Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-10-11
Will the South Abolish Sla
VerV?

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that at the head of this article. Every
one knows that this insane rebellion WIS
ipangurate,tfor the purpose Of making
slavery perpetual Tie idea, therefore,
that the instigators of it will themselves
blotput the institution, may we'll seem
absurd But let us see
1T viii be reeoliected that when our
'ifIibusters" were organizing their
.Efaids upon Cuba a few years ago, and
c1usgssiTrai,or- ruled Administration was
eaaesfaolidg to get up a war with Spain,
iii orIef TO have d protect for seizing
upon that Island, tire Spanish authori-
tics, although the most persistent sla-
very gandists in the world, dis
1tinetly announced their purpose to free
tie sldres, AID arr, them to fght tie IL
,raders, rather than permit the conquest
Of theg Island! And they would hare
sd0neiset And the newl y made free men
woqld, in gratitude for their emancipa-
ton, have fought to the death fer their
late masters. The character Of the negro
race Kould justify such step, and the
ahistsry Of Hayti demonstrates its sue
los2stnta5s ;
bsdllle dream Of Southern politicians for
years, has been dissolution of 1.-THE
Union, and the establishment of South
eeEp Gsnfederacy upon purely aristocratic
.ptiaciPlcs. Slavery is made the prete.rt
now, as the tariff was thirty years ago.
sBGtthe tariff then, and the negro no W,
ewas,iand is, but the ladder by which the
leaders hoped to climb into their COW
etcd places of power and dignity. 1t is
true they intended to lay the foundation
Isf their new Empire upon slavery
But the progress of the war will very
Isoat make. it manifest that slaxery can
tnobsuryise the contest--at least not in a
condition to be controlling element in
tie Union if that should survive, or in
the Kingdom of Cotton if the Union
-should be destroyed. For, if the Union
a5tadds, the control of the slave interest
,iseSohe forever; and other countries will
1bePrspared to supply, the markets of
the world with Gotten before the South
aan,siniany event, recover from the ruin
brought upon her by this rebellion So
that, however the present conflict may
terminate, slavery, in this country, as a
great political power, is virtually at an
end. And this inevitable consequence
sanneta long escape the convictions Of
ahe leaders of the insurrection, however
blind our Northern Statesmen may be to
the indications of Providence, as re-
Fealedg in the passing events of the hour.
teIt is we'll known, too, that there is
none Of the prejudice against color, in
the South, which is 50 strong in the
Northern States. From infancy to the
sraEe7nin every possible relation of life,
the Ae,ssaristocratic" families of the South
are in perpetual contact with the negro
race. In the Kitchen, in the dining
room, the nursery, and the bed-chamber
H7everywhere, in fact, as inevitably as
by their shadows, are the Southern gen
tlemen and ladies attended by their
Flages. There is no thought of impro-
priety or feeling of repugnapce in this
contact This total absence Of preju-
dice has been carried into a practical
4malganiation Of the races to such an
extent that there are but few pure .Afri-
sans sleft. In thousands of them. the
last visible tinge Of the African blood
has disappeared, and every shade of
color, "from snowy white to sooty,", u, is
found among them. And it is also we'll
Known that the aristoeratic families Look
upon and treat the slaves with far less
contempt than they do the poor VI hites.
Now, in view of all this, and many
other considerations which ght be ad-
duted, what are the possibilities of the
not-distant future? Suppose the war to
continue until the resources of the South
are exhausted, and her armies weakened
by,battie and disease, beyond the power
,pf.Feerdit? . Suppose the leaders, rem
dsrsd desperate by their position with
.sa|t death before them, as Traitors, if con
.qpered, and the absolute certainty OF
being. conquered without additional re-
sources? In this. extremity, what so
probable, Or so promising, as the last
desperate resort suggested-the emanci-
patton and the 'arming OF her slaves?- =
Should she do this, she would have an
army which Weuld only need training to
he jHyineible.i Such is the nature of the
negro that, even in slavery, one kind act
win cause him to forgive lifetime of
.mjury. It is this forgiying disposition
Of the race which makes it possible to
easlave them. Let the master, then,
confer upon him the boon for which he
sHer longs freedom and he has bound
him to his interests by tie stronger
than lislitself. And add to this, what
I'll wpald not be hard to fix in the minds
ofthsanegroes, the conviction that the
United States were fghtisg to re-enslave
them or to retain them in bondage, and
We will have a worse foe to meet than
the combined powers. of England and
France, added to. that of the. Rebel