Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-02
GOV. w1sE-1s HE INSANE.

Norfolk Va, The speech is published
in the Democratic organs of that State
with approval. The Governor says:
$50 soon as the war already declared
against my State and my section shall be
actually commenced by the election of a
Black Republican President, I stand
ready to draw the sword of defense.
will wage no private war. / will take a
part in no unauthorized foray l. shall
first await the action of my own sovereign
State In torturlng suspense, 1 shall
wait upon her resolves, and pray God
they may be worthy of the example of
9S and 80. And, although 1 fully
recognize the right of a sovereign State
to select secession as her mode and meas
ure of redress for the infraction of the
Federal compact, secession is not the
Smode which [ would desire or recon-
mend. / am unwilling to yield ore
right for the sake of the privilege of
maintaining another right. Il would
make no such bargain-no suehacom-
promise. l would not yield my right to
the army and the navy-to the Federal
treasure and territory. Jwould not Yield
my right to the Union any more than l
would yield my right to nv negro
property. No! I would keep both the
Union and the negro, and fight to the
last to preserve and maintain allmyrip
to both. la. a= Iot3tf
AS J have said, I will first appeal to
Virginia for authority to fight under her
banner. But if Virginia shall not meet
the issue, and come up to the mark of
self and self-respect, I will look
| to North Carolina, will look to South
Carolina, to Georgia, to each Southern
State in succession, and appeal to each
for permission to fight under the egis
Of her sovereignty. And 1 will advise
each State not to wait for the example
or cooperation of other States Such
waiting will only produce faltering, and
all the delay and confusion of ,uncer-
tainty. No! Let each State leap at once,
for herself and by herself, into the con
test, and struggle for precedence and
pre-eminence in the work of defense
Any one State, even the smallest, can
make the battle and win the victory
And if the smallest State will make the
battle alone and unaided-if gallant
little Florida alone. will take up the
gauntlet of war and levy an army, I will
enlist IN the army, wherever it shall be
raised, and we will see then whether the
"Black Douglas can execute his threat
Of coercion. If ever the issue comes, I
hope to meet him in the field where the
atttn,a ratio of States is to be tried
And even fighting under the banner of
one little State, will remember that
the race is not to the swift nor the battle
to the strong. l will remember, too,
that Patrick Henry had every loyalist
to cry out ''treason' against him in the
House Of Burgesses; but he seized the
old powder magazine at Williamsburg,
and dragged. even loyalists themselves
into the tide of resistance and revolution
along with him. I will remember, too,
when told that eighteen millions are
pressing against our eight millions, that
there was time when five millions of
American patriots stood secure and won
the contest against more than fifty
more than hundred millions.
And when the hour of battle comes,
we shall find that it will not cross swords
over sectional line No. Our enemies
at the North will find our friends there,
too, the true friends of justice and right
Northern defenders Of Southern rights
and enough in numbers to keep both
hands of Northern fanaticism busted
with strife at home; ,uhilc ace, at the South,
,ciH haze acttre loork to do IN ardging the
1rar against Southern traitors IN our midst
and at our doors 1t aoiH be neigh6or-
hood uar, at both ends, and IN the center
of the continent At the North, and at
the South, it will be a war which will
array all the forces of conservatism, all
the friends of equal rights, against the
fanaticism and the fraud of Black Re
publicanism at the North, and its tools
and panderers at the South. twill not
be war of sectionalism or dissolution;
and, once commenced, it must result,
sooner or later, in the establishment
of the integrity of the Union, aud the
purity of the Constitution.
In such strife, and for such holy
purpose, I will join the ranks of war, and
fight alike against those who would op
press me and those who would coerce
my submission to oppression. I will
fight
To combat violence fraud and usurpation,
To pluck the spoil from the oppressors jaws,
And keep my country, as found it-FREE'"
We have no time to comment upon
this reasonable harrangue as it deserves.
Here is proclamation made by one of
the leaders of the Democratic party, that
if the people elect the man of their
choice to the Presidency, he shall never
be inaugurated. That he, Gov. Wise,
will levy instant war. That he will first
appeal to Virginia, and if his own State
will not aid him in his treason against
his country, that he will then appeal to
the other States, one by one, and that if
the least, even Florida, will aid him, he
can plunge the whole Union into civil
war, and drench the land with human
gore Could any thing less than an
''incarnate devil gloat over such a pic
ture and purpose in his heart to make it
a reality Wise was prominent candi-
date for the nomination of the Demo
cratic party for President. Is he aboutto
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