Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-08-16
Mobbing Papers.

wrong. True, it is hard to know that
every sentence of manly thought uttered
in the Southern States has been for
years followed with the bludgeon, or the
halter, while no press would be permit
ted to live an hour which was not sub
servient to the schemes Of the conspira-
tors. And it is douhly hard, now, when
this conspiracy has ripened into the most
gigantic rebellion ever recorded in his
tory, to have in our midst open sympa
thizers with, and known accomplices of,
these desperate tories. But still we
cannot approve Of violence. We think
it better to bear with the evil until some
overt act is committed, than to punish,
however justly, the utteran"e Of treason
able sentiments, by Illegal means.
The Democratic STANDARD, published
at Concord, New Hampshire, was
mobbed few days since, by the returned
soldiers, for its outrageous abuse Of the
volunteers and its open sympathy with
the traitors.
We give single sample of the style
of the editorials of the Standard, which
excited the volunteers. Among columns
'of slang upon the Government and all
who upheld it, was this sentence.
''Our Southern papers arc filled eoitA
heort-sickeniuy accounts of the murders
and roJJcrics ,ohich mdiriduals IN old
Abe's mob are pe,petrating on the South
cra people. Innocent aconseM and children
are shot on their o,cn door steps, for reor-
ing ,ohat is called secession bonnets." No
,condcr the Northern people run acAen the
honest men Of tic South march against
thent."
Here, it will be seen, the United States
Army is called "Old Abe's mob''--that
the Southern papers are full Of heart
sickcning accounts of the murders aud
robberies committed by this mob
that "innocent women and children are
shot down on their own door steps by
our soldiers-and that it is therefore
"no wonder that Northern people run,
when the honest men Of the South march
against them" &C.. SC.
These taunts, and insults, by notori-
GUS Secessionists in the North, poured
out incessantiy on the loyal people, nat
urally had tendency to arouse the in
dignation Of the volunteers. But they
would not have proceeded to violence
but for the personal insults of the pub
fishers. A crowd of the soldiers con-
gregated near the Office, and read the
abusive articles and were denouncing
them, when the publishers and some
supporters appeared with revolvers and
guns, and threatened to fire upon them.
This was more than they would stand,
and rush YVES made for the Office
Those inside fired upon the crowd, and
several were wounded. The material
in the Office was destroyed, but the pub
fishers escaped.
This is the substance of the Concord
case. One or two similar instances have
occurred in other places in the loyal
States. As before stated, we deeply re-
gret such occurrences We think pop
ular opinion sufficient to prevent these
tory sheets from doing any great amount
of mischief, and community had better
bear with the nuisance than abate it by
unlawful means. The danger is that
demagogues will take advantage Of such
scenes to excite the sympathy of honest
men by artful appeals to party feeling.
Some of the secession papers in Ohio
are already attempting that trick by the
lying assertion that the paper was sup
pressed because it was "Dcmocratic"
organ. Nothing could be more untrue
than this. 1t was no organ of the Dem
ocratic party, unless that party is com
posed of traitors, which we do not admit
to be true. And besides, it is the pa
triotic Democratic volunteers who are
the leaders in the acts, feeling that they
are doubly outraged, first By the SLAM
ders of these sheets, and secondly, by
the attempt to palm off these slanders as
the sentiments of the Democracy Of the
North.
We happen to know that several of
the mis-called Democratic papers in
Ohio, would, long ago, have been sup
pressed by the indignant patriots of that
party, if it had not been for the inter-
position of Republicans.
It shows the difference in the two sec
tions. While mobs in the South meet
every loyal man with death or Danish
ment, these Northern tories are toler-
ated, except in an occasional instance,
like that above described. And we sin
cerely hope that in all cases, hereafter,
the people will restrain their indigna-
tlOn, ana let Lne rascalS i've on III tnelr
infamy, which will, in the end, be suf-
fcient punishment.
DU-I 1t is reported that BreckiEridge
and Powell, the traitor Senators from
Kentucky, have determined to resign.
We hope it may prove true, but doubt
it, There is no place they could prob
ably serve the cause Of the rebels, as we'll
as in the Senate. There, at the center of
the Union, they could learn more of the
plans of the Government, and have more
facilities of acting as spies and inform
ers, than in any other position. We do