Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-11-28
The Good Work Commenced

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as il will be startling.
The Good Work Commenced.
The last dispatches give the names OF
about one hundred officers of the army
who have been dismissed frow the ser
vice for absence, drunkenness, disloy
atty, &c. A list of a THOUSAND more is
already made out and will he sent to
The Governors of the several States for
publication,
This looks like work in earnest. and
gives greater promise of victory than
.uccess in dozen battles. The pro
gramine Of the knights of the Golden
Circle which has SO nearly wrought
the ruin of the rountry, may yet be frus-
trated, If the wedding process is only
carried out with a fra, han u, as we trust
it will
1t will be RENE IL bered that about the
time tue rebellion broke out, the Louis
vile Joarani published a complete ex-
rosnre of this secret, reasonable order,
with all their oatLs, their purposes, and
plans of operation.
According to the plan, the members
ofthe order we're to work themselves
into the ofices cf the army ana navy,
ly every influence which ii was posi-
BILE TO employ; and, once there, they
were to use their influence to obstruct
the operations of the Union forces by
every arti6ce, to bring the Alministra
tion into disreputc by all means, 50 as to
secure a party triumph against it at the
election III the Free States. Itwas also
part of the progra mine to sw!ndle the
Government Ly means Of contracts,
wherever one of the !'craft coul'l sc
cure contract, and by every device to
work into the hands of their Southern
leaders.
How well they have succeeded, the
history of the last eighteen months re-
veals. But the spell, we believe, is
broken at last, and. although thousand ds
are yet in places of high trust, and will
no doubt, still be able to do great mis-
chief, yet We believe the country will
lie redeemed from their pernicious in
fuenee. aud the rebellion suppressed.
- ~o'e -
Ray" An exceedingly important letter
from Gov johnson, of Tenn, to the
President, will be found in the Telegraph
to day. The Governor distincly declares
that it was not the intention of Gen
Buell. to Sight Bragg-that he was, in
fact, in favor ofa Southern Confederacy
and intended to take Tennessee into it
&c. The letter was written before Buell.
was removed, but not sent for the reason
that the rebels held the lines of cemmu
nication.
1t is humiliating thenght, that SC
many ofour h sh military officers should
disgrace the profession by treachery
while trusted by their country and paid
tIom its treasury. And yet. why should
any one be any more surprised tina,
Buell., or Mcclellan, or Patterson, OF
Stone, should strike, with treacherous
hands, at the constitution aud Govern,
ment of their country, than that JEFF
Davis, Beauregard, Floyd, or Jackson
should do SO. They have been life long
companions-havc imbibed the same
political ideas hy acting with each other
III the same political party, and for the
same political objects. Why then sh hould
we be surprised to find them acting in
concert now? And how couldslany one
SO esfectually aid in the object of The
conspirators as to worm himself into
the Union army, and especially if h'
scould manage to get its control.
We do not say that those officer have
been so in concert with the rebels. W.
hope, fer the henor of human nature
they have not been. And yet, hoy
can the future historian explain tn
fact, that for two years handful o
rebels, without a stable Government
without an army, navy, or money o
credit; with their coasts blockaded: an
their territory oaerrun by such armie
as the world never saw, could hold a
hay that army, and exhaust the resoul
ces of 2o,000,0O0 of people, except upo
the theory that our leading General
were in the conspiracy to overthrow tn
Government. There isno other e.rplono
ton to be gieen, And Governor Johr
son is undoubtedly right in his conclr
ion of the western chiefs sympathie
and purposes, as Maj. Key was OF th'
Of the eastern leader.
But let US hope that the spell
broken, and that henceforth our mob
volunteers will not be placed under th
command of men who publicly proclaim
that they would prefer to march again'
New England than Virginia.