Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-12-14
from the N.w York Times

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eusaes the sabject9at length The doc.
umsnt will scarcely reward the anxiety
which has awaited its appearance.-
There are many things in it which are
true, and sefnewhich are new; but its
true things are not new; nor are its ne W
things true. 1t is probably the most
elaborate effort Mr., Buchanan has ever
made to appear bold without taking any
risks, and firm without the necessity Of
proving hia frmness 1t is possible
that it may trauquiiizo the country, but
It so, the disturbance of the public
peace is much less serious than has gen.
!erally been supposed.
True to his partisanship, if true TO
! nothing else, Mr.. Buchanan attributes
the entire responsibility for existing
public evils to the Northern States
and it is they alone who are to make
sacrifices of position and principle for
their removal. = The immediate peril,
Mr.. Buchanan says, arises not from re.
fusals to surrender fugitive slaves, nor
the exclusion of Slavery from the Ter
ritories-but from the imminent dan
! ScI VI sidfS lllSuTTeCIlOuS. ~
X x 81 If i; X 1 y;
TIE MESA &c, III our judgement, is an
incendiarY. document, and will tend still
further to exasperate the sectional diff.
fsreuees of the day It backs UP the
most extraragant of the demands which
have been made by tbs. .South--indorses
their mehaee Of pisunion if those de-
nands a re not 5eonceded-.and promises
the secedinss States that the power of
the Federal Government shall not be
used for their coercion. The entire
North viii be made doubly indignant
i,hy- this fragrant derefiction of duty on
the part of the Executive of the Nation,
while the Dfsunionists Of the South will
be stimulated to fresh .exertiops in the
work of ruin upon which they have en-
barked. The country has to struggle
4'thfoagh three months more of this dis
graceful imbecility and disloyalty to
the Constitution. sr = ..,.s-
| The Baltimore Exchange (Democratic) }
| has poor opinion of Mr.. Buchanan as
IAN expuunder of constitutional law:
| The only deduction We can draw from
! this theory IS that the right Of revolu-
! tion may be exercised at any time BY any
I member of the confederation, for if the
| Federal Government. can never repress
such .a revolution, State may go out t'of
the Union for any cause or for no cause
4atall. South Carolina may secede on
account of azHomestead or Tariff Bill
as well as on any other grounds, whether
they be, frivolous or Just, and Mr.. -Bu-
,chanan can no more collect revenue than
he can do anything else in seeding
EState. Practically, then, the right of
Fsecessioa exists, though it may not be
deducible from, the precise language of
the Constitution or from the history OF
the Convention by which the latter was
formed. We cannot but think this con-
struction of the Constitution is altogether
unsouud. It cannot be that the right of
revolution can exist, unless the right to
Judge of'its propriety and to resist it re-
sides in the Government whose authority
is defed. If the latter can do nothing
to prevent State from Withdrawing its
allegiance, then such action on the part
of such State can scarcely be called a
reyolution. Bmt if secession is revolu-
-tion ) it seems. to us that. the General
i.Goyernmens lasstfe inherent and unde-
riable power to suppress it. 1t might
t be unwise to exercise that power, and
as against the contemplated movement
/ at the South it certainly would be inju-
1 dicious and ruinous to. do SO; but that
/ the President and Congress have the
tmere legal right to put down revolp-
tion, insurrection or rebellion in State
We cannot doubt. .5f.a -5
/ The New York Epening Post con-
eludes & long article, which controrerts
almost every position assumed by Mr..
Buchanan, with these words: E
Some ofzits positions may provoke fu.
ture reference, but our impression is
that the best course to take with it is to
.Elet it glide without obstruction to that
oblivion which orall such documents is
but a few days journey distant.
The Boston Aaas and Bee (Republi,
cam says: O. -.r.a-E
| When we kept school we never thought
that a boy who deserved thrashlng
ought to receive the medal of merit. but
we once heard of school kept on this
principle. Ifa childzwas good he was
aAowed to sit in the big chair-if he
was bad he was made to sit there. II
was an infant school, and perhaps Mr.
Buchanan thinks the. seccders are in
fants, and judging from the logic of Sc,
cessionists,1 so ably refuted by him, he
we'll may. Q s
| The Philadelphia Bulletin thinks the
message woeful failure, and accounts
for its deficiencies thus:
]. A passage wholly satisfactory to Mr.
:. Cass might be offensive to Mr. Floyd
Mr.. Toucey and Mr.. Cobb might differ
ijust as widely; and, after the passage
was amended to suit these four tastes
Mr.. Thompson, Mr.. Black and Mr.. Hol
would have something to say, and each
) perhaps, would insist on further amend
! ment. Mr.. Buchanan is not a Jackson
or Louis XIV, each. Of whom was him
self the State. He has never done s
bold, manly and independent act in hi:
life, and it was not to be expected tha
, he would begin now He tried to make
\ his message suit all that he, consulted
4 about it, and he has thus made a weak
|, contradictory paper, slipshod in style
and woefully wanting in decision of tone
The Vote OF Virginia.
The vote of the Electors of Virgins
we're given, on Wednesday last, for, Bel
and Everett. In consequence of som
informality in the returns from sesera
,lcounties. the Governor, by his Procla