Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-12-20
War with England.

War With England
Tie latest news from England looks
as If awar with that country, and France
10 buck hor, was almost inevitable.
EnglsHl wants the markets of the world
for hec aaaufactures This she cannot
have. with the energy and genius of cur
country to compete With her in the
vsrld's markets. Hence it is the inter-
ests, Of her capitalists to urge the Gov,
eminent into a war with US at this time,
believing as they do that with the aid
of our rebels and traitors now in arms
sgainst us that the Government may be
oyerthsown- -our commerce annihilated
The iras of our manufactures extin-
guished-our national Union disrupted
--our prosperity blasted, and she have
the world 5 trade, without rival. This
motive is the controlling one with the
wealthy manufacturing and commercial
classes of England.
With her aristocracy, still stronger
motive impels them to strike blow at
us in this, the hour of our supposed
llelplessacss. Our free institutions, and
the uncxamplcd prosperity of our peo-
pie, have been the theme of all liberal
minds in Europe for many years. The
people there are beginning to thnk.
and, as consequence, Lords, Kings
and Emperors have long been trem
bling upon their usurped seats, and their
safsty requires the suppression of the
example Of people governing them
selves.
United, these Aristocrats well knew
that VIC were perfectly inyulnerable to
their attacks, and consequently there
was no danger of war. But, taking ad
vantage. of the tories and traitors among
ourselves, and appealing to the inordi
nate ambition of desperate dcmagogues
here, who would sell their country to
foreign despots for money or power,
these, same Lordlings have formented
the present rebellion in order that they
might step in whenever we had ex-
haustedl our strength and resources and
make us an easy prey to their great ar
.mies.s The evidence now conclusive,
that the leaders of the present rebellion,
bave been for years in a conspiracy with
the despots of the Old World, to betray
their country, adds, if possible, a more
damning shade to the inexpressible guilt
of the traitors. That they would useall
the efforts in their power to enlist for
eign Kings in their scheme Of destruc-
tion, was we'll known; but it was hard
to beliere, that at this noon of the nine
teenth century, any nation, pretending
to civilization, would lend themselves
to this Devils work The late intelli-
gence, however, seems to dissipate the
illusion.
Whatwi be the consequences Of such
war? We have not time to speculate.
sVesarc not sure, however, but it would
be the best thing that could happeA.-
With six hundred thousand men now in
the field, our generals might possibly
find something else to do than catch
negro now and then, and as England has
no negroes to catch, perhaps war with
her would not be carried on exactly as
it has been with her tory allies in the
South.
This war ought to have been, and
but for the fear of offending few pre-
tended Union Shareholders, it would
have been, closed up long ago, and this
new horror would have been avoided.
There is not man or woman out side
Of I.unatic Asylum who does not
know, that but for the effort to main
tain slavery, the six hundred thousand
men we now have under arms could
march over the revolted States, and
sweep the rebels into perdition without
An hours obstruction in the whole tri-
umphal procession.
And we verify believe that when
England strikes the blow, the spell that
has so long bound us as in the foils of
an enchantess will be broken, and such
reception viii bs given to her and her
tory allies as the world has not wit
messed.
Talking Right Out.
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