Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-04-19


Fort Sumter are only to frighten the
North into a compromise.
! Ii the administration provokes blood
shed, it is a trick; nothing else 1t is
the masterly cunning of that devil Of
compromise, the Secretary Of State. He
is not mad, enough to let these States
rush into battle. He knows that the
age Of bullets is over. If gun is fired
in Southern waters, it is fired at the
wharvcs Of New York, at the bank vaults
Of Boston, at the money of the North.
It is meant to alarm. 1t is policy, not
sincerity. It means concession, and in
twelve months you will see this Union
reconstructed with Il Constitution like
that Of Montgomery.
New England may indeed never be
coerccd into a slave confederacy. But
when the battles of Abe Lincoln are
ended, and compromises worse than
Crittenden's are adop ed, New England
may claim the right tc secede. And as
sure as a gun is fired tonight at Fort
Sumter, within three years from to-day
you will see these thirty States gathered
under constitution twice as damnable
as that of 1857. The only hope of
liberty is fidelity to principle, fidelity to
peace, fidelity to the slave. Out Of that
God gives us nothing but hope and
brightness. In blood there is sure to
be ruin.
From the Paris Correspondence of the New York
Times
POLEON AND HIS WIFE SAY.
A fortnight ago I announced to you
that the French and English Govern
ments, in view Of the threatened civil
war in America, were about to send out
fleet of modern bulls war frigates, as
an audience for the coming struggle
One ofthe French frigates, the Foadrc,
has.just sailed, the Impetuense is soon to
follow, and third one is iu rapid prepa-
ration. The present rendezvous CT these
vessels is Vera Cruz, where they will 60
first to look after French interests, and
from whence they may watch the pro-
gress of events in the United States. and
be ready at a moments warming to steam
to any point where their presence may
be required.
The Inaugural Address Of Mr. Lin
coin, somehow or other, has not pro-
,vokcd much discussion in the French
press. The discussions in the French
Chambers, the Roman difficulty. and
the threatened European war, occupy
much Of the time and space of the jour
nails; but to this should be added the
contradictions of the telegraph, which
brings US one day good news and the
next bad, until everybody has grown
not only tired, but confused on Ameri
can affairs, and no longer take the trouble
to try to understand the condition of
things. For example, the Bank of
France, which raised its rate of discount
on the first alarm Of an American crisis
to six, then to seven per cent, has again
lowered it to six, then to five, and this
at time when affairs are certainly as
unpromisng as at any previous period
of the crisis. The Emperor approves
the Address Of Mr.. Lincoln in every part.
Mr.. Faulkner, the American Minister,
with Mrs. Faulkner, and Miss Lizzy
Faulkner, dined with their Majesties a
few days ago at the Tuileries, and the
American crisis naturally came up for
discussion. 1t was indeed discussed at
great length. The Emperor thought
that the Inaugural ought to satisfy all
who were disposed to be satisfied; it adas
firm, III tie right place, and shoocod con-
ciUiation an tie right place. The En-
press concurred in this appreciation of
the Presidents inaugural; she had been
studying it diligently, and was able to
discuss all its principal points. She
thought it just the thing for the occa-
sion and she, too, had her compromise
based upon the sentiments Of the ln-
augural She would make this State do
this, and that other State do that; she
would send out proclamations Spanish
pronuncioa,entos, probably,) and she
would get ready her army in case che
proclamation did not have the desired
effect In fine, her Majesty's plan was
most charming mosaic of impossibili-
ties. But no matter, the Empress
Eugene must be counted in as recruit
70 the army of Union savers. Even the
little Prince has his say; but it was
limited to a desire to know what the
party were talking about, and whether
Mr.. Lincoln was great Emperor.