Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-03-01
NUMBER 8
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
WHAT SECESSION HAS ACTUALLY
DOME.

WHAT sEcEssioN HAS ACTUALLY
DONE.
In conversation with an honest farmer,
Of Republican politics, he seemed not at
all shocked by the Secession ef the
Cotton States. In fact he vas not
alarmed by the crisis Why, said We,
don't you think the country is going To
pieces2 ooh, moi said he, ''not a bit
| of 1t. I am now getting old, and /
have seen these Southern hotspurs do q
great many things of this sort, with out
harming the country" Yes, we replied,
but this is much worse; they have actu:
ally seeded. $50 has Nantucket seeded
from the main land, but I never heard
1t seeded from Goldfish and mackerel.-
These scceders have gone out on papcr,
but do you think they want to abolish
slavery? Without the Constitution and
defense of the Union, slavery is gone,
sir! But, ve replied, they are going to
collect the revenue on their own ac-
count. Let them try. At, sir T kars
seen good many people in my time try
| to get round Uncle Sam, but never saw
one succeed. am not thinking of that,
sir, This nation is safe enough But
am really thankfulfto these Secession
lists for the good they have done. Good.
| Why, sif, what possible good have theJ
done? "In my opinion great deal,
They have done exactly what their own
wise and prudent men said would be
done in such an event. They have put
the Republican party in power, when il
could not have been done otherwise, and
Lincoln will now have fair chance to
administer the Government on sound
and righteous principles. qtotlrs Seaa;
tors, who had conspired treason against
the Government, and who, with their
confederates, could have arrested the
whole progress of the Government, and
vetoed every good measure, have lett
the Senate to the control Of their patri-
otic oppoaents, and put it in the power
of the Administration to carry foracard
u aeAolcsome reform. 1t was an act o;
political insanity, but it is exactly by
producing such insanity that Providence
destroys the counsels Of the wicked
But these Secessiouists have done more
to lie thankful for They have united
good and true men. They have done
much to break down the barriers of
party. They have reused the spirit Of
patriotism. They have given strength
to the true lovers of Union in the South;
and though they have been long dor
mant and trodden under foot by ais
| loval faction, they viii now come iUo
power, and drive these traitors TO their
! Infamous doom. Lastly, sir, these Sc
! ~ Y
places III our Government, and we shall
strengthen them! Not only will the
traitors be driven out Of power in their
own States, and the Union be made
sound, but the Government and nation
will be made permanently stronger. !
believe Providence conducts all things
for good, and this fiery ordeal is not fot
destruction, but for healing. 1t is u
revolution; but revolution which must
have come, and which is essentially ne
cessarY to the prosperity and granduer
of this mighty nation. Negroes, sir,
are small element in our progress, and
! if those WHO hold them think otherwise.
let them try the experiment. Time will
correct the errors Of day, and misfor
tame cool the fervor of passion
! Such was the philosophy Of our rural
friend, and substantially We agree with,
! him. Secession cannot be made perina.
! nent without destruction to the States
which secede; and that fact is plain
Ianough to all observers. Secession is
also the product Of mere passion. There
are no facts to justify it; no reasoning
upon which it can be sustained; no ad-,
vantages to follow it. 1t IS on a large
scale the display Of passion under which
man writes challenge for fanciea
insult, or one which would readily be
apoIigized for Fl the duel goes, on,
there is no possible way in which it can
do him any good.
| Under this condition Of things, the
Union men. OF the South have an i'm
mense advantage. Well used, it will in
lure to a sure and permanent victory
toyer the faction who have SO long domi-
ueerel The whole race Of Toembs,
Hunters, SFidells, Benjauins and Iver
sons, to the cad Of the chapter. will po-
! litically perish on the field they have
! chosen. Honest ana faithful men will
again rule in the South, and the country
pursue It's career of peace and glory.
| IN the meanwhile. the SecessIonists
have voluntarily removed the only OBJ
/ istruction to the successful administration
, of Lincoln, The Augean stable will bs
cleanscd, the Courts reformed, and tho
laws enforced. The revenue will be col
lected, and if the Cotton States want to
! do witlou: commerce they can try it
rho experiment will be brief. Secession
will exist only On paper, while the ma
ton, great and happy, will be victorious
over all enemies, foreign or domestic
\ Beautiful Figure
| Life is beautifully compsfed to
/ fountain fed by a thousand streams, that
perish if ono be dried. It is 4 silver
cord twisted with thousand strings.
that part if one be brok7n. Frail and
innumerable dangers, which make it
much more strange that they escape SO
long, than that they almost all perish
suddonly at last We are encompassed
with accidents every day to crush the
mouldering tcnementS We inhabit.. The
seeds OF disease are planted in our 'eait-
stitutions by nature The earth and at,
mosphere whence we draw the breath Of
life is imprognatel with death; health is
made to operate lis own destruction,
! the food that nourishos contains the ell
ements of decay; tlAe soul that animates
BY vi7ifying tir4t, tends to wear it out
b. its own action; death lurks in ambush
ainng every path. Notwithstanding
this is the truth so palpably confirmed
by tho daily example before our eyes,