Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-03-10
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POMEROY. OHIO.
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1857.

interest TO all who love their country and |
the peace and prosperity of their fellow
citizens who have made, or emigrated with |
the honest purpose of making, that far off |
land their future and permanent homes.
That in position, and natural endowment
of soil and climate, Kansas is the garden |
spot Of this continent, is the united testi- |
mony of every competent witness, who |
has ever explored its grandly beautiful and
wide extended plains. And that its rich |
and virgin prairies are destined to be the
theatre on which is to be enacted grand |
drama that will affect, in all coming time.
FOR veal or for woe, the destinies of mill
ions yet unborn, is as clear to the reflect |
ing mind, as that effects must follow their
appropriate causes.
Two principles, as old as fraternal good !
will and selfish ambition, and as irrecon-
cilable as right and wrong, are marshaling
their forces in opposing columns and con-
tending for final dominion. On one side
is Freedom, beneath whose radiant banner
march the peaceful hosts of honest and
honored industry, with their invariable ac-
mpaniments-material prosperity, free
schools, universal Intelligence, and sound
moral and religious developement, anchor
ating and refining society, and making life
genial contented and happy. And on the
other side, following its blood stained flag
comes the army of Despotism, composed
of unwilling, lash-extorted toll, with the
necessary concomitants, blasted fields,
blighted prosperity, lust and avarice in the
ruling, and enforced ignorance and brutal
iy in the servile classes, perverting the
moral and religious sentiments of both in
to a social Sodom, whose god is Moloch,
end from whose profane altars ascend the
offensive incense of nameless pollution
One or the other these principles must
triumph in Kansas. And from all her
boundless prairies-her wooded groves,
her broad rivers her purlng springs and
gushing fountains, according as freedom
or slavery shall gain the ascendeucy, n
chorus of thankful hearts, from peaceful
homes made happy by all the benefcent
results Of just institutions, or Of clanking
chains-the crack of the drivers LASH
the piercing shreks wrung out of despair
ing hearts as unpaid labor is eXtorted with
bloody stripes from imbruted women, will
go up to heaven in perpetual remembrance
before God. Nor is the fate of Kansas
alone involved in the struggle. 1t is we'll
understood on both sides, that the destiny
of untold millions in other States and coun-
tries are suspended on the result of the
conflict there. Hence the desperation with
which the slave power and her minions,
work for the accomplishment Of their de-
signs. And the prospect now is, that af-
ter the millions of money, the hundreds
Of lives, and the untold sufferings that Free
State men have given and endured; and
Notwithstanding the admitted fact that at
least ninetcnths of the people of Kansas
are in favor of freedom, slavery will new
erthelcss be forced upon them.
The action Of the slave power at Wash
ington, and the bogus authorities in Kan
sas, make it evident that the thing is de-
creed, and will be carried out by all the
power of the Government, at the sacrifice
if need be of the property and lives of the
Free State men.
Those who have kept themselves posted
in the progress of events know, that Con
gress. after clearly proving that the pre-
tended Legislature was a fraud, and thei
acts unconstitutional and bloody beyond
the decrees of an oriental despot, passed
an act to relieve the people from their ty
rants and give them the right to choos'
their own officers, and make their owl
laws. But this Of course did not sui
slavery, and so the bill was smothered i,
the Senate, and the usurped authority il
Kansas continued. 1t is known too, tha
Gov. Geary could not endure the conduc
of the infamous Lecompte, the Chief Jus
tice Of Kansas. His acts were too bare
faced. Imprisoning Free Stale men with
cut charge even, and releasing Pro-slave
~ murderers on straw bail, who had com
mitted their crimes in the very presenc
Of the Governor, and who were arrested a
his order. Geary complained to the Pres
ident. and the country Iesounded wit
praises Of GeaIy and Pierce, because til
Jeffries Of Kansas was removed. Harri
son. of KY, either in earnest or in sham
was nominated to the Senate to fill tn,
place of Lecompte, but as Harrison wa
raid to be fair man, he was not confirmed
Of course, and it now turns out that lie
compte is not removed at all.