Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-01-17

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the subject, and in part from the mode
in which the reports. of the several In
stitutions are prepared The evil mayl
be remedied to a considerable extent, by /
authorizing the Secretaryof State to pres
scribe the mode in which documents
shall be printed, and also the mode in
which the statements of receipts AMI ex-
penditures by the several Institutions
shall be made.
All the official Reports, directed by
law to be printed prior to the meeting Of
the General Assembly, except those Of
the Attorney General and the Commits
sioner of Common Schools, delayed by
the remissness of county and local Off
GERS, have been more promptly made than
in any previous year; and all, except that
of the Auditor of State which is in the
hands of the printer, have been printed
and are ready to be laid before you
They will be transmitted to each House
without delay. sTrs =za 4
1t becomes my duty to lay before you,
in compliance with the request of the
Governor of New York, the Concurrent
Resolutions Of the Senate and Assembly
Of that State, condemning the African
Slave Trade, and protesting against the
re-opening of that inhuman traffic. The
people of Ohio, without distinction OF
party, and almost without individual ex-
eeptions, unite in reprobation ofthe traf-
fc and its revival. ~ ~ II
With these resolutions, [ also trans
- g. Of
addressed by the Governor of Virginia
to the President of the United States and
to myself, and of my reply to that ad-
dressed to me. =
| doubt not gentlemen, that / ex-
pressed your own sentiments, as we'll as
those of our common constituents, when
I declared my conviction that it is the
duty of the Executive authorities OF Ohio
to exercise whatever power the law may
vest in them for the suppression of un-
lawful combinations against the peace and
safety of other members of the Federal
Union, and that the people of Ohio, while
thew will suffer no invasion of their own
territory, will countenance no invasion
of the territory of other States; but, ex-
pecting from them the fulfllment of ev-
cry constitutional obligation, will require
of their own authorities the prompt per-
formance of reciprocal duties t :sse
While we will not disvew just admi-
ration of noble qualities, by whomsoeyer
displayed, we must not the less, but
rather the more, earnestly condemn all
inroads into States, not merely at peace
with us but united to US by the bonds of
political union, and all attempts to excite
within their borders, servile insurrec-
tions, necessarily tending to involve the
country in the calamities of civil, as well
as servile war. -Es' st,.5 szss9f fs i.sga 81
That aspirit of distrust and alienation
has arisen in the country, it. were idle to
deny. That it is not shared. in any
great degree, by the masses in either sec
ton, is, | trust, equally true. The peo-
pie desire Union and Concord; not Dis
cord and Disunion.
Claiming no absolute exemption from
blame in behalf of the free States, we
cannot admit their liability to exclusive
censure -aaf a.s-r%s< RS
In repeated instances, without pre-
tence Of justification; the. territory of
Ohio has been clandestinely entered, and
peaceful Inhabitants, guilty of no crime
i but color, h9 been cruelty kidnapped
I I aitive1 tape-Aet, necessarily re-
pugnant. to 3hblic sentiment, and be-
lieved by large majority to be uncon-
stitutional in some of it's cospieuous pro-
visions, if not in its origin, has been ex-
ecuted within her limits with scircum-
stances of aggravation which could not
fail to excite the deepest feeling; and
cases have not been wanting where her
citizens, travelling on lawful business In
: Slave States, ON mere suspicion of, OBJ
noxious sentiments, have been,subjected
to espionage and indignity tc and arrest
and imprisonment. To these particular
causes ofeomplaiht mustbe added to the
general grievance of the repeal of the
Missouri Prohibition, .manifesting the
! determination of large maj erity of the
slaveholding class to extend slavery
throughout the National Territories.
Notwithstanding these causes of com
plaint, and in confidence expectation OF
their ultimate removal through the in
fuence of better information and juster
sentiments, the people of Ohio have held
fast to the Constitution and the Union
They have ever respected all the rights
of all the States and of all the citizens
of the States. They have never resisted
with illegal force even the execution OF
the Fugitive Slave Act by federal off
GERS acting under legal warrants - "2
Ohio has uttered no menace ofdisunion
when the American people.have seen fit
to entrust the powers of the Federal
Government to citizens of other political
views than those of majority of her
citizens. No threats of disunion in a
Esimilar contingency by citizens of other
/ States will excite in her any sentiments
| save those Of sorrow and reprobation.
They will not move her from her course
She viii neither dissolve the Union her
self nor consent to its dissolution by
others. aral3 rs,i2 -. tE.{s l.*ss4s5i
Faithful to the covenant of the Ordi-
nance, she will resist the, extension OF
Slavery; confirmed in the principles OF
the Constitution, she will oppose its ma
tiona1ization: true to the faith in which
her youth was nurtured, and calm in the
consciousness of her matured. strength,
she will abide in the Union, and, under
the Constitution, maintain Liberty.
| Let us hope that good counsels may
yet prevail; that differences may be COM
posed by return to the faith of the
Fathers, and to the original policy of the
Republic; and that our whole country,
thus relieved from existing causes of dis
sension, may once more present to the
admiration of the world the spectacle of
great and prosperous community of
truly United States, protected in their
industry and defended in their rights by
the equal laws and impartial administra-
ton of State and Federal Governments.
To this end, at least, let no efforts of ours
be wanting. S. P. CHASE.