Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-09-19
Letter From Gov. Tod.

NTs 1e1Ht,J, CIttO.
S,R--A haud bill has just been placed
in my hands, purporting to give the
proceedings of meeting Of the Demo-
cratic citizens of your county. at which
it was resolved to take immediate steps
to organize regiment to prevent the
threatened invasion of the State, and at
which meeting you were selected TO su-
perinteud the formation of such regi-
meht. Whether it was intended by this
proceeding to interfere with the volun-
tary enlistments now being made all
over the State in response to the Presi
dents recent calls for troops, is now inn
material. Believing this TO be the eff
iect,gI feel it my imperative duty to di
rect that you, and all associated with
ypu in the effort to raise said regiment
stonce desist. II is hoped that you
md your associates will give cheerful
obedience to this order, and join ali
loyal citizens Of the,S;ate in their efforts
to suppress the unholy rebellion in the
manner design ted by the Federal au-
tborities
Expecting to hear from you promptly,
an, respectfully yours,
bA III 1OD, Governor.
The above is most significant, docu-
ment. We know Bob Christie we'll,
having spent two winters with him at
Columbus, where he was the leader of
the Democrats in the House Of Repre-
landig ham stripe. Yallanligham, twill
he remembered made speech to the
Democracy of his district . short time
before Stantons order was issued, in
which he advised them to let the Abo-
iitionists fight the South, in the South.
while the Democrats should be pre- AIRED
to fight the Abolitionists at home. En-
couraged, no doubt, by the hope of aid
from our own citizens, the rebels are
moving in great force towards Cinc;n-
natl. Patriotic citizens are leaving
their homes and business to meet the
invaders. In the midst of this scene Of
alarm aud indignation, the sympathizers
with the traitors meet, and ia tie name
OF the Democratic party, propose to Or
ganize the Democrats into an army, as
Democrats, under the hollow and i.ypo-
critical pretense of preventing the
threatened invasion. If the design of
these men was to aid in preventing the
invasion, why separate themselves from
the loyal citizens? Why, when the i'm
minence of the danger stirs every i'm
pulse of every loyal heart, should these
madmen attempt to arm their partisans
sunder the most desperate Of the party
leaders, separate from, and in factiou'
oppositions to, the great movement o.
the people, at the call of the Govern
ment?
Whatever the pretense may be, thu
purpose of these men is to strike tht
promised blow in aid of their accom-
plices when they shall reach our Dor
ders. That the disappointed leader
are ready to drench the State in th'
blood of her citizens in their insan
hatred of the people who have discarded
them, is evident from their whole course
That they could effect anything by al
open proclamation Of their treason i
not to be supposed. And hence it i
that they operate in the name of tn
Democratic party. They know wei
the strength of party attachments
And hence tleir only hope is, to cal
themselves the Democratic party, an
appeal to partisan prejudice to sustai
them. But surely the vail is too thi
to hide the treason that turks behind il
1t is we'll that the Governor ha
promptly put his foot upon the plot
We trust he will have the nerve t
crush it out forever. Governor Tod
Democrat, and has acted all his life
politically, with these leaders, up t
last fall. He is now battling nobl
! against the Southern rebels as if the
had never been his political associates
He will do so with his former politics
associates in Ohio, who are in sympath
with the South. David Tod, We be
lieve, can be trusted. And it will ne
do to call his patriotic announcemes
an "abolition" persecution of Democrat
1t is simply patriotic Governor SUI
pressing the uprising of traitors in OF
midst, who falsely assume to represel
the Dem ocratic party.
For the personal safety of these me
thew had better take the advice of IL
Governor and desist from their purpos
The patriotism of the people is too tho
oughly aroused to permit an organize
army Of known rebel sympathlzers, u
der the name of the Democratic part
to linger ia their rear while they ru'
TO the border to defend their State al
their homes from horde of rebels wi
vould never have dared to reach ON
but for the encouragement given
these men. And We venture the pr
.liction, that if they persist IN orsanl