Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-05-24
JUST LIKE THEM.

JUST LIKE THEM.
The Governor, and majority Of the
Legislature of Missouri, being SeceSs oa-
lists Of the meanest stripe, and KNOWING
that they cannot carry the Stateinto the
jeff: Davis Despotism, resolved to ruin
the people whom they cannot much
longer rule.
| A series of laws have just been passed
which will ruin the credit and prosper
ity of the State for many years, and if
they could be carried out-as they can
not-would turn the hitherto free labor
ers Of the State into serfs.
One Of these acts strikes directly at
the credit of the State: Missouri owes
large State debt, for the payment of
the interest of which ample provision
has been made by law, and the interest
has hitherto been promptly met. This
has made the Missouri Bonds among the
best, and has given her credit equal to
that of the honest Free States. The
money was on hand to pay the July in
terest, and the faith of the State so.emnly
pledged to that end. But these plotters,
adding reputation to treason, seized
upon this fund, prohibited the payment
of the interest on the State debt, and
appropriated the money so seized, in aid
of the secession conspiracy.
But Missouri, with her large and in
creasing population of free laborers, and
in view of herspeedy emancipation from
tile curse of slavery, had established a
noble system Of free schools. modelled
upon our own. A school fund was pro-
vided and sacredly set apart as is our
own, for the support f'these schools
The faith Of the State was doubly
pledged to sustain and cherish this sys-
tenn for the education of the people
Bat the education Of the masses is the
very thing which Secessionists dread
There was in the Treasury over sic hun
drel thousand dollars of this sacred
school money. The Legislature and
Governor, in open violation Of Constitu-
tion and law, seized this fund also, and
appropriated it to the arming of the
minions of the Southern Confederacy.-
Every school in the State was stopped
in day the thousands of teachers
thrown out of employment, and the
hundreds of thousands Of children
turned out of school, that traitors ma y
use the funds in their mad attempt tc
subvert the Government.
They also ordered the issue of State
Bonds, to the amount of million o
dollars, to be sold for what ever they
will bring, the proceeds to be employed
for the same reasonable purposes
But, as they had already repudiated the
existing debt Of the State by misappro
priating the interest fund, all that the
issue of these bonds can affect will be te
sink still deeper, the credit OF the State
l In addition to all this, laws have been
passed requiring every civil officer, as vel
as the military, to swear allegiance to the
State alone, and not, as the Constitution
requires, to. support the Constitution o
the United States and that of the State
And all the citizens are to be compelled
to enroll themselves, under fearful pen
altics, into the rebel military companies
so provided for.
The Despotism Of Austria is perfec
freedom compared with the provisions
of these acts. But they will not be
obeyed, beyond the stealines Of the
trust funds. This being in the powe,
of the conspirators will be mplished
of course. But there is day of terri
bic reckoning coming for these vandals