Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-06
Proclamation of Gov. Denni-
son---More Men Called For.
COLUMBUS, Aug. 20.
Executive DEPARTMENT,
August 2Sth. 1861,

EAECgVFEE DEPARTMENT.,
August 28th, 1861.
To the People of Ohio:
In your efforts to aid the General
Government in the suppression of the
unnatural rebellion now waged against
it, you have anticipated the wants of
that Government, and have promptly
responded to whatever demands it made
upon you, as literally in the expendi-
ture of treasure as in furnishing soldiers
The public service has not languished
for one day, when your resources were
competent to meet its requirements
Without regiment of troops at the
opening of hostilities, you have sent up
wards of 10000 men into the field
armed and equipped. By the magni-
tude of your force you have assisted the
loyal men of Kentucky in protecting
that State from the domination Of rebels
The presence of your troops and the
victories in which they shared in West
ern Virginia, have preserved it for the
Union and secured it as barricade
against threatened invasion of your own
soil, thus maintaining unbroken the
peace of border nearly five hundred
miles in extent, and protecting the heart
of the Republic from the immediate havoc
of war.
The Federal Government again calls
upon you for soldiers. The late disas-
ter at Manassas, serious as it was in
many respects to the rebels, added to
their audacity and insolence. En-
couraged by apparent success they have
augmented their forces and enhanced
the necessity for vigilance and power at
Washington, in Western Virginia and
in Missouri. Twenty-nine regim ents of
Infantry, together with a proportionate
force of Artillery and Cavalry, are now
being organized in your State. AS the
Executive of the State it becomes my
duty to appeal to you to perfect those
organizations as rapidly as possible. I
invoke you to give no ear to any coun-
sells unfriendly to the prompt and ef-
fective consolidation of the military
force which the General Government
require to repel the threatened assaults
of the enemy, and crush the rebellion.
1t must be suppressed, or the Govern
ment is subverted. Its suppression can
only be effected by vigorous measures
on the part of that Government
Promptly sustained by the people, ami
mated by positive and comprehensive
policy, l conjure you to give no heed to
any proposition, under whatever sane
ton it may come, for negotiation or
compromise with armed rebellion. The
only condition upon which negotiation
can be tolerated, is the complete sur
render of the rebels to the National
Government, and an unqualified return
of their allegionce to its supreme au-.
thority. Without that there should be-
no adjustment; without it there can be
no peace.
lt'is gratifying to me to be able to as
sure you, that many of the hardships
and priyations to which your first leyies
were subjected, in consequence of the
suddenness of the call, and the unpre-
pared condition Of the Governments,
Federal and State, will not be encoun-
tered by your troops now being prepared
for. the field. The aniplest arrange
ments are made for the clothing, armlng
and equipping of our soldiers. No reg
iment will be sent from its camp until
it is provided with everything essential
to the comfort and efficiency of its men.
Regular payments at increased rates and
at short intervals will hereafter be made
to all the Federal soldiers, and with al
lotments and bounties generous provis-
ion is profered for the support of fami-
lies. The promptness of your response
to the previous calls Of the Government
is it's assurance that all it now expects
of Ohio will be Immediately realized by
the enrolment of volunteers enough to
complete the regiments being formed
A general order will forthwith be is
sued from the Office of the Adjutant
General, defining the conditions of the
service, the modes of recr lifting and the
places of rendezvous.
Signed, ..t. I.--
WILLIAM DENNISON,