Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-22

Exaggerated acconnts, OF the several en-
gagements had between the ceutending
armies; have refused to write out and
publish false versions of the origin of
this war, and of the breaking up Of the
best Government the world ever knew;
and all this will / continue to do, if it
cost me my life. Nay, when agree to
do such things may a righteous God
palsy my right arm, and may the earth
open and close in upon me forever.
The real object OF my arrest, and con-
teniplated Imprisonment, is, to dry up,
break down. silence, and destroy, the
last and only Union paper left III the
eleven secedod States, and thereby keep
from the people of East Tennessee, the
facts which are daily traaspiring in the
country After the Hon. JEFF. Davis
had led IN Richmond, in conversa-
tion relative to my paper, that he would
net live in a Cove rnment that did not
tolerate freedom Of the Press; after the
Judges, attorneys jurars, and all others
filing positions of honor and trust, un-
der the "Permanent Constitution,
which guarantees FREEDOM OF THE
/ PRESS; and after the entire press of the
South had come down in their thunder
tones upon the Federal Government for
supprcssing the Louisville Courier and
New York Day Book, and other Seces-
sion journals-I did exfect the utmost
liberty to be allowed to one smal II sheet,
whose errors cenld be combatted by the
Eentire Southern press! 1t is not enough
that my paper has been denied cireu7,
!ation through the ordinary channels Of
conveyance in tbs country, but it must
be discontinued altogether, OF its editor
must write and select only such articles
as meet the approval of pack of scoun-
drels in Knoxville, when their superiors
in all the qualities that dorm human
nature, are in the Penitentiary of our
STATED And this is the boasted liberty
of the press, in the Southern Confeder-
acy!
! / shall in no degree feel hambled by
being cast into prison, whenever it is
the will and pleasure Of this august
Government to put me there; but, on
the contrary, l shall feel proud of my
confinement l shall 60 to Jail, as j ohm
! Rogers went to the staks-ior my prin
ciphs. shall go. because have
failed to recognize the hand of God in
the work ,of breaking up the American
Government. and the Inauguration OF
4 the most wicked, cruel, unnatural and
uncalled for war, ever recorded in his
tory | go, because l have refused to
laud to the skies the acts of tyranny.
usurpation and oppression, inflicted
upon the people of East Tennessee, be-
cause of their devotion to the Constitu-
ton and laws Of the Government.
handed down to them by their fathers
and the liberties secured to them by
war Of seven long years Of gloom, pov-
erty, and trial! repeat, I am proud Of
my position, and OF my principles. aud
shall leave themto my children as leg
acy, far more valuable than Il princely
fortune, had the latter to bestow
With me, life has lost some Of its
energy-having passed six annual posts
on the Western sispe Of half century
something of the FIRE Of youth is ex-
hausted--but I stand forth with the
eloquence and energy of right to sus-
tain and stimulate me, in the mainte-
nance of my principles. | am enceur-
aged to frmEess, when look back TO
the fate of Him whose power was
righteousness while the infuriated mob
cried out, cruelty him, cruelty him!'
| owe 10 my numerous list of sub
cribers the flliag out of their respective
terms for which they have made advance
payments, and if circumstances ever
place it III my power TO discharge these
Obligations, will do it most certainly
But if am denied the liberty of doing
SO, they must regard their tmall losses
as so nIauy contributions to the cause
in which have fallen! | feel that /
can, with confidence, re y upon the mag
aanimity and forbearance OF my patrons,
under this state Of things. They Will
bear me witness that | h.. We held out az
long as am allowed to, and that l have
yielded to a military despotism that
could not avert the horror Of, or sue
cesstully oppose.
will only say, in conclusion-for l
am not allowed the privilege to write
that the people Of this country have
leen unaccaslemed to such WRONGS they
can yet scarcely realize them They
are astounded for the time being, with
the quick succession of outrages that
| have come upon them, and they stand
horror stricken, like men expecting ruin
and annihilatloa. [ may not live to see
the day, but thousands Of my readers
will. when the people of this once pros
porous country, will see that they are
marc hing by ''double quick time. from
freedom to bondage. They will then
LOOK these wanton oatraees upon right
and liberty full In the face, and nay pre-
diction is, that they will .stir the stones
Of Rome to rise and mutiny.' Wrongs
less wanton and eatrageou preeipisated
the Fren+h revolution. Citizens east
into dungeons without charges of crime
against them, and without the formaIi-
ties of a trial by jury, private property
! confseated at the beck Of those in power;
the Press humbled, muzzled and sup
| pressed, or prostituted to serve the ends
OF tyranny The crime Of Louis XVI,
fell short of all this, and yet he lost his
head! The people OF this country,
down trodden and oppressed, still have
the resolutions Of their itEastrious fore
fathers. who asserted their rights at
Lexington and Bunker HILL
Exchanging, with proud satisfaction,
the editorl.I chair and sweet endsar-
ments Of home for cell in the prison.
or the lot Of an exile, | have the honor
to be. &c,
WILLIAM e. BRowNLow.
Editor Of The Knoxville Wing,
Oct "a, 1861.