Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-07-18

secred their conseleneeS by willing
participation in the crime, or compile.
.lty with those who have, see the ruin
of the countrya as the natural and inev.
table out-growth of the system, while
those who have lived and rioted upon
fthe unpaid toll, and the sale of their vic.
tins, charge the war upon those who
would ot join them in their plundcr OF
the helpless. So utterly fanatical have
this class become that they actually
seem to believe that, if the honest and
christian portion of mankind had only
turned villains with them, and sustained
them in their madness, they could have
rdefied alike the laws of God and nature
aud extended and made perpetual their
accursed system of bondage, aud the
war would not have occurred. So that
al parties agree that slavery IS at the
bottom. of all-eur difficulties
! But while ala parties thus admit that
slavery is the cause Of our calamities, a
sarge portion Of the people seem Sc
hopelessty infatuated as not to see the
5hand of Providence in the over-turning
that is taking place, and to believe that
they can, by war or compromise, defeat
the evident workings of that Providence
Ignore the claims of eternal Justice
force the slaves back into the hands of
their rebel masters, and, rivetfng their
chains to the. bonds of the Union, make
them both perpetual! And thus, with
the history of the world before them,
marked by the ruins of perished nations,
as the road is marked by mile-stones, and
every blasted column inscribed, with the
everlasting decree that those who tram
pie upon the poor, and oppress the weak k,
shall, themselves, go into captivity, men
rush madly on like very fools to de-
stsuction, regardless of the warning.-
Blinded by avasice, passion, prejudice,
and the lustof despotic power, theslead-
ers, riding upon the patient people,
like Balaam upon the ass, will not see
the angel in the way that would stop
them in their mad purpose.
But can anything less than fatuity
have SO blinded any as to prevent their
seeing the hand of Providence in this
whole scene of madness which is scourg-
ing the world with the rod of righteous
chastisement. Look it square in the
face! Shutting the eyes to an impending
danger is hardly the part of wisdom.
Nor will the shouting of ahtgher laao!''
"AbolitionistP &c., however vociferated,
reverse the natural course of things, or
prevent the execution-of God serighteous
judgments, according to the immutable
laws by which the universe is governed.
We have deliberately enslaved one-sixth
part Of the population of the country on
the sim pie plea that. they are an Inferior
race and can't help themselves. We
have boosted Of the immense wealth we
were acquiring out. of their unpaid Ia
Dor. To all appeals to reason and con
science the reply has been, "thc. slaves
are an inferior raee-tLey cannot help
tiismselyes-their labor gives US cheap
cotton--cheap cotton. builds up manu-
factures manufactures extend our
commerce and sustain our agriculture
All these great interests would be ruined
if we ceased to brutify the slaves, and
paid them honest wages for honest WoIk "
Aud thus the worshipers at the altar
of AIammon parteok ofthe spirit oftheir
Idol until their passions eliminated in
the carnival of treason, and its train of
consequences which is involving in. utter
all who have participated
in the gigantic crime.
And where now is the vast wealth of
which we have so proudly iboasted as
having acquired through the unpaid la
Dor of the slaves? Is it found in the
abandoned shops, the deserted planta-
sions, the burning cities, theIdepopulated
towns, the desolated country, the fam
ishing populace and frantic armies Of
the South? Is it found in the, million
of laborers drawn from productive in.
dustry, the closed manufactures, the
prostrats commerce., the lauguishiDg
trade, the enormous taxation, and the
homes draped in mourning in the North?
it found in the starving millions of
France and England whose
connived at the sin for the
sake of participating in the plunder, and
which now threaten us with their ar
mics, to add to the cup Of our humilia-
tion? Where, in short, in allthe world
is there people who have had any par
ticipation in our great crime against
God and humanity, for the profits of
The spoils, who have not already been
stripped Of the gains so acquired, with
The added calamity of demoralized So
cfety. Which will render almost fmpos