Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-03-07
AS WE SEE IT.

rsssyed up to the time Of going to press.
B~cryxhese our forces are victorious.
Yhe power of the rebellion is com pietely
broken. Their dnal overthrow is only
opposition Of time, as n forces are in
ssyhPcxsr IS to'crueh out every oppo-
siticu. Let all the people lift up their
gtsd bearts in thaukfulness to God, for
the promise ofa country saved, aud the
Isospsct ofconins peace.
Dot While ue call upon our readers
% rejoice: ~e would also call upon them
torefect. What is the condition Of our
ccuasryf Even if the rebellion should
10 suppressed now, the land will be
drapcd ID mourning for the thousa nds
ofioycd ones murdered by ths bloody
hsads Of ruthless traitors. The indus
try Of the country viii have to be bur-
dsosd With enormous taxes for life-s
time, TO Psy the expense, The evil pas
sions foessred will, be transmitted to
generations yefunLoru. No mortal eye
can Penstrste tho sgilSshieh curtains
eu. Ofsightt the fast coming train of con
se4uentes.
Many ara inclined to murmur at the
evils which we are made to endure, and
cannot see why the people Of the loyal
States, as they are called, should be
made thus to suffer. But God is just;
and iu the neral Government of the
werid no great wrong aan be practiced
without bringing to its supporters its le-
gi,imate effects. "Whatsoeyer men SOW,
that also shall they reap" This is as
true in philosophy as in theology. And
whst have We Of the North sown2 The
s+ed which has produced the harvest we
are reapipg. Have we not consented to
ihetenslsyement Of millions of our race?
Aud in cur trade, and politics, and re-
l:Siou, have We net scrambled for share
81 the spoils Of their unpaid labor, ex-
tsrted with merciless oppression? And
have We not thus enjoyed the supposed
benefits Of our copartnership in this
".um Of all erimes7" Has no, the an
swer 10 every appeal made to the na-
tiou's sense Of justice been, I'VE of the
Norih have much of our own wealth
from the profits Of the commerce and
nanufaeturies created by the products
sfthe labor Of the slayes?" This, in a
eeytsi, sense. was true. Wehave shared
the plunder, aud, hence must share
the rotribution. Those who knew no
God bat Asmmon, were prepared to
place universal humanity in the crucible.
il they could coin gold by their &C.
cursed chemistry, from the crushed
hearts aud tlghted souls Of their VIE
dns.
With that moral insanity which eve.
SeeIoads she inteilects Of the workers Of
iniqaity, the minds Of politicians utterly
failed 70 perceive the inevitable results
s. Of sueh . system, Practically denying
. Divine Providence in the affairs of
man. ID was lnadly determined to make
slavery perpetual. From fret family
spologising for the toleration of the
wrong, nencame openly to defend it, and
~ lsst, with fanatieism engendered by
the unholy union Of avarice and lust,
every one who would not bow down to
the hideous Idol was denounced as an
enemy to the country. With bias
phemy that daily insulted every mind
not stepped in depravity, it was pro-
elsined that the internal villainy was
not only sanctioned and guaranteed in
the Constitution Of the country, but the
sacred scriptures were tortured into u
Devils gospel to make them give the
sanction Of God himself to the brutifca-
tioR of his children, that man thieves
and pirates might revel in the wealth OBJ
tained from the traffic of men and wo-
nsn, sold like beasts in the shambles.
To such degree had this stats Of
nsntalhallucination and moral obliquity
taken possession Of the popular mind,
that 10 call q man an "Abofitionist," be-
cause he could not close his eyes to the
teaching Of all history, and would not
deny the eternal distinction between right
and wrong, was considered the deepest
rsproaeh that could be cast upon him.
And even yet, the very hills and valleys
Of the North re echo the same idiot
shout. And with every home draped in
mourning for the brave boys who have
been murdered by tens of thousands in
This demon carnival, gotten up by slavery
with the prosperity Of the country pros
,rated-with the industry of generations
to come, mortgaged to pay the expense
the same bedlsaite gibberish is Kissed
cut By drivelling fools, who suppose that
BY rshosting "-Abottionistt" they can
defeat the purposes of God--stop the
developments of His Providence-re-ss'
t.blish the slave power again supreme,
and again grow rich upon the plunder
Of the poorl
II there is q God in Heaven, or any
lesson taught in the past history of oul
race, the dream Of restoring peace and
prosperity to the country and maintain
ing slavery at the same time, is simply