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

sacTahced to the rancor OF lew unScru
puleus partisan leaders.
In view of the effects of partisan
campaign in Ohio, We would much pre-
fer to forgo what we believe to be easily
accomplished-the election Of u Repub
! ltcun ticket-and uniting with all true
Union men, select the best men for the
various offices, both State and county,
without regard to former politics.
Making capacity, and fidelity to the
Union, the Constitution, and the sup
preston Of the rebellion, without COM
promise with the rebels the only
| platform.
We do not know what may be the pol
icy adopted in this county, by those au :
thorized to move in the matter, but
these are our sentiments.
/ "UNCONSTITUTIONA
With certain class of politicians, ev-
erything but rebellion and treason is
Unconstitutional" Thus Sam. Me-
dairy, in a late number of his paper,
says:
"Mr Lincoln has already created all
army without authority of Congress and
contrary to the Constitution. He has
provided a navy, without authority of
Congress and contrary to the Constitu l.
ton. He has established blockade
without authority of Congress and CON
TRARY to the Constitution. He is daily
using immense sums Of money, without
appropriation by Congress, and CON
TRARY to the Constitution. He has
delegated to inferior officers a power
which he does not himself possess: to
suspend the hnbeas corpns-that great
writ Of right-sacrcd among ordinary
despotisms.' -
1t is all right, proper, and Consti'U-
tionul for those with whom Medary has
been in open league for years, and is
still with, in unconcealed sympathy, to
raise armies for the express purpose of
overthrowing the Government! 1t is
| quite Constitutional for Jeff Davis and
his crew, to provide navy of pirates
and outlaws, to prey upon the commerce
F.! of the people. 1t is in perfect accord
ance with law and the Constitution for
these conspiiators to steal and rob,
wherever either public or private money
can be found, to raise the means of
waging a savage war upon the loyal
men of the nation. 1t is quite within
their province to strike down all law and
inaugurate reign of unmixed despot-
ism! And for the purpose Of accom-
plishing their ends, it is right and proper
to march their armies upon tt Capitol
of the Union-to disperse Congress-de-
pose the chosen President of the people
conquer and plunder the free cities of
the North, and set up the new Consti-
tuition Of the Cotton States, with the
usurpers and traitors as our rulers! To
all this, not a word of objection is mad G..
| In fact, Mc.lary, has, in terms, advo-
Gated the adoption Of the jeff. Davis
Constitution instead Of that of the
United States. and has said that the
Democracy of Ohio and the north west
| would adopt it as an acceptable compro-
mise.
But let the President attempt to de-
ftnd the Capitol from sack by these reb-
els, and 10! he is "violating the Consti
tuition" Let him attempt to arrest the
career of the pirates, and Medary cries
out, "Lincoln is violating the Constitu-
ton" And SO through all the steps of
| the progress Of this rebellion Every
thingis demonstrations" which blocks
the programme of the conspirators to
destroy the Constitution itself!
The day was when Medary had ON
nipotent power over the Democratic
party in Ohio. But We very much
doubt whether he can carry the patri-
otic masses with him in his present po-
sition. Too many of them are in the
armies which he says "Lincoln has un-
constitutionally raised" Too many of
them now see the character of the lead
ers who have so long affiliated with
those now in open rebellion. The ques
ton will be asked-is asked thousand
times every day--"What is to be game d
by still following these leaders? They
have brought ruin and civil war upon
the country! Our sons and brothers are
now sacrificing their lives, and we are
exhausting our resource to conquer the
rebel forces led on against US, and the
flag for which our fathers fought, by
the very men for whom we have vo led
and labored politically all our lives!-
We have been told for years that these
men aimed at the disruption Of the
Union, and the subvertion Of the Con-
stitution. But the Medaries. the States
mans and Enquirers pronounced it all
false, and we believed them. We now
see precisely what was charged. These
leaders are now devastating the land for
the accomplishment of their long cher
ished plot. Our sons are dying on the
battle fields in defending thsir country.
its Constitution, and its laws, against the
men We have supported. What reason
have we to trust more in these fa.sc
guides now than we lad then? We h1Y e
been deceived by them heretofore, an d
our confidence, as we'll as our country,