Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-02-22

evils, contains provision for more
Territory for slavery
The Cotton States do not seem to' %.
dorss the Crittenden remedy for diarup-
ton, but there is no reason why iti
should not besstisaetory to them. What
are the avorite idsas Of the lesdinR
spirits Of the Cotton coaspirucys 9ksy
are:
l. The protection Of slavery ia the
territories, by which they mean to COM
nit the General Government to the work
of extending it and heading of in polit.
ical power the growing preponderanee Of
the Northern States.
z. The establishment of splendid
slave holding empire, which shall COM
tPrehsnd the fertile shores ana isixnd Of
the Gulf Of Mexico. THIS snspfre er-
tending around the MediteYTansan oft
New World, is gorgeous viaion Of The
politicians of our extreme South. IE
has appeared heretofore in the policy Of
the acquisition of Cuba, in the expeds:.
tions q Lopes and Walker, and the
general disposition to asgrandise South
ern territory.
The Critteadsn Compromise is exactly
the thing for them. It commits the
General Government to Che protection of
slavery in the only Territory now held
where it has or ever can have the sshad.
ow Of foothold; and it inserts an IRE
pealable clause into the Constitution,
that slavery of the African race, SksIi
be recognized as existing and protectgd;
in all Southern territory acquired
which may mean the acquisition of Max.
leo, Central America, and all the West
Indies, Indeed all America South Of
36' 30t. The cotton States we're prec.
ious ounces if they would not accep.
such compromise as this, which would
drag after them, in their scheme Of do.
minioh, the whole North, bound in the
fetters Of the Constitution, prepared ex
pressly for the occasion.
If we may, for the sake Of the illus
tFation, presume the adoption Of the
Crittenden compromise and the recon.
struction of the Union, We may be sure
that many months would not elapse be-
fore we should be fully apprized Of its
meaning. The horrible phantom Of dis
union would be daily exhibited to the
people Of the North, the crushing catas-
trophe Of national dissolution would be
perpetually suspended over US by sim
gle hair-or rather by single fibre Of
eottOn--and the whole country would be
subjugated to the purposes of those who
are now destroying the Union. Tie
States now loyal to the Union would be
mere appendages to those that are dis.
loyal. The right of secession and the
terrors attendant upon its employment,
would repeal the right of suffrage in tie
Union States. Our elections would be
farce. We should find ourselves liv.
ing under the worst and most despotie,
the most illiberal and inquisitorial form
Of government in the world: Ii less
than year some excuse would be
trumped up for the conquest Of Mexico,
and then of the Central American States,
and in all that vast region we should
find, By turning to our Constitution, that
slavery was recognized az existing, and
that in article 6 of the Critenden amend.
ments it was written: s'No future
amendment of the Constitution shall ef.
feet the five preceding articles
The next thing in the policy Of The
Gulf States, after the acquisition 81 d
vast scope of tropical territory, would be
the reopening Of the African slave trade;
and, let it hs observed, Mr.. Crittenden
says nothing Of the prohibition Of this
trade in his Eve irrepealable ConstitI-
tional provisions. He simply recon.
mends stronger laws for the suppression
of the trade. But suppose that il the
fullness of time, the '"manifsst destiny"
Of the South should require the impor
tation of native Africans-we could not
resist the repeal of the law making the
slave trade piracy, for the tremendous
flaming sword of secession Bsuld again
be suspended over US, ready to Danish 10
from our Eden of Union, and We would
have to save the Union by the reopen
ing the African slave trade. Pursue
THIS compromise policy to the end-and
there is no escape for the North from
tConfederacy constitutionally devoted to
the propagandism of African slavery. and
the confirmation of the political ssrvi-
tude of non on-slaveholding States.
No. ae.
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