Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-07-19
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THE lRRErREss1sLE coNFL1cr.
T. A. PLANTS, EDITOR.


That the unity of sentiment in the
loyal States is to be broken up and ou1
people divided, is evidently the fixec
and desperate purpose Of desperate anc
ambitious men. That patriotism ant
umselish love of Country and human
progress is peculiar to any section, OF
personal ambition and reckless dena
gogues found alone on Que side of {
geographical line, is equally absurd =
Fundamental principles underlie our
present conflict, and these know no de-
grces of latitude. Some of the most
beautiful developments to which hu-
-nlanity has attained have been found in
the South. They were not made such
by their connection with the institution
of slavery, but they retained and culti-
Waited the higher and better principles Of
human nature in spite oft. On the other
hand, the meanest, most unprincipled
tyrannical and merciless of all slave
drivers, have been the renegades from
the free schools and free institutions OF
the North!
1t is SO, in the present struggle Men
in the North, who were, for a time, aWed
into a momentary appearance of loyalty
through the fear of the popular indig-
nation, are gradually, as that fear wears
off, coming from their lurking places
and, armed with falshood are doing a
work which, for low cunning and ire
deemable meanness, has no parallel in
the more daring and open rebels Of the
South.
1t is clearly seen by them that, with
the eople united, the mad scheme of
treason will be crushed out forever
But. it is seen, too, that with the over
throw of the rebellion, those who
have hatched it into being will be over
thrown likewise. AS it was the defeat
of the personal ambition of aspiring
demagogues which raised the standard
of treason, all who have proftel
by long afilliation with the traitors
see that their only hope of the future is
in the success of the conspiracy. Break K
up the Union, aud these leaders may
find themselves able to seize upon some
of its broken fragments. Change the
Constitution, as they demand to have it
changed, and the way is opened for still
more audacious demands, until the free :
dom of the people is wrested from them,
and the central idea Of the movers Of the
plot realized.
The history of the world is little else
than record of the Struggles of the peo-
pie against the bad and ambitious men,
who have aimed to rule the masses of
their fellows without their consent
Human nature is much the same in all
ages. Certainly it is not controlled by
sectional lines. Circumstances, and not
sections, have made the great body of
Northern men loyal, and those Of the
South apparently disloyal. The senti-
ment of many in both sections was, and
is" We ,ciU rule the country! Its pat
ronage: its honors, It's prosperity shall min
iste'. to oHr personal Interests SO long as
see can retain lie control Of tie Gurern :
aaent by the observance Of tie forms Of the
Constitution, aec acil pay somc respect to
those forms. 70 his end. ice ,cM eeAanst
tie almost resources Of fraud and talse-
hood, to deceire the people and retain orr
poacer. But 1chen these fail, aee uW re-
sort to torce, for aee 'ciW not giec up our
po,oerf'
Such is substantially the unspoken
laneuag ge of the leaders of the conspiracy
in both sections. But it happened that.
through the influences Of slavery, the
masses Of the people in the South have
been deprived Of the means Of education.
They are therefore more ignorant, and,
consequently, more easily made the
dupes of designing knaves than those in
the Free States. Relying upon this
fact, and on the hope, which, to them,
seemed certainty, that their sympa
thisers in the North would aid them, the
Southern leaders, being defeated by the
popular vote of the people, flew to arms
as their agreed resort, and calling around
them their ignorant dupes, present the
spectacle of seemingly sectional con-
test. Unexpectedly to the Northern
parties to the plot, the people of the
Free States could not be SO duped, and
they were consequently unable to carry
out their part of the programme. The
indignation of the masses was so great that
these leaders, some through fear, and
some through cunning, professed, for a
time, to fall in with the prevailing pat
riotism of the North. This added to
the appearance of a sectional contest
But it is only in appearance.
Every day brings proof that there are
thousands of true and loyal men in the
South. They are, for the time being,
overawed by the reign of terror which
prevails there. They do not know
each other. Freedom of speech and the
press,isw wholly suppressed. Spies and
intormers swarm like flies in the atmos-
phere of unWholesome putridity. Death
is the penalty for being even suspected
of fidelity to the Constitution. No man
can trust his fellow, and the pail of a