Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-12-14
PREsIDENYs aIEassAGB---oP1NIo
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SIS -. OF THE PRESS. ~rEs
Accompanying the Presidents, Mes
sage, which We published in an extra,
on Friday last, we gave our views in
brief ON that portion Of it which relates
to,the secession movement nowiso-rife in
several Of the SouthernsStates. To- day
we preseat tho commepts of several Of
the leading journals Of the East. 4a
81 y tFrip'I tae Vow York Trfbuns,l
Let US devoudy thank God that, for
the ensuing: four years at least, the peo;
pie of the United. States are relieved
from the; annual visitation of Presi-
dential lecture, wherein Reason is in.
suited, Humanity outraged, History
travestieds and Common Sense defed, in
the interest," of Human Slavery, and for
the.-gratifcatianzef its upholders.-
Whatever evils the future may have in
store for US, this one, at least, is for a
season intermitted, if not forever put
awag. } = = - f>N1
The mansFho in this day talks of the
opponents of Slavery as blind, besotted
fanatics, and represents the current agi-
tation as ssutteriy unprovoked and gratui
tous, isssimply dishonest. Mr.. Buchan-
an knows better He knows that the
means shereby Texas. was thrust into
our Union wsreeminently calculated to
arouse any latent Anti -slaYerysconvic-
ton that slunibered in the breast of our
non-slaSeholding eitizens. He knows
that, when the war on Mexico was made
to result in the transferof vastand thinly
peopled regions from that Repn blie to
our Union, twas inevitable either that
Slavery should be excluded from those
Territories or That tho people of the
United States, as aWhele. andno those
Of the South exclusively, should take
upon their1Souls the responsibility oil
extending the Tipeculiar institution
over region half as large as: Europe
far larger than the United States east Of
the Mississippi. Mr.. Buchanan himself
expressly affirms, and quotes the. Su.
preme Court as his authority, that every
foot Of Federal Territory is necessarily
Slaveholding .Territory-that is, Terri
tory subject to tbs, law of slavery-frou
the moment that it passes under tht
sway Of our Union. He knows chat tn.
kansassNebraska bill was expressly ane
ayoRedly introduced TO remove lega
obstacles to diffusion of Slavery, ane
that the bill owed allits importance ane
general interest 70, that fact. How is i
possible, then, for a publieist, with thi
eyes of the world full upon him, to ,sa,
that. s The long Continued and intempei
ate inteyference of the Northern people
with the question of slavery IN tic South
ern Gates has at length produced its nat
.,ural. .efectsT' Is the Presidents brov
brass that il should not crimson with th
consciousness that the whole world viii
know tfris to be a lie Does he no
know right we'll that the children in on
public schools will point the finger o
shame at theauthor of such assertions
who. fingers on the brink of the grave {.
libel and traduce the most intelligen
and Conscientious portion of the peopl
about tosbe relieved from theincubus Q
his rule I? - j. ss +
That this man should go back quar-
ter ofa century and rake up afronsth
very kennels aof oblivion 50 sfoolirha a
untrathag thst e e III ] s3I pictorial hand
bills and inffsmnsaterY ~ appeals Ker
circulated extensively throughout tn
Ssath, of character To excite the pas
sians Of the slaves, '+''can excite no addi
-, tional wonder; still. the falsehood is
most nasane one. EEho circulated
such appeaiss aud handbills2 IF tti
was done /" extensively" many mus
.. have. been caught at IT. IF these" pic
terial shahdhills REPRESENTED imasinar
outrages and cruelties inflicted on slaves
who could sosEeadiiy detect the. 1nisrep
resentatisns as die slaves themselves.
Tfthcy- truly depicted. ed.scenesWith 8hicl
slaves were familiar, how should they b
excited BY pictorial representations an
more than nTzbJ the. actnal occurrence
thus deBietsdf Why is it that falsehoo
muaE always be exposing itself by ab
eurditics3