Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-03-14
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| /, Old men viii remember, that on the
l2sth day Of July, 1885, the minions of
slavery trampled the Constitution and
laws of the Government under feet, by
breaking into the Post. Office, at Charles
ton, South Carolina, and gobbing the
United States mail, because it contained
publications against slavery. This was
one of the highest crimes and misde-
Ineanors-so grave as once, if not then,
to be punishable with death. At this
time, Mr.. Amos Kendall was Postmaster
ieneral-sworn to support the Coa-
stitution and laws of the United States
but especially, of course, so much of
them as related to the affairs of his own
department. Bearing this in mind,
mark the conduct of this man who pre-
tends to teach lessons of loyalty to the
people Of the Free States, when the
laws were set at defiance, and the Con-
stitution ridden down by force, for the
benefit of slavery. After preparations
had been made to "arrest the circula-
ton" of antislavery publications, ia de-
famce Of law, application was made to
Mr.. Kendall for "instructions" in the
premises. In his reply, dated Aug, 5th, /,
1885, seven days after the outrage, he
says: "By no act or direction of mine,
official or private, could I be induced to
aid, knowingly, in giving circulation to
papers of this description, dire,tly or in
directly. I've ore an obligation to the zaws,
but higher one to the communities IN
which ice zive, and # the former be per-
m,itted to disregard the latter, IL as atriot-
isn, to disregard them. Entertaining
these uieaos, I cannot sanction, AND WILL
NOT CONDEMN, the steps y0u hare taken"
Thus was the official sanction of this
pseudo friend of the Constitution and
the supremacy of the law, indirectly
given, to a most fragrant violation of
both, when demanded by the interests
of slavery. So f:r did he go, indeed, in
behalf of the institution, as to declare
the obligations due it, 'thigher" than
those owed to the claws" and that it
would be "patriotism'' to ''disregard'
the latter, when, in the judgment Of the
Community" the interests of slavery
required it. A law s'higher" than the
Constitution and laws Of the United
States, was thus officially proclaimed
isfSse-stiis man Kendall, for the benefit of
the peculiar institution" Is it a won-
der that friends of freedom afterward
''turned the tables on the higher law, -
upon the advocates Of wrong?
The facts We have given are sufficient
to show the animus Of this movement
among discarded politicians, resurrected
for the purpose Of duping the people of
the Free States into renewed servility
to the dread cause of all our troubles,
under canting pretenses of a peculiar re-
gard for the Constitution and the Union
Let the loyal people be on their guard.
In the Vaccinations of these sympa-
thisers with the rebellion and slavery,
sub conspiracy is being formed, with
la design to accomplish, in the winding
up of the war, what the rsbels failed to
effect before its close: The continued su-
premacy Of a slaveholding aristocracy IN
the general Gorernn,ent 1t is engi-
neered by such men as Kendall, secretly
assisted by rebel sympathisers like Val
Ilandigham and Wood, and such of the
Northern press as have opposed the eff
forts of the Government in suppressing
the rebellion. Its nefarious attempt
tc mislead the masses, who should ever
remember that 'seterna1 vigilance is the
price of liberty" HELvIDIus.