Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-04-12
s. l. Bowman, TIP. Clerk.
WHAT WILL THE ADMINS IRA
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TION DO.
Is a question upon the lips Of the whole
American people. The Importance of
this question, just at the present con-
juncture, cannot be concealed The
people who are yet loyal to the Consti-
tuition and Union demand definite and
decisive answer to this momentous in
terrogatory, and they must be gratifcd
in this respect The policy of ''masterly
Inactivity has had its day, and that of
activity or action must soon take its
place. Of this the Administration at
Washington neey feel assured.
Nevertheless, an active policy does
not involve the necessity of war, unless
commenced by the traitors themselves;
but merely putting the Government in
state Of defense, and the holding Of every
military post, the abandonment of which
is not strictly demanded as military
necessity. Nothing short of this, on the
part Of the Administration, will satisfy
the real Union men Of any party, who
look at the existing condition of affairs
in the light Of experience historical
facts as old as Government itself-rather
than through the medium of some pet
theory founded upon the absolute per-
ment ever existed twenty -four hours on
the basis of moral influence, separated
and disconnected from the idea of phys
ical force; and we have too much to
risk to try at this time a mere expert
ment, so dangerous in itself, and which
has never been found in any considera-
ble degree successful, even on the lin
tied theater Of the log school, houses of
the country. The people will not sus-
tain principle in government which,
in nine cases out of ten, they feel con-
scious would produce absolute anarchy
in the family circle The affections of
citizens for their government cannot be
as generally relied upon as that of chill
dren for their parents.
The policy of the Administration, we
feel confident, will be fully developed
within two, and at farthest, within four
weeks. We do not pretend to know alb
ssolutely what it will be; and yet we feel
that we can assure our readers Of one
thing which it aoiU not be, and that is the
uoeak, coaoardy or TREAsoNABLE policy
Of submission to the demands of mobs
of armed traitors, even if under the
forms-for it is but the forms real
government Lincoln is bound by his
oath to the Constitution, by repeated
public pledges to the people, and by his
Inaugural address, not to adopt the
slavish and degrading policy of submis
sion, and again we repeat it, he aoiU no,
adopt 1t.
He who will take the trouble carefully
to read the Inaugural address, as well as
the speeches Of the President on his way
to Washington, will be able to deduce
therefrom what we fully believe will be
the policy Of the Administration, and
also Of every real Union man in the
country. The conclusion we arrive al
from an examination Of these documents
is this. First, that as question of con
stitutienal law, the Government and
Union, Notwithstanding the conventions
and resolutions of the traitors, is still
an entirety - is unbroken and intact
Second, that the President is bound by
his oath to the Constitution to use, and
that he will use, the moral, civil, and