Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-06-21

Wv Jul anu Wullc W Z
obey the laws enacted by our joint au-
thorlty, and keep a compact to which
we are all parties, we only ask that they
shall be required to do the same We
beileYe that their safety demands this;
we know that ours does. We impose
no burden which we ourselves do not
bear; we claim no privilege Or blessing
which our brethren of the South shall
not equally share Their country is our
country, and ours is theirs; and that
unity, both of country and of govern
ment, which the providence of God and
the sQmpacts Of men have created, we
epask 'lsot ourselves, without self inlmo-
lation, destroy. nor can we permit It to
be destroyed by others
Equally vain is it for them to declare
that they only wish ''to be let alone, !"
and that, in establishing the indepen-
dence of the seeded States, they do
those which remain in the old coniede-
racy no harm. The Free States, if al
lowed the opportunity Of doing so, will
undoubtedly concede every guarantee
needed to afford complete protection to
the institutions of the South, and fur
nish assurance Of her perfect equality
in the Union; but all such guarantees
and assurances are now openly spurned.
aud the only Southern right now insisted
on is that Of dismembering the republic
1t is perfectly certain that in the at
tempted exercise Of this right neither
States nor statesman will be ''lct alone"
Should a rufian meet me in the streets,
and seek with his ak to hew an arm
and leg from my body, [ would not
the less resist him because, as dishon-
ored and helpless trunk, [ might per-
chance survive the mutillation. It is
easy to perceive what fatal results to
the old contederacy would follow should
the blow now struck at its integrity ul-
timately trimph. We can we'll under
stand what degradation it would bring
to 1t abroad and what weakness at home;
what exhaustion from incessant war
and standing armies, snd from the cree
tions Of fortifcationS along the thou
sands of miles of new frontier; what
cm6arrasSments to commerce from hav.
ing its natural channels enuumbared or
cut of; what elements OF Gisiutegration
and revolution would be introduced from
the pernicious example; and above all,
what humiliation would cover the whole
American people. for having failed in
their gleat mission to demonstrate be-
fore the world the capacity OF our race
for its government.
While d far more fearful responsible
ity has fallen upon President Lincoln
than upon any OF his predecessors, 1t
must be admitted that he has met it
with promptitude aud foarlessness.--
Cicero, ia one OF his orations against
Catalinc. speaking OF the credit due
hiu.~u.ii tor having suppressed the con
ispiracy Of that arch traitor, said: ''lt
the glory Of him Who founded Rome
was great, how mach greater should be
that Of Kim who had saved it from over
throw, after It had grown to be the mis-
tress Of the worl1?' So it may be said
OF the glory oj' that statesman OF chief
,in who shall snatch from the vortex
Of revolution th;s republic, now that it
has expanded from ocean to ocean, has
become the admiration ef the world,
and has rendered the fountains of the
lives OF thirty millions Of people, foun-
tains Of happiness.
Tne vigorous measures adopted for
the safety Of Washington and the Coz
ernmcut itself may seem open to criti-
cism, in some of their details, to those
: who have yet to learn that not oGly has
war like peace its laws. but it has also
its privileges and its duties. Whatever
Of severity, or even OF irregularity, may
hare arisen, will Gnd its Justification in
the pressure Of the terrible necessity un-
der which the Administration has been
called to act When a man feels the
poignard of TIE destroyer at his bosom,
he is not likely to consult the law books
as to the mode or measure Of his righ Is
Of seif-derense. What is true Of indi-
yiduals is IN this respect equally true OF
Governments. The man who thinks he
; has become disloyaI because OF what the
, Administration has done, VIII probably
discover, after close seH-eXamination
chat he was disloyal before. But 70,
5 what has been done, Washinato might
ere this have been smoldering heap Q!
ruins
They have noted the course Of public
: affairs to little advantage. who suppose
that the election Of Mr. Lincoln was the
real ground OF the revolutionary out
/ breal, that has occurred The roots o.
the revolution may be traced back fol
more than a quarter Of L century, ana
an anho!y last for power is the soil ou
cfwhich it spran%. y prominent mem.
| Der OF the band OF agitators declared il
one OF his speeches, at Charleston, last
: November or December, that they haC
been occupied for thirty years Ia tht
work of sevcring South Carolina trou
5 the Union When General Jackson
e crushed unliication, he said it woulC
J., revive again under the form of the
5 slavery agitation, and we have lived t,
= see his prediction verified. Indeed 5iIa
ngitatiou, during the last i or % years
; has been almost the entire stock in trade
5 Of southern politicians The Southern
y people, known to he as generous in then
e Impulses as they are chirahic, were DO
e wrought into phrensy OF passion BY
c the intemparate words Of i iew f;anatica
d abo!jtionistS; for these words, il le!G t,
themselves, would have fallen to tn
c ground as pebbles into the sea, au,
d woGld have been heard OF no more
: But it was the echo o. those words, rc
L peated with cxa@@crations fer th'
: thou5andth time by Southern politician
8 IN the halls Of Congress, ana III tie je
4 lioeratiEe and popular assemblies, ans
c through the press Of the S1uth tlH