Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-08-03
VyhIlhcr are we Tending!

WhIllICr are We Tending!
The Leaders of the Democratic party,
as every impartial observer knows, have
been for years, shaping the course of the
Government in such way as to extend
the culse of human bondage, and pervert
the beautiful and benefcent constitution
which our fathers ordained, to "secure
liberty" into the mightiest engine Of
Despotism the world ever saw. Subject
to the conCrol Of small class of very able
men in the South, who occupy position
in relation to the mass Of the people. very
similar to that occupied by the Nobility
of England, and who, like that nobility
are ever watchful of their own class inter-
ests, and the maintanance Of their power,
the Democratic organization has been used
by them, 10 carry out their cherished
schemes. Knowing, however, that the
great mass of the Democratic party at the
North-men who earn an honest living
by honorable labor-could have no SYM
palhv with a policy which inevitably
tended to their own degradation, their in
sidious plans have hitherto been carried
on under various disguises and false
preteXts.
But. emboldened by former successes,
and the plant acquiescence of the party
in the most ultra of their schemes, these
leaders, doubtless be.ieveing that they
have thoroughly debauched the body of
their followers, and relying on the ma
chinery of party drill, are throwing off the
mask. and bringing their programme
openly into view.
Having secured the morstrous decision
of the Supreme Court, in the case of
"Dred Scott" and the dictum of Judge
Taney, that the Constitution was made
expressly TO enSlave men, and not to Sc
cure their freedom-that it carries into,
and establishes slavery in all the Terrific
ries of the Union-that neither Congress,
nor the people can exclude Slavery from
any portions of the vast regions now
owned, or from any country hereafter to
be acquired, SO long as the same shall re-
main Territories, ard that negroes have no
rights which white men are bound to re-
spect-these leaders now demand the en-
slavement of the free negroes, not only Of
the United States, but Of the West Indies,
and all other countries in which they are
now free.
The advocacy of this monstrous propo-
sition has been mainly carried on by the
Southern wing Of the party, while North
ern politicians, found it more profitable to
hide this feature of their party from the
view Of the people, and when in power,
yield to the demands of the Southern
faction under the plea of compromise"
or to save the party from disruption. But
this policy is being abandoned by certain
Northern journals, and the broad ground
assu med, tl,at it is the mission of the
Democratic party to spread and perpetuate
the institution throughout our presen:
limits-to re-enslave the free negroes
us-to prevent their emannipa-
tion by Spain, and again reduce to bond
age the people of Hayti, and the British
and Frerch West India Colonies.
The New York Evening "Day- -Book," +"
of the l 13th inst, has a long article on this
subject headed, "ReStor0tiOn Of civIiza-
ton an tie tropics = the mission Of Ameri-
can Democracy, in which, after occupying
a column in proving that the DEGREES of
God and interests of Democracy require
The enslavemeEt of the whole race, and
abusing the Middle and Eastern
States, the South American, the English,
and the French Governments, for abolish |
ng the institution, and very sagely charg- |
ng that it was done through sheer hatred
IF Democracy, it concludes as follows:
meanwhile, other European govern
nents having American possessions, have
ldopted the free negro policy OF England,
rom the same monarchial instinct OF hos
iiity to our system. Rvbcsrierle and the !