Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-06-27
ShalnS.

The land of secessia is peculiarly a
country of s'shams." The leading me n
of that region have so long controlled
the Governmentb by political "shams that
they have come to believe, and not with
out plausible grounds for the belief,
that the people of the North could al
ways be, either humhugged or fright
ened by 'tshams." Where in the worlds
history is there so transparenta a ''sham'
as the profession of Democracy by a
combination of shareholders? Yet, by
the aid of supple tools in the North,
these slaveholding aristocrats were ena-
bled for years, to WELD the powers Of
the Government, by means Of this
] ''shanl, - sass
is it any wonder, then, that they
should attempt to scare our Generals by
"shams'' of another kind? Hence We
see that at Manassas, they mounted
monstrous logs upon old cart t-wheels.
pointing at Gen. Mcclellan, while they
quietlyremoved their guns to Richmond
leaving our army to sortify against
the ugly looking ..sshams'' which. they
facetiously denominated sQuakerguns,
and which they told the darkies were
sufficient to scare the whole army of the
! Potomac.
Having succeeded SO we'll at Manas.
sas, they played the same game at Cor.
inth. While our army Was building
siege works, and moving slowly and la
boriously towards Corinth, Beauregard
had recourse again to sham guns
The correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, writing from Corinth, on the
4th inst, giving an account of the siege
writes thus:
"Well, our interest in the imposing
ceremony of Friday last, i. e., the oecu,
patton Of this place by our troops, is
about talked out. Aud we have per.
fectly satisfied our curiosity by tour
in and around and about this greai
E"stronghold." I've busted myself prin-
Eeipally for the two days past in eonrers-
ing with the inhabitants of the country
in the vicinity By the way, I have
spoken previously of wooden guns. .
counted eleeen OF these terrible instru.
ments of modern warfare, They are
placed in different positions on thc
Frebel works-some mounted ON forks
and masked by brush, others with the
''muzzle' in the crotch of limb, and
the butt on two wagon wheels; the
t'muzzle'' is .blackened, and at dis.
tanee they have a positive cold blooded
! deliberate and certain death look
!! But am happy to say no one has yet
been disabled by them, though mosfas-
suredly bad they gone Of, something
/ would have been the natter. And our
army lay directly in front of these
monsters for taoo days and aightsi'
/ That is riehl Our army lying two
days and nights before the wooden
guns, placed in forks and on wagon
wheels, while the real cannon were be-
ing shipped to other points!
| How often these s.shams'' are to be
/ repeated--their success-and whether
their effects will tend to confirm the
belief of the rebels in their efficiency
upon the North, remains to be seem
| Certain it is that the only reliance ot
the rebels and their sympathizcrs is in
;'shams. If they can frighten ou,
Generals with "sham' guns, and hum,
bug the people with s'sham' Democ.
racy, they may succeed in building up
| a "sham'' confederacy. Bu', as We
don't believe in the Immortality Of
"shams" of any kind, we are inclined to
think that the game is about aplayed
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