Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-02

ga trialtof vagrauc y aeGinst four whit,
women and one white man took place in th,
Circuit Court Yesterday, and the -jnrys YER
dictwas that ihes be sold for ~ selvs slOnths
This Is the penalty prescribed by law, thongh
cases Of this kind are of very rare occur
rence."-L3uisvilIe journal, ~
There's Democracy for you: Fopr WHITE
woMEn andone wEBTE MAN. SOLD in Louis
vile, Kentucky. Will you look at in Will
you ponder it7 What is its signifcnnce1
l-,-..Oh,"~ says some Democrat. .s.thats moth
ing; they were .yagrants,, and were only sold
for a yearP' True, they are called vagrants,
and were only sold for year. ButNRhatisa
vagraut7 Who. o.may be thusseizs d end SOLD
as vsgrants? How long may they be thus
sold7 A thousand questions arise and piess
for answers. .-tNs - - u.
DOUBTLESS. the victims were far enough re-
moved from the social position, Of the afis-
tocracy of Kentucky. No doubt they were
poor enough-hefpIessly so, if you choose
Add to the allegation, IL it suits you, that
they were as improyident and lazy as they
were poor. So much the worsel ~
The strongest argument ever offer ed for en-
slaying the negro, is the assertion. whether
true or false, that they are poor. improyident
nd lazy--that they won't work if free, and
TIER ESoRE ii, is right tobenslaseo them and
make them work.. ofocourse it isithose who
want their labor who are to settle alli these
questions; and having settled Il that they
have a right to; determine that a whole race,
no matter how WHITE they may have ben
bleached, may be thus ensiaved, the coYelu
sion is logical and natural, that other petsons
hpoor and lazy, may be enslaved too.z Prob
ably it would be good policy for the present, /,
ik,fi G.ra AHA I, ~.
individuals that can be found, Take those
who are utterly frie ndless-who cannot enlist
the sympathes of the influential and power
fal: Take these first. No body cares for them
Nobody will object, especially if they are
only for year or two at first: M
But; what then The WHITE slaves that
are now sold in the shamhles are the decend-
ants of those whose ancestors. at some time
had regro blood in. their vens. But now the
line is fairly crossed. It is xErTLED that 1t is
RIGHT to SELL WHITE MEN AND WOMEN into
slavery whose ancestors never had any ne
gro blood. u-' y.- .Ayirp eFSE au 9islL
With this point fairly settled. the fiood-
gates are opened and the strong will have but
to manacle the weak, and there will he no
need to renew the African Slave-trade.
1t is utter dishonesty in those who under
stand the policy Of our slave propagandists,
and sheer self deludion in those who do not,
to deny that the whole tendency of that
policy is to enslave the poor whites as well as
negroes. Our Revolutionary Fathers were
quite as white as. the British Aristocracy who
them. We have failed to find the
history which chronicles the fact that an en-
shaved people were ,enfranchised, by the
willing consent of their masters because they
were WHITE. .tf , ... ...'5r
This fond delusion that an individual or
nation, can violate the laws of eternal recti.
tude and escape the conseque n ces, is simply
an atheistic madness. Before this can be,
God must be dethroned, and the dependence
Of the effect ON its cause dissolved. In the
very nature of things, no class of people can
remain free who will consent to the = nslave- |
nent of ant ther class. This proposition is
susceptible of the clearest demonstration, but
Ue have not time to pursue the subject at
present. ..Ga ~. .g.a