Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-07-26
THE REBELLION TO BE sup.
PRESSED

H>i Ss~A4 wv -1Ol th tlioo Cldl LLC
present rebellion and meets the preten-
sions4o of the conspirators. The article
is So complete that we know not how we
can better serve our readers than BY
giving it entire:
The enemies of the Union constantly
seek to draw attention from the real as
pect OF the case by drawing parallels be-
tween the seeded states and provinces
attempting revolution for their liberty.
There is not the remotest likeness, for
there is not the shadow of pretense that
the south suffered actual injury and OPP
preston. Their course from the outset
was simply a conspiracy to destroy our
peace and our government. Encouraged
!, by the impunity with which threats
against the general authority have been
uttered for years at Washington, they
formed an offensive alliance to begin
With, and seized everything their trait
orous band could lay their hands on be-
fore they came out in their true char
scter, Or were known as enemies bold
enough to take up arms. This distinct
i've policy reached point frightful to
think Of in the last month of 1860, and
it was only providentially arrested by
the exposure Of Floyd's swindling
schemes. No plot to overthrow any
government Of Europe was ever laid in
such black, malignant, reasonable guilt
as was this MONDAY performance in the
Capital and Cabinet OF the United States.
1t is this that steels the heart Of every
man worthy the name Of citizen, and
nerves every arm till the infamous power
they have attempted to build up is over
thrown.
The people ofthe South need not talk
Of persecution or coercion, while led by
the desperadoes Of this black conspiracy.
Their first act was to assail US with arms
to threaten our lives at home, as we'll as
to destroy our government. They mus
tered and armed thousands of the six
first seeding States before a hand was
lifted to maintain the authority of the
! Union Everywhere they were armed
land desperate, while the Representatives
of the United States were particularly
unarmcd and defensele5s. Only at Fort
Sumter and Fort Pickens was any stand
made at the outset, and in these cases.
though spirited, the spirit and move
nent were defensive.
Ifa government, having large army
and powerful feet, had been so assailed,
the whole nest of gathered traitors AT
Charleston and Montgomery wonld
have been blown to pieces and crushed
from the earth Does any secessionist
! who now looks to England for support,
suppose that British Ministry would
have permitted some paltry city Of the
kingdom either in Ireland or Scotland,
to enact the hostile atrocities which
have been enacted 1T Charleston? Tie
city which might have attempted it
would have been sheiled AID burned, if
no other nojc Of getting at the traitors
ror!d have been devised.
We insist, that no foreign or domes-
tic apologist fer Tie great rebellion shall
set up claims for ,clemency to seceders
as to men struggling for Independence.
TLey struggle only for such indepcn-
dcn1e as men who woaid be criminals,
would like to attain over our criminal
laws. They aim not at liberty for them
selves. but ut power to rob and cnslare
US. If we had been willing to make all
the powers Of the government serve
| them, IF We had consented to ahr0gata
all laws intended 20 secure the great in
terest of commerce and domestic devel-
| opment, if we had given ourselves up to
every extreme demand.- and every vi0-
lent impulse of theirs, they would have
consented to go on with US, but not
otherwise. The regular operation Of the
laws no longer to be admitted bv them.
They could not submit to elections if
men ef their choice were not electcd-
They rehelIed in spite, in violence, in
| traitorous conspiracy against the exist
ence of any regular government where
once We had the majastic and simple au
thority of the United States.
Undoubtedly we shall hear much of
the claim of the seeding traitors to be
let alone, particularly after the affair
shall assume ii new aspect by the driving
/ IN of the outposts Of the secession forces.
A few repul=es will fill the air with
plaintiYe appeals on the part Of those
iunocents; and no doubt many out Of the
traitor States will fall to sympathizing
with the hard fate Of men who will be
compelled to observe the laws, and re-
main peaceful under the government
Let nobody be deceived by these pre-
tences We had one unhroken course
of insolence and violence from them SO
fa,. orI tha,- b,ya rrasr ~, al on C,,. for
bearance so much as to assume that we
dared not resist their domination. Sc
cession was not so much scpara ion from
the Union as ali attempt to subiugate to
the rule of the handful Of South Caro-
lima abstra ctionists, tempered by jeff,
Davis and his clique of Mississippi re-
pudiators. They repudiated govern
mcnt as they have long been in the habit
of rePudiating debts, and they await US
with arms, as some of them set up a
creditor and kill him with stabs and pis-
! tol shots.
This is precisely the aspect of the re
bellion SO far as claims to sympathy are
concsrned In the United States it is
not likely that the case Will be misun
derstood as much as it viii be abroad;
but we will bear with entire equanimity
anything from foreigners in this vein of
half sympathy, which takes gool care to
stop with moderate words.
The Barbarians "a. Their work.
The North Carolina Why has the fol
lowing:
"Timothy Hainey, man Of white
face, but Niger by nature, was hung by
4 mob, in Shelby, in this State, on Fri
day night the 10th inst. We presume
Mr.. Haiuey has seen the promised. land
/ by this time. We have no sympathy
/ with such men. Our devil thinks ali is