Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-06-21
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the State. These words have IN them
decidedly the crack Of the overseer's
whip. The Senator evidently treats
Virginia as great negro quarter, in
which the lash is the appropriate en-
blem Of authority, anl the only argu
ment he will condescend to use. How
ever the ireemea Of other parts OF the
State may abase themselves under the
exercise Of this insolent and proscrip-
tive tyranny, should the Senator, with
this scourge Of slaves, eHdaavor TO drive
the people Of Western Virginia from
their homes, will only say, in the Ian
guage Of narrative OF GiIpin's ride:
''May be there sec
1t would certainly prove deeply inter
esting spectacle.
1t is true, that before this deliverance
Of the popular mind Of the South from
the threateninss and alarms which have
subdued it, can be accomplished, the re-
morseless agitators who have made this
revolution, and now hold its reins, must
be discarded alike from the public con-
fdence and public service. The coun
try, in its agony, is feeling their power,
and We well understand how difficult will
be the task of oTerthrowing tne ascen
dancy they have secured. But the
Union men of the Soutil-believed to be
in the Majority in every seeded State
except perhaps South Carolina-aided
| by the presence of the government, will
be fully equal to the emergency. Let
these anitators perish, politically, ifneed
be, by scores:
"a breath can unmake them, as a breath has
made,
but destroy this Republic, and
"Where is that Promethean heat,
That can its light relume?"
Once entombed, when will the Angel
of resurrection descend to the portals Of
its sepulchrc? There is not voice
which comes to us from the cemetery Of
nations that does not answer: 'sNcver,
neyer!'' Amid the torments of our per
turbed existence, we may have glimpses
| of freedom, as the maniac has
glimpses of reason between the parox-
ys1ns Of his madness, bat we shall attain
to neither national dignity nor national
repose. We shall be mass Of fjarring,
warning, fragmentary States, cnfee5lcd
and demoralized, without power at home,
or responsibility abroad, and like the
Republics Of Mexico and South Amer
lea, we will drift away on q shoreless
and ensanguined sea OF civil commotion,
from which, if the teachings OF history
are to be trusted, we shall be finally
rescued by the iron hand of some mill
tary wrecker. who will coin the shat
tered elements Of our greatness and Of
| our strength into a diadem and a throne.
Said II. Fould, the great French states
man, to an American citizen, a
few weeks since, "Your Republic is
dead. and it is probably the last the
world Will ever see. You will have a
reign Of terrorism, and after that two or
three monarchies' - All this may be
verified, should this revolution succeed.
Let US then twine each thread Of the
glorious tissue OF our countrys flag
about our heart strings. and looking
upon our homes, and catching the spirit
that broathes upon Us from the battle
fields Of our fathers. let us resolve that,
come veal OF woe, we Will, in life and
| in death, now and forever, stand by the
stars aud stripes. They have iioatei
over our cradles; let it be our praye,
and our struggle that they shall float
over our graves They have been un-
furled from the SHOWS Of Canada to the
plains OF New Orleans, and TO the halls
of the Montezumas, and amid the soli-
tudes OF every sea, and everywhere, as
the luminous symbol Of resistless and
beneicent power, theJ have led the free
to victory and to glory. 1t has been
nv fortune to look upon this flag in for
eign lands, ana amid the glo ON Of an
Oriental despotish; and right well do /
know, by contrast, how bright arc its
stars and how sublime are its inspira
tions. If this banner, the emblem for
US Of all that is transporting in human
hope, is to be sacrificed on the affairs Of
satanic ambition, and thus disappear
forever amid the night and tempest Of
revolution, then will | feel-aad
who shall estimate the desolation Of
that feeling?-that the sun has indeed
been stricken from the sky of our lives,
and that henceforth We shall be but
wanderers and outcasts, with nought but
the bread of sorrow and penury for cur
lips. and with hands ever outstretched
in teebleness and supplication, On which,
in any hour, a military tyrant may riyet
the fetters Of a despairing bondage
May God in his infinite mercy save you
and me, and the land We SO much love,
from the doom of such u degradation
No contest so much momentous as
this has arisen in human history, for
amid all the conflicts of lnen and of ma
tons, the life Of no such government as
ours has ever been at stake. Our IA
theirs won our independence by the
blood and sacrifices Of seven years war,
and We have maintained it against the
assaults Of the greatest power upon the
earth, and the question now is, whether
we are to perish by our own hands, and
have the epitaph Of the suicide written
upon our tomb. The Ordeal through
which we are passing must involve i'm
mense suffering and losses for US all,
but the expenditure Of not merely hun
dreds Of millions, but of billions Of
treasure will be we'll made, if the result
shall be the preservation Of our institu
tions
Could my voice reach every dwelling
in kentucky, would implore its inmates
If they would not have the rivers Of
their prosperity shrink away, as do un-
fed streams beneath the summer heats
10 rouse themselves from their leth-
argy, and fly to the rescue of their coun-
try before it is evorlastingly too late
Man should appeal to man, and neigh
borhood to neighborhood, until the
electric fires of patriotism shall fash
throughout the land. 1t is a time in