Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph

DISUNIONISM.

The papers from all sections, are filled to repletion with the proclamations of Southern Governors, the speeches of Southern Senators and other orators and the proceedings of Southern Legislatures and Conventions, on the subject of disunion. We have not attempted to copy these proceedings. A dozen Telegraphs would not suffice for that purpose. To the doubters in the capacity of man for self-government, these proceedings come as demonstrations of the truth of their theory.

It has been the boast of every Democratic orator and editor, that the party has had the control of the Government nearly all the time since its organization, and every reader will remember that this fact has ever been appealed to to hold their followers in the bonds of the party. We admit the fact, that the Democratic party have long been in power--so long, in fact, that an unutterable corruption has grown up in the administration of affairs--a corruption so notorious and profligate, that the better class of the Democrats, together with the patriotic citizens generally were forced to the conclusion that without a change of rulers this increasing corruption of the leaders would wholly demoralize, and finally destroy our glorious institutions.

In the firm conviction of this truth hundreds and thousands of the honest intelligent and patriotic members of the Democratic party joined with the Republicans, and in the late election elevated to the Chief Magistracy of the Nation Abraham Lincoln, a man admitted to be capable, honest, patriotic, and incorruptible. This expression of confidence in Lincoln, and the principles he represents and of condemnation of the corruptionists who have so long disgraced the country and perverted its institutions to their own base and selfish purposes, is so clear and overwhelming that it leaves the Demagogues no hope of regaining their lost power. Every artifice of fraud and faction--every means by which prejudice could be aroused by misrepresentation, was resorted to in vain. The people even spurned the threats which were used to intimidate them. and by unprecedented majorities gave expression to their will in the election of the Republican candidates.

Mark the result. Having failed to retain their ill gotten, and long abused power, the leaders have thrown the whole country into convulsions, and are lashing their duped and frenzied partisans into rebellion and treason, determined to destroy the fairest Government in the world because the people will not submit to their control. The game of these men for years has been to threaten and bluster, to accomplish their purposes, and, unfortunately for the country. Northern dough-faces have succumbed to their dictation to the utter prostration of the highest interests of the people We do not believe that South Carolina would dare, for a moment, to attempt to carry into effect her treasonable projects, but for her reliance upon the servility-of her Northern allies. But rather than hold the rights, the liberties and material interest of twenty millions of free men, subject to the domineering control of a few thousand 'slave drivers we say let South Carolina "slide,"and if she don't launch easily, we would give her a gentle shove, and let her go. It is but a few years since she went into spasms. and attempted to expel John Quincy Adams from the Halls of Congress for presenting a petition asking that body to let her go if she desired. We think a resolution to expel her from the Union would bring her to her senses, and would perhaps be the quickest way to quell the row she is now raising. We have no desire to see her turned adrift,for without the protecting pale of the Union her own slaves would no doubt make bloody work with the chivalry, and we have no desire to see even South Carolina drenched in gore. But it may be necessary to cut her off to save the Nation from destruction, as it is sometimes necessary to amputate a diseased limb to save the body from mortification We would give her fairly to understand that she must limit her domineering sway to her own mulattos, who constitute a large majority of her people, and not attempt to play the overseer over the free men of the other States. If she is content to do this, we would still support her as we have done in the past. If her leaders proceed to open treason against the Government, we would hang them as John Brown was hung. If that did not bring the State to her sense, then we would proceed to the extreme measure of "expulsion." But under no circumstances, can she be permitted to play the petty despot over the destinies of the other States.