Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-06-20
he North have been denounced by these

AdlHtSlA tne SOHSttHtGOH Us u rs, duo / c
fused to change its whole spirit and pur
port, at the dictstion of these very men.
Has anybody forgotten the celebrated
peace Congress, convened at the in
stance of Virginia and Kentucky, for
the sole purpose Of changing the Con-
stitution, so as to make it acceptable to
these very men? Can any one have for
gotten the denunciations of those mem
bers of that celebrated conclave, of
which John Tyler was President, who
would not consent to these changes2-
Can any one have forgotten, that in the
campaign last fall, the Democrats and
their "eonservatiye" allies rested their
whole hope of success on their denunci.
atoms of the Union men, for their re-
lection of the "Crittenden compromise?'
The true friends of the Union said, the
Constitution as our fathers made it was
good enough, aud that they woald not
consent to it's mutilatioR at the dictation
of its sworn enemies. And because
they would not, they were everywhere
charged as responsible for the war.
1t is notorious, that it vas because
these men were not willing to abide by
the Con stitution as 1t Is. that this infer
nal rebellion was iaaugurated. It was
because taey we're opposed to the Con-
stitntic. Ss Il is that they clamored fer
"eompromise," and demanded change
in the Constitution.
The Crittenden "comPremiee was to
SO change the Constitution, as to ca,ra
SLAVERY into GN the ts'~stesy sse might ere,
acquire, and because the people and
their representatives. were not willing te
SO outrage the sentiment of the civil
lzea world, they were denounced as the
authors Of the war, &c. The propesi
tion of Vallandigham, submisted to Con
gress and pressed by the same class oi
men, was still more outrageous. L
proposed TO 30 change the Constitution
as to dirale the Union aatp four sect;ons
and giving each a veto upon the rest
thus making it impossible to pass an,
law which the sullifers of South Caro-
lima and Alabama did not dictate
Other changes were proposed; and be
cause an overwhelming majority of Con
gress were in favor of the Constitution as
is, the food gates of abuse were opened
upon them, and the Enquirer from day
to day appealed to the fanaticism of its
partisans, to crush out the Union move
ment, simply and solely because the Re
publicans and Union Democrats woult
not ot"compronise" away the " Constitutio,
as 1t IS"
But now, forsooth. this same En-
quirer clique, with facility in hypoc
risy, which could only be perfected il
the secret conclaves of the "Knights o
the Golden Circle" has the audacity tt
go before the same people which the,
attempted to dape with their Crittender
and Vallandigham compromises, ant
pretend TO be in favor of the Constifu
ton as It as, When did these preciou!
demagogues change their purpose?-
When did they discover that their de
nd for compromise was all wrong
Last year the majority. Of the people o
the Free States were "Abolitio nists'
aad '.enem .es to the Union" according
to these men, because they we're in favo
of the Constitution as 1t Is. If: to sus
tain the Constitution as it is, made tht
Union men Abolitionists and traitor
last year, what are the partisans wh'
set up the pretepse Of being in favor o
it now2 Their present pretense of sup
porting the Constitution as it is, is
simple unyeiling of their deep-lais
schemes Of fraud and hypocrisy, b!
which they strive to re-instate them
selves in power. 1t is proclamation
to the world, either that their clamo
for "compromise" was trick to gail
power without the intention to max
the compromises they pretended to de
sire; or their present pretense of main
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tanning the Constitution as 1t is, is pre-
meditated fraud upon the people, to en-
able them to get into power, that the
may effect the changes in the Constitu
ton which the people SO indignant.
rejected. Either horn of the dilemm
impales them, and holds them up t
the just scorn of all honest and patrioti
friends of their country.
But there is one clause Of their pres
ent catch phrase, in the support c
which We have no doubt they are i
earnest. Their present cry is, as wi
be seen, .sthe Constitution as it is, an
/ the GOVERNMENT AS IT WAS" An
unless the "GovERNMENT' ia restore
"As IT WAS, we are to have no peac
-ao Constitution-no Union-but, i
their stead an eternal war. This restor
ing the ''Gouernneent as 1t ,cas, every
body knows, means, simply, the restora
ton to power of the NIasons, and Sli
dells, and Toombses, and Benjamin'
and Floyds, and Thompsons, who hsv
I.conspired not only with the desperat
! nol;t;o.1 pamblers and demapopues E