Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-09-26
Two Ways.

| ue TeDel rams WIFI Ine iron Heece
having failed, the rebel anaconda is
taking his turn. jeff. Davis having
told his men that they had tried to hold
too much, they are now trying to hold
more. In the nature of things, the
strain upon, the country of the rebellion
! being exhaustive, they have gathered
their force for one desperate and furious
blow, feeling that what they demand
from Europe will not be refused them
if they demand it from Washington and
the soil of the Free States.
this moment they threaten both
THE capital and the Northwest. At this
| Instant the barbarous hordes of slavery
menace Ohio, the first fruits of freedom
under the American Union. With a
military skill and bravery to which we
cannot refuse admiration, with rapidity
of movement and power of concentra-
ton which accord with the audaeity of
their effort, they have driven our armies
across Western Virginia and to the Ohio
River; and while two months ago we
were asking how soon shall we be in
Richmond, we are now wondering how
soon Washington will be secure.
| Behind that army we see the sources
of its strength. We see a perfectly
united population. There are no quar-
rels about Generals, for the successful
General is by acclamation called to the
head. jackson Is everywhere; Beaure-
gard, the idol of last year, nowhere
There is no dispute about policy, for
their policy is to strike and wound
wherever and however they can reach
US. There are no party feuds, for the
verwhelming party is that of Southern
separation, and all other voices are
forcibly hushed, There is no lea kage
of important information, for the Union
men are paralyzed, and war correspon-
dence is practically forbidden. ,The
Southern region is a camp. The
Southern whites are an army. Not
word is spoken, nor thought thought,
nor prayer prayed, nor deed done,
but for the success of the war which is
consuming their very vitals.
But allowing it all, why, with our
overwhelming numbers, with our amaz-
ing power and resources, with the es-
sential splendor and inspiration of our
cause-why have we not long ago swept
them away as these autumn winds sweep
the red leaves from the trees? Why are
We not this day watering our horses in
the Gulf instead Of turnin, their heads
to the Susquehanna?
Simply because, while we are con-
fessedly lighting for the Union, we are
not united. Because while the enemy
has one purpose, we have two. Because
We have had to be taught by tragical
and bloody experience that fifty thou
sand men, fred by a terrible sarnestness
OF purpose, moving with concentrated
unity of thought, and handled by skill
full leaders, who hate the cause of their
foe more than the foe himself will beat
and rout five times their number of
doubtful, hesitating, quarreling oppo- !
nents.
Why, with population so dispropor-
tionate to ours, have the rebels met US
everywhere in such force? Simply be-
cause we have allowed them to. Simply
because We choose to support their
armies. Simply because we choose to
send our best and bravest against guns
which we have ourselves loaded
Long ago, just after Sumter, Braxton
Bragg told Us why they would always
beat us. Last month the Richmond +,
E.cantiter told Us why they would meet
US man for man wherever we CAME
The South, it said, will send all its
youth. The women and old men can
take care of the crops and the slaves
who raise them. Yes" said Braxton
Bragg, "the Northerners can't come. |
they must look out for their crops and
home work.
They say it to our faces, and We fall |
back stumbling over our mountains of
dead. They say it to our faces, and the
world roars with eontemptuous laughter
1t this people which insists upon help
ing the assassins who seek its life, which
boasts OF breaking the back bone of a
which it does not dare to touch.
WHAT'S the consequence? The rebels
zee that we are not III deadly earnest
The whole world is forced to allow it
We ourselves feel it, and how can we
lelp falling back? Fol the rebels mean
Tlctory at every cost whatever We
mean victory, if we can have it without
reeing the slaves. We might as we'll
ay that we mean victory if we can have
t by squirting molasses at the rebels.
Mr.. Thomas, at the Boston meeting. Il
ays that the war can be ended only by 4
lighting; that talking will not do it, nor!
toting, nor contiscation bills, ror tax
nils, nor emancipation bills. But why
lid be not finish his sentence? Fight
ng will not do it, gunboats will not do
t, nor Armstrong cannon, nor Colum-
'lads, nor shot and she'll No one
Method will end it, but all combined
will crush it. Aud the failure or un-
to employ every Ii cans para '
Yves all that are employed. II
Our own knowledge and experience,
he nature Of things, and their own frank
nd defiant confession, show US that
lavery is a source of immense strength a
o the rebeis-a thousan fold more than t
ny fort or city, or any dozen forts or
tiles in the South. Well, can we afford :.
. present them guns and ammunition? l
Why not? Why not give them guns as
Tell as men to use those they have?-- t
uu VIC w give tiiGiu lIen 10 Use GnSlF
uns SO long as We do not force those =,
len to stay at home and hue corn, OF
ook after those who do.
Let US resolve that if there be any |
trength for the foe in slavery We will i
estroy it. And that there is both r
trength and terror for them in it the
lte orders Of JEFF. Davis about Geuer-
Is Hunter and Phelps show plainly
nough. The mau who whispers the c
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