Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-02-08

itself before the faction of traitors, she
will have said by her solemn act, that if,
at any time iii the future, President
should be elected distasteful to the lead
ers of any of the Southern States, they
may break up the new Government, as
they now do the present.
We said that no sane man believes
that these demands will be submitted to-
nor do the leaders desire they should be-
The program me is to make these de-
mands-haEe them rejected-and then
raise universal howl against the Re
publicans, charging the disunion upon
them, with the hope of forming new
confederacy out Of the Slave States and
such of the Free States, including Ohio,
as can be carried by the Democrats at
the next election under the excitement
got up by this scheme In this way,
the design is, virtually, to expel New
England from the Union and reinstate
the defeated leaders of the Democratic
party into power.
That such scheme is deliberately
planned, is beyond all question. This
is clearly manifested by the declarations
of leading Southern men, and was not
we'll concealed in the Convention held
here yesterday. The denunciations, and
Misrepresentation Of the Eastern States
rose to unmixed fanaticism. Judge
Thurman, in his harrangue, referring to
q meeting held in the same hall some
years ago to hear Kossuth and sympa-
thize with Hungary, declared, and re-
.peated the declaration, "that Hungary
neuer had halt the cause of complaint
against Austria that the jSlave States haze
against this Gooernnsent.' He also de-
clared that the Democracy would never
permit the present, orany other Admins
tration, to compel South Carolina, or
any other Southern State, to submit to
the laws of the Union.
1t is true, Judge Keys, and some other
true men protested against this abet-
ting of treason, but their voices and pro-
tests were drowned in the clamor of the
majority. The Convention, among
other resolutions, passed one, calling
upon the Legislature of Ohio, in the
name of the Democratic party, to take
the steps necessary to the calling of a
Convention to change the Constitution Of
the United States.
We have not room OF time in this let
ter to follow out the programme, but
will probably resume the subject again
tomorrow. The times, to our mind,
looks gloomy enough, We do not now
believe that the Administration intends
to enforce the, laws in the South, but
will permit the secessionists to seize upon
the public property and hold it until
the 4th of March, without opposition
They have already IN their possession
more than ten millions Of dolIars worth
of the property of the United States,
taken by force and held by the pirates
right! We did think when Stanton en-
tered the Cabinet, and a show Of patri-
otism was exhibited for time. that the
laws would be sustained-the Constltu-
ton vindicated, and the union preserved.
But transpiring events compel us to the
conclusion that the determination is
fixed to prevent the Inauguration of the
President, at the risk of civil war, with
all its horrors, in the hope that for the
sake of peace, the people will sacrifice
their rights, their liberties, their very
manhood itself, and consent to such
changes in the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States as will give the defeated fac
ton the control of the Government, with
power either to "rulc the country or to
ruin it,
Every day develops more fully the
plot of the conspirators. But we doubt
if it is any longer possible to defeat