Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-05-24
THE WAR.


~s THE WAR.
= The question is asked on every hand, !,
"rhat will be the result Of the war?'--
Arevisw ofthe whole 6eid points to but
one possible result the certain and.
speedy defeat Of the rebels, and the vir-
dieation of the Constitution under Is hich
we have so long lived and prospered
In the first place, the nineteen Free
States are thoroughly loyal to. the Con,
stitution. They have a. population of
eighteen millions of people, with the
prestiss Of all the glories Of the past,
and all the hopcg of the future upon
their side. They have the unbounded
credit of the National and State Govern
ments, and the almost unlimited wealth
Of the citizens as resources, backed up
and sustained By a sentiment of patriot
ism that is most thoroughly aroused
They have the sympathy of the friends
Of freedom and stable Government
throughout the world, and confident in
the justice Of their cause, will sustain
the Government by placing at its dis
Fosai all the men and money which may
Re required to put down the insane re-
bellion, and make another attempt i'm
possible. -.
But the GoTernment,is not sustained.
by the people Of the Free States alone
Felaware is as loyal o-day as any of the
Free States. And she will come out. of
the con1icta Free State in theory as
we'll as in fact. She has less than two
thousand slaves; and yet the owners of
this little squad of mulattoes-for her
slaves, ara all sbleachsd-have managed
TO FIJI all the important offices of the
stats. These politicians, seeing their
power depart from them, became the
noisiest and most unscrupulous OF
Secessienists. And for a time it was
thought they would be able to drive the
whole State into treason. But the people
rote in their majesty and in their pat
riotism, repudiated the politicians, and
placed their noble little State alongside
Of Massachusetts, az in the days of the
revolution. Delaware, therefore, with
out reserve, and with all her influence,
is added to the nineteen Free States,
not only during the pending contest,
but for all future time -
And Maryland, too, after passing
through one Of TIE most terrible ordeals
that ever tried any people, is at last
anchored to the Union, with attachments
stronger than hooks Of steel. The
masses of her people were always loyal.
But, like all the other slave States, she
had the misfortune to be caught in the
snare Of the conspiracy. Her Legisla-
ture was simplya nest of traitors. But
happily they could meet only once in
two years, without the call Of the Gov
ernor. And Gov. Hicks, being at heart
Union.man, refused to call them to-
gether, knowing, as he did, that they
would have precipitated the State out of
the Union against the will OF the peo-
pie, as the Cotton States had BEEN
Every motive of cajolery and intiaiida-
tion was presented TO him, but he re.
nained firm, until such time as the Gen
sral Government was prepared to take
care of the traitors. There is not a
doubt bat that if the Legislature of
Marylaad ceald have got together in
January or February, the "plug
Uuglies' Of Baltimore would have been
rrecipitafed upon Washington, and the
inauguration of Lincoln would have
seeu prevented. The "reign of terror"
the city in the control Of tho mob
the destruction Of the railroads--the
murder Of unarmed troops in the streets
in open day-the call of the Legislature
ly the Governor under the fear Of: his
life--the' treasenable proceedings of
that usst-of traitsrs--ars all familiar.
but the Government ~ Washington
having concentrated suGcisnt force at
Baltimore to orerawe ne mob, the loyal
s-ntiments Of the hsnest citizens bow
frd expression, and Maryland stands
cut as trae as the trncst. To be sure
there are hundreds of rebel tories still
lurking in Ler secret hiding places, but
they are powerless for evil, except as
asssssins and private murderers. Mary
land, therefore, is to be added to the
twenty loyal States already described?
Missouri, another border slave State,
although her every interest, and all her
hopes of the future, are bound up in the