Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-31

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assertion that it would ruin the States is
simply gratuitous and absurd ftwould
interfere with the operation of the Slave
breeders and Slave-traders of Virginia,
but it would be the regeneration of the
State and the commencement of a career
of elevation to her people and glorious
progress toward higher and better
civilization than can ever be hoped for
while the rearing of mulattoes-the
lash, and the Slave shambles, are the
pride Of her aristocracy, and forced
! ignorance and unmitigated depression the
doom of her laboring white men.
But the Enquirer continues: "By
gradnaS 5o.d i''sidsous approach, under
the fostering hand Of federal po'oer, Abo-
1ttoaisas soW groU up IN euery border
Soutaern State, converting them into Free
States, . dc. Now look at this. We ad-
nit its undeniable truth. The Enquirer
may call it Abolitionisn," or whatever
else it pleases. The truth it proclaims
is nevertheless truth. And it is sim
ply this, that if the people of the border
Slave States are not held in absolute sub
lection by these Slave traders, through
the use of the State and National Gov
ernments, they will throw off their fet-
ters and "convert these tSlave, into Free
States We have always believed and
said the same thing. 1t is not in .hu-
man nature to endure the evils entailed
upon the laboring white men of the
South, if they were free to act for their
own interests, which is substantially ad-
mitted by the Enquirer.
The Enquirer proceeds: "No act of
violence may euer be committed, no serei7e
scar ,oaged, and get the ruin and dcgra-
datjon Of Tiryinia, aeiN be as fully and
fatally accomplished as though bzoodshed
and ropine rapished the land" What
do you think Of that? Wherein would
the ruin of Virginia consist? Would
her hundreds of thousands of laboring
white men be ''degraded and ruined" if
the slave breeders of the State could
no longer find market for their human
herds? Would it degrade and ruin
the mass of her citizens to have the
privilege of removing from their State,
by lawful and peaceful means, the only
obstacle to her moral, social, intellectual,
and material elevation and progress?-
| Virginia has the elements of an Empire
within herself The largest of all the
original States, she stood at the time of
| the formation of the Constitution, by far
the most populous and powerful
With her central position, with hun
dreds Of miles of sea coast with noble
harbors bounding her On one side, and
the noble Ohio on the other-with soil
rich and productive climate the most
healthy and salubrious ON the Continent
her mountain ranges, pillared up with
mineral wealth-gold, and copper, and
iron, and coal, and salt, in exhaustless
abundance water power gushing from
her mountain streams sufficient to move
the manufacturing machinery ofthe world
she has fallen back into a position of
utter inferiority to the new Free States,
which sprang up but as Of yesterday
There is not an Intelligent man in the
world who does not know that this noble
old commonwealth. and her laboring
white population, have been degraded
and ruined that few degrees may
roll in wealth derived from system of
traffic in human flesh that is an irredeem-
able disgrace to human nature itself
This ineffable stigma on the name Of
Virginia would be wiped out, Of course,
if her people were free to speak to each
other ON the subject, but it would hardly
degrade and ruin the old Dominion. y
But, as it would hardly comport with
Dem mocracy to close an article without a
disuaion clause, the Enquirer winds up
in this language: "There are no con-
sequences that Gun .tolzoao, euc', .torcible
oisuniion, more disastrous to the future
prosperity Of the people of Virginia, than
aoiU be THIS so,oing theseeds of discord and
dirision, Of emancipation and Abotition-
ism, by Northern hands, to be cuztirated and
harvested by the people Of Virginia. p
And so the Enquirer will risk the con-
sequences of 'sforcible disunion' rather
than let the people of the State stop the
rearing of slaves for the markets Of
the rice swamps, the Gotten fields and
; sugar plantations of the Gulf: Well
let them try their "forcible disunion.
t This bluster and insulting bravado has
, gone about far enough. It has abou
ceased to frighten any one.
= What do our Democratic readers th1nl
t of this position of this old party organ
t Do you say that it is Breckinridg'
paper, and that you are not involved il
its policy? Reflect amoment. Up to th'
' 23d of June you acknowledged it as
: true organ of your party. And so i
y was. 1t has not changed it's posi-
: tion one iota. Have you? Did you no
g desire the continued unity of the party
+ and do you not now regret its rupture
e But if the party had remained united
d the Enquirer and its kind, would hav
y controlled it as they controlled Pierce
It and now control Buchanan And if j
r remains divided, every vote given t