Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-08-14

very.
The Slaves States, therefore, cannot
expose their territory without leaving
unprotected the institution, for the pro.
lection of which the war was undertaken
They have to cover thousands and thou
sands Of vulnerable points, for every
llantatlon Is an open wound, every ne
gro cabin sore. Every border or sea,
board Slave State will need her OWL
soldiers, and more too, for her own pro.
lection; and where will be the material
for the concentrated army; scattered
over thousands Of miles without the
possibility of fermentation. .-.
Beside, the Slave States harbor a
dangerous enemy within their own
boundaries, and that is slavery itself
Imagine they are at war with an anti-sla.
very people, whom they have exaspe-
rated by their own hostility. What
will be the effect upon the slaves? The
question is not whether. the North will
instigate a slave rebellion, for suppose
they will not; the question is, whether
they can prevent it, and | think they
cannot. But the mere anticipation of a
negro insurrection (and the heated i'm
agination of the STAKEHOLDER will dis
cover symptoms of a rebollious spirit in
every trife) will paralyze the whole
South. Do you remember the effect OF
John Browns attempt? The severest
blow he struck at the slave power was
not. that he disturbed town and killed
several citizens, but that he revealed the
the weakness of the whole South.
* x !; They will not have men
enough to quiet their fears at home;
what will they have to oppose to the
enemy? Every township will want its
home regiment, every plantation its gar
rison; and what will be left for the field
army? No sooner will a movement of
eonceutration be attempted than the
fnerest panic will undo and Illustrate it
forever Themistocles might say that
Greece was on his ship; French gen
eral might say that the Republic was in
hisscainp; but slavery will be neither on
fhe ships nor in the camp; it will be
spread defenseless1 over thousands OF
sdiarc miles. This will be their situa-
tion:. either they concentrate their
forces, and slavery will be exposed ev-
erywhere; or they do not concentrate
them, and theirstrength will be nowhere.
They want war? Let them try it! They
viii try it but once. And thus it turns
out, that: the very same thing that would
lie the cause of the war, would at, the
same time disable them to carry on the
war. The same Institution that wants
protection, will at the same time disarm
it's protectors. Yes, slavery which can
no longer be defended with arguments,
cauno longer be defended with arms.
AN APPEAL TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF AMERICA
Shareholders of America, I appeal to
you. Are you really in earnest when
you speak, Of perpetuating slavery
Shalt it never cease? Never? Stop and
consider, where you are and in what days
you live. ~.
I ,Thisis the nineteenth century Never
since mankind has a recollection of
times gone by, has the human mind dis
closed such wonderful powers. The hid
den forces of nature We have torn from
their mysterious concealment and vnked
them into the harness of usefulness;
they carry our thoughts over slender
wires to distant nations; they draw our
CONS over the highways of trade; they
pull the gigantic oars of our ships; they
set in motion the iron fingers of our
machinery they will soon plow our
fields. and gather our crops. The labor
Of, the brain has exalted to a more
tridling and controlling of natural
forces the labor of the hand-and you
think you can perpetuate system which
reduces man, however degraded, yet ca
pable of development, to the level Of a
soulless machine?
oThis is the world of. the nineteenth
century The last remnants offeudalism
in the old world are fast disappearing
The, Gar. of Russia, in the fullness of
his imperial power, is forced to yield to
the irresistible march of human progress,
and abolishes serfdom. Even the Sultan
of. Turkey can no longer maintain the
barbarous customs Of the Moslem
against the pressure of the century, and
slavery disappears. And you, citizens
of Republic, you think you can arrest
the wheel of progress with you Dred
Scott decisions, and Democratic plat
forms? Enthusiastic cheers. is
Look around you, and see how lone
some you are in this wide world of ours.
AS far as modern civilization throws its
rays, what people, what class of society
is there like you? Cry out into the
world your wild and guilty fantasy of
property in man, and every echo re-
sponds with cry Of horror OF contempt;
every breeze, from whateyer point of the
compass it may come, brings you a YER
dict of condemnation There is no hu-
man heart that sympathizes with your
cause, unless, it sympathizes with the
cause Of despotism in every form. There
is no human voice to cheer you on in your
struggle; there is no .hnman, eye that
has. tear for your reverses; no link of
sympathy between the common cause of
the great human brotherhood and you.
You hear Of emancipation in Russia, and
wish it should fail. You hear of Italy
Using, and fear the: spirit of liberty
should, become contagious. ""here all
mankind rejoices, you tremble. Where
all mankind love. you hate. Where all
mankind curses, you sympathize.
q And in this, appalling solitude you
stand alone against a powerful world,
alone against great century fight
ing, hopeless as the struggle of the
Indians against the onward march of
civilization. Use all the devices which
the inventive genius of despotism may
suggest, and yet hoy can you resist?-
In every village school house, the little
children who learn to read and write,
are plotting against you; in every labor
atory Of science, in every machine shop;
4Lo human mind Is working the de-