Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-29
A I,oval Kentucky Journal,

1t is refreshing to find one journal in
Kentucky that can rise above the mar
ket price of negroes in the estimate of
the present contest.
The Louisville .}ouraal, and the
Louisville Democrat, both profess to be
strongly Union. But their 'Unionism
is always subservient to their pro-slavery
preiudices. When Fremont issued his
celebrated proclamation, announcing his
purpose to free the slaves of rebels who
would not lay down their arms, these
papers set up perfect howl, and demand
ed his sacrafce as the only price at
which they would continue to support
the Union. 10 save such Union men,
Fremont was sacrificed. And as re-
ward, the most cxtravagant praises were
showered upon the Administration, and
especially upon the Secretary of War.
And it was given out by these papers,
that all was now right-that whatever
else perished, and whoever else might
be sacrificed, the Administration would
uphold sluvery.
Well, time passed on, and the honest
Indignation Of the loyalty of the Union
was heard. John Cochrane, pro
slavery Democrat Of New York, makes
speech in which he declares, "thdt
much as he hos done heretofore, and Is
still acilling to do, 10 sustain store,y, get,
!ttAe question is directly presented, phether
the Union shall be broken up, or the slaves
of rebels be .treed2 lie uouM stand by the
Union" The Secretary of War was pres
ent, and indorsed the speech.
Upon this, the Journal and Democrat
have become most intensely y indignant,
and demand the unconditional removal
of the Secretary of War. The sum of
their patriotism is this: Slavery is
the only sacred thing. 1t is sacred even
in the hands of rebels. They believe
that the Government of the United
States is the only power which can
maintain slavery. They therefore sup
port the Union bit only on the coadi-
tion that 1t seeures the absolute snfety and
prrmonency Of slavery. The Union, being
but u means to this end, If the contest is
nurromed do,cn to the issue, shall the
Union be preserved or tie slare of a rebel
be freed? they say, "PERIsH THE UNION
FOREVER"
But the Frankfort Commonwealth
takes up the subject, and sustains the
Secretary of War, and Cochrans speech
in every particular, and administers such
a rebuke to the Democrat and Journal
as ought to shame them either into an
unconditional support of the Union, or
drive them openly to the support of the
enemy. We verify believe that the
weak point in the conduct of the war
has been the effort to buy the support of
these border States self-styled conser-
vative Union men. If they had boldly
and manfully taken sides with either
party, and left the Government free to
prosecute the contest unembarrassed by
their halfway support, the rebellion
would have been suppressed in three
months, in way that would have in
sured it an everlasting suppression.
If anybody wants Kentucky paper
that is honestly and unconditionally fol
the Union, the Constitution and the su.
premacy of law and order, we can rec.
ommend them to the Frakfort Con,
monpeolth, which is all we intended tc
do when we commenced this article.
s@- The Southern papers are horror
struck at the idea of conquest, when
applied to themselves. They boldly
set the Constitution and laws Of theil
country at defance-trample upon the
legally expressed will of the people, and
attempt to sell the liberties of theil
country to foreign Kings and Emperors
and when the Government attempts te
preserve its own existence from the un.
natural assault, these conspirators cry
out conquest" ''coercionr' and want
most intensely, to be ''Iet alone
But Maryland, and kentucky, anc
Missouri, Slave States as they are, re
fuse to join in the overthrow of the
Union, and thereupon these same anti
coercionists, proclaim that, "at whatever
cost of life and property, these States
must be conquered they could not
and would not consent to a peace even i
allowed to take all the States that ar,
} willing to go with them, unless, thes'
unwilling ones are compelled to go too
And yet we have men, even anon:
us, who say we must not wage the wa
for the purpose of conquest! We woulo
like to know for what else shan 'con
quest" either party has called out their
f armies? The whole question is simply
one of conquest and nothing else
Either the rebels will conquer tn
Government, or the Government will
"conquer'' the rebels. And the mai
: who talks about anything else as the OBJ
ject of the war, is simply too stupid tt
comprehend an idea, or is at heart him.