Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-13
to preserve it from destruction and that
you are determined that the Union shall
be preserved. Cheers
THE CAUSE OF THE WAR.

We have heard much said about th
rights of this section and of that sectior
about the right of this sort of propert
and to that sort of property, but te
you that the true cause Of this strif
lays deeper than any such current
Ever since men began to be organize
into civilized communities, there hav
been those who contended that all powe
originated in usurpation, and that tn
few We're born to rule the many. Thi
is the principle which underlies the con
test now going on. Cries of that's So
DESIGN OF THE REBELS.
And if this rebellion should succeed
IN destroying the Government, as I pray
God it may not, then there would b.
established upon its ruins either an aris
tocracy or monarchy. The question
submitted to you is rot ''Shall we stor
at Manassas" but the issue is, you must
either conquer them or TREY will con.
quer you. If they take Washington
do you think they will stop? No.
They will take Baltimore; and if they
take Baltimore, they will want Phila-
elphia; and having Philadelphia, they
will march to New York. until, as their
Secretary of War said in Montgomery,
they will dictate the terms of their com
promise within the walls of Fanuiel
Hall. [ speak plainly: it is their inten-
tion to give you military dictatorship.
The same bayonets which destroy this
Government will dictate the next. In
stead of Constitution, they will give
you swords and bayonets. We need
not mince or hesitate in this natter
To speak in common parlance, you must
either whip them OR they will whip you
They are, many Of them, insolent, proud
braggarts, like spoiled children; and
badly spoiled, at that You must whip
it out of them, or they will whip you
Loud applause.
COMPROMISE.
Much has been said about compro-
misses. What! compromise with Rebels,
with arms in their hands? Compromise
with Traitors, who would subvert your
Constitution? Do you want any better
than the Constitution,
made by Washington and the patriots
of the Revolution-a Constitution be-
meath which they lived, and which they
sealed with their blood?
If they don't want to change Govern
ment, why subvert it? If they do not
wish to form another, why destroy this?
ask this simple question! If we can
not live on terms Of peace and friend
ship under Constitution, can we hope
SO to live under mere treaty? If the
lay should ever come, and pray God
that it never may, when you shall make
my other compromise than that of un-
qualified submission to the Constitution
md laws! What then? Do treaties
change the geographical, commercial,
or social relations of nations? Your
treaty of peace would be one Of contin-
1al war. You cannot have peace with
out the Constitution. You must meet
he question fairly, now. You must
light it out. Cries Of that's the talk |
Renewed cheers.)
Suppose Il treaty should be made
With the rebels, would any of the dis
urbing elements which .rought about
he present difficulty be got rid off,
Not one. Such treaty would be one
If war. 1t could not be otherwise
We could not escape fight under it,
md if the fight must come, it had better
come now. Great Applause
1t is said that Beelzebub was once an
nigel in heaven, but he rebelled, and
ried to overthrow the government of
Jehovah and the result was he was
licked out of heaven by the angels.
Whenever virtue compromises with
ice, vice makes an inroad upon virtue.
f virtue compromises with vice to-day,
o-morrow there must be another com
and the next day another, un-
i'll virtue is clean gone and vice rules
instead. If truth compromises with
alsehood, falsehood will encroach upon
ruth, until falsehood becomes truth,
nd truth fllsehood. Compromise be-
wecn right and wrong today, and you
must compromise again tomorrow, and
gain the next day, and so on until
light is gone and wrong supplies its
'lace. The time for compromise is
zone by; now is the time to put down
rime and punish vice-the time to
tand on these great principles of truth
Thich underlie the Constitution. Now
S the time to act.
l saw the other day very good fig
ire by which a noble son of Kentucky,
Ion. Joseph Holt, had we'll illustrated
he present difficulty by the story of
he child which was brought to Solo
non, being claimed by two women
When the Judge offered to divide the
hild, the pretended mother said ''yes,
am content to take half" but the true
mother said ono, rather than hurt the
hild, give it to her" So with US, let
is not submit to have our Union di-
'ided, though the false mother may be
Wiling to take the half, but instead Of
giving it to them we will take it all
Long and loud Applause.]
intend to fight in defense of this
government as long as life shall last.
It is wrong to destroy the best govern
nent ever devised for the use of man.
you'd rather see this continent swept
oack into d bowling wilderness, than to
zee monarchy planted on the ruins of
his republic. [ would rather see this
ace swept out of being than that the
sun should set forever in darkness upon
mans hope for self-government. The
all of this Government would be to the
world an argument that mans capability
If self government was at an end, which
les at the foundation Of our noble
structure. Now is the time to establish
he truth of what we hold to be true
What if our flag has been trailed in the
lust and sullied, let it be placed in stal
Hart hands; baptize it in the suns fire,
md bathing it in nations blood, es-
;ablish its reputation on frmer basis
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