Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-07-18

County is eutitted to six delegates. Ed
TIL
We recommend that the delegates be
chosen by conventions in the several
sceanties, to be held GU Saturday, the
10th of August
The Convention will hnassemble at IL
O'clock A.. M.:the place of meeting
will be hereafter designated.
GEO. Al. PARSONS, CIR,
b. F. MARTIN. pSer,y.
Union Executive Conmittee.
Columbus, june I'd, 1852.
Is the Hand Of Providence in
It?
We know it has become unfashion-
able, aud extremely s'fanatioal,'"' to ex-
press belief in a experimenting Prov
idcnce over the affairs of men, and es-
pecially Of nations. Even the grossest
moral delinquency can hardly so far
blind the intellect as to enable men
actually to bcliepe thata Being infinitely
wise and good, if exercising any control
ever the destinies of mankind, could
permit injustice, oppression, violence,
slavery, and their train of cruelties to be
inflicted upon one portion of his crea-
lures, by another portion, without vim
dicating the rig hteousnesas of His reign
by tie just punishment Of the evil doers.
And hence it has become necessary. for
the sake of consistency, while practicing
these wronss,to deny the very existence
Of such Providence. And so bold and
blasphemous has this practical 'sAthe-
ism" become, under the teaching of un-
scrupulous politicians, that to charge a
alan With believing in as.higher law
that is, in the binding obligations of
justico--is considered reproach, sufi-
eient to blast his reputation with the
multitude. Dema gogues on the stump
and in Congress, as we'll as their fippant
tools through a partisan press, fnd no
appeal to the ignorant-and deprayed. SO
congenial and effective as this same
charge Of a belief in a .shigher law, 2 Or
the sacredness Of truth aud right.
When. men have said in their hearts,
There as no God mo Proyidential con-
trol aveF thesdestiniesSof men-no dis
tinotionsBetween right and wrong, they
are prepared, in the effort TO crafty
their uDlallowed lust of power, and
avarice for gold, to trample upon the
rie hts of their fellow men They come
TO know no law but their lusts, and ac-
knowledge no right bat that which SUI
perior force or deeper cunning enables
one man, or party, OF combination to
prey upon .ethers.
When the moral sense Of community
is so far dcbauched, it is not difficult to
procure the enactmentof the most afro
cious iniaaity into the forms, of law;
andwhen so enacted, the law itself is
plead in Justification of the most dia-
holical wrongs. Tall toe4them now,
about the obligations of justice, or the
inevitable ruin which must follow the
attempt to set aside the laws of God and
nature, and with the shout Of shigher
law fanatic" the leaders are ready to
hound on you their sfabble Of stupid
followers. notwithstanding the whole
history of mankind is but series of ex-
amples, teaching, by the experience of
all ages, thatsthose wEosMill persistently
violate the laws Of eternal rectitude,
must, By the inevitable working of those
laws, draw 9 apon themselves the retribu-
tion which God and reason sanction;
yet, because, lin their hearts they have
denied God, z and BY their cupidity OBJ
seurcd their reason, in their folly they
imaginetha BY Joining hands in their
wiekedness, they can permanently
prosper. ss ). tt..s.
Examples might be adduced from
the history of all past times in support
Of tne position, that whatever people
have attempted to enrich themselves by
the oppression of the weak, have, by
the irreFersable laws of human nature
and destiny, cultivated in themselves
those principles which, as certainly as
the tree grows from the germ, must
ultimate in theiroWn sutter-rain, unless
the evil is put away before it has wol ked
out itss legitimate fruits. Such exam
piles, However, it is not necessary to our
present purpose to introduce: here, as we
only intend very brief reference to the
history which we, of this year of grace,
and of this, and the countries connected
with as in com mereial and material in
terests, are making and illustratings-
But in 30 past time--in none sof the
hatious which have pcrished in conse-
Hquenee of their departure from the laws
-of justice, has there ever been SO mex
lcusable an instance of such departure as
in our country; because ours has been
in the midst of light and intelligence
which no other people enjoyed, and with,
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