Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-07-20

"dcmagogue" so inefiacably stamped upon
their brows, that no mask is thick enough
TO hide it from view. Their buster and
bombast when interpreted, means simply
the sham vaporings of bragadocios, to
frighten craven hearted towards and NOR
cenaIy traders into submission to the
demands Of an unscrupulous oligarchy.
The article to which we replied, as our
realers will remember, was simply an
appeal to the sordid fears and insane pref
udicies of that class Of people in the
North-assumed by the Shareholders to be
the majority who are actuated by no
higher sentiments, and whom, it is as
sumed, can be moved by suoh motives.
The ebay Book" in this article. as
sumes to be the "Qnly true union journal
in the North" And how does it support
the claim ? BY repeating the very threat
ofdisuni0n, which it 80 Indignantly denies
having ever made. Read the article care
fully. 1t says: ga party is IN the field,
that proposes to exclude tho South from
the common territories" that is, to pre-
vent the spread of Slavery. "The Repub-
lican party, and the Republican press, I"
it says, "present this issue, which they
Term, and properly term, hostility to
.S.aVery ertenSion." And that "they may
obtain possession Of the federal govern
ment and tins bring about d;Sunion. The
election of Seward, or Chase, or Hale, or
any ono representing this hostility to
Slavery extension" it says IS incompatible
with tho welfare and social safety of the
South"
What is this but covert threat that if
any man opposed to Slavery extension is
elected President by the people, the Union
will bo dissolved Yet, forsooth, the
day Book" does not threaten disunion.
No, it is Union. saving Journal. But
how does it propose to save the Union ?
Why, by the very simple process Of spread
ing Slavery throughout the Union, and
giving it the absolute and unquestioned
control of the Government. Hence, it
saws, a sentiment must be created i'll the
North, that would "make Chase, Sumner,
Seward. &c, far more Nkelyto deiy'acA"d
than placed IN The Presidency, or sent to
Congress-" No doubt of it The whole
tendency of the doctrines of the "Day-
Book" and its colaborers leads TO an
unmitigatod tyranny. and truly enough,
when the pail of an overshadowing des-
potsm has spread its raven wings over all
the land-when freedom of speech and
the press shall have been eifectually sup
pressed-when manhood shall have been
completely crushed out of the people
when such Statesmen rs Chase, and Sew.
ard, and Sumner-and such ministers as
Beccher, and Ting, and Cheeyer, can
safely be lynched by the rabble, at the in
stiration of the leaders of such Democ-
racy as the "Day-Book" breaches, then
indeed will the Union be safe Such a
Union as the ebay Book worships, and
is laboring to consummaLe-a Union mod
died after the gloomy despotisms of the
old world-the Union that exists between
tyrants and slaves--a Union cemented by
the blood of slaughtered patriots, and deco
rated with whips, and letters, and chains,
and dungeons-the chosen insignia Of des-
pots wherever found.
The ebay Book" charges its Northern
Democratic co-workers, with shirking the
real issue. 1t says: "The Day Book
alone at the North meets the question by
the open declaration that Slavery -exten-
sion is right---the equal expansion OF
Southern population a necessity 1t says,
"the Northern Democratic press and poll
ticians have hitherto refused to accept the
:ssue. and ofteA deny that they are i'll
favor Of Slavery extension" and hence
they are not true Union savers--that nc
ore can be a true Democrat and friend oI
the Union who is not in favor of the uni
versal extension Of Slavery and the lynch
ing of all who oppose that policy.
1t may be that the people OF this coun'
try are so far lost to self-respect, as tc
become the willing Instruments of theil
own utter degradation. but We do not be.
Iieve it. Nor do we believe they will be
frightened into submission by any fears o.
dissolution of the Union.
But the "Day-book" says it never
threatened to dissolve the Union. We
have given its denial in full, and our readers
cannot fail to see in that very article the
threat repeated. But we copy from the
same paper as follows:
"All the Indications point TO an anti
slavery victory in 1860 +; indeed, under
existing circumstances, and without a Ger
tain change of opinion at the North, tha
result is inevitable--a pre-ordained fact