Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-08-17

WAS not sntiiclent--ils II IN utter con .empt
of trStA--of common decemcy and of the
popular intelligence, the thing is again re-
vived, and these same papers now assert,
that such scene didtake place, and again
forge pretended extracts from the "Senti-
mel, to make the people believe it. Take
this, for instance, from the last number of
the democratic Dispatch" published at
Galipolis. 1t says:
son the third Of July, Senator Wade
and Joshua r. Giddings were received by
magnificent procession SO Republican
papers say. From reports this procession
was very appropriate and Characteristic of
their services in Congress. The Ashta-
bula Sentinel the Republican organ,
says the procession 'wns headed by
twelve beautiful negro girls, each bearing
a banner, representing the twelve States
that are true to freedom They also oc-
cupied the stand. What say you now,
reader, for mixing in for Republicanism?
Giddings and Wade are not, IN .fdct, the
representatives of white people, but labor
publicansm is progressive. We wonder
where the champions of Black Republi-
canism will next place those twelve beau
ti(ul negroesP Can the Republican or
gan of this county tell?"
Now no possible stretch of chaliIy can
excuse this deliberately perpetrated vii
lainy on the plea ofignorance. The read
ers of these papers may be so excused, and
deserve pity rather than censure, unless
they sanction it; but for the perpetrators of
such enormites there can be no palliation.
1t will be seen that the Dispatch as
serts that, the Ashtabula Sentinel the
Republican organ, says the procession was
hea ded by twelve beautiful negro girls,
each bearing a banner representing the
twelve States that are true to freedom,
&C. How any one who makes any pre-
tension to the common proprieties of life,
can deliberately sit down to the task OF
concocting such calumnes we cannot
comprehend. 1t is true that such has been
the mode of warfare for some years past
in Ohio, and it is, perhaps, the only hope
left for desperate men to carry desperate
measures. But will the people be duped
! by them forever? No doubt this very
forgery will be repeated in every Town
ship in Meigs County during the coming
canvas. Our readers remember the repe-
tition, by prominent speakers last year, OF
old exploded forgeries that had been re-
luted yeas ago, as the sentiments Of
Gov. Chase, Giddings and other Republi-
cans. This will now be added to the list,
and make 4 part of the arguments of Le-
compton orators.
There is no use, Of course, to ask these
! papers to correct the statement, for to do
so would be to abandon their plan of war
fare But we do ask honest Democrats
and there must be many such-to think
seriously on the tendency Of such sys-
TEN of conducting campaign. Suppose
you succeed. Suppose some man who
manufactured these falsehoods, or acce pts
them for his benefit, should be elected to
Congress; arc yow thereby benefited?
Can you trust your interest in such hands?
Can the welfare and honor of the country
be safely coufided to the keeping of such
men? When you know they will resort
to such means to obtain your rote, would
you think your purse safe within their
reach? Would you expect them, if in
Congress, to stand up for the right.
against any appeals to their cupidity and
self-interesL? No! You woull not You
know they could not be trusted. Do you
want TO be cheated and betrayed by your
! Representative after you have elected him?
Then why will you place in power those
whose only hope of success consists IN
their ability to deceive you in order to get
/ your vote? VIII honest men reflect?