Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-01
It Looks Like It.

It Looks Like It.
In an article we wrote and published
in the Telegraph two or three weeks ago,
ON the law which ever makes the pas
sions of men the instrument of executing
upon themselves the retributions of in
ex orable justice, We said, in view of the
current events of the day, that the soc
cupation of the AbolitioRists was gone
that their work would be accomplished,
but not in their way, nor by their hands" ;"
We also said that "the slave system
wonid receive its death blow, not from
the, Stewards, and Chases, and Summers,
Who had been prescribed as Abolitionists,
but from the Buffers, the Forneys,
and the Dickinsons, who had been all
their lives, through party influences, its
most suhservient instruments"
In this, we named Butler merely as
one of the representative men of his
class, without reference to him as an in
dividual. But it seems that the refer
tre was justified in his personal, as
well as representative, character. On
Wednesday evening of last week, Gen.
Butler made a speech at Burlington
Vermont, in which he used this remark
able and most emphatic language as re-
ported in the papers. "He sail that #
any foreign nation dared to interfere an
our,iintestine ,car, ace acould cease dealing
u-ith Southern traitors as erring brothers,
deheatsly and tenderIy, AND SHOULD Arm
livery LOYAL UNION MAN, North AND
SoUTH, BOTH BLACK AND WHITE,
BOND AND FREE, unM treason and
us oJettors are erfe,minated, and the
n.eddlesome ,eorld ras taught q salufary
lesson, and the sentiment was received
with overwhelming plaudits.
We say to all the world, "and the
rest of mank ind, that Gen. Butler
meant uhaf he said; and that the plau-
dts which followed it would follow the
utterance of the same sentiment in To-
calilies where such sentiments would
nct,haye been tolerated year ago
Will the President "modify" that SEN
timent? Gen. Butler has been a life
long Democrat. He has gone as far as
the farthest in support of the South
Atthe last election he supported Breck
inridse with ali the energy of his great
i.tellect. No man in all the North
seemed more incurably devoted to the
interests Of the shareholders, or more
willing to see slavery extended and per-
petuated But he could not stem the
march of destiny! The man must be
stone blind to the indication of Proyi-
denee who does not see that the insti-
tuition Of slaveryis doomed; and he must
lie confirmed atheist if he believes its
perpetnation possible. We have hoped to
seethe gigantic evil put away peacefully
that it would be overthrow we never
doubted-but the popular mind and
conscience, it seems, is not prepared for
that, and probably will not be. There
j. nothing left, therefore, for God in his
Providence to do, but to use the instru
lnents he has, with which to work out
his purposes. He can "make the wrath
of man to praise him" and will use that,
when men are incapable of being led by
letter impulses. 1t was maxim of the
ancients that, whom the Gods intended
to destroy they first make mad They
we're not enlightened as to the Governor
of human events, but they had gathered
frem history something of the laws Of
Ills Government. They erred in the
aupposition that the Gods made men
mad in order to destroy them. En-
lightened people ought to know that it
is the self-induccd madness of men
which is oyer-ruled for their destruc-
tion when the "eup of their iniquity is
flll."
Slavery is doomed! 1t is an obstruc-
tion in the path of human progress, and,
as such, must and will be removed
And if the pride, and lust, and cupidity
of the masters will not permit its peace
full removal, then God will permit those
very passions to work out that removal
and retributive punishment at the
same time. And the very men and
means relied upon to uphold the sys-
tenn, will be made the instruments of its
overthrow. And all the signs of the
times point unerringly to that consum-
,nation. Garrison and Phillips may
now stand back and 'tadmlre and won
der JEFF Davis, and the Southern
rebels, have laid the train, and their
Eoraler Northern supporters are apply.
ing the match, which will complete, in a
year, what the Abolitionists have been
laboriug for lifetim to accomplish
without any apparent success. Who
are the practical Abolitionists?
---sND.-
sR-A A correspondent of the Cincin,
matt Gazette, writing from Camp Red
House, Oh the Kanawha, Oh the 18th
inst, gives an account of the expedi
tion sent against the rebels who fred