Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-02-02
rFrom the Cincinnati dazettc.]
The Suicide of the South.

TO what quarter shall they call for rocks
and mountains to fall upon them and mde
them from the justice of the Government,
seems now to be the inquiry at Richmond
Better v,,ssalage to an European power than
subiugation to the hated Yankees, sing, the
organs,of Jefferson Davis And the ferocious
opposition Examiner subscribes to that horn
if It comes to that. But no foreign power will
accent MS with slavery. Let us throw over
board the cargo to save the ship answer the
organs Let us sacrifice slavery, and then
Europe will accept our vassalage.
Is this the unconquerable South? Is this
Southern independence Vassalage and the
surrender OF control of. their domestic inst-
tuition to a foreeigh power How hal; the Con-
federacy fallen, when its leaders, who have
/ been so generous with proffers of the last drop
Of their blood, lay ttieir cherished institution,
for which they have ruined their section, at
the feet of foreign powers, to escape lrohl
shedding the first drop
They could not endure to live under Gov
eminent of their own, in an equal union with
those who were not converted to the divine
ordination of slavery. Sentiments untavora-
bIe TO if were an ntolcrable interference with
their domestic institution They would have
INDEPENDENCE, that their domestic institution
tnipht be setufe from interference! And now
they propose to offer both their domestic III
stitutIon and their independence to II foreign
mower. and to sue for its protection.
: And the most forcible illustration OF the
, humblng operation of the war on the oouih
, ern mind, is that they should call this ihde
pendcnce. Foreign protection IN natloha
] affairs and foreign dictation in their domestic
:. relations, is independence to the Southern
a soul in it's present chastened state. Here II
!, fine wav the Richmond Enquirer and the op
!. position Examiner discuss the proposition
i both declaring their willingness to take tn
!, bitter horn. The Sentinel, inspired by Jeilel
e son Drvis, had previously declared the altei
n native.
N TFrom the Richmond Enquirer, January 81
c, All of us are fast getting ourselves undel
stood. Colonial vassalage is a preferapl
II, Ie thing to Yankee slavery; this is the irst ou
IN cropping of this year of our Lord, lSOo'
at uouM be good bargain to secure the mater
nr al aid of England and France by iormi
d. sacrifice of our institution of slavery, "a.
e,y, the Examiner which is putting finer pon
j ; upon the proposition than we gave to 1t, nc
fa withStanding ours was pronounced pam
OF stricken. We did not propose to aholI'
" slavery for any amount of material aid b
unon the guarantee ard Hctnat drrompuS
ment of our independence, throug trca
offensive and defensive with England ~
,,r France. We believe these States are 1u
II Il able to conquer their independence without
III formal act OF abolition, but that it will be t
II. work Of vears-a val Of many, many years
~" .as during which every State may be oyelrun, a
md every able-bodied negro deportea put u. IN
:. I ~ in t,ie end, it may be another THIRTY yen
~ @ war we AIN ffuhtph, atia gain ON ihdcp'
,m- dencc. We asked; shall we wage that
FL, and preserve the germ OF slavery, or shal
ent recognizing the pre- judccs aud ornlonS o'
cal world a''oiiSh S'"No's ''' '''''''',,'''''
mo dcnce?