Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-07-26
NUMBER 80.
"THERE IS NO PEACE"

There are a few malignant traitors
scattered through the North, who would
be made happy by the discontinue Of
the Union forces now in the field; there
are also few servile and ignorant crea-
lures who have been raised in an atmos-
phere of reverence for the political
task-masters of the South, and who are.
loyal as Guinea niggers under the lash,
to the Southern Deapotisna; and it is
probable there is a yet larger class of
the poor in spirit and the pusillanimous.
in soul, who would be glad to purchase
few years inglorious immunity from
the horrors of war, by the dirty patch
work Of an insincere peace, which. at,
most, would hang together long enough
to aggravate and intensity the inevita-
BILE trial of strength on the battle field,
between those who are for preserving,
and those who are for destroying, the
Republican form Of Government guar
anteed by our fafhers Who. made the
Union to all the States.
The malignant traitor, the ignorant
traitor, and the cowardly traitor, are.
just noE begging in whispers, or Shrek
ing, for compromise and peace. For
the malignant there is nothing left but
coercion. 1t tmay be worth while to sub
nit fact Or two that should have.
weight with the ignorant and the cow.
ardly The first fact is, that peace is
impossible, until We have ascertained.
which party now in the field has the.
greatest strength, and until, at least, the
boundaries of the Loyal and disloyal ses-
tioRs Of the country are defined by the
people in arms. If "peace" were made
at this moment the lives of Northern
citizens would never be safe in the South2
IT would be to us savage county,
We would be understood to be people
who might be murdered with impunity.,
More than this, the Administration has
called cut vast military force to sustain
the Government.
There are one hundred thousand sol.>
diers Of the Union, in masses, in the i'm.
mediate vicinity, and within easy reach
of Washington. They left home to
fight for the Union-the supremacy of
its laws and the glory of its, flag. As
general rule, they care bat little for the,
individuals who are administering the
Government, but respect them as its SER,
wants
A grander passion never possessed q
people, than that which was kindlei
through the Northern States by the an
nouncement Of the siege of Sumter It
was profound passion, and the people
are still IN earnest. The eighty regi-
ments in the circle of encampments
about Washington City. are the repre-
sentatiyes of the popular will. Their
bayonets are facts, Now, suppose the
Administration attempted to turn back,
and defeat the purpose of the people
Suppose the effort were made to reeog-
nize the subversion of the Constitutions
of the United States as an accomplished
Eaes5 and tho Southern Confederacy as
one Of the nations of the earth; and that
without the employment of the means
donated, thrust upon the Administra-
ton by the people, to defend the Union.
Would the army Of the Union disperse,
and go home--the Union broken. the
Alg dishonered, the nation dismenlberetl
and abject, ana no trial By battle to dis
cover whether those who carried the
flag and kept step to the Music of the
Union, were really able to perform the
task they left their homes to accom-
piish? We would warn the ignorant
and tlmorous who would sell themselves
on an auction block before the whole,
world, as political niggers, the price
being peace, that an attempt to be-
tray the country by entering into a.
''peace' now, would be appreciated by
j the army as surren ler to the rebels.
and ,0ou!d be resisted The City of
Washington would be taken by the
troops sent to defend it,. President,
Congress, and all the rest, would be put
to fight BY the bayonet and bullet
And then? God only knows--a Provis-
ional Government, Military Despotism
in the North corresponding to that in
the South--the employment of the re-
sources of the North as recklessly as
those of the South are now employed
the interference of foreign powers-an
universal reign of terror Possibly
probably-all these things, and worse
remaining behind There is but ono
road leading to peace-real peace-and
that is straight through the war to the
restoration of order by establishing, by
force of arms, tbs supremacy of TIE
laws.