Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-06-28
GOVERNOR DENx1soy.

unceaSlHS stream. len lnOuSanQ men
Giant ring for Office, where only one
hundred could be appointed. left nine
hundred aud ninety nine disappointed
aspirants to fill the air with their wall
ings. Ofcourse the country was ruined
for want of their valuable services. and
nothing but ,fororitism could have in
duccd the Governor to overlook their
f"arSceadcnf merits, and appoint the IN
cDn,pctcut nubodies which he selected -
Out Of the swarms Of spectators who
hoped to enrich themselves out Of the
troubles Of the country, not more than
one out Of five hundred could get con-
tract and, of course, the other four hun
dred and ninety became inj ured
patriots, and the Governor was moved
simply by corrupt motives in giving the
contracts to those who got them. And
so through all the hordes Of hungry as
pirants. And these, with their thou
sands of friends, have kept up the howl,
until the people are beginning to believe
there is something wrong in the Execu-
tive Department of the State.
That mistakes have been made, is very
natural, and therefore very probable
1t would be passing strange if there were
not. But that Gov. Dennison has
labored with an uniting industry to
perform the onerous duties of his office,
we have had some opportunity to haoo.
That he is specially incompetent, we do
not believe. And that he is corrupt, we
brand as libel.
No paper has so persistently; and with
less concealed malice, pursued the Gov
ernor, than the Cincinnati Comn,er-
ciai 1t has utterly distorted every fact,
and has manufactured perfect food of
pure fctions, with the purpose Of bring
ing the Governor into discredit Es-
pecially has the effort been unceasing
to stir up discomfort and dissatisfaction
among the volunteers IF the editors,
and their whole corps Of correspondents
were under the pay Of jeff. Davis, they
could not work more zealously nor cf-
fectually to paralyze the arm Of the Ma
tional and State Executives and de-
moralize our armies.
If the thousandth part Of what is said
we're true, it would be the duty Of the
volunteers, instead Of fighting the trait
ors at the South, to turn their arms upon
the Governments Of the United States
and the Free States, until they were an
initiated, even if universal anarchy
should follow. And if such papers can
make the soldiers and any con siderable
portion of the people believe their
charges, such will be the result. But,
happily, most of these charges arc SO
barefaced that they cannot make much
impression.
AS sample of the reliability of the
Commercials articles, VIC give the com
munication Of VIM. L. Coggeshal, of CO.
lumbus, to that paper. 1t shows, what
everybody ought to know, and what the
C0mmcfciM must have known, that the
Governor had nothing to DO with Camp
Dennison," out of which has arisen th e
pretended dolinquencies of the Execu-
tive. Mr.. Coggeshall's communication is
as follows:
Camp DennisOn.
CoLUMBUs, June 21, '61
EDS. CoM:-I take the following from
the telegraphic corresp spondence of your
paper from Washington, dated June 20:
''The Ohio troops are not paid yet
They find it impossible to make out the
proper documents. | can't find out
what the matter is. The connection be-
tween Gov. Dennison and Camp Denni-
son is to be summarily severed; then it
is hoped soldier or two may be found
in the camp. The fame Of our camp
and Govern or is very extensive here
Gen. Mcclellan is to take the response
bility."
1t is high time the facts respecting
Camp Dennison were fairly set before
the people 1t is inexplicable that, in
spite of repeated announcem ents to the
contrary, citizens, officers, and soldiers,
otherwise we'll informed, persist in hold
ing Gov. Dennison and staff responsible
for whatever they choose to complain
about respecting Camp Dennison.
Now, if you please, give heed to the
facts. Camp Dennison is exclusively a
camp for soldiers mustered into the ser
vice of the United State The location
was selected by General Mcclellan, the
camp ground was surveyed, and the
camp laid out under orders of Gen.
Mcclellan, by W. S. Rosecrans, now
Brigadier General in the United States
service. Gen. Rosecrans directed the
construction Of barracks and huts, and
Captain John II. Dickerson, detailed by
the Secretary Of War, from the regular
United States army, as Quartermaster,
superintended and paid for the work, as
advertisements frequently published in
your columns abundantly testify. Capt.
W. W. Burns, Of the United States regu-
lar army, is, and has been from the first
day soldiers were ordered to Camp Den
nison, Commissary for it, by order OF
the Secretary of War
All that the Executive. Of Ohio had,
or could properly have had, to do with
Camp Dennison may be stated in four
paragraphs.
1st. A United States camp being ne
cessary in Southern Ohio, Dennison au-
thorized General Mcclellan to select a
location.
I'd, He appointed, for the United