Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-06-06
pesident's s Message.

Pesidents Message.
Thc best thing out is the recent, Mes
sage of President Lincoln to Congress,
assuming the responsibility
The Seccsh journals, without excep-
ton, and some not positively disloyal,
have exercised theif utmost ingenuity
iac.jaiag charges OF tyranny. usur-
patioRs violations, Of the Constitution,
and covert disunionism to certain acts
of tlre-t3pNernmcnt in its efforts TO
suppfess&the rebellionG But. TO give.
the gfeat ter effect to those false charges,
great eulpgies we're piled upon the Presi.
dent, neutrality-suspicious. bad acts were
charged upon Secretary Cameron, and
it was predetermined that Lncola restosed
lrim from the Cabinet for these eaexni-,
ties. s@ -
.yhe. fact that Cameron was, not re-
moved atIalI, but voluntarily resigned,
and was appointed Minister to Russia,
gave AN emphatic refutation to these
charges. But they we're still fhTatea;
and at length were brow ght ep iafCons
gress by way &C resolution Of censule
upon the lsts Secretary of War. The
Democrats, 18ofder.state men, secession.
sylnpathizers, and few stconservative'
Rcpablieans made up a combination
strong enang h to pass the resolutions.
81 sssat sss tAe rejoicing therese #
was sass tsis = s.tboiitionists were de-
featcl, Liaeola s conservatism. was es-
t4blishel ,.aanl1 the whole Responsibility
throw n npouSfhe saalicdk who would be
crushed out blythe RECONSTRUCTED Be
mocracy and their new allies The
trick was u. nice one, and it was be-
lieyed that "a very crushing blow had
been dealt tothe caruest friends Of the
Cniou under this false pretense. But
the plotters ,misealcuiated the character
of the President, whose name they thus
used fof thefraidulent purpoEcsof prac-,
ticing d deception upon the people 81
Mr.. Lincoln might, BY silence, haze
Ten the seeming support of these pre-:
eious hypscriees, ~ long as they could
advance their schenses by Wsiag his
great Influence against his tree friends,
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But, as an honest nan, he could not
permit such a game of deception to be
plsysd Of, ,ecRen if he were to be. the
apparens winner. And so he sent a
bomb shSlf into the camp, iii the form
ofa Message, in which, bss tells them
hatptheE acts the y condemn saved the
country from absolute and inevitable
overthrow. Md that whether right or
wrong, neither the credit nor the cen
sure belt nged to Mr. Cameron, That
he, Abrahana Lincoln, was responsible
for eaca and ali of the acts condemned;
aud that they were approved, aad are
still approved, by every member Of llie
Cabinet. So seeg 4
We wilf pubiish the Message next
week. Hany. aeyal, ever d11rttcdf
the sterling honesty Of cold Abe, he
will never doubt him again. 1t shows.
too, that all the efforts of sensation
writers, and rebel patIisers, to make
the people believe that the Cabinet is
divided in sentiment, are fabrications
only calculated to do mischief
The capital Of the miserable dema-
-gogues, who are attempting to destroy
the confidence Of the people IN the Ad-
aninistration, by bowling g bolitionistlf
at Chase and Seward, and slandering
Lincoln and other members of the Cab
met, by .claisnieg them as ''coaserva
tives, p wholly fsupk BY. this tiaDeIy,
straight forward, hoaest and .strnely
.patriosie4sLessage. At sh ows the aGabi-
net ito be a perfect unit. If Chase is an
"Abolitionist,s SO aincoln and all the
rest, IfSeKard is a radical, So IS the
President. agd ell pkisf Advisers. If
Lincolng is a. CONSERVATIVE, SO are:
Chase, Seward Stanton and their col
leagues. This authoritative spiling of
the guns of the enemy is the greatest
victory of the war. 1t will disarm the
'1eniagog,tes In &a great measure. or un-
anask them before the people. There'is
no man SO stupid as not TO see the,
wicked purpose of the wilifal falsifer,
w'bo will dare, in the face of this Mes.
sage, to play apea The ignorance or
prejudioss of the people, BY denouncing
Chase, or Seward, or Stanton, as N;Abo-
llionists' or aradicals," while pretend
ing to support Llneoln,s or Bates, or
Smith, or. Blair as CONSERVATIVES"
with the hope of creating divisions
among the true friends of the Union.-
The whole Cabinet is a,unit. ABd 80
are all the friends of the Union every
where. And wherever you fnd thc.
man, no matter what he pretends TO be,
railing out at 2 aAboltionists and srad-
icals,' you may safely write etory" en-
his brow. and s'let him sliae."' Sfi5@
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