and repudiated?
1t is sickening and disgusting to witness
Ihe ucS rdua'loh anu ulsSldce Vi our PROM
inent public men. as we see it exhibited in
this instance. Do they for a momentum
agine, that they are not understood by the
intelligent people of Ohio? Do they sup
pose that the base party appliances which
have been brought to bear upon them by
Douglas, and the pro-slavery South, are
so concealed under the pretence OF Democ-
racy, that their treason to freedom and free
labor, is not apr aren't to the world?
We trust that every Republican paper
in Ohio will copy this exposition of dema-
gogue. Let it be held up to the gaze of
every voter in the State. Lett be charged
upon him on every stump. Let him de-
fend himself from the damning effect of
this record. IF He CAN