Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-17
THE HoMEsTEAD--sEN. GREEN.

passed by the House of Representatives
in Congress, and how fercely it was as
sailed by the shareholders and their
Northern allies in the Senate. A coun-
try where the laborers own the land they
till, in moderate quantities, is no place
for the drivers of slaves And hence the
intense hatred of the propagandists to
any measure which will enable poor
white men to become independent-
While the bill was before the Senate,
Green of Missouri, was the leader of those
who opposed it. In a speech made
against the bill, he said
What Is there honest in qivinq ma
property aaoay to some poor, infamous
scoundreR DO 1t # you dare. I defy
you. DO III DO M DO 1T You uote
oscay n.y property to the lazzaroni-to the
Infamous scoundrezs s0ho soon't aoork for a
living, because you aoant their potes. You
may get them, but they aoiU spit on you. "
The strangest exhibition of human ma
ture, to our apprehension, is to see men
in Ohio, where there is no law to crush
out their manhood, making themselves
the voluntary tools of those who hold
them in such supreme contempt. The
thing would be wholly incredible, if au-
thentic history did not demonstrate that
servility is one of the darkest and most
humiliating badges of mans fallen and
degraded state. The world over, the
tendency of multitudes is to worship
power-to fawn on the successful wrong
doer-to crouch in the presence of impu-
dent assumption-to be, in short, the
slaves, in some form, of the selfish and
arrogant.
Go to the most savage nation on earth,
and you will find the strongest and most
selfish, daubing himself with mud of an
extra color, Or hanging in his nose a
bigger bone than his fellows, and pro-
claiming himself thereby superior to all
others, and straightway whole tribe will
bow their necks to his heel, and consider
it an immortal honor to be the slave of
the great chieftain. He may slaughter
whom he pleases, may seize any or all
of the common people and fog, drive,
barter, sell, work, and even eat them at
at his will, AMI no one murmurs. At
his command the father would sacrifice
his son, the mother her daughter, and
children their parents. No caprice of
his will, but will be obeyed-no whim
of his rude fancy but is applauded
But, you say these people are savages,
and don't know any better Well, sup
pose We go step higher. France is by
no means savage nation. Yet you there
see bold, daring, desperate, ambitious
man, tampering with the army until it
is corrupted to his will, and then, see
the streets of the proudest city in the
world run blood for weeks, at the COM
mand Of this usirper. See the thousands
of willing tools volunteering to do his
bidding, even to the murder of the best
citizens of the country. Men oflearning,
vieing with each other for the privilege
of being his most plant instrument
it the highest of earthly hon
ors to obey his most imperious COM
mands. Thousands Of the purest, best
and noblest men and women are hurried
to the scaffold on suspicion that they
were not willing to be slaves. Thou
sands more arc thrown into loathsome
dungeons to die unknown; and still
other thousands are sent into returnless
exile to wear out their miserable lives
in penal colonies. And men shout in
the train of this monster, because, and
simply because, he has the audacity to
treat them as serfs and inferior beings.
But, if you don't like France as an IL
lustration, just cross the channel to Eng
land, the land of our own ancestors, and
claiming to be the most enlightened ma
ton in the world, and what do you find?
Many ages ago, noted "fillibuster," !"
called civilian the Conqueror," with
horde of armed robbers, came to that
country, and after shedding rivers of
blood, amidst the ruins of smoking cities
and general devastation, divided up the
land, and inhabitants as we'll, among his
bandit followers; and now, after centu-
ries have passed, the descendants of these
robbers are called "Lords, " and by "Di-
vine right" rule the mighty British ma
ton, and the toiling millions, whose an
cestors were robbed Of their all, and
reduced to serfs, are found
shouting themselves hoarse at the sight
of one of these "lords," and esteem it an
honor to be dressed up like
clown and act the ''footman' or "fugle-
man" to 'his lordship."
If these things were not so, the con-
duct of many of our people would be
past all belief. Some century or two
ago, some other "fllibusters went to
Africa, and, setting the towns on fire,
seized upon the frightened inhabitants
and shipping them to this country, sold
them as slaves. And although the self
evident truths of human rights and
Democratic Government have been here
proclaimed for three generations; and al
though education has become widely diff
fused, and the right of men to think for
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