Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-03-30

finished the loyalists and the war. Instead Of
this the armies 'looked at each other,' dread
ed TO renew the fight, and drew off, each by
itself, much to / the ehagrin, and disgust Of
| Hampden Five thousand were left slain up
on the feld--slainsto no purpose, as nothing
was decided, SO things Went on, till Oliver
| Cromwell came with his s'ironside regiment
and at the decisive battle of Naseby, dashed
upon the Kings forces and shivercd them to
pieces
We may smile, on reading over these great
battles, at the numbers engaged They varied
from twenty to twenty-five thousand men on
each side, never exceeding the latter number.
The battle Of Marston Moor was the most OBJ
stinately contested between the most numer-
Gus armies that were engaged during the course
Of the wars" and in that battle, as Hume la-
ments fifty thousand troops were led to mu-
tual slaughter Such was the price paid; the
! end achieved was free government for the
| English race everywhere.
| The writer in the Religious Monthly dedu-
ces from the facts he relates several arguments
First comes one in favor Of the cultivation of
a national military spirit as the surest way of
avoiding the shedding of blood Of all Caesar,
in three years war between the Cesareans
and Pompeians, lost fewer men than McCel-
Ian did in single campaign on the Peninsu-
| Ia. Indeed, it is said, more lives have been
lost in our present war, than the great civil
wars of Greece, Rome and England put to-
gether; and this might have been avoided had
the north been military people.
THE EFFECT OF INTERVENTION. .0
| 1t is well to look into the gulf of ruin from
which our present civil war is to save us. Re-
solving the Union into thirty-six State sover-
eighties would place us exactly where the
Greek Autonomies were placed in their strug-
gle of twenty-seven years 1t means mutual
slaughter and final collapse, until some strong
er third power comes in and adjusts the bleed
ing fragments. Persia finally 'intervened'
in favor Of Sparta, and her hateful despotism
was pressed down upon all the States of Hell
las and her lovely islands 1hebes finally re-
belled against it. led ON by the great Epami-
nondas; and second series of civil wars
brought on a more complete exhaustion, and
more deadly collapse
Philip Of Macedon next "intervened,' and
crushed them still lower into the dust, and
amid the dying thunders Of Demostbenes, and
the fading glories of the Grecian name
Next Rome "intervencd' and conquered Mac
edonia; and both Macedonia aud Helas went
down together under her iron heel. Next the
Turk ''intervened; and Rome, in all her East
ern empire, involving Greece with horancient
States and beautiful isles, was ecipsed in IL
more baletul dCspotsm and in heathcn night
Such are the last results of autonomy--dis-
membermcnt, mutual hate and slaughter, MT
tioual extinction and death So the loveliest
form OF ancient eiviiizauon, ia democracy
just rising to the glories Of empire, was sacr-
! feed to the insane notion Of petty "State SOY.
ereignty;' and when we now ask, Where is
leias? we are only answered by poets, who
Sing her eegy:
"Ask the Paynim slave,
Who trc&ds all fearless on her hallowcd grave;
Invoke the spirits Of the past and shed
The voice OF your strong bidding on the dead!
Lot from Thousand cruinhling tomb5 they rise
Tho great of old, the powerful and the wise!
Aud sad tale, which mono but they can tell,
Falls on the mournlul silence like knell.
Then mark yon lonely pilgrim bend and weep
| Abo, e the mound where genius lies in sleep.
| And is this ally Alas! We turn in vain,
| And, turning, meet the self-same waste again
| The same drear, wilderness Of stern decay;
Its former pride, the phantom of day;
A song of summer birds within bower;
dream of beauty traced upon flower;
| A Lutte whose master chord has ceased to sound;
| morning star struck darklna to the ground Z"