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

Is had to the few papers yet published
in the American Congo. And if any
proof was wanting 60 establish the truth
Of the old adage--"whom the Gods in
tend to destroy they frst deprive Of rea
son"-it is furnished in the fanatical
folly of these rebel journals. Their IA
matte appeals SQUAD moro like the ra-
wings Of bedlamises, than the utteranccs
ofsaus men. They call upea the en-: !:
tire population to rush to the conflict,
armed OF unarmed. They talk, in one
column, Of their ability aad intention to
carry the war into the Sorth-to sack
our cities and compel the Yankees to
pay the expenses Of the war, and indem :
Nifty the South for all their Losses, as
the only condition of peace, and in the
next the people are exaosted to die in
tho fight, aud wher the last man is dead,
the women arr 20 burn up their houses
aud everything that is left, lest the con-
quering hordes be enriched by. the
,spoils. They demand that all the cot
ton, tobacco, provisions, &c, which the
own ers will: not destroy on the advance
of the Union armies, shall be destroyed
BY. the military chiefs. The railroads
and bridges nre all to be destroyed, lest
they become useful to the Government
OF the loyal citizens when the rebel ar
mics are driven away. Aud the propo-
sition is boldly taken, that the slaves
who will not run from our advancing
forces, are to be shot by their owners,
or by the rebel scldiery.
In short, they seem to have souc ut
tesly mad, indeed, and are fast exeeu-
ting upon themselves the decree Of their
own destruction. And it is, no doubt,
wisely or .ercd for the future good Of
the country and the world, that they
should take this course. Let them de.
vastate the country in their madness-
let them destroy the productions Of la
Dor, if they will, and bring famine
upon themselves let them apply the
iacendiary's torch to their tawps and
cities. is they must-lss them blow up
their bridgse, destroy their railroads aud
.obliterate all the evidences Of civi!isa-
tion, if such seems good in their sight,
and what will be the result7 The land
will still remain, aad will invite, as our
territories have invited, the emigration
from all la2ds, who will build upon the
ruins better system, and viii! come
ito the Union as FREQ States, maxim G
"a further rebellion an imPossibi!ity.- -
If the present population Of the South
wM not return to their senses and 10y
atty, then, the next best thing they can
be made to do for the world, will be TO
destroy themselves, and leave the land
tLey have cursed, to be occupied by
better men.
VIC have no pleasure in the contem
plation Of such picture, for uatold
sufferings must be indured by maay
who take no active part in the mad rev.
elry. But to just such cousummation
the course of events il now tending, and
if it runs. it's course, and eliminates in
the destruction Of the conspirators, and
the introduction of new and better or
der Of things, the future historian, when
the passions, and interests, and pref udices
Of the hour have passed away will place
another chapter in the worlds history,
to teach other generations what the
present, in its blindRess, would not learn
j-"Thas those who SOW the wind, shall
reap the whirlwind. While An all
perrading Providence rules, the desti'
nies of people persistentIy setting
themselves in opposition to the pur-
poses of that Providence, is, and ever
! will be, distraction.