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

We publish the following coruuniea
, tion from a correspondent at New Bed
f ford, as it contains an expression of the
opinion of the most eloquent of the ex.
. treme Aboitionists, on the present as
, pect of political affairs;
f: NEw BEDFORD, April 10.
Mr Editor: Wendell Phillips deliy.
cred lecture before our lyceum. last
evening, intensely political in its char
aeter, in the course of which he took oc-
casion' to comment on the news Just re-
: ceived from Charleston. l send you a
specimen Of his brilliant and erratic
IDEAS, in his own language. The lee
turer was interrupted by frequent Kisses:
The telegraph is said to report to might
! that the guns are firing either out OF
Fort Sumter or into it-that to morrow S
breeze when it sweeps from the North
will bring to us the echo of the first Lex
ington battle of the new revolution
Well, what shall we say of such an hour.
Ny own feeling is double one. 1t is
like the triumph of saduess-rej oicing
and sorrow / cannot indeed con@ratu-
late YOU enough on the sublime specta-
Gle of twenty millions Of people edu-
Gated in twelve month up to being will
ling that theiridolized Union should risk
q battle, should risk dissolution in order
at any risk to put down this rebellion of
Slave States.
But l am sorry that gun should be
fred from it for this reason. Tie ad-
ministration at Washington does not
know it's time Here are a series of
States girdling the Gulf, who think that
their peculiar institutions require that
they should havea separate government,
They have right to decide that ques-
tion without appealing to you or me-
A large body Of people, sufficient to make
i nation, have come to the conclusion
that they will have government of a
certain form Who denies them the
right? Standing with the principles of
rs behind us, who can deny them the
right? What is a matter of a few mil
| lions of dollars or few forts? It is a
mere drop in the bucket of the great ma
tional question. It is theirs, just as
much as ours. maintain on the prin-
ciples of rs that Abraham Lincoln has
no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter.
But the question comes secondly,
/ Suppose we had right to. interfere,
what is the good of it" You may pun
ish South Carolina for going out Of the
Union. That does not bring her IN
! ! You may sabdne bef by hundreds of
thousands of armies. but that does not
| make her State. There is no longer a
Union 1t is nothing but boys play.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis is angry and Mr.,
Abraham Lincoln is mad, and they agree
to fight One, two, or three years hence,
if the news Of the afternoon is correct,
we shall have gone through war, spent
millions, required the death of hum
dred thousand men, and be exactly then
where we are now-two nations; Il little
more angry, little poorer, and great
deal wiser; and that will be the only DIFF
ference We may just as we'll settle it
now as then.
You cannot go through Massachusetts,
aud recruit men to lombard Charleston
or New Orleans. The Northern mind
will not bear it. You can never make
such war popular, The first onset
may be borne. The telegraph may
bring us news that Anderson has bonn
barded Charleston, and you may rejoice
Rnt=the sober second thought of -Massa-
chusetts will be, ''Wasteful, unchristian,
guilty. The North never will endorse
such war. Instead of conquering
Charleston, you create Charleston in
! New England. You stir up sympathy
for the South.
/ Therefore it seems to me that the in
auguration of war is not only violation
of principle, but it is violation Of ex-
pediency.
To be for disunion in Boston is to be
an Abolitionist To be against disunion
is to be an Abolitionist to day in the
streets of Charleston Now that very
state Of things shows that the civiliza-
tions Of tile two cities is utterly antagon
istic. What is the use of trying to join
them? Is Abraham Lincoln capable of
making FIRE and powder lie down together
in peace? If he can, let him send his
army to Fort Sumter and occupy 1t.
But understand me, [ believe in the
Union exactly as you do in the future.
This is my propositions: Geo out, gen
tlemen; you arezwclcome to your empire;
take t. Lett them try -the experiment
of cheating with one hand and idleness
With the other. l know that God has
written Bankruptcy over such an ex-
pertinent. If you cannonadc South
! Carolina, you cannonade her into the
sympathy of the world. do not know
no,c but what a majority there is on my
side; but I know this, that if the tele-
graph, speaks true tonight, that the
guns are echoing around Fort Sumter
that majority is against US, for it will
convert every man into a secessionist.-
Besides, there issanother fearful element
in the problem. There is another terri
bic considerations We can then no
longer extend to the black race at the
South cur best sympathy and our best
aid.
We stand to- night at the beginning
of an epoch which may have the peace
or the ruin of a generation in it's bosom.
Inaugurate war. We know not where it
will end We are in no condition to
fight. The South is poor and we are
rich. The poor man can do twice the
injury to the rich man that the rich can
do to the poor. Your wealth lides
safely on the bosom of the ocean. All
New England has its millions afoat-
The North whitens every sea with its
wealth The South has no commerce,
but she can buy the priyateers Of every
race to prey on yours. 1t is dangerous
strife when wealth quarrels Eith poverty
Driven to despair, the Southern States
may be poor and bankrupt; but the
poorest man can be pirate, and as long
as New England's tonnage is a, third of
that of the civilized world, the South
can punish New England more than