Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-16
TREASON AT WASHINGTON.

The country might will disregard the
ranting threats of secession and nullif-
cation SO long as confined to the South
ern fire eaters, if true man was at the
head Of affairs at Washington. But the
country is beginning to labor under the
impression that the President himself
the man chosen to fill the seat once oc-
cupied by Westinghouse an accomplice
of these traitors, and is aiding and abet
ting their designs. This would be in
credible but from the known fact that
he has been mere tool in their hands
ever since his election.
The New York Evening Post says:
From proofs in our possession, we are
forced to the conviction that President
Buchanan is unfaithful to the Union,
and indirectly, if not directly, conniv-
ing at the reasonable projects Of the
crack brains of South Carolina. We
feel authorized to state as facts:
/. That the garrison at Fort Moul-
trie has been allowed to run down to
sixty two men, including sick, cooks,
prisoners, &C., leaving, with the officers,
but fifty men to defend the post.
2. That even these few men are in
sufficiently supplied with ammunition
and provisions.
3. That Colonel Gardner, an openly
declared secessionist, is the commanding
officer.
4. That Fort Sumter and Castle
Pinckney have no garrison, though con-
tanning large quantities of arms and pub
lie property.
''That an officer of the State Depart
ment declared, in September, openly to
people in Charleston, who questioned
him on the subject, that Mr. Buchanan
would not attempt coercion in case South
Carolina should secede, but would with
draw the troops from Fort Moultrie, de-
clare Charleston no longer a port of en-
try, and station a revenue cutter off the
mouth of harbor to blockade it-a
notoriously useless act, as the first storm
would drive her into the harbor under
the guns of the forts, to become an easy
capture.
6. That although constant representa-
tions have been made Of the defenseless
state of the forts, and the urgent need OF
more men, large body of recruits were
few days since sent to Texas, leaving
the depots here destitute Of men to meet
any sudden emergency.
Z. That under the pretense of guard,
ing against any attack by foreign fleet
| in case our interference in Mexico
should cause collision with any Euro
pean power, repairs of Fort Moultrie
have been begun, which required part Of
the walls on the land side to be tori
down, and the guns on that side to be
dismounted, so that there is no obstacle
to prevent mob from entering the for
in half a dozen different places.
8. The accumulation of thirty thousand
stand of arms, and large quantities o
ammunition, in the Arsenal in the city
of Charleston, without any guard what
ever over them-an open invitation tC
the disafected to help themselves.
We submit these facts, which are sus
ceptible of confirmation from other sour
ces, with the single remark that th'
President must take the chief response
bility for whatever occurs at Charleston
in conflict with the federal auth ority.-
Having taken no means to defend tn
property of the general government
and having placed arms and ammunition
to a large amount in the hands of wha
is notoriously an insurgent population
without guard or protection of any kind
he has exposed himself to the just sus
picion of inviting treason in others, l
not projecting treason himself.