Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-31
COUNTY TICKET.
woRrH REFLEcr1NG UPON.

i AhO ASiShHioHu A1tI"oc lhO iSoNAhS
organ of Democracy in Virginia, says:
Hj"Upon the accession Of Lincoln to
power, We would aprrehend no direct
act of violence against negro property,
bnt by the use.of federal Office, contracts,
and patronage, the building up in every
Southern State of Black Republican
party, the ally and stipendiary of North
era fanaticism, to become in few short
years the open advocates of Abolition
isnl, the confscation of negro property
by emancipation sudden or gradual, and
eventually the ruin of every Southern
State. by the destruction of negro labor.
By gradual and insidious approach, un-
der the fostering hand of federal power,
Abolitienisn will grow up in every bor
der Southern State5eonverting them into
Free States, then into cities of refuge
for runaway negroes from the Gulf
States. No act of violence may ever be
committed, no servile war waged, and yet
the ruin and degradation of Virginia
will be as fully and fatally accomplished
as though bloodshed and rapine ravished
the land. There are no consequences
that can follow, even forcible disunion,
more disastrous to the future prosperity
of the people of Virginia, than will be
this sowing the seeds of diseord and di-
vision, of emancipation and Abolition
ism by Northern hands, to be cultivated
and harvested by the people ofVirginia. "
Upon this we wish to make some com
ments, which we hope our Democratic
readers Will read, and honestly consider.
It will be seen that the Enquirer frankly
admits that, '.npon the accession, Of Lin
coin to po,cer, 1t aoouH apprehend no d.
rect actof uiolenee againsta negro property. .
It is further admitted that s'no act Of ~
olenee mag erer be committed or serUite
,car eaged' in consequence of the Re-
publicans succeeding to the control of
the Government. Why then this
nightmare dream of the Enquirer?-
There is profound philosophy in its po-
sition, and one which ought to open the
eyes of all who are not blinded by party
prejudice. The Enquirer pictures the
results which would gradually, and nat
urally grow out of the election of Lin
coin. Most of these results we freely
admit would follow-all of them, in fact
but the fancied ruin of Virginia and the
other Slave States. What are these re-
suits, as stated by the Enquirer?
The first is, that, "by the use of federal
office, contracts, and patronage, the BULL
ing ap IN euery Southern State of a BtacA
Republican party" This, leaving out the
slang terms-whieh are the ornaments o.
all Democratic literature-we admit to be
true. Not SO much in consequence O.
the patronage of the Government, al
though that would doubtless have grea
effect upon Virginians, as from the fac
that the moral influence of just Ad
ministration would, in measure, breal
the chains of the despotism which nov
hold the people Of the South in abso
lutte subsection to an imperious oligarch,
of slaye-breeders, who sit like an incu
bus upon the people and are pressin,
the. vitality out of the fairest portion o
the Republic. We admit, with tn
Enquirer, that this is all that is wante
to build up powerful Republican part
in. all the Southern States. But wha
an admission is thus made Of the ute
weakness of the slave interest in tn
South, as compared with the people o
the South, if they were once permitte
to shink and act for themselves! 1t i
not the Republicans of the Free States
nor the Administration of a Republica
President, which the Enqaires fears, bu
the free and untrammeled action of tn
people of Virginia, themselves.
The Enquire, proceeding, says tina
this aBlack Republican party, made VI
of course, Of the citizens of Virginia
would "tecoane, az a te,s short gears, III
open adrocates Of abolition, the confsca
tioa Of negro property dy emancipation
Sudden or gradual, and eventually III
ruin of ere,y Southern State, by the des
tsaction of negro labor" Here is tn
distinct assertion, that the people {
Virginia, and all the Southern, State
would, if permitted to act for themselve
do away With Slavery and negro labor