Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-06


It is amusing to see the facility wifi
which certain class of men use term
60 as to cover up their real purposes
and mislead the unrefecting Of al
the terms in the language, none, per
haps, is more successfully used for thi
.srggHlpa3se gj,5p93se, 7 than the word compromise
We have few Of these gentry il
Pomeroy. You will see them any hou,
sarofeaay day. on the street, and in tn,
stores, and wherever found, their theme
~-ie@stil compromise. ~ On this term
yethey will ring the changes as if playing
uron a "harp Of thousand strings
Listen to them BY the hour, and in al
!. the volume Of words, you will not find 4
+ deinite.ideas
ga Bat corner them up, and in thei'
sqnirnring you will find the sSccesh
-,re9dy to burst out, and nothing but the
fear of popular indignation restrain.
them from its open proclamation. This
fear, however, although not sufficient
70 Keep item from exhibiting their rea
~feelings induces them to attempt to
veil itIoyef under the use of the term
es'eompromise:" Likeithe poor drunk
ard, who. "a attempting to stand so very
,etrsigA that nobody will suspect his
ttiRsaF eendition, leans clear over the
sethers way, making himself the uncon-
pseious hughing Stock of the boys in the
:sstreet, so these Southern .sympathisers
4io completely oyerdo athe matter, that
iNhilef,they firmly believe they are
',eatehing ggudgeons,' there is no man
30 utterly stupid as not to see their real
aim and purpose, ~
es4Ne assure these gentlemen, therefore,
thatIthey are most thoroughly under
stood. 'oAnd2if they could heal. the com
inents Of the citizens upon them and
their course, they would either dry up
stfence, throwaoff the mask which is too
thiIn to 1dceeiye any but themselves, or
go over IN body, az they already are in
spirit, to. the open Rebels against the
Gepstitution. e:, ss
sdWer say adyisedly, Rc6els against tie
FoNsTIruTIoN. For all their abuse Of
leading Republieans-all R their COM
plants against the Administrations
their horror of the ssubjugation of the
Sauthandethe estcoertion" of sovereign
atafes-aH their tears over the slaught-
ored soldiers, and groans at the euor-
NOUS taxation and their desire for
Seompremise, means. simply that the
schemes ofIthe conspirators cannot be
carried out under the Constitution as it is,
and therefore they. uant the Constitution
charged 10, sat their pru1posest s..ssass -ar
That their whole quarrel is with the
tSnstttut,oa as our. fathers made it, is
eyident from the fact that they will not
abide by its provisions, and demand
total change in its fundamental IDEAS
Com 2romise!' What is there to com,
pgomise2 Who demands compromise?
The great majority of the people are
satisfied with the Constitution as it is.
They, therefore, want no compromise.
The minority demand q change. But
they do aot propose to give up any of
their present rig hts, of course. Nor do
they pretend that they will submit to
any change in the Constitution, which
the mcior'ty might deem to be right and
beneficial to the country, in case Con-
vention was asaealled for that purpose
No such thing. That is not what these
gentry mean by a compromise. Its
not to call Convention of the people,
and permit them to make such changes
In the Constitution as in their wisdom
and sovereign capacity they might deem
e4pedient! Nothing of the sort. But
they mean simply and only, that the ma
.jo,ity shall submit to the minorify-shaH
change the Constitution, not as the major
, ~ yshdH think en,edient, but as the mi
nority shall 1ictatei And this is pre-
cisely what these men mean by "com
promise" 3.
They are dissatisfied with the Consti-
tuition as it is. They demand the right
to carry slaves into all the Territories
of the Union against the will of the peo-
pie .constitutionally expressed, and many
of them into all the States. Because
the people have said they shall not do
this this insane rebellion has been
gotten up. The people don't have any
affection for slavery anywhere. But
they are willing to abide by the Consti-
tutioa made by our fathers, anl let
slavery alone where it exists. They
ask nothing more at present. But sup
pose Convention of the people was
called, and they, in their sovereign
capacity should conclude that the
country had suffered about enough by
this "relic of barbarism" and should
proceed to wipe it out, as they would
undoubtedly have right to do. Would
these "compromisers' submit to the
will Of the people thus expressed? No!
There is not man in the Union so
stupid or reckless as to say they would
submit to that. But that would be pre-
cisely the sentiment of the people to-
day, if fairly expressed. AS everybody
knowsethat the conspirators and their