Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-07-11

to the standard of the Democratic party,
already in the field and confident of vic
tory. That party is the natural and
persistent enemy of abolition. 9
|. Look at this attentive1y. What Is
the first duty of the people? To put
down the rebellion and rsstore the SUI
premaey of the Federal laws in the re.
volted States. That is what we had
thought. That is what the loyal men
of Tennessee, and Kentucky, and Miss
Eseuri, and Virginia, and Mar land, say,
johnson, and Campbell, and Prentice,
and John M. Bolts, and Gamble and
others. Not one aoord does thss address
sag ofputting doaoas and crushing out the
SOUTHERN CoNFEDERAGY.
It utters no rebuke against the rebels.
It deprecates neither bridge burning,
nor wirecutting, nor guerrilla maraud
ing, nor destroying railroad cars, nor
any Confederate outrages. 1t is dumb
as the grave ON the horrors now sweep
ing over devoted East Tenpessee, the
home of martyrs and patriots. 1t con-
dems not the barbarity of the rebel
Government toward our gallant prison,
ers 1t has no condemnation of the in
famous conscription act, nor withering
invective to pour out like molten lava
on the heads of the rebels who are burn
ing the cotton and sugar crops, and des-
olating the South.
Then it speaks no cheering word of
congratulation for our gallant and he
roic soldiers who have left their farms,
and shops, and pleasant fresides, to
save the Government, and keep step to
the sublime music of the Union under
the flag of the Republic. It does not
even hint what every intelligent man
knows to be the fact, that the prime and
moving cause, the fountain head and
source of this rebellion is determine
tion on the part of Southern oticehold
ers and corrupt aristocrats to destroy
Free Government and build up mon
archy or aristocracy on the ruins OF
Democratic institutions.
The man who is ignorant of this is
ignorant of the speeches, addresses, res
olutions and newspapers of the cotton
States for the last twenty years. He is
ignorant of the speech of Hon. w. L,
Spratt, one of the leading men of South
Carolina, who declared that Slavery
cannot share a Government with De
.mocracy!' Slavery having achieved
one victory to ecsape Democracy at the
North, must achieve another to escape
it at the Southr' He must be ignorant
ofthe speech of Vice President Stephens,
as reported by the Savannah Republicaa,,
that Slavery Democracy, mark
or the right of man to rule himself
but Slavery is the chief corner stone
of our Government. The ideas of the
trainers of the old Federal Constitution,
were Fundamentally wrong "
In these declarations of the leaders of
the rebellion, which we are to cut short
for want of space-for they could be
extended indefnitely-we find the true
cause of this hellish rebellion. 1t was
determination on the face of an aris-
tocratic clique not to submit to the people,
and be controlled by an ignorant ma
jority," as we heard John G. Breckin-
ridge say, at Hopkinsville, Kentucky,
in the summer of 1861. AS a further
proof OF this, the Democratic party was
hopelessly split at Baltimore a year be-
fore Lincoln came into power, and split
by the very men who issues this address
1t is also to be remarked that on the
advent of Mr.. Lincoln to the Presidency,
the House of Representatives, Senate
and Supreme Court were in the hands
of the Democratic party. Why then
did the cotton wing fly off and set up a
new Confederaey? The Northern Doug
las Democracy would not be controlled
by the iusolent Buchanan Democracy
and SO disruption took place. But
this address of the iaglorious thirteen
goes on to glorify the Buchanan-De
mocracy in this grandiloquent manner:
'slt is the only party capable of car
rying on the war; it is the only party
which has ever conducted war to sue
cessful issue, and the only party which
has done it without abuse of power,
without molestation to the rights of any
class of citizens, and with due regard to
economy. All this it has done; all this,
if need be, it is able to do again. Its
success, then, in military point of view
required, the Democratic party alone
can command it..
1t then proceeds to say that its res
toration Chat is of themselves & CO.. to
power is demanded by the following
consideration:
Economy and honesty in the public
expenditures, now at the rate of four
millions of dollars day, demand il"
Such economy for instance, as that of
Buehanans Secretary of War, John B.
Floyd, that paragon of virtue, and such
honesty as that of Isham 6. Harris.
"The rapid accumulation of an enor-
nous and permanent public debt de-
mands tia public debt already one
thousand millions of dollars, and equal
at the present rate in three years, to
England's debt of century and half
in growth
Tt is dreadful thing to go in debt,
isn't it, to save the Nation? The war
should be carried on for little or moth.
ing. In fact, it would have been better,
as Buchanan thought, to have no war
at all. just let our Southern friends
alone. The ''thousand millions story
is a big lie.
Reduced wages, low prices, depres-
sion of trade, decay of business, scarcity
of work, and impending ruin on every
side demand it"
Everybody knows that the reduced
wages, etc., are all the fault of Lincoln
The loss Of fat salaries by the Southern
friends also demands it, but the thir-
teen are quite too modest to say SO.
We have our own opinion as to the
real origin Of this damnable attempt.
The Southern leaders are at the hotfom.