Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-03-21
The Wav of Peace.

To suppress q rebellion is not Ike
settling war with = foreign power
In the latter case after series Of deci.
rive blows, there is an appeal for ueso-
,iation, All armistiee, consultation, 4
treaty, and the withdrawal of troops
But in queliing a rebellion the way of
victory Is not necessarily that of peace.
y ou may drive riot out Of the street
you may restore order--quiet may
reign in WARSAW; but is quiet peace?
If We follow our suecess-if we drive
the rebels from Nashville as we have
from Bowling GrGen-if Columbus Lr-
renders as Fort Donelson and Fort
Henry have yielded-if Memphis, and
Savannah, and New Orleans fall into
our hands--if Richmond is evacuated
by that ehostly Congress of traitors-if
the linesyof the rebellion recede before
eur lines-even then the work is not
done
We are said to hold Kentucky and
even Tennessee and Missouri; but SO
We have held Maryland for several
months. Is that q success Is that a
secure and permanent peace? If our
srIny should leave Maryland even now,
who would feel sure of her position for
q month? The secret of the loyalty of
Baltimore is Fort M'Henry. No, no;
when We have suppressed rebellion we
are to organize peace. How is that to
be done?
Of course it can be done only by de-
stroying, if possible, the occasion Of re.
bellion The rule in state-craft is the
same as in agriculture. You must not
knock off the leaves of the weeds; you
must dig up their roots. IF this rebel
lion has root, it is our business to find
it and wrench it up. "a
IL, then, the root of slavery, or the
agitation of slavery OF course it is
one of the two. The whole energy of
the country must therefore be directed
first to discover which it is, then 10 de-
stroy it. If the difficulty be the agita-
ton, then suppress that if you can If
the slavery, then end that.
But what does the agition spring
from? Simply from our humanity,
from the fact that we are men,
SO long as We are human, so long We
eHall PROTEST against HNaG ecenS 10
us to DC wrong. To auppress that pro-
test require despotism Of the sternest
Kind. The eEectual suppression Of the
agitation of the question could be ac.
eomplished only by the destruction Of
every principle of our Government and
every right Of nsn-in other words,
only at the price Of an endless and fero-
cious civil war.
But to put an end to slavery requires
only thought, care, the preservation OF
every principle of the Government, and
the vindication of every human right;
and it results in permanent peace and
an actual, net nominal, Union of the
people.
1t is not even necessary to invoke the
question of right or wrong. We have
only to see that in the nature of things
so long as slavery lasts so long the agi-
tation will continue. If, then, you can
not destroy that, and since the object is
peace, why not destroy the other? So
long az the right of free discussion lasts
the question will be debated. So long
as it is debated we shall be slipping
into war, because slavery can have nc
effective argument but brute force
The way of peace, therefore, is inevit-
ably the final settlement Of the question.
Il is not sd occasion for losing TEN