Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-07-26
DisunuOntsts.


While the leaders of the Democracy in
the North are falsely charging the Repub-
licnr $ with being d~isunionists, their breth-
rem in the South, who are disunionists,
anil glory inlthe title, are making their
strongest appeals against the Republicans,
on the ground that they are, by interest
and sentiment opposed, to disunion, and if
successful, disunion will become AN i'm
possibility. We have before us, a speech
of the Hon. Robert Barnwell Rhett, en-
Senator of South Carolina, delivered on
the 4th inst, and published in the Charles
ton papers. From this address we make
the following extracts. Senator Rhett
says:
when, in the Senate Of the United
States, l deemed it ~expedient, plainly and
frankly, to advocate, II dissolution OF this
Union, and the establish ment of South
ern Confederacy, | was not so ignorant of
human affaiis as not to know that my po-
silion was exceedingly adverse to the
greater part of the people of the United
States, and to none more so than to the
political abolitionists, the Stewards, the
Hales ard the Summers of the North
For this Union was absolutely necessary to
their carrying out their policy. They are,
therefore, Union men at all hazards. You
have made them Union men. For, with
nothing in the North to support their pre-
tensions, they are the last people to desire
a dissolution of the Union"
CATER the compromise Of 1852, what
was the result? Have you had that peace
and quietness, that peace and safety which
was told you that compromise would bring
you? Why, ever since the foundation of
the government, has it ever been SO fierce
as within the last few years? The present
President of the United States is Il practi-
cal exponent Of public opinion. Person
ally, he is my friend. In the controversy
of 1852, he wrote a letter to Il meeting in
Philadelphia. In that he says: The
agitation at the North on the subject of do
nestle slavery will have its,day. We have
already reached, or passed the crisis =
Should this prove to be the case, the
, country will be the better for the agitation,
and the atmosphere be purer.' That was
in 1859. But how is it now? Mr.. Blu
+ chanan was elected President of the United
States, and before the first Congress met,
his administration was Frustrated OF this
Z very subject Of slavery. Then was got W
g the Kansas compromise, the most discredi.
: table and most disgraceful. that was ever
t brought up on a public occasion"
So much for the notorious English bill.
Mr.. Rhett further said:
3 MY friends, pr~ognostics Of a Union in
, the South are not without encouragement
t There are premouitions OF a moral as wei
= as physical remedy. Did you hear the
mutterings Of the tempest coming on the
. eve of tie Presidential election? 1t is true
i heretofore our policy has been submission
IN that policy we have lifted up some o
The most bitter enemies of the North. l
has been in VAIN that such as a Dickinson
and an Everett have told them you viii
5 dissolve this Union. Are you willing to
, be ruled by such men IA the Wilson's, The
Chases and the Summers of the North?
. '.Let us make up our minds; we will
. sectionalize for our defense. We have
done this. If we do not sectionalize TO
= our defense, the result is We may be over
whelmed. Throughout the. c%ontinet of thu
Southern States we see the people of tin
: South uniting their forces. The Whis
party are taking the position for her right
of the South, and the Democratic part,
Z dare not fail"
elf, in the Presidential election, on
rights are victorious, then we have a guar
antee and an angury Of a better future
if. on the contrary, which l think mos
s certain to be the case, then, my friends
T. let us separate from the North; let tn
glorious day-spring Of a Southern Confed
? eracy at length arise upon our trouble
" counsels."
But is it not strange, that while leadin
; Democrats in the SouLh-Governors Sena
-, tors, Representatives, Editors and Con
ventions-are, day by day, preaching dis
union, their Northern allies are as sIler
as the grave, never letting their reader
know the true state of things, but with a
audacity u%nequaled, while supportin
those very disunionists, are falsely chargin
upon the Republicans, the very treaso
which they are nursing and c~oncealing
>, their own camp? How long will such dr
plicity win?
e DiabOlicaI.
y. DR.. boy, of Kansas, IN the night of tt
D. 25th of January, was seized by a mob an