Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-01-24

all men who take an interest in these
sastters. Why, sir, has it come to this,
in free America, that there must be a
censorship of the press instituted--that
man cannot give currency to book
containing arguments that he thinks es-
sentially affect the rights of whole classes
.efthe free population of this nation?
hope not, and believe not.
Why, sir, the great body of the statis-
heal information in that book, as read
II, is drawn from the census of. the
@unitaa@ States, from your puhic-doeu.
Hasnts, and from the archives of the ma
&tioa.1 Ia It improper that arguments de-
auced from these sources should be ad-
sdreased 70 the free population Of this
;ssountfy anywheref IF they may not be,
, il 10 the hardest argument against this
hinstitution that I have seen yet. If we
cFsSlty have among Us an institution that
We are cherishing and seeking to spread
broadcast over the land, so delicate in It's
Tex tuTe that the free people cannot have
inforMation that they themselves claim,
, Isay again, ii il fraaght with an infer
eEce more fatal TO that 9institution than
any / have heard ,ofsyet. .sae s-52
spZ Mr.. President, I have pursued this
6abjeet much further than intended
VIXEN / arose / have heard the muttcr-
ing thundsr Of dfsuRicn greeting my ears
? Through all the Southern hemisphere.
AL yo4r principal papers have already
liked upon q contingency when this
I Enionshall end In some of the South
era States, if Tread Alright, proceedings
sre pending now, having for their object
an overturning of this Government, and
9hep erection upon its ruins of Southern
Gonfederaey; and this idea is brought
ginto the Halls of Congress, and we are
compelled to listen by the hour to
apeeches filed with denunciations Of our
party, telling us that the Union is to be
dissolved if the people elect as President
Fan honorable man, of great predomi-
nant party, holding to principles pre-
eisely such az the old fathers of the
9 Government held The Repub ublican plat
form. is nothing more nor less than the
aold Republican platform, making the
landmarks Of the Government as laid
: down by them; We claim no more; we
claim to live up TO those doctrines; We
claim not to harm the hair of the head
scf any section of this Union; and yet we
gre 10 be told by the hour that if We sue
eeedin wrestling this Government from
your hands, and placing constitutional
man in that great office, according to the
forms Of the Constitution, you will never
-Sheless make this contingency on which
you ,wiilsdisrupt and destroy the Govern
rdent s9a4-a5 80 - 81. q "a
. Tssy to gentlemen on the other side,
these are very harsh doctrines to preach
in our ears. What, sir, are you going
TO play this game with us? Will you go
tifto the election with as, with settled
purpose and design, that if you win you
will take the honors and the emoluments
and Offices of the Government into your
own clutches; but if we win, you will
bresk up the establishments and turn
! your backs on us? Is that the fair deal
ing to which We are invited? / am
happy to know that you propose to make
that contingency turn upon an event that
viii make it impossible to be consumma-
ted! The Governmet, to-day, is all in
your hands; it has been in your hands
for years, you are partaking of all its
smoluments, all its measures you have
moulded, and you have designated the
men who receive its honors. !. Year after
year you have done this, and men have
come here from the free States, men hold
ing our opinions; we have sat here pa
tiently, but we have been deprived of all
the honors and emoluments that fow
from this Government, as though we were
its enemies; but did we ever complaint
Not at ALL We did not expect that we.
should share any of those favors, unless
it should be SO TINT our glorious princi-
pies should commend themselve to ma
jority of the people of these United
States.
But, sir, if it should turn out so-and
Heaven only knows whether it will or
mott give gentlemen now to under
atand, this Union will not easily be dis
rupted. Gentlemen talk about it in a
very busipess-like way, as though it were
. magazine to blow up whenever you
touch the FIRE to it; as If, on a given day,
at q moments warning, at your own
election, at any time and in amy event,
you can dissolve the bonds Of this great
Union. Do you not know, sir, that this
great fabric has been more than eighty
years in building, and do you believe you
can destroy it in day? tell you, nay.
: Sir, when you talk SO coolly about dis
eolving this Union, do you know the diff
6culties through which yon will have to
wade before that end can be consumma-
ted? Have you reflected that between
The North and the South there are no
mountain ranges that are impossible,
and no desert wastes which commonly
divide great nations one from another2
Do you not know that, whether We love
one another or not, we are from the same
stock, speaking the same, language; and
although institutions have made consid-
cradle difference between us, the great
Anglo Saxon type peryades the whole.
We are bound together by great navigable
rivera, interlacing and linking together
all the States Of this Union. Innumer
able railroads also connect US, and an
immense amount Of commerce binds all
xhe parts, besides domestic relations in a
thousand ways. And do you believe
that you can rend all this asunder with
'oat astruggle7 I tell you, sir, you will
search history in vain for a precedent;
there has been no such Government as
this that was ever rent asunder by any
internal coinmotion. 7 know that Po-
land was broken up and divided, but it
was By external force. We are found in
the same ship; We are married forever,
for better or for worse. We may make
our condition very uncomfortable by
chickering's if We will, but peyertheless
there can be no enforcement between US.
There. is no way by which either one
section or the other can get out of the