Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-01-11

But this letter is too long now, and
until morrow shall bring forth its
budget of. eyents, We bid our readers
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--ts FRIDAY NI6HT, Jan. 4th, '61.. =
/ Dear 7elegssph:-Fro1n the eve
sma' hours Of last night, or rather, this
morning, ), while waiting and Watching
for steamboat, we indicted letter No
| l, in fulflment of our promise, and il
lieu of editorial matter which must re
main unwritten for some time to come
It is no doubt we'll to let "patience have
her perfect. work" but we should much
prefer to undergo the s'discipline" in
some other way than waiting for a boat,
which we,did all last night, and all this
'sblessed, fast day. and tonight are
waiting still. -zss @9s.
We greatly fear thatthe President 5
very pious way Of stopping the treason Of
South Carolina, by fasting and prayer" +"
will not prove entirely satisfactory -
The failure may be in the-disproportioni
ate admixture Of the component parts Of
the prescription. There may hare been
too much prayer for the:' amount of
fasting, or the reverse. But some how
the medicine does not seem to have
worked precisely as was desired, This
will be manifest from dispatch just re-,
ceived by telegraph from Athens, and
which reads as follows:
''Dispatches from South Carolina say
that Anderson communication with the
shore has been cut off, and that he was
busivsed by the Su,,th-G G"seas's troops
The excitement at Washington is in
tense. An attack on Fort Sumpter is
momentarily expected, and, in fact, has
probably been made ere this. The
forts and arsenals of the United States,
at Savannah have been seized by the
Georgians The arsenals at Augusta
will also be taken. Georgia has gone
for secession by an immense maj ajority.
The South is in rebellion. The South
Carolina Commissioners have departed
from Washington in indignation and
disgust"
|
Such is the news just received
Whether it is perfectly reliable or not
cannot be known for a day or two yet,
But it is extremely probable, from the
known feeling and determination Of the
rebels and traitors who have the con-
troll of the States named. And it is fit
ting and proper, that this blow should
be struck at the Constitution and Gov
ernment of the country by traitorous
hands, on this particular day. @
The Government at Washington has
had full information for months past,
that rebellion was rife, and treason
stalked abroad in open daylight. Yet,
either through quietly participation IN
the crime, or scarcely less criminal
cowardice, the Administration took. no
steps tc suppress the conspiracy and dis
arm the couspirators. Indeed, it is
notorious that half the Cabinet were
leaders in the plot, while Buchanan,
either through sympathy or fear, was
made to aid their nefarious schemes.
With Governors, and Senators, and
members of Congress-with the press
and politicians of the cotton States
boldly proclaiming their purpose to
trample upon the Constitutions and dis
rupt the Government by force-with
the marshaling of troops and passage
of secession Ordinances by Conven-
items of the sworn enemies of the
country-with the proclamations of the
insurgents, that they intended to seize
upon the forts and arsenals, and arms
of the United States-with al! this going
on before his eyes, the President ships
to the South all the arms and munitions
of war, placing them within easy reach
of the coaspirators, and then asks the'
people thus insulted, outraged and be-
trayed, to t.ys1at and pray" that the
Union may be saved! ssss 55rrs- ...
Out upon. such double-distilled hy-
pocrisy, cant, and treason! We say
again, that it was eminently fitting and
proper that this initiation of civil war,
concocted by the lifelong partisans of
the President, and aided and enconrag geds
by the weakness and wiekedness of the
Administration, should be upon this
day of. s'fasting and prayer" proclaimed
by the chief Arnold of them all.
Now that armies have been raised and
actual war levied against the United.
States by the disunionists that
the forts and arsenals, and property OF
the Union have been seized by, erebal
hands-now, ,thatthe bragsdefender of
the s.stafs and stripes which still neat
over Fers Slaanpter, is besieged by armed
traitors, we viii see the final actian Of
this expiring Administration, as we'll as
the ability of the Government to maintain