Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-08-08
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ssPon1eroy Telegraph"
Zone Of the very. best papers in the
State is the Pomeroy Telegraph, edited
| by Hon. T. A. Plants, and published by
| Mr.. A. q. Me Laughlin.. It's editorials
are always marked by ability, sound
| Judgment and refreshing earnestness
f Its selections are madauWith good taste,
and in typographical learance tits al
ways neat and attractive. Altogether il
is one of our most highly priEed ex-
changes, and we are gratifed to know
that it is properly appreciated and sus-
tanned by the people Of Meigs county"
We clip the above notice from the
Chlllicothe Gaseas, and reproduce it
here. not so much for it's tco fattering
estimate Of the Hslsgrar as'for the COM
pliment to the citizens Of this county,
implied in the closing lines, and on this,
we beg leave tosay word or two. We
took charge of the 4slegrdph nearly FIVE
years ago, simply to save it from extinc-
tian. 1t then had very few subscribers
and no advertising patronage except
that of patent medicine yenders. We
believed the citizens of Meigs county
were an intelligent, reading comm munity,
and that if paper was published here
worthy of patronage, it would be sup
ported. In this faith we have labored
hopefully, and have won a success very
far beyond our expectations. Without
a single effort made by eanvassing for
subseribers our list has steadily in
creased, and is still increasing, notgith-
the hard times. SO has the
Advertising and o Job-work Of the office.
When thesheck of hard times caused
most of the county papers to dinsiatsh
the size oftheir sheets, we enlarged ours,
making it one of the largest papers in
the State. This addition to the size of
the Telegraph gives our subscribers mere
than twice as much reading matter as it
before contained, or is given in most
county papers, and this, without any ad-
dition to the price. Most of our ex-
changes thought the experiment must
break down the concern. We did not
believe it would; and it has not As
the Guzehe says, and as we Knew it
would be, it has been appreciated and
sustained By the people Of the County"
More than fifteen hundred of the cit
izens oflittle Meigs, andmostly readers
of the Telegraph, are in the patriotic
army, bravely giving their efforts and
their lives to sustain their betrayed and
country. More are -allying
to the same glorious standard. There
is not county in the State, in the
hearts of whose citizens burns purer
patriotism than in this. None are truer,
md few SO iatelltgertly true, to the prin-
;iples of our Government as the people
If Meigs. They have no taste for milk
ind water. If, as the the Gazette says,
there is a refreshing earnestness" in the
Telegraph, we can assure him. that it is
,ot up for an earnest people. And if
my of them are not in earnest, it is the
mission of the Telegraph to inspire them
With that quality And in this lies, we
'elieve, the secret of its success. We
lave no opinions, political or otherwise,
which are not founded upon, conyic-
ion of their correctness. And we new
IT entertained an opinion, therefore,
hat we needed to conceal, and we nev-
II knew how to dilute our real ,senti-
nents to suit supposed exp edieney
With us, what is right is expedient, al
hough the eorong were championed by
he multitude.
True, this course has won for us the
of Radical, !" ssAbolitioa-
st" "Fana tic, . aHigher- Law -Advo-
,ate," and any number of other, epithets.
We accept them all as compliments,
coming from the source they do, and
would not exchange them for victor's
,rown. These terms are fast loosing
heir potency on the popular mind, and
,enest men have pretty much ceased to
De, sweryed from their allegiance to
ruth and right, because knaues still use
hem to lure fools into the ranks of
.raitors. If the Telegraph has had any
'hare,s however humble, in producing
ind sustaining that sentiment Of patriot
SIN which makes SO overwhelming a
najority of the people of the County,
Without condition, loyal to the Consti-
ution, and to. freedom, it has, SO far,
performed its mission. And it shall be
,ur endeayor to make it still more
worthy of the liberal support it has re-
,eiVed.
We don't often bore our readers with
matters of this kind. But the above /
iattering notice, coming as, it does,
rom one of the Oldest and best con-
lucted papers in the State, but with
n osa nditor we have M nersonal %