Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-10-26

The leaders of Democracy, and the
makers of its platforms, are rapidly sha-
ping its policy for the campaign Of 1860.
A central plank in the new platform-a
vital article in the new creed, is to be, the
revival Of the A frican Slave e-trade. North
ern Democrats may squirm and twist as
much AS they please, but they must come
TO this test. The Southern leaders have
decreed it and their Northern allies will be
compelled to submit. The tail must fol-
low the kite however it may wriggle in the
breeze. And what is Northern Democ-
racy but the fluttering caudel appenGage,
flying in winding circumvolutions in the
wake of disunionists and nullifiers
A large portion of the Democratic pa
pers of the South demand the revival OF
the Slave'rade, as the only condition on
which they will stay in the Union. Most
of the Virginia papers have opposed this
scheme, because it would interfere with
their special monopoly-the breeding OF
slaves to supply the more Southern States.
But she is beginning to waver, aud these
papers now admit that large proportion
Of the Democracy of Virginia are in favor
of the measure.
The last number of "DeBow's Review"
the acknowledged organ of the South in
literature and politics, has long and Ia
bored article on this subject. The writer
proposes that measure with view to the
establishment of slavery in the free
States of the North West, as well as in all
the Territories. THE design is openly
oUowed, and tie policy advocoted for that
specific purpose.
He thinks the Democracy of the North
are fully prepared to enter into the meas
ure, if they can get SlGveS cheap enough.
And by re-opening the African e-trade,
they are promised this great luxury. We
quote n single paragraph from the article,
to show the laborng men of Meigs County,
and especially the foreign born citizens,
some Of the beauties of Democracy as
taught by its acknowledged chiefs. We
beg them to look at it calmly, and then ask
themselves If they do not deserve to be
slaves if they continue to support a party
that designs to use the power they confer
upon it by their votes, to degrade and de-
base them? The "Review" says:
"For household and farming purposes,
the Western planters, as a general rule
are dependent upon raao employees I'M
ported from, abroad. AN UNC o UZH
MIS- CELLANY or IRISH, d UTCH
AND GERMANS, comprise the hired
aDorkmen Of tie North. The myoritu of
these are Irish, the character Of 1oItona
greatly units them for the datties they are
employed to .fuJfN. They are as capri
cious as only $ons-lacking IN principle,
impatient ot control, disposed TO chOler and
aohiSky, and, IN the main, unreiiaJl3. tor tile
purposes Of tile house and the Jfeld."
There you have the Democracy's esti
mate Of the working men. We say the
estimate Of Democracy, for it is notorious
that it is these Southern slave holders who
control the party and shape its policy
Northern Democrats will protest and
splutter, will shout themselves hoarse in
denouncing the Republicans as "woolly-
heads and o.worshipers," and then,
with insane infatuation, vote to sustain the
party that intends to displace this same
"uncouLh miscellany Of Irish, Dutch and
Germans" by flooding the country with
Negroes stolen from Africa and shipped
here to be sold at $50 a head!
1t is an old proverb that '"whom the
Gods intend to destroy they first make
mad," and surely, if madness portends de-
struction, the crisis must be near. The
monstrous crime-the ineffaceable infamy
of this scheme, is but on a par with its
impotent folly--its insane madness. Either
the people have become so demoralized as
to sanction this deliberate warfare against
social order, the rights of humanity, and
the moral Government of God, and are
thus prepared for their own destruction,
or they will rise in their manhood and by
a united voice hurl to annihilation the
party that wages such warfare.
CONgIOmcrAte.
The Washington "Union" says, "the
are obliged to get up new
set of principles every year" On this
text, an exchange gives the following life
like picture Of modern Democracy:
"The Democrats do not wait year
They have dozen different sets of pr;n-
ciples in the same campaign. They oc-
,upy nearly as many platforms as there
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