Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-08-10

cognizant of each others dreams?
We have not time to pursue this subject
further. 1t is a theme for thought which
we may each pursue with profit and de-
light. For anything which casts brighter
light upon that land whittier the dear are
gone and whittier we are each day tend
ing, cannot but make us wiser, and hap
pier. and better. Fl.
ss.. For tho Telegraph.
Sentiments of Eminent Revolutionary
Statesmen npen Neg ro Stuvery; as re
gards its Wrongs, atd 0iotdtionS Of Hu-
man Rights; as source Of National
Weakness; and as to its flaL extinction
or abolition.
NO. 1-CoNTINCED.
FELLow- CITIZENS OF MEIGs COUNTY:
Having given you the views OF him
who was "frst in war, first i'll peace, and
first in the hearts of his countrymen,"
we bring before you Thomas Jefferson, the
author of the celebrated Declaration Of
American Independence, the founder Of
the old Republican, State Rights or Demo-
cratic party, and third President of the
United States. Probably of the States
men of the Revolution, no one has ever
exerted a greater influence in moulding
public sentiment than Mr.. Jefferson ; and
yet, at the present time, his principles in
regard to slavery are more carefully abne-
rated than those of the Tories who op-
posed him ; that is, by the party which Is
now dominant in orr nation. But to the
claw and the testimony"
The first general Congress of the Colo
nics met at Philadelphia, in September
I774. An Exposition Of the Rights OF
British America, WAS laid before it, from
the pen of Thomas Jefferson, of which
the following is an extract: 1.-The abo'-
ton of domestic slavery is the greates
object of desire in these colonies, where
it was unhappily introduced in their infant
state. But previous to the entranchlse
ment Of the slaves, it is necessary to ex
clude further importations from Africa
Yet, on repeated attempts TO effect this By
prohibitions, or by imposing duties which
mi ,ht amount to prohibition. have beer
hitherto defeated by His Majesty's mega
tive thus preferring the immediate adj
vantages of few African corsairs, to tn
lasting interest of the American Safes
and the rights Of hanoan nature. decpt
grounded by Mis infamous practice -
= American Arcmeves, 4th series, vol. ]
DID. 696. Goodell's Slavery and Ant
Slavery, Pr. 7l-2.
Again, in the original draft of the Dec
laration of Independence, AS it came fror
: the pen of jefferson, we find the following
n He" (the British King) "has wage
S cruel war against human nature ltsel
e violating its most sacred rights, OF Iii
It and liberty in the persons Of a dlsta'
Il people who never offended him, captlvi
II TING and carrying them into slavery
9 another hemisphere, or to incur m'serab
II death in their transportation thither. Th
1t piratical warfare-the approbum of iGfI
e powers-is the warfare of the Christie
l. King Of Great Britain. determined to ket
omen market where men should be boug
N and sold. He has prostituted his negati
m for suppressing every Legislative attem
II 10 prohibit or restrain this execrable COZ
le merce, and that this assemblage of horro
ly might want no fact of distinguished dy
l. he is now exciting the very people to II
n in arms against us, and to purchase til
S, liberty of which he has deprived thel
or by numbering the people on whom he h
ar obtruied them thus paying off form
s, crimes committed against the Liberties
g our people, with crimes which he urg
he them to commit against the HVes OF
he other" Benton's Thirty Years in the
I'd s. Senate, vol. Q. PIP. 45O-1-No:e.
ed The reason for striking out the abe
m, clause, is thus given by Mr.. Jetfers'
let himself: "The clause, too, reprobdt
cal The enslaving the Inhabitants Of Atr'
nd was struck out in complaisance to Sol
Carolina and Georgia, who had never
ID, tempted to restrain the importation
M slaves. and who, on the contrary, S
is wished to continue it. Our North
if brethren also, l believe, felt little ten
lu. under those censures for although Il
lily people had very few slaves themselves,
up they had been pretty considerable carr
er, of them to Others" (See Elliot's Debf
ar in the State Conventions, on the adopt
of the Federal Constitution, vol. / p.
ac- We quote from the second edition. ''p
gs, lsbed under sanction of Congress" !"
so Taylor g. Maury-Washington' 1854
ace We say this because the paging is ditfe
lph in this from the first edition, and a