Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-04-19


offense, that father was indicted in the
United States Court, presided over by
United States Judges, and under United
States laws, for har6oringo a sldvei That
father, for that otfense, has been convicted,
and must wear out his life among lelons
in United States prison, built and main
tanned at the cost of the people of the
United States! And this is chivalry. 1t
is the special mission of Democracy to
spread such institutions over all the land!
And in the train of such leaders, men in
Ohio are expected to march to the music
of the cof1e and the chain gang. But
will they?
STAND FROM UNDER.
Let every body hide in the
clefts of the rocks until the fearful
crisis is past. Surely the people of
these United States and the rest of man
kind must be sunk in after stupidity or all
cheeks would be blanched al the appalling
ruin which is impending over them. But
perhaps some one will ask for the occasion
of so much alarm?
Well, good friends, we will tell you in
brief. The Government is threatened
with an insurrection 50 formidable as to
endanger its very existence, and nothing
but the ever-watchful vigilance of chiv-
alrous Democracy could have prevented
the dire calamity.
| Most ofour readers know that the Meth
odist e Church own large "Book Con-
cern" IN Cincinnati from which certain
Ministers, as Agents OF the Church, issue
sundry publications, among which are the
Western Christian Advocate" and the
Ladies' Repository" Well,cerain Meth
odists in Virginia had the intolerable au-
dacity to subscribe for these publications,
and these Agents had the malice of heart
to send them to their address! and herein
consists the enornitY Of the thing! These
papers, as every good Democrat must
know, are incendiary publications. and
calculated to incite the slaves to insurrec-
papers were sent, there are, or were at the
last enumeration, ten slaves consisting of
two men, two women, and six babies!
These papers, although the slaves never
heard tell of them. had a tendency to in
cite the aforesaid slaves to insu,rection.
And if these ten slaves, and especially the
h. hoI ~. Il a. n 4
Dominion in the blood of her noble states
men, the fearful struggle would not have
been confined to that State alone, but
would doubtless have involved the whole
country and perhaps the world in one vast
and indistlnguishable catastrophe. So
near were we upon the verge of the preci
of that county had taken several mum bers
of the aforesaid inceudiary documents be-
fore their crimes became known to the
Democratic Vigilance Committee. But
rs the fact of any one i'll that famous Com
monwealth being able to read renders him
an object Of suspicion, and these Metho
course watched with the most patriotic
survilance, and were taken in the very
fact Of reading the aforesaid Advocate"
and "Repository"
The next step was of course TO burn the
papers, and then, to the Grand Jury room,
where as we learn from the Advocate"
the editor and the Agents of the "Book
Concern" were duly indicted for publish
ing in Cincinnati, and causing to be crcu-
lated in the said Commonwealth of Vir-
ginia, matter calculated to produce insur-
recLion among the slaves aforesaid! And |
SO the impending calamity is averied for !
the present; and if Governor Chase will |
only send over the aforesaid editor
and Book Agents to receive the Just pun
ishment due to their enormous crimes, the
Country will doubtless be saved from the
smash up.
But as it is doubtful whether Governor
Chase will perform this little service of
comfy, would it not be well for the
Dem ocratic State Central Committee ofI
Ohio to sieze the criminals and deliver
them safely to their brethren in Virginia?
No doubt The Democratic State Conven-
lion next month will nominate a candidate
for Gov. who would do the bidding of his |
Virginia masters, but the chvalry we fear
will have TO want Il long time before he is
elected by the people of Ohio, to perform
this service.
Standardization.
A question of some importance has re-
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