Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-09
TcxaS-The African Slave Trade
and the Germans.
T. MONTAGUE, Sec'y.

The leaders of the Democratic party
find it extremely difficult to retain the
German voters in their ranks. These emf
grants having faith in real Democracy,
and finding on their arrival here, party
in possession of the name, are naturally at
lracted 10 it. This, in connection with
the efforts of the party, generally secures
the votes of the great mass, as soon as
they become naturalized.
Thousands, however, and the number is
increasing every year, are investigating the
position Of the parties for themselves, and,
as consequence, are swelling the ranks
Of the great Republican organization.
And we confidently believe that the time
is not distant when they will, almost, if
not quite, unanimously y enroll themselves
in the ranks Of the true friends Of freedom
and progress.
Naturally industrious and proverbially
economical and provident, they cannot
forever fail to perceive that whatever de-
grades and debases labor, has necessary
tendency to degrade them, and stands in
opposition to their real interests. That a
system Of Slave Labor has this effect, is
so plain that no man with ordinary inteli-
gence can be SO blind as not to see. Con-
sequently, but few in comparison to the
whole number Of German emigrants, have
heretofore, settled in the Slave States, and
of those, it is very rare that any one ever
becomes an actual Shareholder. Depend
ing upon their own industry for building
up their homes and fortunes in the land
of their adoption, they feel an innate re-
pugnance to the competition and rivalry
of the labor Of slaves. Besides, in any
country where slave labor is employed, the
master class, from education and habit,
looks upon all who labor as in the social
position of their slaves, aud treat them ac-
cordngly. This, to the honest worker, is
an ever present insult. from which there
is no hope Of escape except in the change
of the system.
But in the last few years mullitudes Of
these emigrants have found their way into
the slave States, and espec ally into Mis-
souri, and Texas. There, although op-
posed to slavery as system of labor, they
have still said but little about it, and act.
ing with the Democratic party for the
most part, the leaders have taken it for
granted that they were too stupid to see their
schemes. and that nothing coald induce
them to vote any other ticket. But these
quiet and industrious people have seen the
position the party is assuming on the ques
ton of the African slave trade, and are be-
ginning to meet it with determined spirit,
that will soon tell with terrible effect on
the Democratic party.
The slave holders, who use the machin-
cry Of the, party to carry out their pu'po |
ses, insist that The labor of those States
shall be performed by slaves. and that for
the purpose of stocking the almost illimi-
table area Of those States, the s1ave-trade
shall be revived, and wild savages from
Africa imported by the million, to crowd
out the German from his new found home.
They agree that all that is needed to ac-
complish this object is "cheap negroes and
plenty of them," and these can be had for
the stealing, il only the laws, passed in the
purer days Of the Republic, against the in
fernal atroeity, can be repealed.
The Germans are beginning to see the
great and incontroverlable truth that the
conflict is between two antayonislIe and
forever irreconciable systems, and that
they lave been, and 10 a great extent,