Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-06
Mobs, and Their Results.

tuition of our imperiled Country.
Mobs, and Their Results.
Having had some experience of mobs
in days of old, we learned to dislike
them with an intensity that it is not
likely we shall ever be able to over
come It has been with the deepest re-
gret that we have noticed the tendency
in the popular mind to suppress dis
union papers, and silence Secession
sympathisers by illegal violence. We
are profoundly convinced that no good
can come of it, Better far TO bear with
the evil than inaugurate the anarchy
which must ever follow in the wake of
mobs. Among other cases, we last week
recorded the destruction of the Stark
County Democrat by mob. If such a
mode of redress could ever be justified
it would probably have been in this case.
But in our view it is never justifable.-
And the result in this particular case, at
least, shows that it was not even good
temporary policy. 1t has ena oled
the editor to enlist great proportion
of the Democratic party in the County
in his cause, by-falsely to be sure
representing it as blow at Democracy.
He is therefore strengthened for mis-
chief, and will be sustained in his trea
sonable course under the false plea of
maintaining the party" And he has,
moreover, made large speculation out
of the transaction The majority Of the
Town Council of the town Of Canton,
being partisans Of the editor, have
voted him $4,000, in cool cash: out of
the town treasury. This will buy him a
new press and type with which to re-
place his old, and give him at least
$4,000 as bonus.
1t may be said that this proceeding
of the Town Council is unconstitutional,
and therefore null and void So it is,
no doubt. But what will you do about
it? He has the money and will keep it.
And the robbing of the treasury by his
partisans was at least as constitutional
as the destruction of his old type! The
cause of the "Union" has lost in several
ways, and the Secession cause has
gained strength, and the editor has no
doubt been confirmed in his Toryism.
And so it will be ever It is not good
policy, any more than religion to "do
evil in the hope "that good may come.
sa The proceedings of the "Union
County Convention will be seen in
another place. 1t was largely attended,
and passed off tremendously. We think
there will be but one ticket In this
County this fall. We judge SO, from
the fact that we saw several persons
taking an active part in the proceedings
who refused, but a short time before,
to sign the call for the meeting. If
this expectation shall be realized, it will
add much to the uuniminity of the
Union sentiment of our citizens
While we believe the real sympathizers
with the rebellion are very few in this
County, yet any person acquainted
with human nature must see, that an
angry political contest, where the mass
of the loyal citizens are on one side,
those who take the other will be led by
their false position into the support of
the Disunion cause, even against their
better judgment.
1t is greatly to be regretted that we
could not have presented an unbroken
front to the enemy in the State cleo
tion. Many, we are sure, will vote the
"Jewett" ticket, simply because it
claims to be the ticket of the Democratic
party, and not because they have any
sympathy with those who got it up, and
usurped the name Of the party the bet
ter to accomplish their purposes. This
is unfortunate, because the vote will not
show the real strength of the Secession
cause in this State. Yet every vote so
given will be claimed in the South as a
vote for their cause. And although the
ticket will be beat by an overwh elming
majority, yet Jeff. Davis and his fellow
will point to the vote and
use it to encourage their dupes, and
prolong the struggle. 1t will, too, dis
courage the noble band of Union men in
the South. They will say, "what is the
use of our contending longer in this
With the military power of
our States against US, and powerful
party in Ohio, and other Free States in
league with that power, we may as we'll
give up at once!" In this way, every
vote given in Ohio, for the Jewett
ticket, is, whether so intended or not, a
stab ut the Union, and an aid and COM
'ort to the enemy. We hope every
citizen will carefully think of these
hinss.