Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-30
BY orlef Of the Committee.
III. L. SIBLEY, Sec.
Forth Meigs County Telegraph.
t.Ht is So."

I'D. of LtLEGKAPH-De0r Sf.-ln
the course Ola conversation with Mr..
Bates, Chairmsn Of the Democratic Cen
trail Committe$for Meigs County, on the
day of the Galipolis mass meeting, as.
serted that theNmocatic party ispledged,
by its National platform, to the doctrine
thatthe FugitissShye Act is irrepeaiabte.
Mr.. B. denied that such was the fact. i
told him feltFpostive in regard to the
matter, and thai to set it beyond doubt 1
would publish ihe "Plank" in question,
with your pelmission, for the benefit
of call whom il may concern" / most
certainly did not intend to misrepresent
the truth, as believe that, in politics as
in all things elsa "honesty is the best pol
icy." And then, you know, Mr.. Editor,
thst just at this time the truth cuts the
Democratic patty about as severely as any
two-edged sword.
But leaving'his, / would respectfully
invite the attention of Mr.,Bates, together
with the people bf our county, of all par
ties, to the tolpwing resolution, which
was adopted blythe National Democratic
Convention, hell at Baltimore, June lst,
1862, and that held at Cincinnati, May
god, 1856. 1t reads: "f
"That the foregoing proposition covers
and was intended to embrace the whole
subject of slavery agitation in Congress,
aud therefore the Democratic party Of the
Un'on standing on this national platform,
aoW abide by, ard adhere to, faithful ex-
ecuton of the acts known as the Compro-
mise Measures, settled by the Congress Of
1850, THE ACT FOR kECLAIMINGeFUGITIvE
FROM SERVICE OR LABOR INCLUDED which
act being designed to carry out an express
provision of the Constitution, cannot, with
Jfdelity thereto, be REPEALED, OR so
CHANGED as to destroy or IMPAIR its
efficiency
If the above resolution does not pledge
the Democratic party to the eternal per-
petuity of theinfamous Fugitive Slave Act,
| confess Iasgn at a loss to know what
would. Thefsnures of the contract by
which they have thus ANONYMOUSLY
bound themselves to carry out The nefari-
Gus designs Of the slave power, are surely
as strong as language can make them. II
Democracy rules, the act which lays the
freemen of the free States liable at any mo-
ment to be ordered out bya Federal officer
to aid in slave-hunting, and which pays the
expense that may thereby accrue, FROM
his own hard earnings, is so sacred and
holy in Democratic eyes that it cannot be
"repealed" or SO changed as to destroy or
even IMPAIR its present efficiency, without
a violation of the Constitution of the
United States! Could subserviency to the
interests of slavery go further OR deeper
in the revolving work or self degradation?
1t seems to me not.
But the sin grows even blacker when
we look at the other side. When law
of Congress favors freedom rather than
slavery, although like the Missouri Com
promise, it may have been sanctioned by
the common voice Of the country for more
than one-third of century, vet in the
Aflicanizeu eyes of Democracy, its sacred.
ness is gone, and ruthless hands" are
found to labor for, and finally effect its
repeal. No wonder that individual Dem
ocrats, Ike Mr. Bates, are ashamed of the
utter pro-slavelyism of their own party
II l Judge the people Alright, on the second
Tuseday in October, thousands Of Demo.
cratswill testify their disgust of pretended
Democracy by voting the Republican
ticket. Respectfully.
H. L. SIBLEY.
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