Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-08-01

can slaue trade For, says the Dispatch,
''if the National Government, can, by
any process, become slave owner, then
the slave-trade San be prosecuted with
out hindrance.'' I
Now we submit to the Dispatch if it
Is the act Of 4 good citizen, to deceive
his readers ina matter Of great impor-
tance 70 the country. and by such de-
ceptiou array them, through their reli
Eance upon his fidelity to truth, against
the true friends Of the Union? We do
not charge the editor with an attempt,
consciously to play this game upon his
readers. We would rather believe that
tho article was written carelessly, rely
ing more uponthe representation ofsueh
sheets. as we have named, than from a
deliberate purpose to pervert the truth
of history and impose upon that portion
of his readers who have no other means
of access to. the facts. #
{ Wif.not our. friend Hibbard, on re-
Hfeetions and cain consideration of. his
duty as s'true man. admit that the
facts are the exact reverse of what he
has given them above. Will he not adj
init that the bill passed by Congress,
and voted for by all those whom he
styles ;sAboiitionists, 2 did free the ,slapes
of those II arms against the GouermmentP
That neither. the majority of Congress
nor g Abolition politicians out Of Con-
gress, ever advocated the making Of
those slaves the property Of the Govern
ment, and selling them again, " VIII be
hotadmit, further, that tshhssre wasno such
proposition in the billto " hieA hesfefsrs,
and that the President did not object to
the bill on any such grounds at alR
And will he not further admit that
Wieklife, and other conservative
members Of Congress, spoke and voted
against the bill for the reason that it did not
make the slaves the properly of the Gov
ernment, and require them to be sold
again?s And will he enotfurtleradmit,t that
these conservatives" by their speeches
and votes, did do what they could to
commit the Government to the .recog i
nitionSssof the right of property in man
and, indirectly, the African slave trader"
And>will he not finally and frankly ad-
nit that; the article referred to, was
hastily written withont due considers
tionscf the facts, and is calculated to do
a great wrong to the country by i'm
planting, for truth, in, the minds Of a
portion Of the citizens, what is exactly
The opposite Of the truth?
Such an amend honorable is due, .
alike to truth and patriotism. 1t is due
to the loyal readers of the Dspatch.-
It is due to the Governments. 1t is due
reputation Of our friend, whom
We have placed in our estimate among
the true friends of the Union. And it
is necessary to enable him in the fu-
ture to WELD power for good which
will certainly be lost if the community
comes to class him with the unscrupu-
Ious partisans with whom he has, of late,
refused to affiliate.
We have written this article .'upon
he square, land without one single sun
Kind feeling, and shall be sadly disap-
pointed if it should be so mistaken as
10 be attributed to any other spirit, as
We will be, if the future course of the
should compel US to believe
that the article referred to was penned
With the deliberate purpose to deceive |
his readers for partisan ends.
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