Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-15

y AC COuSuCEn COmVShulOhs
Our readers are aware that for severa
years there has been an annual convoca
tion IN the South, under the name o
"Southern Cummercial Conventional
These annual gatherings are the occasion
of a vast amount of gas, and serves as
safety valves through which the disu
nionists vent their fury and hatch up trea
son against the Union.
The last of these mcnagories Of Rivalry
and bombast has recently transpired al
Montgomery, Alabama. Nearly the en-,
tire session WAS occupied in discussing the
best and speediest methods of re-opening
the African slave trade in the Union, or
dissolving the Union, and then reviving
the trade as the peculiar institution" OF
Southern Republic. The discussion was
stormy and not very harmonious. All
parties agreed that the slave trade Was
right in itsclf-tlIat the South needed, as
the only essential to their i'm measurable
grandeur, an indefinite increase of slaves.
But here Democracy split. Alabama,
and the o:her slave consuming States,
claimed that it was an outrage to be COM
PEELED to pay n thousand dollars apiece for
men, when but for the Constitution and
Laws of the Union, they could get them
for the cost of seizure and transportation,
which w3uld not be over one or two hum
dred dollars; while Virginia, and the
thth m l.,
maintained their ancient privileges, show
ing conclusively. that to open the trade
with Africa would be their utter ruin. 1t
was clearly demonstrated that Virginia's
annual crop of mulottoes was of far greater
value than any, OF all other resources. and
that if their market value was deprecia-
ted. rs it would be if brought into com
petition with Africa, she would be abb
solutely unable to pay tho interest on her
public debt, and universal ruin would
flap her raven wings over that "Ancient
Dominion" and the Union itself would
pass into the hands of the Black Repub-
licans, through the starvation that must
overtake her noble Democracy" What
would become Of her great modern states
men, if the markets for their eighty thou
sand saddle-colored children should be
closed? @
With this dreadful prospect in view,
Virginia resorted to her usual tactics
threats. These had their effect. While
he great majority Of the Convention was
;learly- in favor of declaring for the slave
rade and disunion, yet at the command of
they consented to wait another
ear, and the whole subject was laid upon
ho table.
The following very suggestive paragraph
8 taken from long editorial article on the
ubject, in the Richmond Enquirer" of
he 95th ult
"If dissolution of the Union is to be
ollowed by the revival of the slave trade,
irginia had better consider whether the
south of the Northern confedcracy would
ot be far more preferable for her than the
North Of a Southern confederacy. In the
Northern confederacy Virginia would de- I
i've a large amount from the sale of her ,
laves to the South, and gain the increased
alue of her lands from Northern emigra-
on-while in the Southern confcdrraey,
18th the African slave trade revived, she {
'ould lose two-thirds Of the value Of her c
lave property, and derive no additional in
rease to the value Of her lands"
Look at this extract until you get the r
Ill siyniicancy of it. What is it? In S
nbstance this: We, the Democracy of I
'irginia, will go with you, heart and suul, P
'r dissolution of the Union, if you ,oiH a
1y oar nauLotoes at present prices but, Il
you intend to follow up the dissolution d
ith n revival Of the african trade, there t
y destroying the markets for our pro- t
uctions, then, "6y tile eternal!" qOe soiIt L
u ont our yelloW stock for aOhot zoe can .
't-shm up oar shops and nane.facture s
o more Of them, and thereby realize on II
e increase of our oeon LanIS aOltdt aUe n
ny lose on tile price Of our Sl0VeS! Such II
Democracy in these latter days. Tho Il
nion is safe so long as it affords mar r'
It for the productions of the very pecu- Il
Ir institutions of the high-minded states
en- and patriots who control the destinies b
lder the immaculate james the First o.
VhO Burned tIc Army Train? a
1t will be remembered that train of ~