Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-03-14

all the time, devoted friends; constantly
at work through the loyal States, en-
couraging them to commence the work
of death, by pledging untold assistance,
and stimulating them to renewed efforts,
| by .sttempting to withhold from the
Government any means for its .preserva-
tion-by striving to divide loyal men
and separate them from their chosen
Administration-and lastly, by endeav-
oring to make the citizens defenders oi
the Constitution, the chief support Of
| the confessed cause Of all our trouble
even at the sacrifice of the highest in
terests of loyal men. Such, We repeat,
have been the purposes and labors of
the Northern friends cf rebellion and
slavery.
But since, notwithstanding the utmost
that could be done BY rebels South, and
their sympathisers North, the rebellion
is being crushed, by the terrific power
and unconquerable energies of free
people, change of tactics has become
necessary, on the part of the friends
of rebellion, in the loyal States. The
bloody attempt to re-establish the lost
supremacy of slavery, on the ruins Of
the Constitution and the Union, proving
a signal failure, the same end is de-
sigued to be accomplished by combi
nation Of the slave aristocracy South,
with the friends of rebellion and
slavery North, for the purpose of saving
the institution from the Legitimate con-
sequences of the war which it has
caused. 1t is thought, that, by saddling
upon the Free States, the burdens and
losses of the war, relative advantage
will be secured to slavery, which will
enable it to regain its old ascendency in
the National Government, and thus in
sure real triumph to the rebels, in the
very hour Of seeming defeat. The new
policy of these reunited sub -conspirators,
is already developed to some extent, in
the opposition to any law eonfiscating
the slaves of rebels, and will be further
seen, as time rolls on, in q persistent re-
sistance to the exercise Of any polcer Of the
Genera! Governmeat, howeter legitimate,
necessary or proper, against the institution
of slarery.
1t need not be expected that this in
choate organizations, for the benefit of
the rebellion, will voluntarily publish
its real purposes, to an outraged and in
dignant people, nor that these purposes
will be discovered without some atten-
ton to the circumstances Of its origin,
and to the antecedents of those who
stand as it's sponsors before the public.
Neither should we look for so notorious
a rebel sympathiser as Fallandigham or
Ben. Wood, to inaugurate this move
ment, inasmuch as its ulterior purpose
would thus be revealed, in the known
character of its leaders. 1t is therefore
evidently necessary, to insure success,
that some one should assume the Office of
spokesman, who, while sustaining some
reputation as a friend of the Union,
should ct the same time be true as steel
to slavery. With this sort Of charac-
ter to lead, masked under pretenses Of a
special devotion to the Constitution, and
undying love for the Union, it is sup
posed that the old game of deception
can again be repeated upon the people
of the North.
After protracted search among the
fossilized remains of pro-slavery poll
ticians-long since discarded by the
psople-the right character was at last
'turned up, ia the person of one amos
Kendall, who has "opeued the ball" for
the sympathisers with the rebellion and
slavery, by series of ''letters to the
President" the main purpose of which
seems to be, under a covert diplomatic
style, to convince hir. Lincoln that the
war should be conducted with a view
to the special protection of slavery, and
that all who do not agree with this in
sane conception of pro-slavery fanati-
cism, are as bad as the rebels them
selvssl To sustain this absurd notion,
1t must assumed, of course, that the
end of Government, if not of man, is to
hold a slave in bondage; and that
slavery is not the cause of the war
This latter position, the sapient author
of the "letters" regards proved, because
forsooth, all Shareholders are not rebels.
Logic, as profound as that which should
deny that monarchy is cause of eppres-
sion, because all monarchs are not ty-
rants. But will he deny that rebellion
and slavery go hand in hand? That where
slavery is most dense, as in South Caro-
/ lima and Eastern Virginia, rebels are
most numerous? That as slavery dis
appears, loyalty takes its place? That
! if all shareholders are not rebels, nine
tenths Of them arc? That all the trai.
tor leaders are Shareholders? That by
their own confession, the rebellion was
begun for the sole benefit of slaverv?-
/ If so, let him read the declaration oi
Charles D. Drake, of st. Louis, for