Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1866-01-18
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NUMBER 3.

ernment those VINO nave staked everything
upon its overthrow, and upon the other, the
obligations we are under 10 the whole world
to adhere to those doctrines of democratic
liberty and equality which lie at the fonnda-
ton Of our system; whilst our relations tt. the
unfortunate African race, whose slavery We
have abolished and whose freedom we are
sacredly bound to protect, come in to conpli-
cate both classes Of difficulties f7s
Congress and the; President aref now, at
work on the details of complete restoration
of civil governments In the Statea latSl u rf4
bellious, and ewe, in nv
country are watching Their prog ~ % Nc y :
most earnest hope that they may speedily
agree uron a national policy which shall
thoroughly accord with the highest interests
of the whole land. do not regard this a
proper time to discuss specific measures
which are before our federal legislature and
authorities, but all our public acts in our
State organizations, as well as in our National
capacity, must be more or less modified by
circumstances shaped by the great war in
which we have been engaged, and it seems
necessary therefore, as preparation for
every species of public duty, that we should
look with special care at any dangerous ten
dencies the war may have developed and re-
call lthe general principles which should guide
our action as servants of the people. H.
+ 1t is in the excitement Of great struggle
that the institutions of country are in the.
most danger Of change, and perhaps no nation
has ever passed through such CONFUSION "a
ours and then returned to the principles Of
government and exact form Of constitution
which it had before. The maxim that reyo-
lutions do not 20 backward, has seemed TO
have even a wider and deeper significance
than has been popularity given to it, The
same law Of progression which has made the
commissions Of monarehical governments tend
toward the development Of popular liberty,
has in republics too often led to despotism
Of classes or Of factions, and thence by easy
stages to anarchy and utter disruption A
victorious majority, flushed with its triumph,
finds it easy to forget the rights of minorities;
and it retNans for us to prove whether in our
day, the old cry of Woe 10 the conquered"
may be silenced BY n truly republican deter
the real advantage Of all-of the defeated
rebels as well as Of the loyal victors
The war was not waged by us, who remain
ed faithful 70 the Government to subvert any
OF the principles Of human liberty upon which
that government was based but TO confirm
and establish them. The one great doctrine
which has been settled by the war is that the
National Union cannot and shall not be dc,
stroycd hy the action Of any of the states COM
posing it; but its continuance, its modiilca-
ton, or its dissolution shall be determined by
the whole people acting rs one nation Under
the forms of the federal constitution The
one great social change which has been de-
terminel by the same event, is the, abolition
OF slavery, the existence of which was staked
upon the success of the rebellion, of WHICH it
was tho cause.
These things have bcen decided in the dread
conrt of last resort for peoples and nations---
BY IFS much as the shock OF armed hosts is
more grand than the Intellectual tilt of law
ycrs; as the God Of battles is a more awful
judge than any earthly court; by 80 much does
the dignity OF this contest and the fnality of
this decision exceed that Of any human tribu-
nal If we have not been right in pledging
our lives and our fortunes to save our cou,i-
try. then the blood of the myriads of heroes
who have fallen rests with murderous guilt
upon oar souls, and We should never consent
that tie justification Or condemnation of this
great people should rest, now or hereafter,
With any hench of Judges however lealucd,
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ing Our impulses =. anu passions, cnaiehslhs
.he mot'Tes ana 1he CONSISTENCY o. our act
ions, and OF fastehihS our attention. by effort
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during the perlod o. ,he CROWN OF our ihsti-
tullons ana, OF conflicts oet@eeh US ana pow
Griul foreign powers. However un~eieome
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