Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-16
Can His be EawalIed!

The fact that the leading Dem ocrats
in the Souyh--Governors Senator'S, Mem
bers of Congress, editors and conventions,
have declared in favor of the revival of
the Slave Trade, is as notorious as popular
intelligence; and that thousands of negroes
are being shipped from Africa, can no
longer be denied The effect of these
things upon the Democratic party at the
North is ruinouS to their hopes of longer
retaining the votes Of the honest portion
of the party, In this emergency, some
thing must be done to dupe the people, or
the party is hopele8sIy crushed out BY the
public indignation, and the case being a
desperate one, the leaders have resorled to
a desperate remedy.
OF all the bold and preposterous false
hoods ever invented TO deceive. they have
invented and are now propagaung the
most andacious. Ii is nothing less than
the deliberate assertion that the slaye-trade
thus opened, is doIe by the Anti slavery
leaders Of the Republican party! We as
sure our readers that such is the fact; and
that they may see the estimate in which
the Democratic editors hold, either the
honesty or intelligence of their patrons, we
copy from the N. Y. Herald" his new
est invention. 1t is as follows:
ga number of Anti-slavery Republican
leaders IN the Nor,h entered into a secret
confederacy to embark in the slave-trade,
the object being two-told: first, mercan-
tile speculation, by which plenty of money
might be realized, while at the same time
it would injure the hated shareholders of
the S nth by glutting the market, and
thus reducing the price ofnegroes: second,
a political scheme to overthrow the Demo
cratic parry in the next Presidential cleo
ton, by bringing the slave traffic TO light,
and charging our government with conni-
vance at it, while the conspirators took good
care to cover up their own tracks. This
plan Of operation is this: The managers
BUY up fast sail ng, beautiful yachts in
New York, which from their small size,
their snow white sails, their rig and ap-
pearance as pleasure boats are never sus-
pccted. These can 60 into the shallowest
waters, where they cannot be pursued by
ships of war, even if they do become OBJ
jects of suspicion, and should one Of them
be caught, the value is comparatively
small, and the escape of SO many others
will amply compensate for the loss. Thus
the northern A boliiionists have been doing
a thriving business, and when it is broken
up at last, it will be turned to excellent ac-
count for the Presidential campaign. The
Democratic government will be denounced
through all the moods and lenses for
winklng at the inhuman traffic in flesh
and blood and the foremost and 6ercest
among the denouncers will be Thurlow
Weed. The cat. however is now out of
the bag, and We trust that government
cruisers will keep sharp look out for his
slavers, both on the African coast and
among the reefs Of Florida, and that the
'whied sepulchres' will be turned ins de
out, and the prophet at Albany, who de-
llvered his oracular responses in the Jour
nal" be stripped Of his veil, and his true
lneaments exhibited to his followers and
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