Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-06-21

republic. TO crown all, large bodies of
Endiahs have been mustered into the
service OF the revolutionary States, and
are now conspicuous in the ranks OF the
Southern army A leading North Car
olina journal noting their stalwart frames
and unerring craftsmanship, observes,
with IN exrltation positively iendish,
| that they are armed not only with the
rife, but also with the scalpiag- knife and
tcne,sa1o&
Is Kentucky willing to link her name
in history with the excasses and crimes
which have sullicd this revolution at cv-
cry step of its PROCESS? Can she soil
her pure Hands with its booty? She pos
sesses the noblest heritage that God has
granted to his children; is she prepared
to barter It away for that miserable mess
of pottags, which the gsatl9cation Of the
it-nhfely ae1iyieian@scf public men
would bring to her lips? Can she, with
out laying her face in the dust for very
shame, become participant in the spo-
liation Of the commerce of her neigh
bors and friends, by contributing her
star, hitherto, SO stainless in its glory, to
| light the corsair or his way? Has the
war-uhoop which used to startle the
sleep Of our frontiers, so died away in
her ears that she Is willing to take the
red handed savage 10 her bosom as the
champion Of her rights and the repre-
sentative of her spirit? Must she not
irst forget her own heroic sons who per-
ished, butchered and scalped upon the
disastrous field Of Raisin?
The object ofthe revolution, asarowed
| by all who ere pressing it forward, is
the permanent dismemhermen5 of the
contederacy The dream of reconstruc-
t;on-used during the last winter as 4
lure to draw the hesitating or the hope
fuI into the movement-has been for
maliy abandoned. II Kentucky sepa-
rates herself from the Union, it must, be
upon the basis that the separation must
be final and eternal. Is there aught in
the organization or administration of the
Government of the United States to JUS
tifv, on her part, an act so solemn and
so perilous? Could the wisest of her
lawyers, if called upon, find material for
an Indictment in any OF in all The pages
Of the history of the Republic? Could
the most leprous-lipped Of its calumnia-
tors point to single State or Territory,
or community Or citizen, that it has
wronged OF oppressed? Itwoul4 be i'm
possible So far as the slave States are
concerned, their protection has been COM
p!ete. and if it has not been, it has been
| the fault Of their tatesmen, who have
had the control OF the Government since
| its foundation.
The census returns show that during
the year 1860 the Fugitive Slave law
was executed more faithfully and sue
cessfully than it had been during the
preceding ten years. Since the install
latioa Of President lincoln, not a case
has arose in which the fugitive has noy
been returned, and that, too, without any
opposition from the people. Indeed, the
fidelity with which it was understood to
be the policy of the present Admins tra
ton to enforce the provisions Of this law,
has caused q perfect panic among the
runaway slaves in the free States, and
they have been escaping in multitudes
to Canada, unpursued AID unreclaimed
by their masters. Is there found in this
reason for dissolution Of TIE Union?
That the slave States are not recog
nized rs equal il the Confcderacy, has
fo- several years, been the cry Of dema-
j g0gueS and conspirators. But what is
the truth? Not only according to the
theory, but the actual practice of the
! Government the slave States have ever
! been, and still are. in all respects, til e
peers Of the flee. OF the fourteen Pres
ideuts who hare been elected, seven were
citizens Of slave States, and OF the seven
remaining, three represented Southern
principles, and received the votes Of the
Southern people, so that, in our whole
history, but four Presidents have been
chosen WHO can be claimed as the spec
iai champions Of the policy and princi-
pies of the free States, and even these,
50 only in modified sense. Does this
look rs If the South has ever been Ge-
rrived Of her equal share OF! tie honors
and powers Of the Government? The
supreme Court has decided tha5 the cit
iZcns Of the Slave States can, at sill, take
their slaves into all the Territories OF
the United States; aud this decision,
which has never been resisted or iatar
fered with in a single case, IS the law oi
the land, and the whole power Of the
Government is pledged to enforce it
That it will be Loyalty enforced by the
present Administration, | entertain no
doubt. \ Republican Congress, at the
late session, organized three new Terri
tories. and in the organic law Of neither
vas there introduced, or attempted to be
introduced. The slightest restriction apon
the rights Of the Southern cmigrau5 TO
bring his slaves with him At this mo-
meat therefUre-and I state it without
Qualifications is not Territory
belonging to the United States iAto
which the Southern people may not in
troduce their slaves at pleasure, aad ca
jioy there complete projection Ken
tuci,y should consider this great and un-
,laui&ble s&ct. before wljoh AL She frotly
rant CT demae ogues and dsanion'sif
.auss disappear rs 4 bank Of fog before
the wind. But we're 1t otherwise, and
Ida defect exist in oar organic la, or
in the practical administration ot lie
Government, in reference to the rights
Of southern shareholders III the Ierrito-
RIGS. still the question would te Il are
iahstraction. since the laws Of climate Lor-
bid the establishment oi' slavery in such
Iatitudcs; an1 to destroy such institu-
ticns as ours For such Il cause, instead
Of pariant!y waiting to remove it, would
Je little short o an act OF nationa! insan
iitY. ltwould lie 10 burn the house down
oEor our heads. merely baoause there is
4 loaI in the root: to scutle the ship i'll
mid ocean, merely because there is dif-
ference Of oninion among the Crow as tc
tlo ncint o. tie ce2anass to which the