Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-09

~ e' swung WIN VIC parry WHICH useo
the power their votes give it, TO build up
an institution which strikes at the very vi
tails of free labor, and which will, inevi,a-
bly,, if not soon checked, strike at the
rights of the laborer everywhere, regard
less Of color, cline or country.
AS this conviction slowly but surely
finds Judgement in the determined minds
OF the German voters, they will turn upon
those who have so long deceived and used
them for the accomplishment of their most
fanatical schems, with force and power
that will be an everlasting prostration of
the party.
Indications of the coming storm are
clearly seen in the present political move
ments in Missouri and Texas. In the
latter State especially, is the way prepar-
ing for the contest which Is to decide be-
tween the two systems. The Germans are
going in by hundreds, and if met with a
generous welcome, would soon cover the
broad prairies of that Empire State with
all the wealth and improvement which
ever follows in the wake OF free labor on
such soil and in such climate. The
slave holders, on the other hand, are not
only holding out the highest inducements
10 the owners of negroes fromall our own
States to drive them to her virgin soil,
but are clandestinely, and even openly
shipping them from Africa, in defiance of
law, aud are clamoring for the repeal of
all prohlbtory en0ctments, that they may
flood the land with them in such numbers,
that the price Of labor will be reduced to
such a standard that no free man can ever
rise to q condition of comfort, much less
of afflueuce. We do not say that such is
the motive OF all individual Shareholders,
but that such is the wish Of many Of the
selfish aristocrats among them, and is the
necessary tendency of the system, and the
policy pursued by them is beyond a doubt
1t is claimed that with the renewal of the
slave trade, they could land millions of
negroes from Africa al 800 each, and
could feed them at a cost of less than $50
a year aflerward. And the calculation is
doubtless correct.
Now let any man reflect for one mo-
ment on the effect. Let il be remembered,
that before community can consent to go
into this diabolical trade at all, thev
must have arrived at that state of supreme
selfshness which totally ignores the rights
and interests of Others in the intense pur.
pose of gratifying their own desires. TIE
wants OF community require a certain
amount of labor; according TO the demand
for the products of that labor will be its
reward, ifthe laborers are free. Take our
own busy, working town as an example.
Here are, say thousand men employed
at an average salary Of five hundred dollars
a year. Now if they could be bought, soul
and body, for one hundred, and fed for less
than twenty dollars year, their owners
could afford to work them to death, and
supply their places with new gangs every
six months. Now, what chance would
the present population of workers have in
competition with such system? But
such is precisely the conflict between the
Two systems of free ard slave labor-a COLI
fiict which can never cease until one or
the other is a',andoned. And yet, strange
to say, thousands of working men vote
al d act with a party whose leaders are
striving with sleepless vigilance to curse
the fares. portions Of our country--nay,
the whole co,.ntry--with this system. 50
deadly to the ,nte, ests Of free labor!
Bat we have digre.s e.ssed from our main
which was to show by extracts
from various papers that th>4 antagonsm
If the Two systems is beginning to De un-
lerstood, and SO far as il is seen and a,npre-
;iated, the forces on either side are be,l'g
into line for the impending cri-
lis. But we have not Time or room to pur-
'ue the subject further to-day, and must
leler The extracts to another time.
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