Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-03-20
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sulting good which we hope will follow
from their manner of doins@it 1t is
the very nature of fanatieism to rur
into extremes. Aud these extremes
often lead to healthy reaction which
tends to correct the evil.
While Southern bonfres are made Of
anti-slavery books and Republican jour
nails, dough-faces can look complacently
on, and the publishers of emasculated
twaddle rejoice in the prospect of reap
ing an advantage therefrom. But when
the power of distinguishing between
those classes of works has leen lost In
the fanatic fury of the ''hunt for her.
esy," the thing assumes quite another
aspect n..~
The papers of the Met thodist E. Church
most of those of the New School Presby-
terians and Congregationalists, together
with those of the Free Will Baptists,
have been effectually suppressed in most
of the slave States. What fines and i'm
prisonments inflicted on their readers
could not accomplish, the mob and the
bonfire did, and it was thought that the
N. Y. Observer could furnish the relig-
ion, and Harpers the literature of the
right kind, and they accordingly rejoiced
with great JOY that they we're to have
the field to themselves.
But alas! even willing slave is not
safe from the caprice of fckle master
The Harpers have found this out, for
their Nagazine and Weekly have both
been proscribed Only think of it,
Hu,1'er's Nogazine and Heskgsuppressed
as abolition sheets" Can that be beat?
Yet it is verify so. Mr.. G. W. Curtis
was the only writer in the Weekly which
redeemed the thing from utter stupidity
1t is true that he did not, by the most
distant allusion, reflect ON the ''Divine
Institution Nor did his name appear
in the paper at all, so that the public
could not know that he was in any man
ner connected with it. But Mr.. Curtis,
in his private devotions, did not worship
atthe shrine of human bondage-did not,
in fact, believe that the blessed institu-
ton Yves Divine at all By some secret
prying it was ascertained that the clever
writer Of the "Lounger' in the Weekly
was Mr. G. W. Curtis, and that Mr.. G.
W. Curtis was not, as aforesaid, wor-
shipper Of slavery And so, without Civ
ing the eomplacent Harpers a chance to
purge themselves from the dreadful Of
fense, their publications were placed upon
The prescribed list and their circulation
suppressed.
There appears to be one place left in
The South in whichthese terribly "incen-
diary publications still continue to be
received, or did few days since. That
place is Fayetteville, in n. G. But We
suppose the readers of these papers have,
ere this, been brought to condign pun
shment and the papers themselves duly
burnt. The North Caroliatan, published
IN Fayetteville, says:
ave notice these periodicals upon our
streets as numerous as ever, after it is
that G.. w. Curtis, one of the
editors, is an infamous Abolitionist.-
Should these papers be allowed to circu
ate SO profusoly in our midst? We no
ice that his Honor, Judge Saunders. put
. stop 10 the sateof these papers IN Raleigh.
We would like to know why are they not
stopped here. Are we to see these AJo
,itioR Sheets upon our streets without a
word of rebule? 1t lies with the proper
officers to see immediately that these pa
pers are put stop to. We would also
appeal to the readers Of these papers, and
lsk them is their course consistent with
their professions Of loyalty to their
homes, and opposition to the fanatics of
The North2 All, gentlemen, acts speak
louder than words
There is the decree. And it will be
obeyed. But is not the Internal despot-
sm Of the proceeding almost lost in the
sublime stupidity of the shareholders?
suppressing Harper's Heehly as an Abo-
lition sheet! Whether the Harpers will
be able to dive to deeper depth and SO
regain the smiles of the South we neither
know nor care. That they will try to do
so, We have no doubt But we are
pleased to believe their success doubtful.
But what do our readers think of a
state of society where every manis afraid
Of his neighbors? What would be the
feelings Of our readers if they we're liza
BILE every hour of their lives to have their
homes invaded by ruffians in hunt of
some forbidden book or paper, and their
lives endangered if they were found in
possession of one OF the leading period
Gals of the day, for which they had sub
scribed and honestly paid? Yet such is
precisely the state of things in nearly one
half of the States in the Union
Weread, with Indignation, ofpriests in
the dark ages, and despotic countries of
Europe, burning the books of the people
which they did not chose to let them
read. But there never was an age so
dark, Or despotism in Europe so pro-
found, that it would tolerate the scenes
of to-day in many of our States. How
long will it last?
Carrying Water on Both Shoulders.
The Washington correspondent of the
N. Y. Tribune says it is understood