Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-10-03


der, or rather the Buchaneer advice offer
ed. They offered to buy Cuba, but did
not, under the highwaymen's plea, proceed
to wrest it from Spain. IfMr. Buchanan
shall be elected President, be will, if the
statements of his friends can be believed,
proceedto to carry out his rufian policy frob .
bing Spain Of Cuba, thus involving US
in q war with half the world, and covering
our name with inetfable disgrace. o. ',-'
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SECESSION AS IT WAS AND IS,--ln 1929,
when the Missouri question was in deba.e,
Mr.. Calhoun said to John Quincy Adams,
that he did "not believe thdttle question
then pending in Congress would produce
a dissolution Of the Union; butif il Should
the South would be, of necessity, com.
PEELED TO form an alliance, offensive and
defensive, with Great Blitain" Mr.. Ad-
ans asked if that would not be returning
to,"'the colonial state" Mr.. Calhoun said:
Yes. pretty much; but itwould b Sorced
, upon them Mr.. Adams then inquired,
| "whether he thought that if, by the effect
the North should be cut Off from its nat
l ural outlet upon the ocean, it would fall
back upon its rocks, bound hand and foot,
! to starye, or whether it would not retain
g its power OF locomoion to move south
, ward by land" Mr. Calhoun replied.
"Then it will be necessary for the South
S to make her communities all mill ary."
Thus this glorious plan Of going on, Of
The Union will result, according to EIr.
! Calhoun's opinion, first in a return to a
state of colonial subjection to Great Brit
ain; and secondly, 10 a hopeful independ-
ence under the military plowess of ,hree
! hundred thousand whites, to keep i'll sub
y lection three millions of slaves.
. The foregoing paragraph, taken from
Il tie address of the Hon. josiah Quincy,
:, and which presents the secession case as ii
i stood in the days of the Missouri Com
promise, is IN accurate picture Of it as
e shown in the writings Of the followers oi
q Mr.. Calhoun at the present time. The
IL foremost advocates of secession themselves
d admit that the South cannot stand alone
1t The moment she is severed from the Nortl
n she must make terms with some othc,
e power to which she will belong Full a,
le much as her own negroes, and for th'
. same reason, she requires an ownership
II a prolcctoiate strong enough to save he
Is hA her own institutions. TIE Richmond
e Enquirel-now the leading organ Of wha
nr is called Southern sentiment, exaggeiatc
d to insanity those idcas Mr.. Calhoun Tai;
v down above It's editor goes so f;,r as eve,
" to claim a difference of race, blood, ant
Sc origin, between the people Of the two sec
ve tions of the Union, in order to show tha
ne the continuance of federal relations be
Mt tween them is unnatural and therefore i'm
ne possible. He finds an organic incompati
s, bility between the Gothic tribes of til
n North and West, and the Celtic nation
that people the rich lands south Of til
of Potomac and Ohio, and talks of repea.in
a those struggles for empire upon the bank
he of the Ohio and Missouri, which.a thou
e. sand years ago We're wagad upon. those {
the Rhine and the Danube The idea {
,s changing the South into a nation of wal
No. riors is also reproduced, until, so vivid
a the picture that we can almost see Sparta
W. in every Southern country town, and bchol
A. innumemble lines of doughty heroes spring
, " ing from the loins of those potent milit
of Majors and Colonels with which that IL
be gion does so plentifully abound.
nr When foolish Fillmore and bombast
h Breckenridge, therefore, tell us that Il
,s South will not submit to the Administl'
a 4. ton of a President elected by Northei
i votes, we are able to understand precisel
~ what the South prefers to Legitimate go
10 eminent under the Constitution Of Il
bo United Sta,es--a fetuIn to condition
colonial dependence, and substitution ,
martial for municipal law. To those wi
On propose, in case of dissolution, to prohib
Il. ~ to the North the use of Southern product
Nv or who seem to think that the natural etie
u.s. of secession would be non-intelcourse,
u. NJ will not be unwise to present the questioI
W" In case the South turns its attention
"c war, how much is it likely she will ha'
a to sell? Peace especially ina slave coul
'rd try, and the most entire securi y of persC
ma and property, is necessary for the plodp
ns' ton of surplus transportation; and wh'
be. the whole force of the white population
ted employed to keep in order the ''cement
TO Southern society" the great conselNati'
&C. element of Southern Institutions" no
es, much more cotton and rice, and corn Al
nst tobacco will be produced than is necessa
VIZ to cover the backs and keep going d
'py jaws of that high-toned Celtic chival
vcd Which ,an harnlv no ovrne4ad ia bG, Gil