Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-29
COUNTY TELEGRAPH.
POATIG1tOY, O.
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IL Us intensely prU-savery. 1t lecture
even tho tirc-caters Of the South for thci
umeness. While supporting the Demo
cratic paly with all its zeal, IL ncverihe
less lashes the leaders and papers of tn
North It's having richly earned the title o
''d1uyhftceS," not, 10 be sure, for thei
Nubservieucy to the South, but for truck
ling TO the anti slavery sentiment of tn,
North. 1t boldly aud daily breaches tha
slavery is right in itself; that il is th,
proper condition of society; that it is the
only condition upon which a democracy
can be permanently established, and con
sequently. that whoever is not heartily
AMI earnestly in JaOor Of slavery, is, neces-
sarily, whether Intentionally or not, an
enemy to democracy. IL says the Dem
oor"'ic purity never can, and never ought
to be. permanently successful until they
plant themselves squarcly on the doctrine
THAT slavery is right, and all opposition to
It, i'll any form, a crime to be treated as
treason. striking, as it does, AT the foun-
da!iou of the Government
During the last Presidential campaign
1t out-slriekcd the Richmond enquirer"
for disunion i'll the event Of Fremout's
election. 1t declared that the South
nrvcr would and never should submit to
any but Il Democratic Administration in
The future; that the people had the simple
alternative of elccGng Buchanan, or dis
solution OF the Union. Doubtless, thou
sands in all sections Of the country, influ-
rn"rd Gy their fears, accepted the allerna-
tive, an'l buchanan WAS elected. Having
succeeded so well with its "rulc or RUM
tactics, it is now laboring to intensity the
same feeling. In its issue of The 10Th
inst. is Il long and characteristic editorial,
headed "The Merchants Of New York and
the safety Of The Union" in which it says:
every American citizen is Interested
profoundly interested --inthe prescrva-
ton Of the Union; but some localities and
Some cIi5ses have far more vital interests
involved than others, for in addition to the |
up with such question, and that miyhi /
b. wrecked i'll so dire IL calami;y rs dis !
union, thefe are pecunIlry interests Of vast
aud almost incalcuLtbe magnitude at
stake, ana which New York and New
ork merchants are Interested in more
deeply and directly than any other locality
or any other class in the Union. This
truth is 50 obvious that it is quite unneces-
Is NY to dwell upon it, for every man with
an atom of common sense must see that
the causes which make this city the great
center OF the Republic would,
II tho conederacy were broken up, disap-
p ar .J0re0cr, aud instead Of being the un-
doubted commercial mistress Of common
n multitude of rivals would neces-
aarIly spring up, and backed by rival il
not hostile States, many Of these would be
The equals, even did they not become the
Of New York. !
And should new Union spring up +
from Lhe broken fragments of that Which,
~ the madness of sectional prejudice and
oily. had been destroyed, it is scarcely
p"Ssible that New York would everregain |
her commercial supremacy, while thou
sands Of families would be ruined beyond
'"p" of recovery and the voyt structures
'.sa iprt y mansions 0nd m0rGLe paiace<,
'ot0 glittcrihy IN tie sunshine Of l,cocc ard
GecODae tie 0Gode Of GntS ond otyly C
--khc dc 'O(dt" 0nd Sne0uderiRg ns0nu1ecnks Y
y moSioaM .toiIY anil modncys, unDcraI- :;
c(e@ t~ hantaR History And there is dan-
s"r, terrible danger, almost certain danger v
II this dine resi- 1t. There has been 50 /
much said and written by mercenary poll o
lchns, 50 many cUntllvanccs for saving :.
lie Union, SO much done by hearless and
compromising political trickSters in short, =
iIe cry of wolf has been raised so often Z
nd so needlcsSly, that the great northern a
masses have become profoundly indifier- |;
Mt, and though man should rise, from =.
iIe dead tc warm them Of the danger,
hey would not believe or even listen to .
inn"
After any amount OF similar DaAiOLism 8
; prepare the minds Of moneycd men o,d d
'oTi'i-be ortStocr0cy Of New lOrk, by ap- (
""l' To their cupidity, and reminding
nom lliat nothing but the election of Bu- cI
!'anan in 1856 saved them from all these NJ
Ire calamiies, it proceeds: 81
AN The Indications point To an anti "
'iav"ry' victory in 1860; indeed, under b'
Aistin3 circumstances, and without a GER III
IN chr"ge Of npihiOa W tile -}oylh, that w
suit is ineviiable-a pre-ordainrd fact. -.
N"d as fac. VIII disuniun foIlow?-
i'll th" high-toned aud civalrou5 men of "
le South submit to tie rule of Seward, Pc
Chase? Il No indeed ca
l~ult will be met at the threshhnId- Il,
iin and des"la'ion will be avoided by the
'sirurtipn Of the m"ans-the instrument .
bc welded by the enemies of the South W
the success Of an anti slavery" party, in
1861, will he tho end of the Union-an ";
Il of hostility that leaves 20 the men Of .,o
- South no al'crnrlivo but disInion.
"r will the South find il difficult To break ~
, tic Union. The State governments al 81
;rIy cXiSt--nO revolution is needed tn