Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-07-26
HENDERSON vnEEI.ER.

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some two months ago, and his young
wife-widow, rather, for Henderson is
dead--arriyed in town last Saturday
from the land Gf the Secessionists
famed ''Confederate States of America. :
Full of life, of energy, of hope, of higf
resolve, Mfr. Wheeler, natural borr
citizen Of the United States, with the
banner Of beauty and glory y''--the Star:
and Stripes, and the Constitution, as
his protection, located himself in Grand
Glaize, Arkansas.
If he had gone to f Egypt, or to Jeddo
his protection would have been complete
But alas! he stopped in the land of "oul
Southern hrethrer!' For six years, as
an enterprisiug, successful, honest, anc
respected merchant, Mr. Wheeler per.
formed the duties of a good citizen ano
observer of the laws of his country
country whose Constitution he admired,
whose laws he approved, and whose aae
was his pride, as it is of every other
good citizen. Surely the strong arm
of the Government would make it safe
for such a man to reap, in quiet security
the fruit of his laborsl Those who
think so have forgotten part of our
history.
Men, mad with treason, have trampled
that hitherto honored flag in the dust
set the laws of the country at open de-
fance-sworn to subvert that Constitu-
ton, and overthrow the Government
which was instituted to maintain them!
Mr.. Wheeler mildly declined to blacken
his soul with the crimes Of treason and
rebellion-would not join in the conspi-
racy-would not strike with parri-
cidal dagger the paternal Government
which had protected him. And because
he nould not do this, he ,oas brutaXy mar
dcred-with the barbarity Of savagism
and the merciless cruelty OF cowardice,
he was assassinated, standing at the side
Of his young wife! And to make the
whole scene characteristic, the damning
deed was done on the Fourth Of july,
and in the sacred precincts of his new
made home!
Mr.. Wheeler's aged parents reside in
our midst. He has other relatives here.
They know that the only charge against
their son and relative was, that he re-
mained true to his allegiance-true to
his honor-true to his coutry! With
the mangled corpse Of their noble friend
before them-with his warm young
hearts blood staining the hearth held
sacred by all but demons-with his
property confscated, and his wife fu-
gitive, perhaps these parents and friends
are prepared to "compromise with his
murderers.
allow long! Oh! Lord, how lonr!"
We have no heart to detail the
bloody scene as it has been given to u.s.
1t will make deep impression upon all
those who knew Mr. Wheeler, and we
deeply sympathize with his bercaved
and outraged friends. But his is but
one case out of thousands. For many
long years such scenes have been the
every day events in the South If an
efectual stop shall be put to the bru-
talities practiced upon upright North
ern citizens in the future, the present
war will be cheap at all its expenditures
of money and lives. Our Government
would have sent its army and navy twice
around the world to exterminate any
nation which had committed the ten
thousandth part of the outrages upon
her citizens which have been pcrpetrated
in the South. And if this war stops
without at least, security for the future"
III this respect, better thousand times
that the Union be dissolved, that these
worse than Fee Gees, standing in the
selation of foreign nation, will no
longer dare to violate all national as
we'll as all social laws.
BETTER NEWS.
The panic in Washington having sub