Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-05-10

as | expect it viii be, express it as my
. conviction before God, that it is the duty
!. of every American citizen to rally round
the flag of his country.
| thank you again, for this magnif-
cent demonstration By it you. show
you have laid aside party strife. Illi-
}. nois has proud position. United, firm,
determined never to permit the Govern
ment to : be destroyed. Prolonged
cheering. zaeaa.E
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
ANOTHER SPEECH FROM A. II. STE
. s>.s ass PHENs'
A. H. Stephens spoke:at Atlanta, Ca,
on Wednesday evening as he passed
through that city on his way home
from Richmond. He said the action of
! North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia
had rendered the 'couutry safe, but he
was particularly jubilant over "gallant
little Maryland which he considered
safe for the South beyond peradren-
ture. In regard TO the attempted de-
struction of the Norfolk Navy Yard, he
! says: ss.:s4.s.
This is one, of the most remarkable
/ instances on record, Providence was on
our side. Plans were laid to burn up
/ the Navy Yard and the whole city
The incendiary fires were lighted; and,
| if their intentions had succeeded, such
confagration has never been witnessed
on this continent, and would have been
i.second only to the burning Of Moscow;
/ but, just at the critical moment, before
the raxages had extended, the wind
turned The winds of Heaven turned,
and stayed the spread of. the deyouring
element. The same wind that kind
Heaven sent to keep off the fleet at
Charleston till Sumter was reduced;
came to the relief of Norfolk at the
critical moment. Providence was sig
nally on our side. They attempted to
blow up the Dock, the most expensive
one on the continent, but there was
break in the tram they had laid, and it
failed They attempted to burn down
the old Pennsylvania, Germantown, and
the Merrimac. They set the match,
while they endeavored to get out Of the
way of their intended destruction; but
the vessels sunk before the fuse caught
another remarkable instance of the in
terposition of Providence on our behalf,
and the strongest evidence of our recti-
tude. We were right at tirst-are right
now, aud shall keep ourselves right to
the end.
Acting, We suppose, on the maxim,
first abe sure you are right and then 60
ahead, the orator having established to
his own satisfaction the inspiration of
the Secession movement, shows his care
lessness as to all less important matters
by surprising recklessness in the use
of figures, and facts, too. He says:
As l told you when 1 addressed you
few days ago, Lincoln may bring his
seventy five thousand soldiers against
US; but seven times seventy FIVE thou
sand men can never conquer US. We
have now Maryland and Virginia and
all the Border States with us. We
have ten millions of people with us,
heart, and hand, to defend US to the
death. We can call out million of
people, if need be; and when they are
all cut down We can call out another,
and still another, until the last man Of
the South finds a bloody grave, rather
than submit to their foul dictation.
In regard to the attack on Washing
ton, lie is somewhat obscure. Wei
quote:
A general opinion prevails that Wash
iegton City is soon to be attacked. On
this subject I can only say, our object
is peace. We wish no aggressions ON
any ones rights, and win make none
But if Maryland secedes, the District of
Columbia will fall to her by reversion-
airy right-the same as Sumter to
South Carolina-Pulaski to Georgia, |
and Pickens to Alabama When we
have the right, we will demand the sur
render Of Washington, just as we did in
other cases, and will enforce our de-
mands at every hazard, and at whatever
cost. And here. let me say that our
policy and conduct from the first has
been right, and shall be to the last. I
glory in this consciousness of our rec
titude. sa.'
Though so tender in conscience, the |
speaker cannot conclude without telling
what he must know to be deliberate
lie. Abiding to the quartering Of the
troops in the public buildings at Wash
ington, he asserts that the occupants
are purposely defling them with all
kinds of filth. We permit his own
words to condemn him:
Their filthy spoilations of the public
buildings and works of art at the Capt.
tol, and their preparations to destroy
them, are strong evidence to my mind
that they do not intend to hold or de-
fend the place; but to abandon it after
having despoiled and laid it in ruin
Let them destroy it-savage like-if
they will. We will make the structures
more glorious Phoenix like, new and
more substantial structures will rise
from its ashes. Planted anew under
the auspices of our superior institutions,
it will live and fourishes throughout
all ages.
By The New Orleans Crescent an
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