Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-07-26
THE PROGRAMME AND ITS Full
FLLLMENT.

In casually glaneing, few days ago,
at the proceedings of the Southern
Commercial Convention, held in Mont
gomery, Ala, in the month of May,
1858, we had our attention attracted to
the following public reiteration, made
by Mr.. William j.. Yancey, of the eds
union programme" first intimated By
him in his private letter to Mr. Slaughter.
After urging the policy of an immedi,
ate movement for the dissolution of the
Union, and to this end the assembling
of Convention for the purpose of de-
vising the most eligible method CT pro-
ceedure, Mr.. Yancey continued as fol-
lows:
'That Convention might say, we want
South Carolina, with her. old recollec
tions, with her wise and ever ready men,
with her people brought up under the
motto, senlper parotus, always prepared,
with our heart and our substance, to do
battle for our rights; we want Virginia,
with that State sovereignty floating over
US, with a flag upon which there is pic
tured upon a blue field the Goddess of
| Liberty, with her foot upon the tyrant,
and her motto is, SIC senlpcr tyrdnnis-
thus always to the tyrant; We want the
other States in the South. And if the
people of Virginia should say to US, we
cannot now move on account of our Pc
culiar border condition, but Virginia
says, in her true feeling Of sisterhood,
nnope on, you Gulf States, from your Con-
| jc,leracy, erect your Independent gorern
nent, and ,0e aoiN see to it that yoa shall
be alIo,red to bear the arh Of tie coecnant
Of your liberties to It's destination; zoe aci}I
guard the passes, and yoH shall merer, be
saolested by q foe that shall reach yoss
across our territory, Perhaps Virginia
would give that response, and when she
did, through her sovereignty, I would
take her by the hand, bid her farewell
upon my important reunion, and turn
my back upon the dome of that Federal
Capitol where there are idols in the place
Of the true God; and I would 90 south
vardly and ask South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana,
Florida and Arkansas to form 4 Confed-
eracy of right, and equality, anl justice,
with great unity Of cline, production,
ana brotherly love to give strength to
its Government; and then would appeal
10 Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Vir-
9inia Maryland and North Carolina, and
say to them, you are our border sisters,
who, with wisdom, have retained your
position as the .Raahs Of our 0aoren,ent.
Aud when our movement had been made
and recognized by the world as the best
thing that could happen for the inter
ests ofevery part of the world, and We
had permanent basis, we would have
il so constructed that there should be
room euough upon our shield for Vir-
eiuia, with her sic scnpcr yranmis, and
North Carolina could come in at the
proper hour; and in the tims our
laws would have effect ted such retro
grade cf sentiment in the Northern
States that there would not be a Yankee
within hundred miles Of the border Of
a Slave State that would not become a
slave catcher if we would allow them to
trade with us. This IL but crude
foreshadowing Of the idea at the bottom
Of my heart, and which has beca kept
down because it has not been shown me
a proper hour aud place to give it shape" :"
And it is this ''crude foreshadawing"
that Virginia and North Carolina and
Tennessee have undertaken, at the in
stance Of the Cotton States, TO reduce to
substance, acting as the "hanks of a
movement originated III contempt of
their wishes and frAught with ruin to
their interests.-Nuti0ual In:elIiJcncer.