Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-05-10
THE TELEGRAPH.
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| Virginia and Kentucky" but for want Of
space; for it is in these States pal ticulary
in which the dreadful heresy has BECOME
universal. Democratic orators, for the
last fifteen years, have croaked themselves
hoarse over the fearful spread of this po-
| litical epidemic in the free States. Indeed,
it has been the text for all their sermons,
and they have so long spouted their mock
heroics over the theme that their ''one
idea" fanaticsm has become chronic; the
i'll success, however, attending their efforts
in this region, one would have supposed,
should have taught their Southern breth-
rem a salutary lesson. But it seems that
both the Democratic and American parties
at The South are trading on the capital that
has SO signally bankrupted them in the
North. We can only account for this sin
guar fact on the theory that such clap trap
is cheap, it requiring less brains to shout
"Abolitionist," 4" "Wooly Head" "Black-
Republican," &C., than to present argu-
ments to the reason and consciences of
men.
But, whatever the mot We, .he fact is,
the opposition papers in Virginia and Ken
lucky, without an exception so far as we
know, charge the Democracy Of those
States with the most frank, ultra, traitor
Gus Abolitionism," aud their orators, from
morn to dewy eve" shrek out in fren-
zied fustion, and in everlasting repetition,
| "Abolitionists" and "Aboltionism!''--
This is the sum and substance of every
article and every speech by the American,
or Opposition editors and stumpers, in
! the pending canvass in those States If
they tell the truth, the Democrats, there,
are the veriest Abolitionists that ever
Launted the dreams Of the 'patriarchs." ."
Garrison, and Abby Kelly are old Fogies
in compar son, and the Republicans are
made extreme conservatives by the con-
| trast.
On the other hand, the Democratic ed
| itors and stumpers, as unanimously charge
the Opposition with the same sin of un-
pardonable Abolitonism. If our readers
will call to mind any Democratic speech
made in this county for the last five or ten
years, and add to it the rant of southern
oratory, they will have the full argument
upon which that party is conducting the
campaign in the States named. The idea
that the masses Of the people have judy
ments to be convinced, or reason to be
exercised is wholly ignored, and the whole
reliance for success is based upon the
assumption that the voters are TO be moved
only By the most inhammatory appeals to
their unreasoning passions and absurd
prejudices, wrought into malignity by the
naugeating repetition of the slang terms
that are supposed to be most efficient for
the purpose designed.
A stranger reading these papers would
conclude tha' of all places in the world,
Virginia and Kentucky were the hot, beds
of some terrible conspiracy against the lib
erhes of mankind called "a bolitionism, -
and that the people of these States were
all stark made AboIiionists.
What m ust be the final consequences oI
such mode of political warfare? Every
human being in those States must know
that there is not one word of truth in the
untold thousands of articles and speeches
which make up the canvass. The whole
effort on both sides sorsists of series oi
known, admitted, transparent, patent lies
When the American charges the Demo
cratic party of those States with being
1J0luj0ni,tS, he knows that no human be-
ing will, for one moment, believe him, nor
does he expect or desire to be believed
and yet, excited crowds, listen by the
hour, to harangues which they know to be
untrue i'll every sentence, and cheer, in
widest applause, the most eXtravagan
ialsehoods, knowing them to be SUCH
And so with the Democratic speaker
While he is charging home upon the
American party the crime Of a bolitionsim
lie knows ull well that no man is so hope
lessly stupid as to believe that he i, speak
ing the truth. And yet, from day to day
he perambulates the State, repeating tht
stale falsehood to gaping and approving
crowds, who know that he is deliberately
uttering unlruths.
Can it be otherwise than that peopl,
so trained and educated-so habituated tc
live in an atmosphere Of falsehood should
come TO put good for evil and evil TO
good"
Is it any wonder that from such teach
ers and schooling The Fundamental truths
on which our institutions are bull. should
be deuied--that the Declaration Of Iude
pendence should be scornad as a fasehood