Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-22
Appeal TO tho Government by the Work
ingmen II Baltimore--.Reply Of tn.
President.

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ingmen II Baltimore---leply of tn.
President.
A delegation of prominent citizens O.
Baltimore has visited Washington, tc
make an appeal in behalf of the work
ingmen of that city. They say:
By the violence and factious opposi.
tion Of reasonable minority, Balti
more has been involved in disaster and
distress beyond what is due to the mere
existence of state of war, and theil
troubles have been still further aggra.
waited by the disabled condition of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the princi-
pal artery of their. trade and source OF
their prosperity. Of their misfortunes
as merchants, however, they did no,
propose to complain, but they appeared
to plead for such relief as the Govern
mechanics of Baltimore
The delegation expressed the belief
that the Government would consult
economy no less than policy in causing.
more literally than heretofore, vessels
to be repaired aud constructed in Balti-
more. They further suggested the ex-
pedieney OF establishing there a naval
depot, and also branch clothing bu-
reau, by furnishing employment in these
and other ways, so far as the Govern
ment has the power, to the laboring
classes.
To this address of the delegation the
President replied as follows:
Gentlemen: thank you for the ad
dress you have presented to me in be
half of the people OF Baltimore. l have
deplored the calamities which the sym
pathy of some mis- guided citizens of
Maryland had brought down upon that
patriotic aud heretofore Furnishing
State. The prosperity of Baltimore up
to the 18th of April last was one of the
wonders produced by the American
Union. He who strangles himself, for
whatever motive, is not more unreason-
able than were those citizens of Balti-
more who, in single night, destroyed
the Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad, the
Northern Pennsylvania Railroad and
the Railroad from Baltimore to Phila-
delphia. From the day when that mad
transaction occurred, the Government
Of the United States has been diligently
engaged in endeavoring to restore those
great avenues to their former useful
ness, and at the same time to save Bal
timore and Maryland from the danger
of complete ruin through an unneces-
sary and unnatural rebellion.
| congratulate you upon the declara-
tion which the people of Baltimore and
Maryland have made in the recent cleo
ton, of their recent appreciation of the
acts of the Federal Government, and of
their enduring loyalty to the Union
| regard the results of these elections
as auspicious of returning loyalty
throughout all the insurrectionary
States.
Your wishes for fair participation
by the mechanics and laboring men Of
Baltimore, in the benefits of supplying
the Government with materials and pro-
visions, are reasonable and just They
have deserved that participation. 10y
atty has involved them in some danger,
and has demanded of them some sacri-
fees. Their wishes, as you have COM
municated them, shall be referred to the
proper departments, and | am sure that
every member of the Administration
will eheerfully lend his aid to carry
them out, SO far as it can be done con-
with the prudence and econ
omy which ought always to regulate
the public service.