Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-10-04
Progress.

Progress.
The war is progressing, and We think
we may reasonably look for stirring
times along the border soon.
! The Rebels have been too busy at
other points to make any serious dem
onstrations on the Ohio, as yet. But it
has been announced some week or two
that they had all their defenses from
Richmond to the immediate vicinity of
Washington completed. 1t is now an
nounced by the highest authority that
they have their batteries on the Poto-
mac so far advanced, that the navigation
of that river is cffectually stopped.
1t will be seen by an article which
we copy from the Cincinnati Gazette,
that it only cost us ten millions of dol
lars in General Pattersons department,
to watch their niggers, and catch and
send back any that escaped, while these
works were in progress. What the
other departments cost, is not yet known,
perhaps not more than hundred mil
lions in all! We mean in the East
The "modifcation' of Fremont's plan
may cost us another hundred millions
or so, in the West, but that is of no con-
sequence, provided we can thereby dem =
onstrate to the world, that although the
Constitution and the Union may be
broken and disrupted, tie fetters of no
slave shall be!
But, as we said, the Rebels having
completed the Notifications around the
Capital, and planted their batteries on
the banks of the Potomac, will be at
leisure to attend to the border In fact,
they are attending to it now. Kentucky
is rocking under the tread of their
armies, and Cincinnati is trembling in
every nerve in view of the danger of
being sacked! Could not that city hunt
up fugitive or two, or send few more
free negroes off to slavery as a ''propi
tiatory" sacrifice? She has certainly
done we'll in that line, heretofore; but
her zeal was suspected to have been
prompted by the hope of Southern
trade, and not by pure devotion to the
principle of slavery. Now, when there
is no Southern trade to win, nything in
that line would be significant.
Ohio ought at least to send troops
enough to keep any slave from running
away while digging intrenchments and
building Notifications on the Kentuck y
hills, from which their masters may
she'll Cincinnati. What is the use Of
raising volunteers here, if the slave
holders have to watch their own niggers?
Besides, is it not "a part of the duty Of
United States soldiers to capture and re-
turn fugitive slaves?" 1t is true, a large
ajority of Congress said NO! to this
question. But the majority of Congress
thereby showed themselves to be mere
''fanatics." If they had only voted
yes! our armies would have been full by
this time and every bridge on the Under
ground Railroad could have been ef.
fectually guarded.
And, by the way, is not that mos
unfortunate vote of Congress the reasor
why no mere of our people are enterin ne
the service? For, although the mem
bers of Congress generally are fanatics,
still they constitute the Congress for the
time being, and there stands the yote!-
We fear 'compromise' cannot be eff
fected until that vote is e1punged. And
perhaps, now that the Southern army is
left free to operate upon, or in, the
Free States, the sight of the "rattle
snake banner" will convert that "nest OF
pestilent radicals" into an august as,
sembly of conservative compromisers. D
We should not wonder if the thing is
finally brought to just this test. Al
least that is the direction of the progress
now apparent.