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


ernment an existence, comes into operation
and eetures "a. The a nerican citizen all
the rights of person and Of property that
attach 10 him Ms such citizen. Thus,
when California WAS giycn over TO this
governments by the treaty of Hidago
Guadcloupe. any citizen from Virginia or
Kentucky. who happened to have a slave
with hun, would. on entering that territory
have the same right to demand protection
for his properly, embodied in tie person
OF his negro. as the man from New York
would have for his property Of any kind.
Its strange, and certainly not
very crediiable 10 the American mind, that
such men as Clay. and Webster. .and Van
Duren, and Benton, supposed Cd be! the
leading minds in Amcrica, have advanced
the notion thai slavery is creature of
local law Meanwhile, Mr.. Buch-
anan has frankly and manful!y spoken the
very word that was needed, that the coun-
try, above all. that the Democratic ,orty
required, in order to be understooa y
In the face Of Mis dec ,ar0ti,,, IF Mr. Bu-
chondn-the head and authorized exponent
OF the Democratic party-we trust the
miserable SuJteIJnges and douJis-deali,,gs
OF petty politicians will disappear. and all
honest md honorable men, processing To be
Densocr0fs and supporters Of the Admin
istra:ion, will stand fair and square on the
ground thus occupied"
The CHarieston Mer, ury--an ultra dis
union. nulliticatiVn paper OF South Caroli-
ma, says:
'In his reply to Prof. Silliman and con-
freres. President Buchanan has CROSSED
THE RuDIcoN, and proclsimed his position
upon the radical point Of difference be-
tween the North aud the South"
So much for the President. We con-
clude by inquiring, Where stand the De-
mocacy of OHIO? We answer, they
stand fair and square with Mr.. Buchanan
and the disunionis's and nulli6ers of the
Soutli-deny it as they may. In their
recent Sts,e Convention. they. in un9uali-
tied terms, ENDORSED the bred Scott
decision. and nominated candidates who
pledged themselves in advance to support
it. Their candidate for Governor, not
wilhstanding his former Abolitionism, at
present out Herod. Herod in pro- slavery
In his speeches. he declares
that ,,,.
"To take the negro from Africa and en-
slave him tn ihe South is an act Of human
Ay, inasmuch rs he is thereby brought un
der the influence Of Christianity and civ
ilization.''
In other words. that we ought to open
again the AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE,
which has been declared PIRACY, bv
all the civilized nations on the face of the
eartf-that to do SO would be an ACT
OF HUMANITY. And again, he says:
Another result will follow our victory,
and that will be the repeal of the HABEis
CORPUS act, and tho provisions refusing
our jails TO our Southern brethren to keep
their slaves in"
In other words, lie would turn our iails
INTO slave pens. and deny to the white free
citizen that most sacred writ of liberty
ever wrcsted from the unwilling hand of
tyranny. Is there deeper depth of pro-
slavery 1nIeanness, into which huma1
being can sink? S'"
And yet, in the face of all these facts,
The Democracy have the effronterv to tell
gnorant and unsophisticated voters that
he party is opposed to the extension of
Slavery. o, Shame! where is thy blush?