Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-08-10

1891, Boston edition, 1859, we find the.
following: "In the very fist session
held under the Republican Government,t the
Assembly passed a law for the perpetual
prohibition of the importation of slaves.
This will, in some measure, stop the IN
crease of this great political and moral
eviE, while the minds of our citizens may |
be ripering for a complete emancipation Of
human nature" Page 03.
Again, Jefferson. says in the same
volume .'f'hsre must Jpubtless be an
unhappy influence on the manners Of our
people, produced by the existence Of slavery
among us. The whole commerce 6etVeen
master and Stare Is a perpetual exercise of
the most JoiSterous PaSSionS-the most
unremiHiny de$potisnt on tho one part. and
degrading submission on the other. Our
children see this, and learn to initiate it
for man i S an initiative animal.
"The parent storms, the child looks on,
catches the lincaments of wrath, puts on
the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves,
gives loose rein TO the worst of passions,
aud, thus nursed, educated, and daily er
ercised IN tyranny, cannot 6W be stamped
,Oith It's odiOuS peculidritieS. lie must be
prodigy who can retain his manners and
morals undeproved by such circumstances.
And with what EMIGRATION should the
statesman be loaded. who, permitting one
half the citizens thus TO trample on the
rights of the other, transforms those into
despots and these into enemies, destroys
the morals of the one part and the amor
patrice (love Of country of the other, for
3 If slave can have acountry in this world,
it must be any other in preference to that
in which he is born to live and labor for
another in which he must lock up the
faculties of his nature, contribute, rs fal
as depends on his individual endeavors, to
the evanishment of the human race, oil
entuH lis 0Wn miserable condition on the
endless generations proceeding from him
With the morals of people, their indus
:, try is also destroyed, for, in warm climate
=, : no man will labor for himself. who car
make another labor for him. This is 81
true, that of the proprietors of slaves /
very small proportion. indeed, are eve
seen to labor. And can the liberties Of {
nation be Mouyu secure, ,CAen ece hare re
=, n,oped Mer only firm baSis-o cOnVictio'
IN tile minds of tie p'ople that these Hder
ties are tile gift Of God? Indeed, 1 tren
-; 6e tor n,y country achem reject that Go
is Just, Mut his justice connot sleep for
eVer !; that, considering numbers, nature
and natural means only, a revolution c
" the wheel OF fortune, an exchange of situa
; ;, ton is among possible events !; that it ma
r. become 1roJdJIe by supernatural inteJe'
g. g. ence! Tile AImighty has no oHribul
-. vhich can take side with as IN s~cA a con
~ test. X
:, al think a change already perceptibl'
H. since the origin of the preseNt Revolution
:; The sririt of the master is abating, tn
~ of the slave rising flom the dust, his col
~ diton modifying, the acay I hope prep
-, ring, under the auspices of Heaven, for
H. total emancipation, aud that this Is di
49, posed, in the order Of events to be wi
-. the consent of the masters, rather than
-, their extirpation." Pages l69-l7l.
,rs In plan of a Constitution for Virgin
70 drawn up by Jefferson in 1888, we fiji
leo that they were not ''to permit the introdu
.,. ton of any more slaves in that State,
-, the continuance of slavery beyond t
49,, generation which shall (should) be livi
,on on the thirty-frst day of December, o
of thousand eight hundred-aH persons DO
roc after Mat day, being hereby declared free
an Page 22G-Notes on Va.
II. In vol. st, Of Jefferson's Correspon
ence, the following may be read "T
owe bill on the subject of slaves was m'
on, digest of existing laws respecting the
ing without any intimation of plan fol
.ca. future and general emancipation. 1t "
nth thought better that this should be k
at back, and attempted only by way of amer
of ment, whenever the bill should be brous
still on. The principles of the amendme
ern however, were agreed on ; that is to S
der the freedom of all born after certain d
heir and deportation at a proper age. But
yet was found that the public mind would
iers yet bear the proposition, nor will it beal
ates even at this day get tile day is not .
ton distant whex IL must bear and ADOPT H.,
60. aUorse cjH .tozlo,C. Nothing is more
,ub- toi,,ly ,Oritten IN tie book of fate, than
by these pc pile are to beJree ) nor is 1t
A. certain that the two races, equally f
rent cannot live in the same Government.
dis ture, habit, opinion, have drawn indell