Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-12-13

beyond that to be expended in the ter.
ritoriat acquisition. Having practised
the acquisitions Of territory for nearly
fifty years, the question of the constltu.
tionai power 20 do so, is no longer an
open one with US. The power was first
questioned by Mr.. Jefferson, who, how
ever.s in the purchase of Louisiana
yielded his scrupes on the plea of great
expediency. If it be said that the only
legitimaae object of acquiring territory
is to furnish homes for white men, this
measure effects that object; for the emf
grafton of colored men leaves addi-
tional room FOR white meu remaining or
coming hero. Mr.. jefferson, however,
placed the Importance Of purchasing
Louisiana more ON political and com
mercial grounds than on providing
room for population. On this wh ole
proposition, including the appropriation
Of money with the acquisition of terri
tory, does net the expedieney amount
TO that absolute, necessity, without
which the Government cannot be per-
petuaie..::
| THE GOVERNMENT 8 VAR POLICY. &
! In considering the policy to be
: adopted for suppressing the insurrec-
J ton. | have been anxious and careful
/ that the inevitable conflict for this pur-
pose shall not degenerate into violent
! remorseless revolutionary struggle |
have therefore in every case thought i,
proper to keep the integrity OF the
Union prominent as the primary object
of the contest on our part, leaving all
questions which are not of vital mil
tary Importance to the more deliberate
action OF the legislature In the ex
ercise of my best discretion I have ad
hered ts the blockade of the ports held
by the insurgents, instead of putting in
force by proclamation, the Law of Con-
gress enacted at the late session for
closing those ports; also obeying the
dictates of prudence as we'll as the OBJ
legations of law, instead Of transeending
have adhered to the act of Congress
to confiscate property used for insurrec-
tionary purposes. IF new law upon
the same subject shall be proposed, its
propriety will be duly considered. The
Union must be preserved, and hence all
indispensable means must be employed
We SHOULD not be in haste to deter
mine what radical and extreme meas
ures, which may reach the loyal as we'll
as the disloyal, are indispensable.
THE DOCTRINES OF THE INAUGURAL
REITRATED.
The Inaugural address at the begin
ming of the administration, and the mes
sage toNCongress at the late special ses-
sion, were both mainly devoted to the
domestic controversy out of which the
insurrection and consequent war have
sprung. Nothing now occures to add
or subtract to or from the principles or
general purposes stated and expressed
in those documents.
THE EVENTS OF 1861 REVIEWED.
| The last ray of hope for preserving
the Union peaceably expired at the as
sault upon Fort Sumter, and general
review Of what has occurred since may
not be Improbable. What was pain
fully uncertain then, is much better de-
fned and more distinct now, and the
progress Of events is plainly in the right
direction.
The insurgents confidently claimed a
strong support from north of Mason L.
Dixon's line, and the friends of the
Union werc not free from apprehension
on this point. This. however, was soon
settled definitely, ana on the right side
South of the line, noble little Delaware
led off right from the first. Maryland
was made to seem against the Union.
Our soldiers were assaulted, bridges were
burned and railroads were torn up within
her limits, and we were many days at
| one time without the ability to bring a
single regiment over her soil to the Cap
ital Now her bridges and railroads are
repaired and opened to the Government.
She already gives seven regiments to
the cause Of the Union, and none to the
enemy; and her people, at regular
election, have sustained the Union by a
large majority, and larger aggregate
vote than they ever before gave to any
candidate OF any question.
Kentucky, too, tor some time in doubt,
is now decidedly, and l think unchange-
ably, ranged on the side Of the Union.
Missouri is mparatively quiet, and
[ believe cannot again he overrun by
the insurgents.
These three States of Maryland, Ken
tueky and Missouri, neither of which
would promise single soldier at first,
have now an aggregate of not less than
1000 in the field for the Union; while
of their citizens not more than third
in number are among the insurgents,
and they of doubtful whereabouts and
existence.
After somewhat bloody struggle of
months, winter closes on this Union peo-
pie of Western Virginia, leaving them
masters of their own country. An in
surgent force of about 800, for m months
dominating the narrow peninsula region
constituting the counties Of Acconac
and Northampton, and known as the
Eastern shore of Virginia, together with
some contiguous parts of Maryland,
have laid down their arms, and the peo-
pie there have renewed their allegiance
to and accepted the protection Of the old
flag. This leaves no armed insurrec-
ton north of the Potomac or east of the
Chesapeake
Also, we have obtained footing at
each of the isolated points on the South
ern coasts of Hatteras, Port Royal, Ty-
bee Island, near Savannah and Ship Is
land, and we likewise have some general
accounts of popular movements in be-
half of the Union in North Carolina
and Tennessee. These things demon
strate that the cause of the Union is ad-
vancing steadily Southwark