Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-30
Jo,,n nIItche,.

has made some stir IN the world, and tries
still to make stir. John is not only pat
riot, but an Irish patriot! Some years ago,
John "shrieked for freedom in ireland,
until he stirred up a mighty commotion
there. John said the people were op-
pressed-that oppression was wrong, was
wicked, was of the devil. John said
terrible things about oppression and op-
pressors. John taught that an oppressed
people had the right, and that it was their
duty to throttle their oppressors, and throw
off the yoke, and to hear this kind of
preaching the people Of Ireland flocked
around him by thousands, and John was
going, incontinently, to throttle England
throw o IF the yoke from the necks Of
his countrymen--break the rod of the
oppressor, and let the downtrodden go
free! And so John became patriot! And
it must be confessed, for it is true, that
John was great orator as we'll as patriot.
Johns speeches were read wherever the
English language was read, and the friends
of freedom and Ireland learned to bless
the name of John Mitchell. the patriot !
They did so, for they believed him honest,
and friend of freedom.
So, John went on preaching destruction
to all oppressors, until England, one day,
caught him and sent him to Botany Bay
for sediion. John was now greater pat
riot than eyer, because he was prosecuted.
John had the real, hearty sympathy of
every true lover of freedom in this country
John knew this, and so he watched his op-
portunity, and the first chance he got, he
ran away-absconded, and came to the
United States tugitive.
But, John, like many other patriots, had
the prudence TO look out for number one.
John wanted Office in his own country but
couldn't getit Ofcourse, he wanted the
same thing when he came to this country,
for isn't it the very soul of patriotism to
serve ones country? so,John saw that the
road to promotion was through the Demo
cratic party, and the merit that lead to pro-
motion in that party, WAS cordial, Or at
least a pretendedly cordial support of
slopery.
So, among the first of Johns acts in
this country, was the publication of an ad-
dress in which he denounced all true
friends Of liberty, pledged himself, soul
and body, TO the most fanalical support of
slavery, and declared 1t the uttermost wish
and prayer of his heart that he might be
able to become slareEoldert
John was then in New York, where he
had commenced the publication of the
"Citizen," but he went so far beyond our
ordinary dough.faces in his utter servillty.
that he couldn't sustain his paper there,
and so he removed it and himself to
Tennessee, where he is now preaching De-
mocrScy. Disan;oe, and the revival of the
slave true.
Democracy and slaveryis one and in
separable, according TO patriot John, and
he claims that all Irishmen are Democrats.
He says, in his last paper, that there isn't
An Irishman in America that wouldn't be
a STAKEHOLDER, If lie could In this we be-
lieve he ISLANDERS many of his countrymen.
But he says such is the fact, and to ac-
commoda.e them and the rest of the De-
mocracy with cheap niggers, John the
patriot. is fierce for the re-opening of the
African s loUe trade.
He is not only fierce for it himself, but
he maintains that the project is popular,
that the entire Democracy are readily in fa-
vor oft, although some OF them are afraid
TO avow it yet. And not only the Democ-
racy of the whole country, but the South
ern Know Nothings, he says, are in favor
of it---that they like Know -Nothingism,
to be sure, but that they like cheop niggers
better"
We give an extract or two from this part
of his theme, as follows:
"John McRae has not only been cleo
ted as member of Congress from Mis-
sssippi, to take the place of General Quit
man, but has been elected triumphantly,
HIS even ~ a. SAtClIJ
pnrties,and all by his plain straight forward
advocacy of the slave-trade with Africa
In one county, where the people are almost
all Know Nothings, McRae,a "a strong Demo
crat. bad almost every vote. KnowNoth.
ipgism, they think, is good, but negroes
st 800 are better.
"In South Carolina. rs our Charleston
correspondent informs us, Mr.. Spratt has
been elected to the State Legislature by q
large majority; and Mr.. Pettigrew has
failed of his election. Well. who is Mr.
Spratt, and who is Mr.. Pettigrew? Why,
tie first is n man who desires to give in
dustrious farmers chance to buy cheap
negroes. 1t is true this issue was not ex-
pressly made in the South Carolina eltc-
lions; they are very prudent people in that
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