Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-01-03
Seward md old Joshua r. Giddings,
and, in pmmon with every genuine DEM
Eoerat I lscard them all.

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and, in pmmon with every genuine Dem
Ioesat | lseard them all,
Washington and Madison were butlit-
tie better}upon this point than the Bible
and Jefferson. The first declared thatit
was one of his '.greatest desires to see
some plan adopted for the abolition of
slavery; and that for such plan he
was ever ready to vote. Finally, upon
his death-bed, when his mind should
have been upon the future rather than
the present, he set the pernicious ex-
ample of abolitionism to the whole civ
ili2ed world, by freeing every slave
which he owned. The second boldly
asserted, athat where slavery exists Re
publicanism is fallacious;' and that ey-
cry addition of slaves to this country
"only tends to aoeaken 1t and render it
less capable Of self defense. - These au-
thorities are clearly abolition in their
character, and, of course, not climbing"
upon the conscience of any good Demo-
crat. Having now sweptaway the ready
subterfuge of names behind which you
were SO fast to shield yourself, we can
meet the question upon its merits, un-
trammelled by the obsolete, and I wish,
forgotten dicta of the past
Upon the truth or falsity Of the fol-
lowing propositions, the whole ques-
ton, as I conceive, must turn:
1st. Whatever benefits a particular
class of men, without injuring any other
class, is right.
I'd. To make the black race white, is
a decided benefit to the blacks, and no
injury to the whites.
3D.. Slavery, as it now exists in our
country, accompishes this end more eff
fectually than any scheme ever devised
by the wisdom of man.
4th. Therefore, slavery as it exists
here is right.
presume the first proposition Lhave
stated will be admitted upon al hands,
and, therefore, it is needless to argue it..
Upon the second, however, I suspect
there will be some controversy; although
to melt all seems plain enough. Ger
tainly, no man can doubt that it is not
only duty, but a glorious privilege, to
be the humble instrument in the hands
of Divine Providence of aiding in anne
liorating the miserable condition of an
unfortunate portion of our race It is
well known to be the delight of thou
sands of the noble sons of the South, to
engage in the self-denying but philan-
thropic employment of changing the sa-
bic hue of Africa's benighted sons to
even more than Anglo white. And are
they injured thereby? Are they less white
than before? By no meansl On the
contrary, the white population of the
slave States, in addition to its natural
increase, is constantly receiving valua-
bic acquisitions from the rapidly bleach
ing ranks of their slaves; thus proving,
sconclusively, that the benevolent exer-
tions OF men Tor the COED of
lows, are ever abundantly rewarded.
But in this I am almost anticipating
/ my third proposition, that slavery, most
effectually of all means, accomplishes SO
glorious an end. Here l might rest the
argument upon officially reported facts
alone. Every intelligent man knows,
that according to the census of 1850, our
sister State, the "0ld Dominion, had
more whitened Africans, or mulattoes,
than all the free States put together, thus
proudly and triumphantly demonstrating
the unapproachable superioritysef sla-
very in this respect. But whenwe come
to look around upon all the other slave
States, beholding equally glorious and
successful results, the evidence becomes
cumulative; it staggers the most skepti-
lcal; while the devout believer in the
bhteousness of slavery is ready to ex-
claim with Simeon of old: sNow Lord,
lettest thou thy servant depart in peace,
for mine eyes have beheld thy glory 80
It was the policy of the old Roman
statesmen when their government was
marching forward in her almost unri-
vailed success in foreign conquest, to
transform the inhabitants of conquered
provinces from rude. barbarians with
scarcely the forms of a government, into
citizens of imperial Rome; thus, at once,
creating an identity of interests between
the conqueror and the conquered, which
more than all things else contributed to
maintain the long ascendancy of the
seven hilled city over the civilized world.
But this signal stroke of governmental
policy sinks into insignifcance, when
compared with the master stroke of man
agement by which a poor, black, de-
graded, heather grandfather is enabled,
before the grave closes over his sooty
lump of mortality, to behold sprightly
grandchild, as white as his benevolent
master and father In short, we feel safe
in challenging the history Of the world,
for another social system which will eff
feet as much in this direction, as is ad-
mitted upon the part of slavery. Brit