Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-06-28
TROUBLE AHEAD.


Congress meets on the fourth Of
July, in extra session, at the call of the
President, 1t may be, and we ear
nestly hope it may turn out SO, that
partizanship may be held in obeisance,
at least until the peril of the country is
past. But from present indications we
fear such will not be the case.
We notice, with regret, in many pa
pers which have, at least, in a partial
degree, refraincd for some time from in
f1lammatory partisan appeals, revival Of
the old slang Of past political contests.
The epithets, "Dlack Republicans -
"Niggcr Worshipers '-''Nigger equal
ity advocates '-:'Abolitionists '-"Scc-
tionalists,' &C., &c, are found again in
every column Of quite number Of pa
pcrs of late, that public Indignation had,
for a time, compelled to semblance Of
decency.
In connection with this, we find the
clamor for ''compromise reviving.-
Everybody knows what that means
Crittendcn, who has done more by his
hypocritical pretense Of compromise to
ruin the country than ten JEFF. Dayises,
is elected to Congress as a proiessed
Union mar. He will go into that body
with his celebrated compromise, ire
vised and improved" And he has
given due notice, that unless it is
adopted Immediately, he will oppose, to
the bitter end, every effort at subdu-
ing the rebels. This pretended ''con-
promise goes very far beyond anything
VII ich the Seccssionists demanded ut
the Charleston Convention, and the re-
fusal to grant which, broke up the Dem
ocratic party.
Mr.. Crittenden kIows, as every man
out Of a Lunatic Asylum knows, that
his compromise cannot dc adopted.-
There are thirty -four States. ltrcquire'
the concurrence Of f1ocny-sic CT tncse
States to adopt any amendment to the
Constitution. But eleven of the thirty
four have already Seeded, leaving but
tseenty-three to act on his amendments.
Mr.. Crittenden knows that none Of the
Seeded States will vote at ALL or pay
the slightest attention to his humbug
And he knows, too, that if every other
State should stultify itself, and accept
his bantling, twould not be passed. And
yet, with this natural, as we'll as moral
inapossibiliy Of the adoption of his
measure, he makes its immediate adop-
tion the one and only condition of his
support Of the Government!
He who does not see the deep laid
scheme of treachery in this plot, is hope
lessly stupid, or willfully blind. Yet
he will be backed up by the whole Ken
tucky Delegation, and by all from the
Free States whose sympathies are with
the rebels, or whose partisan prejudices
are stronger than their patriotism. How
large a class this may be, we cannot
yet tell. But when we add to their
Numbers, those very amiable gentlemen
who ornament their Republicanism,
Unionism, &c, with the prefix of 'con-
seryative,' . we fear they will present a
faction strong enough to seriously en-
barrass the Government in its efforts to
protect the Constitution and preserve
the Union, established by our Fathers
The Government is, to-day, in thou
sand times more danger from the secret
treachery and insidious wiles of pre-
tended friends, than from the shot and
shells Of armed and open traitors. \
few days will tell whether we are to be
betrayed in Council as we'll as in the
Camp.