Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-02-03

the Crescent itself, books both written and
published. where there was no efiiciehtcen.
sorship exercised over the press / Yet.
Notwithstanding all the vigilance Of ex-
lpugating committees IN supervising the in
lyoices.of her booksellers, and after hay-
ing burnt ALI the papers, magazines and
novels coming from the North in which
the beauty and religion Of the patriarchal
institution were not duly acknowledged,
the sad and despaiiing confession is made,
that there is TO be found in the libraries of
her citizens whole shelves packed with in
cendiary publications.
| Fanaticism has become so wide spread,
that with the exception Of a book now and
then from the pen of the pious DR.. Adams
or DR.. Lord, who still manifest the purity
of their religion by their defence of slave
Iry, the entire issues Of the Northern press
are teeming with the most malignant mem
tai and moal poison. Scarcely minister
lis left in the North who is not an infdelat
heart, and the whole religious literature Of
the same section has become incipienl
lAtheisml The Divinity Of the 'patri-
archal institution" IS denied. and from
that fundamental heresy the descent is ca
sy and certain to black and damning apos-
ltacy! And the latent virus hrk in all
Northern books; and the old English clas-
Isles are no betterl And yetthey are alto
be found in magnificent morocco and gilt,
on the centre tables Of people who are per-
mitted to live in that goodly cityl
i But the just and terrible punishment
due to such persistant wickedness, the
Picayune says, will finally and surely over
/ take that devoted city for the crimes Of
her people in owning and reading such
7 books Every one of them. he says, il
not written, as most of them clearly were,
with that diabolical intent, has neverthe.
less the direct and necessary tendency to
"a,ray ehe children against their parents,
and the parents oguinst their childrenP
} And in this fearful contest will the threat
ened retribution fall upon their guilty
heads.
Now it seems to us that if the tendency
Of the literature of nearly all the world
is as the Picayune declares, to disrupt th'
society of New Orleans and the Scutl
generally, there must be, in the condition
of that society, a philosophy behind thu
fact stated which is not fully revealed il
the article under review. What is tha
philosophy? Suppose from one of thos'
splendid volumes Of Cowper on the centre
! tables Of her citizens some Of those "chil
dren'' should even chance to read
would not own slave to fan me while ]
sleep, and4tremble when ! wake, for al
fth6wealsh that sinews bought and solt
|lMveever won, what necessary tendenc.
, would it have to array these same "chil
! dren' against their parents !? The simpi
fact II such reading, without the philoso
ply behind it, does not answer tn
question. Perhaps the Picayune will ex
plain! We have theory on the subject
{ but have not time to give it to our readers
at present. We remember, however, tina
the Picayune man and his friends arr
s'patriarchs;;" and we remember, too, tina
a patrialch'of old, afterwhom they profes!
to copy, bad some trouble about a certain
"child" ofhis, even before there were any
incendiary publications abroad. And j
may be that the relation Of these moderr
'patriafchs" to some of their children il
ouch that the reading of the books so much
dreaded, would have the tendency attribu
ted to them.
We are, indeed, confirmed in this opin
4 ion by the following eloquent and pathetic
article, which we select from many Of sim
J Iilar import, from that old and respectable
journal, "1He Alerandria Gazette and Vir
ginia Advertiser."
S7000 REWARD. RAN AWAY
R1~OO from the subscribers on Sat
urday night, 18th inst negro man named
ELIAS, about So years of age, and about
5 feet 4 or 8 inches high, well made, a
dark mulatto, civil in manner when spoken
Ito, blacksmith by trade.
| LITTLETON, about 90 years Of age, a
dark mulatto, rather stoutly made, s feet
8 or 10 inches high.
4 JOHN LAWREN CE, black, about 6
feet Z or 8 inches high, and about 40 years
of AGE. W
OAKLEY, about l6 years of age, very
slim, a dark mulatto.
u ARTHUR, mulatto, about 20 years
of age, about 6 feet, and very Stout
SMITH, about 90 years ofagc, black, and
about feet or inches high. JAMES,
about 28 years of age, an albinc, and
about 5 feet or inches high. The above
Reward will be given for the apprehension
Iof the whole, if taken beyond the borders
of Virginia. or $500 if out Of the State
I2IO0 e.ch ;f talan IN tho county of Hmm