Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-08
The Way of the Transgressor
is Hard.a E


giuA::ng to realize the truth of the above
adage. in ways they did not anticipate.
Ani the way the lesson is beiug taught
.s7tAems slisuhat another illustration of
the l.x, that the wicked shall not go
uupunished" And what adds to the
sSauisA..4i tLe1 operation is, that their
oxn devices come back upon themselves,
in sgsh q manner, ss To- make the sting
d@.ah'l d@.ah latensee,, nlssee,,i,a5ep gaiao..57 81
-r1tsss pestef our current history that
SssAAerp Rlerehaals, after buying goods
from. their accommodating friends at the
N"ftk, to the ataeapt of about three hna
desd saiA Aidasaet sdeliars on credit, insult
ed their creditors, and stuug them TO
niadhess h!t repudiating their debts
The papers have been filed with these
Insulting letters of Southern debtors to
tkcir Northern creditors, and of their
exuitatienu ever the bankruptcy occa-
stoned BY the swindle. This they
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thought was nice operation, and one
ont of which they would make their for
tunesy in cash, and win high position
inltke regard Of JEFF, ,sDavis and his min.
listers. They .professed to be cheating
their Northern dupcs out Of pure re-
gard for the Southern Confedcracy,"
oisinling that, sgetting the goods of
Northern men and then refusing to pay
for them, was weakening the enemy, and
would be the means Of bringing the
North to terms. y And it did look as if
they ought to have received the syn-
gathy apd support of the self.constitu-
ted7idlers of the s'Cotton Empire for
ft0xss about on par with the stealings
ptaFleyd 4 Co. But the result proves
tbstsie.every rule there is an exception,
and that this is the grand exception to
tie rule Of a ahonor among there's"
JEFF Davis and his rump Congress
hare decreedo that the stealing was in
feffeet secordanee with the principles of
Souther1f honor, but that as it had been
done in the. name Of the Confederate
Government" that Government should
seaprthe, benefit of it. And, therefore,
itsis ordained that these Southern mer-
chants, having obtained the goods, shall
pay for them. not to the honest creditors,
tuttolhe said Jeff. Davis d Co.! Every
hne Of these precious rascals who have
tankrupted their Northern allies by a
refusal TO pay their debts, are ordered,
and sill be compelled to pay the money
orsEato the bogus Government of the
l.eonspifators! TLis is inficting pun
ishpient upon the swindlers that must
gull them to the quick, as well as utterly
.rnin them in the end. 6 tg.ia aE
'@'0niy yttliAk oft! Here are men who
have virtually stolen three hundred mil
lions of dollars from the only class of
people in the North who had any sym
Pathy With them, thereby making these
ruined Northern men their mortal ene-
Ihiesss ghcy have, in the same transac-
,i6nt. 1ostsforever the character of honesty,
yhich.is, the religion of commerce, and
in.the lnarts. of all the world will be for
ever branded as swindlers. But they
have, further, won the perfect contempt
uf the leaders of the rebellion, who now
lay their omnipotent hands upon them,
compelling them to disgorge the stolen
-plundcr for the benefit of the more dar-
iagIBanidits,, who prefer to take by force
whatthese meaner operators obtained by
basel means. In this compulsory pay
inent. Of Northern debts to their own
Southern despots, the "sons ofehivalry"
will be stripped as clean as they left
their Northern dupes; and will still be
left to the comfortable reflection that all
their steaiings have gone to line the
pockets of bigger thieves, leaving them
selves bankrupt in character and purse,
and liable to pay these SAME debts over
again to, their swindled creditors as soon
Is the authority Of the Union is estab-
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Who says the, way Of the transgressor
il not hard2 The Northern merchants,
for the sake of Southern trade, were
willing to sacrafce right and justice
They got the trade, and with it insult
4pd bankruptcy. To them surely, the
@kay ishard.". The Southern swindlers
Fot the goods, and with them, the deep
iauttered curses of their former accom-
hliees y no will never rest until they are
avenged; and jeff Davis, as the head of
sdl.the brigands, clutches at the spoils
md sweeps into his remorseless Golfers
The IL gotten plunder! Oh don't these
ispudiators find the way Of the trans
Hresspr hara?" And JEFF. Davis him
self, while thus taking by force the
Spoils from the hands of the petty
thieves who pilfered it from the North,
io'making them his foes, and they will
seefetly rejoice at his execution by the
hanginan, when he reaches the end Of
bis course on the seaffold as con-
demned felon. He, too, will learn that
''the way Of the transgressor is hard!"
We might carry the subject further,
Tut our sermon is long enough for the
present. Those who aciN not admit the