Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-10-10
Let us Reason Together.

Let us Reason Together.
Our country is in the very crisis of
its existence. Every citizen whose heart
beats in unison with the honor, the
prosperity, the very perpetuity of that
country as the the home of freemeh, has
a great duty to perform. Conspirators
against Constitutional Govern
ment and the right of the people to Sc
lect their own rulers, have raised in re-
bellion against the Constitution and the
people. They have struck, with parri-
cidal blows, at the life of our institutions,
and with hands red with the blood of our
murdered sons and brothers, now clutch
at our throats. They have bowed at
the feet of European Despots and Of
fered them the spoils of continent if
they would but aid them in our subju-
gation. They have tampered with the
ambitious and selfish among us, buying
the venal with the promise Of place and
have poisoned the minds of the igno-
rant and prejudiced by system of false
hood unparalleled in the history of the
world.
The leaders of this conspiracy had long
held the power and patronage of the
Government Through this patronage
they had found the means of corrupting
and subsidising partisan press, making
it subservient to the unscrupulous pur-
poses of the conspiracy. With a flag
inscribed to eternal slavery, this conspir
acy ,confronts us to-day with an army
of half million of men, forced into re-
bellion against this Government-the
tools of their own enslavement and the
instruments by which they have so far
attempted to anslave US.
As patriots, you have given your sons
to the slaughter in defense of your be-
loved country. You have assentel to
the taxation necessary to carry on the
war for the suppression of the rebellion,
and the restoration of the Union. You
are ready to make still greater sacrifices
ifneed be, to save your country from being
the prey of the spoilers, and yourselves
and your posterity from the shame and
infamy, and hopeless misery of slaves.
While your homes have been draped in
morning for the beloved first born
butchered by the assassin hands of per-
jured traitors, you have nobly nerved
your hearts to the sacrifice, and have
sent other sons to fill their places, until,
perhaps, single Benjamin-the last
prop Of the family--is left. You are
ready, if God and yeur country require
it, to give up even him, that the hopes
of the world may not be extinguishled in
the utter ruin of your country. In all
this you have done your duty nobly,
grandly. e.. ..
Another duty is now before US. A
duty, the wise or unwise performance Of
which will render our other deeds of
duty and sacrifice successful or worse
than unavailing. The final conquest
and overthrow of the insurgents in arms
is fully assured by the answer given to
the call for volunteers. But the de-
struction of the army of the conspira-
tors, will not destroy the spirit of the
cOnspiracy-the cherished hatred of free
institutions-which eliminated in open
treason. That spirit will work-still is
at work among @s, and no,o. 1t does
not-simply because it dare not-take up
arms here. But it does its mission of
perfdy and betrayal under the false pre-
text of fidelity to party.
We are on the eve of an impertan t
election. Congressman, throughout
most of the loyal States are TO be chosen.
The lasthope of the rebels is in the comp
Jexion of that Congress. Every sane man
knows, that with unity of purpose and
action in the various Departments of our
Government, there is no hope for the
success of the rebellion. Every one
knows that with division and faction at
home, there is no hope for its suppress
sion. The Southern leaders look to the
coming election for that aid which they
have failed, SO far, to get from the Des-
pots of Europe. With the Executive,
the Senate and the House of Represent
atives in harmony, these Despots did
not choose to interfere. They said "the
suppression of the rebellion is only
question of time-we cannot run the
risk Of giving you direct aid-you can't
succeed against the united North.'-
This truth is self evident. And hence
the desperate effort now making to di-
vide the North, to elect House of Rep,
resentatives opposed to the President
and Senate-that our councils may be
distracted, our measures defeated, oul
energies crippled, the war protracteo