Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-06-21
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For tho Moigs Co. Telegraph.
slavery Rules Every thing.

eTJ VINO aSSulHe 10 acJ rs inc leaders oil
the honest masses Of Northern Democracy,
are raising their voices in one bowling
'shriek" of notification and "treason"
against the immortal "ten thousand free
men, who recently assembled in Cleve-
land to protest against the atrocious usur-
pations of the odious and unconstitutional
Fugitive Slave Act. Such demonstra-
lion by so vast an assembiage of the liberty
loving and law abiding citizens of Ohio,
fills the craven souls Of these spineless
demagogues with indescribable terror 1t
is "Mene Tekel." the portent of which
it needs no Daniel to unfold They feel
with terrible power that they have been
weighed in lhe balance and found want
ing" Hence their desperate attempt to
alarm the intelligent people Of Ohio with
senseless and almost insane yells of nulli
tication and treason!
The pretense for this unearthly howl Of
holy horror, is to be found in the following
resolution adopted at the Cleveland meet
ing:
"That the several States comprising the
United States If America are not united
on the principle of etnlimited submission
to their General Government; but that, by
compact, under the style and title of a
Constitution for the United States. and of
amendments thereto, they constituted a
General Government for certain definite
powers, reserv;mg eacA State lie resiauary
mass of yight 10 Meir oaOn sell ei/,gOvernnaOnt;
and that whensoever the General Govern
ment assumes undelegated powers, its acts
a.. ... e
(and being void can derive no validity from
mere judicial interpr etation;) that to this
compact each State acceded as a State, md
is an integral party; that this Government,
created by this compact, was not made the
exclusive or final Judge of the extent of
the powers delegated to itself, since that
would have made its discretion and not
the Constitution the measure Of its powers;
but that, AS in all other cases of compact
among parties having 10 common Judge,
each party has an equal right to Judge for
itself, as well Of infractions as Of the mode
and measure of redress"
The alb We resolution is an exact copy,
(except the line included in parenthasis,)
Of The first Of the famous Kentucky reso-
lulions of Nov. 10, 1898, the original
draft Of which was prepared by Thomas
Jefferson! (See Elliot's Debates, VOL 4,
page $40
The Democratic National Conventions
of 1852 and 1856, both resolved as fol
lows:
"That the Democratic party will faith
fully abide by and uphold the principles
laid down in the Kentucky and Virginia
resolutions of 1898 and 1899, and in the
report of Mr.. Madison to the Virginia
Legislature in 17o9-that it adopts these
principles as constituting one of the main
foundations Of its political creed, and is
resolved to carry them out in their obv-
Gus meaning and import"
The intelli gent voters Of Meigs County
will now be prepared to judge Of the sin
cerity Of the partisan demagogues who
have echoed the cry of treason and null-
ficatlon against the "ten thousand who
were assembled in Cleveland to protest
against corrupt and tyrannical combna
ton of Federal office holders, to trike
down our common liberties and rights
If their action was treason, then Jefferson
was a traitor, and the Democratic National
platform is fountain of reasonable doc
trines. If their doctrines are nullifying
in their tendencies, Jefferson was a null-
efier, and the Democratic platform is the
great stronghold of notification. Cne
or the other of these things is true, and
hence the miserable, hypocritical attempt
TO deceive and alarm the honest masses of
the law abiding citizens of Ohio will only
add one more to tie extended list of crimes
for which the people will soon condemn
its dishonest office ce-hunting authors. The
time IS rapidly passing away when the de-
ceptive artifces of political chicanery can
control or direct the honest voters Of our
nation. Truth and Justice are fast assert
ing their merited supremacy, while false
hood and Misrepresentation have long since
been shorn Of their power, Everything
conspires 10 awaken hope in the bosom ofI
the patriot and christian, that the right
will finally be gloriously rumphant--that
the pacemen, the wicked and corrupt
partizans who now rule but to make the
people mourn--wilI be called to account
for their unjust stewardship" and cast
from those high places which they are in
no wise worthy to fill, down, darn to
an ignominious political grave.
But there is reason for this bold at
tempt to deceive the people. The Ken
tucky resolution of 1898, which the Ceve-
land meeting adopted. was originally di-
rected against the assumption of undele
gated powers by Congress in the charter
ing of the first National Bank, in 1891,
and the passage Of the celebrated, but
justly obnoxious "Alen and Sedition
Laws" Of 1898. 1t was an assertion of
the rights Of the Safes, in contra-distinc
ton ~ the centralizing tendencies of the
Federal Government. jefferson was Its
author, and the moving spirit in its pro-
mitigation, and it was one Of the issues Of
the great contest of 1900, which resulted
III his election, and the consequent over
throw of the Federal party. Democracy
las wont, for years, to quote and apply its
doctrines against VIII at they regarded as
untenable assumptions on The part Of the
Federal GnVerun,.n.