Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-04-26

W eAldli lllUSC w IICn me,
melted them to the unhallowed work.
| want my rights under the Constitution,
IN the Union; and unless those rights
had been conceded and reverenced,
wanted to fight, if needs be, for their
maintenance in the Union, under the
Constitution. This was my plan, which
conceive will be readily conceded far
more patriotic and polite than that
adoptedby ''the Immortal Ten" of Mont
gomery It would have left the issue
IN dispute approachable by both parties.
we, might have then met conciliation
with ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with Or
ganlzatlon-concert with concrt-action
with action. The amende honorable"
wetld have been made, and long years
of peace and prosperity would have
thrice doubly blessed this unhappy land. "
but no, these misehievous men cared
not for the perpetuity Of the Government
and the public veal, as their acts abund-
antly attest "They must reign or
ruin "-"and they madly rushed on to the
cOnsummation Of their diabolical pur-
pose''-the overthrow of the Govern
ment, and the erection Of monarchy
upon its ruins y ''To this end they ma
tured their plans-they deluded and mis-
instructed the popular mind,' fired the
popular heart, by false and prejudicial
appeals, and plunged the country by sur
prise into anarchy and revolution. "The
people, uninitiated and unconsulted as
to their designs, looked on in wonder
ment and awe, until they laid their sac
religious hands upon the glorious ban
ner of their country ''tore it down -
''trampled it under their feet" aud
''raised in its stead,' that filthy Rag
emblazoned with nasty tadpole, frog eat
ing birds, and kissing serpents, fit en-
bIem of the deeds which it commemo-
rates-when they did this, I heard Il
curse, deep, long and loud, arise from the
great heart of that dense mass of strong
armed, fiery hearted sons Of toll, who
stood around me, that sounded like the
funeral dirge of the Nations last wall
'.That murmur is still rumbling
throught the length and breadth of the
South, growing louder and louder each
day, until ere long, it will disemboguc
in more than the thunder Of Ntna-wrap
our political horizon in light blaze,
and melt its elements with fcrvcnt heat
Its awful morn has already dawned, with
st:eaks Of malignant light, ominous of
the purple stream, the CORY food, that
waters the plains where the mighty Hec-
tor fell and brave Sarpcdon bIed. The
alarm Of civil strife now rings its discord-
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land, aye with electrical rapidity, it has
flashed athwart the Atlantic, and while
| it has surcharged the once bounding
hearts of Freedoms toiling host, in that
land Of tyranny and oppression, with un-
Isutterable sorrow, it has re-enkindled the
| Ifickering rays Of expiring hope, in the
black breasts Of guilty despots, that even
here, in the land of Washington, Free
dom in her own ho1seho,d-by her own
hnnd-wiil find ali early grave, and des
potism Il lasting throne"
''Who shall say. amid this wild agi-
tation and alarm-this treason, rapine
and murder, this utter disregard Of the
memories Of the past-the blessings Of
the present, and the hopes of the future
that these institutions which our fore
fathers fondly hoped would be eternal,
viii not fnaUy fade like the Tyrian dye
and moulder like the Venetian Towers"
"God forbid, that or National Sun.
which rose SO bright, and promised so
much, should go down baptised in blood,
and bathe our Temple of Liberty in Gu
eTlusting night-the nj ght Of ages-the
night that knows no waking-the night
that now envelopes Greece and Rome
God Forbid that this confederate band
OF guilty traitors should pull down the
work Off hundred years, dash hope from
the armament and robe world in
mourning. | do not believe they will.
| believe in justice. [ love liberty, and
| trust in Providence and the people to
deliver US from this terrible fate. [ be-
lieve yet in the virtue Of the masses and
trust in
"That divinity which shapes our ends,
Rough hsw them as we will
These wicked men at Montgomery
have nearly run their course. In the
midst of their carnival of lust and infer
nal saturnalia Of a disrupted and bleed
ing coutry, the omnibus hand of destiny
is now writing upon the wall of their
guilty orgies: -Icae meme teh:el upharsin
Verify, verify, terrible fate awaits these
destroycs Of a nations repoee and au
thors of a realms decay. They will
fall beneath the very storm which they
have gathered. Like the authors of the
Reign Of Terror in France, they will be
condemned by their own laws. and per
lsh by the hands of their own friends.
Apropos Of the French Revolution,
there is a very marked similaritys be-
tween this new tangled Democratic Rev
olutionary party Of the South, fVd. that
that preceded the Reign of Terror in
France. Know you not that all the
enormities of that appalling drama were
perpetual in the name Of Democracy.
for the good Of the people? Know you
not that the Bastile Was crammed with
loads of living death. to appease Democ-
rEcy and satisfy justice? Know you
not that the guillotine groaned with its
weight Of human victims, and the streets
OF Paris run red with human gore. to
satisfy Democracy, and secure the rights
of the people? Know you not Robes
pierre, Marat and Donton claimed to be
the very pinks Of Democracy, friends
Of the dear people, lovers of liberty,
while hourly thousands of the strong
armed, brown -browed sons of toll and
freedom were butchered by their inhu-
man DEGREES? May not the sagacious
statesman - this dread moment Of dark
ness and gloom, hold up the fearful par
allel and exclaim to his deluded coun
trymen in the language of the Roman
sage on like occasion, ''Lacedis per fg-
ues slLal,aosaLas L.I,,ora .IoLnsa ,, and unnld