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


Yet this iszthe secret of the whole
movement, The Democratic party has
been beaten, and the leaders have con-
splred to retain their power, or, destroy
the country! And with this fact open
to the. vision of all persons not willfully
blind, some well meaning people, uni
ting with babling fools and cunning
knaves, are clamorihg for "compromisc!'
Alas! my country!
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= seh 1sel3 COLUMBUS, Feb. 10, '6t:
Dear 1elcgraph:-A A warm, clear,
spriugiike day, with its genial sunshine,
and balmy breath, enchanted the popu-
lution7of this city into the open air, al
though it is Sunday. Itsis a long time
since the streets have beenEso thronged,
or the churches either, as they have
been to-days It issFike aehealing medi-
ciney to sget out Of doors in such an at
ra6sphere as this, sand we doubt not that
many hearts felt the sweet impulses. Of
of gratitude for the privilege. Espe-
ciallyi invalids, who Have been housed
up for many weeks. zas st5~ -ezas a''s q
There has been considerable sickness
in the city this winter, and on many a
doorsknob sthe. futtering Grape has told
the hutrying passers-tby,, of the sad
hearts within. n ne Of the streets, as
we passed, some days, ago, we noticed
one Of these signals as ,ott;tc as the snow
that was falling. Without knowing
who occupied :, the house, or who had
left it, we were deeply impressed by the
token: We imagined that those within
had learned something of, the {: better
land,'' which is not fairly represented
by the customary insignia of what We
cali death : the dismal black with
which we indicate the severed ties of
love and friendship To our mind, as
we passed, came the beautiful vision of
a fairy form, which had been lent awhile,
to make the home of loving hearts. a
thing Of everlasting sacredness.,. We
fancied thousand scenes of love and
purity, in which the little prattler had
opened other hearts than its own to the
communion Of its guardian angel, and
had taught them the beautiful truth
that, what to US, on this side Of the thin
partition, seems death, to those on the
other and brighter side, is but stepping
into a higher and better life. And this
faith we read in the acAite Grape upon
the door-knob.
And why not? Oh! thank God! that
neither theology, philosophy, or the
hard discipline of ife's conflicts, can
quite crush out the faith of the soul,
that the beautiful ones we have so loved
here, will not be lost to US when they
pass to the other side! We could well
fancy, even if we had never felt it, the
void in the little cirele-the absence of
''two little feet from the fender, in the
evening hour-the memories recalled at
the sight of the toys laid by as holy
mementoes-the tears pressed from the
full heart by a tone, or look, or word,
which reminds US of the absent one! And
yet, that all these may but open the
heart to the reception of a higher faith,
a calmer trust, and a happier, because a
better and truer life. And to such
faith, 'chite is the only proper badge,
not of mourning for the lost, but of our
recognition of the faith that, from their
better state, the loved ones will be with
US still-walking by our side as perpet
ual monitors, and winning US by. sacred
to personal fitness for re-
union with them in. their new and beau
tiful hours. Let aehite be the signal
hereafter, of the translation to the spirit
world, of all children, at least.
At the solicitation of Judge Brinker-
hoff, We attended the Congrega tional
Church this evening, to. hear a young
friend of his, but whose name we have
forgotten. The speaker is small man,
and not very prepossessing in appear
ance; is quite young, and his manner
and delivery, in any QUO but himself,
would be awkward, and bordering on
the repulsive. But in him, verything
is SO transparently original and natural
that each particular fits him like an
g easy glove" He is destined, if he
lives, to make mark in the world, and
we are very much mistaken. if he does
not cut Beecher Beecher himself, in the
style of preaching. We
have nothing to say of his doctrine. He
belongs to the Congregational Church;
and what the doctrines of that Church
soere, may be learned from the old con-
fessions. fs..-
But We suspect The truth to be, that,
with the advancement of science,-the.
general diffusion of edueation-the lib
eralizing tendencies of the civilization
of the age, and other causes not neces-