Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-04-18
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will never be troubled about higher
law questions in politics. If they have
learned to hate negroes will they not
find ''cursed be canaan to prove their
hatred all right. If they have learned
to love good whisky, can they not find
it written that good old Noah planted 8
vineyard, that wine was offered in sac
slice, and that our Savior turned water
into wine, and will not all this and
many other passages Justify whisky
drinking and make it all right? But il
they read before their principles are
formed the Goth chapter of Exodus,
the Sermon on the Mount, the various
parallels and teachings Of the Savior,
while their minds are impressible, and
with that sim plicity and confidence with
which children usually read the sacred
Scriptures-such lessons may become
troublesome in after life, and do often
prevent the carrying out of our princi-
pies to .heir full results. If it had not
been for just this, we would have sue
ceeded in Kansas. I wish it to be UNI
derstood that am not writing against
the Bible, for it is, on the whole, a
pretty good book; l am only warning
my brethren against having their chill
dren taught to place it above Demo cratie
principles, as those do who acknowledge
its teachings as the higher law. | will
say, for the encouragement of our party,
that we have made decided i'm preston,
even among those who do not acknowI-
edge our principles in their full extent.
How often do We hear in the village
Lyceum, the debating society, and e4ess.
in the Legislature, that society
catch the criminal before punishm&ai
can be inflicted, and when caught hais
completely in our power, society IS saias
from his depredations, and, therefore
it is only malice and cruelty to in33il ii
legal penalties, but rather that he sh0alId
be reformed by instruction hated
too, is the plan of Gods moral G serns
ment, and that unless men ins IA, eli
righteousness violate God S natura Ias
they are pretty safe.
We have some hopes, even of you
for though you give out high soma ssii. 8
words about the violation of lssss d ID
the inevitable penalties, your discourses
have much the semblance of those OF
the chemist when speaking of his ex-
plosive agents. We think you are
right, and when the materials are about
to explode we mean to get out of the
way. The Government, too, is acting
upon our principles. They arrest our
leaders whom they denounce as traitors,
keep them awhile, treat them with
kindness, advise them to let the Lincoln
Government go on quietly, and let
them go. This enables us to charge
the Government with violation of the
Constitution in imprisoning men guilty
Of no crime. 1t embodens our men to
be vigilent in reorganizing the party
and we find no danger in carrying out
our policy.
Permit me to say that do not oppose
the organiza ton Of the Golden Circle
As means Of keeping in subsection
the timed and vascillating, Of making
known, gradually, the whole designs OF
the party, aud ensuring fidelity and
unity, it may be we'll But some should
stand in bold defiance Of this tyranni-
Cal Abolition Administration. Ichoose
this position, and for this reason, like
to see our principles in their tendencies
and results brought out as a sort of test
and rallying point for our now, some
what scattered forces; some, too, will
not be reached by their society. Gas
ties, or places of rest, will not, proba
bly,, be established in every neighbor
hood. ...
There is, too, an advantage in this
two fold operation. If l should not bs
up to the mark, those having charge o
the castles could SO inform their breth
ren, or if they should think l was i'm
prudent in any of my COMMUNICATIONS
they could denounce me as having NJ
connection with the castles. TIL.
whole matter can be discussed in secre
conclave, and disposed of, for the gooG
Of the Democracy. [ shall, hereafter
if the fire burning within me does no
exhaust itself, have something to sa,
about the oppressive taxation that W
are aboat to have fastened upon US b,
the Lincolnites, which might have beel
avoided if We had been kept in power
something about this unholy war, fo
it now seems that Lincoln great arm,
is collected, for the purpose of murder
ing our Southern brethren, that hay
stood side by side with us in battlln
for the pure principles of Democracy
Our wrongs crowd upon me so thic
and fast, all clamoring for attention, tha
: my blood boils, and must, for the pres
ent, close, subscribing myself
> \ DEMoCRAT.
: Four Good Habits.
i There are four habits a wise man rec
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