Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-01-03
Union saving.

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OF all the despicable shamsand trans
parent hypoerisies, the gatherings which
have recently met in the Northern cities
for the osteasible purpose of Saving
the Union have been the most dis
graceful which have ever brought hu-
initiation and dishonor upon the Amer
lean name
Southern Democrats are simply re-
peating for the hundreth time, rehash
of their stale threats of dissolving the
Union, and threatening to stop trading
with Northern merchants who will not
consent to forswear their manhood and
take upon themselves the brand of
slaves. And these miserable dema-
gogues in the North-trucklers, cring-
ing, fawning, like beaten serfs, PROSTATE
themselves before the world in self
abasement and win Che utter contempt of
those in whose interest they profess such
base subserviency.
AT not one of those meetings has one
word been uttered in rebuke of those
whose threats of disunion is filing the
land. Not resolution is offered in rep
rotation of the sectionalism of the South.
But the basest falsehoods, calumnies,
black as night, are poured out without
measure upon the people of the North,
that these, desperate demagogues and
gambling traders may win the offices and
patronage of the slavapower as reward
for their unutterable baseness.
As specimen of the spirit of these
meetings, we give the speech of Brooks,
of New York, who was the leader of the
meeting in that city and the author Of
the resolutions:
MR.. BROOK 5 REMARKS.
Mr. Brooks, in moving the adoption
of these resolutions, argued against the
alleged conflict between slavery and the
Bible. He said: When our Savior was
on earth, He was subject of that vast
slaye-holding Roman empire which
stretched from the Euphrates in the East,
beyond the pillars of Hercules in the
West, and sixty millions of slaves, it is
estimated, were in that empire Hence,
when His eyes first opened ON pleasant
Bethlehem-His feet trod on the shores
of Gallilee OF. on the plain of Jericho,
to be baptized in the Jordan, slaves
must have ministered, if not unto Him
or His disciples, unto all about Him.
And when, on the Mount Of Olives, His
foot was last printed upon that rock
which tradition or superstition now
shows, while ascending into Heaven, His
eyes, as they overlooked the great city
Of Jerusalem, and glanced from the
mountains of Moab to the vale of Sha-
ron, must have rested upon thousands
and tens of thousands of slaves. Ju-
dea, where he was born-Gallilee, where
he lived-Egypt, that he visited, each
and all were slayeholding States. And
now, if there be in the Holy Bible any
such denunciations of slavery or slave
holders-in the language of some of these
modern cler@ymen-as we now daily
hear from men calling themselves the
servants of God. I respect their high
and holy calling l bow down in hum
BILE reverence before their august mis-
sion. y J: zsz.-
But, oh, ye seribes and Pharisees-
Tremendous applause who ailagainst
US publicans and sinners, that rail not
as ye rail- Ye men of Sharpe's RI
fes and bowie-knive pixies! Ye Beech
ers and ye Gheevers- fearful applause
wiser and better than our Savior when
on earth, go with your new Bible into,
all the world and shoot your Gospelinto
every living creature. Laughter and
applause
Have we not the deliberate declar-
ton that God and the Bible, Patriarchs
and the Prophets, Christ and his Apos-
ties, all sanction human bondage! Not
the enslavement of the negroes, for Mr..
Brooks, as we'll as any other man of any
intelligence knows that the slaves in the
Roman Empire and other countries
which he names, were not negroes, but
white men. The speech, then, is the de-
liberate declaration that the strong have
right to enslave the week, and that
God and his Holy Word sanctions the
deed.
Other orators sanctioned this bold de-
tense of despotism, and proclaimed that
nothing could SAGE the Union but the cleo
tio', to Congress Of men holding ftkerieaos.
They proceeded to denounce the great
body of the people of the free States as
traitors and enemies of the country be-
cause they would not assent to these ia
natical opinions.
{ But can any one be deceived by such
proceedings? Is there one man North
or South who does not see at once the
mercenary motives of these men? For
the time being the immense power and
patronage of the Government in the
control of the Misunderstanding
faction of the South, and hungry
.demagogues in the North can only in
gratiate themselves intheir favor, as they
suppose by such show of willing SER
Witty. Let that patronage and power
pass into other hands, and these men
who are now ready to forge chains for
the enslayement of men, would, if it
promised as rich a reward, distribute
daorers and naisfan to every slave in the