Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-01-18
No. 4.
MADISON HOUSE, CIN'TI, ]
Jan. 9Th 1861. {

Dear 7slegraph:-Arriving at the
wharf at l l o'clock to-day, we are neces-
sarily compelled to lie over until to-mor-
row. This would not have been SO bad
if we arrived in time to attend church,
which, unfortunately, we did not. The
consequence is, that we are housed in the
madison, and after reading the "news"
have concluded to indict another epistle
to the readers of the Telegraph.
1t being Sunday, we have not been able
to learn, from observation, the activity or
otherwise of the Business of the city. It
is reported, however, to be very dull,
and many laboring men are out of en-
ployment. Much suffering is anticipa-
ted during the winter, in consequence.
Efforts are being made by the benevo-
lent to alleviate the sufferiugs of. the
poor as far as possible. But no amount
of liberality can feed and clothe, for any
length of time, large population who
have no remunerating employment, nor
means laid up against such contin-
gency. And very many Of the most de-
serving are the very ones whose sensi
tive feelings will prevent them from
sharing in the benefaetions of the benev-
olent 1t is hard, very hard task,
for the strong, able-bodied, honest Ia
borer, to accept as charity, what he
stands ready and anxious to earn by his
willing toll He cannot bring himself
to do so, and consequently, he and his
family suffer in silence, while importu-
nate and professional 6eggars make
speculation out of the generous hearted
in times like these.
Sadly the times are out of joint, and
to all appearance the millennium is in the
distant future yet. Will it ever be any
better7 IF one were to look abroad over
the condition Of our own country and
people, the essu and happiest perhaps
n t...e world, and take it as it is, in con-
nection with the present prospect Of its
future, as the fnal destiny Of man upon
earth, he would be excused for consider
ing the whole thing a ''failure." :" But
to the firm believer in the existence and
Providence of a Being of Infinite Love
and Wisdom, whose laws are the neces-
sary operations of Divine Order which
will produce harmony and happiness
when obeyed, and be followed by con-
fusion and misery when violated, there
is the fullest assurance of "good time
coming"
That "good tinae' may be remote
enough, but still it will come and the
very causes which seem to make its re-
alization delusiye fancy, are but pre-
parting the way for its glorious manlfcs-
tation. When sel6shness is banished
from human hearts, and the rule of Di-
vine order that, whatsoever each one Of
the race would have done to himself, he
will spontaneously do to Others then
will the strife, the rivalry, the mad ambi
ton, the jealousy, the revenge, the op-
preston, the wrongs, and with them the
of mankind disappear and, in
the Justice and love with which every
man will treat every other, his aeknowl-
edged brother, will have come the
" Kingdom of God upon earth, and His
Will will be done, even as it is in
heaven" And no doubt the terrible
trials through which mankind have
passed, and are now passing, are neces-
sary to bring him to this state by teach
ing him the simple lesson that " What
soever man seweth, that also shall he
reap"
This lesson must be learned, must be
believed and acted upon, before progress
can be made in the redemption of man
from his wretchedness. And it will be
repeated to him, in all the forms in
which punishment is ordained to fol-
low transgression, until he does believe
and act upon it.
In the utter blindness Of an intense
selishness, We have, as people, wholly
ignored the existence of the eternal dis
tinctions between right and wrong, have
insanely assumed that causes and their
effects might be divided like ill-assorted
and that by i" compromises"
and /" compacts," and agreements
iniquity could be probably enacted
into law; and>thatz wretehedness," by
joining hands, could permanently pros
per-
:. It seems that our wise men at Wash
hgbon think, or at least act as if they
they could defeat the Provi-
lence of God, and annul the operations
If Natural and Divine laws, by a still
more fragrant violation of them What
nas brought about our present difficulty
out our eoasenting to, and compromising
With slavery :? Cannot every one see, at
'nce, that if freedom, justice and right,
lad been the inspiration Of eur laws and