Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-05-24
BE RRASONBLE.

BE REASONBLE.
We hear our friends on the street ut
tering complaints against what they
deem tardiness of the Government in
the prosecution of the war, while many
of our exchanges are filled with the
same spirit of ilnpatience. We know
that this restive feeling springs from
the intensity of their patriotism. But
we think it all wrong, nevertheless, and
calculated to do much mischief \ lit
tie reflection, in view of the current his
tory of the times, will satisfy every one
that all has been done, and is still being
done, which it is possible for men to do un-
der the circumstances. Let US very briefly
review the situation of Lincoln and his
Cabinet when they came into Office ten
short weeks ago.
That there has been, for many years,
in active process of consummation, deep
laid conspiracy to break up the Govern
ment Of the United States, is now an ad-
mitted fact. The chief conspirators
have had the control of the Government
foryears. Unfortunately, either as their
accomplice or their tool, Mr.. Buchanan
surrounded himselfwith the leaders of the
plot. Floyd, Cobb, Toucey and Thomp-
son ruled the policy Of the Administra-
tion, and bent all its energies to the ac-
complishment of their treason. Toucy,
as Secretary of the Navy, had our YES
sells of war distributed in the most dis
tant seas, so that out of a hundred yes
seis, less than a dozen were available
The rest were in positions that would
require months TO reach them. And,
beside this: SO far as it was possible, he
had placed his tools in command, so
that they might be betrayed into the
hands of the conspirators at the ap-
pointed time. --...-.
Floyd, as Secretary Of War, had sent
the flower Of the army to California, and
Utah, and Texas, and other remote
points, and as far as possible placed the
men under command Of traitors, like
Twiggs, with the design of betrayine
the country they were sworn to protect
The army was thus rendered, like the
navy, useless to the new President.
The Notifications on the whole South.
ern coast were left, either in the hands
of known traitors or~so delense'ess that
they must fall into the hands of the
cons spirators at the first outbreak. The
arms of the Northern States were shipped
South, and either placed directly in the
hands Of the traitors, or in a position
where they could be seized and used
against their rightful owners.
Cobb, as Secretary Of the Treasury,
had bent his efforts to PROSTATE the trade
and commerce of the country, and de,
stroy its finances, until its revenues
were cut off, its credit blasted, a debt
accumulated and no means provided for
its payment, when, by stealing what
was in the Treasury, and his accom-
plices seizing the mints and su5-treas,
uries in the South, it was thought they
had prepared the way for an easy victory
And, in addition to all this, these
conspirators claimed, and with what
at the time, seemed sufficient reason, thai
they had friends and allies enough in
the Free States to .paralyze the arm Of
the Government, if it should attempt to
put down the desperate rebellion.
It was under these circumstances that
Lincoln took the Presidential chair
some ten weeks since. In that. short
space of time lie has created an army
and navy such as the United States
never had before. He has replenished
a bankrupt treasury-rsstored the credit
of the Government, and stands to-day
ready to strike the blow that will make