Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-28

EFT Repubiicansi The time is short
between this and the election. Important
interests are ut stake. Principles which
lie at tie foundation of our Institutions,
and our Institutions themselves, will lie
effected by the result Of that election
Every citizen has duty to perform which
can only be rightly performed by an in
tellisent. apprehension Of the true issues
between the parties These issues are 50
distinctly marked, that no one ought to
mistake them. Republicans You un-
derstand these issues well. Your neigh |
bors, rs honest as you are, and having the
same stake in the happiness and well being
of our country, intend, many Of them, to
vote the Democratic ticket. We believe
You believe, with an honest, earnest cen.
viction, that the present tendencies of that
party, controlled AS it is, by sIaTery. is to
the spread Of an institution, irreconcilably !
opposed TO the interests of free labor.-
These neighbors of yours, do not wish 10
do so great wrong TO their country and
themselves, do not, in fact, believe that a
vote for the Democratic party will have
, that effect In this, many of them are
honest. You know they are mistaken.-
They have been deceived by the papers
they read, which are in the pay of an Ad-
fministration which is under the absolute
control of this slave power. These papers
dare not present the true issue before their
readers. If they did, the patronage OF
the Administration would be Withdrawn
and they would be denounced as traitors.
To receive the patronage Of the Govern
ment, these papers must support the meas
ures Of the Administration, which meas
ures are notoriously dictated by the slave
labor interest. Hence, instead of fair
discussion Of principles, and an honest
presses have appealed to tie prcjudices Of
their readers. BY falsehood and misrepre-
sentalon, they have brought many of your
honest neighbors, 10 believe these false
hoods. You are called Black PepuJiicans!
Woly- Heads! NWger- Worshipers &c,
until many Of the people who read no other
papers, have lost sight of the great issues
at stake, and are about TO let these desper-
ate demagogues, through tEese.appeals to
the greatest outrages ever perpetrated on
free people. You, Republicans, have a
= duty to perform here. 1t is not to abuse
, these honest neighbors of yours who have
. been thus deceived, but to present the
facts To them kindly. Induce them, il
! possible, to look at the question in the light
Of reason, instead Of passion. They love
true Democratic principles. The slave
holders have usurped the name of De
q mocracy, and the dishonest demagogues
of the North are using that name 10 de-
- ceive and betlay The unsuspecting masses
1 who think because these shareholders and
q their allies call themselves Democrats, thai
they will carry out Democratic principles
c If the people could only see the deep du-
# plicity of these designing men there would
be but one sentiment among them. Go
n then, amd reason with them. Present the
4 true issues. Remove these false impress
! ions if possible. Show them that you
interests and theirs are precisely one
That the Shareholder and the Northern
Demagcgue have an interest in direct op
position to your interests. Show then
- that this interest Of the Slave holder ant
e Northern Demagogue can only be advanced
y by decriring the honest voters. Do this
lie Republicans. earnestly, from now until the
d election, aud you will accomplish grea
1t good. You will remove prejudice
/ state rcason-give dignity and Significance
e, to the ballot-box, and save the free 1nsti
l. tutions of your country from perversion
N Don't, We beseech you, lay down this pa
Sc per, aud say you can do nothing. Yo,
can do much And surely you have tn,
T. strongest inducements to act. There is
Is solemn responsibility resting on every citi
is zen Of this country. The Institution
'e which our fathers bequeathed to us, w
n hold as sacred trust for those who are t
H. come after us. The destinies of our chill
re dren, the hopes of the world are in ou
I'd keeping Shall this great trust be be
rs trayed ? Shall this vast heritage b
Or squandered by the trustees-the guar
ID diaEs-in whose hands it now is I? Sha
at we permit set of swindling Demagogues
ed for their own selfish ends, to waste and de
us stroy this great heritage If we dc
O. surely the responsibility will be great il
deed. But the responsibility of every OIL
y " will be in proportion to the light he ha
80 and the use he makes of it. You, r.
y publicans, have the light. You see tn
' ' Importance of the trust. Your respons
5dl hilitu then will ha y,eacurad bv ", =,