Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-07-11
The Circleville Watchman.

Coluinbus, June 2d, 1862.
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The Circleville Watchman.
We hotieed in our last, the suppress
sion sf this reasonable sheet. aud the
srrest Of its.editor, blythe order Of the
Secretary of War. That our readers
may see the spirit of the concern, VIC
copy d few ofhiA editorials. But Why
he should he arrested andthis paper sup
pressed while such sheets as the Dayton
Empire sam Mcdary's Crisis, Wayne
Comfy Democrat, and many more o.
like stripe are still permitted to beleh
out their treason, We don't understand.
Perhaps Stanton viii attend to them
wilenshis attention is called in that .di.
rection. We certainly don'i think Fort
Warren viii reap mneh honor from the
flct Of Iasiug John W; kees for a
boarler = 81
1Fe happen to know this now minor
talizcd John w. Kee5.. lie was Clerk
of the House Of Representatives during
the sessions Of 1858 and 1859, the De
mocracy then having majority in that
body. He was again the Democratic
candidate for the same post in 1850, but
the Republ nssbeingsintthe ascendant
different ssman was elected over him:
IIeswas prominent candidate before
the Democracy for the office ot Secretary
of State. and would, no doubt have re-
ceived the nomination on the 4th; but
FOR his arrest and Imprisonment, which
,nsds=it impogitic in the Yallandigham-
nscfs staarun him.: He iss.as true blue
DemeeaAf of the yallandigllam 'scon
scrtatfse syfe
Some ago, the ssuereusy, a des,
yerate ofsssn Of treason and Democracy,
published at Paris, Missouri, was sup
pressed by Secretary Stanton, whereupon
KEGS. pitched in in this style:
Hasome weeks agosllis paper was sup
pressed by she strong arm of the infa-
NOUS and damnable military aespotism
which assumes to control and suppress
file opinions of freemen: andis fast hur-
rying This country and its people to hell,
whefetaI1 these sef constituted tyrants
and dirty Abolition scoundrels ought to
haze been long ago. Afterkeeping him
IN prison some three weeks, he obtained
the gracious permission Of one Major
tsafdwel1fo return 10 his home and fam
lily, and resume the pnblication of his
paper under an Infamous and unconsli-
tutional selfsconstituted censorship.
FessWhen will the people rise in the
inaiesty Of their strength, Ike freemen
who know their rights and dare maintain
them, and p4ton end to this God .d5horrea
44t'oiifioa desfoffsm over the coustitu-
ttonal rights and the minds Of men?
PR an e,il 10 The slcspotism or Us authors.
That time will yet come, and in the
name Of Just God, may it come soon!
The sooner the better.
sFreemcn, what are you fighting for?
Are you fighting for an infamous mill
ysdcspotisnl? or for that freedom of
action and thought guaranteed BY the
Constitution which was given to ns by
our fathers2 Whatever you may think
you are fighting for, you have been the
means Of establishing in many parts of
this once free and happy country, des-
potism m5fe disgraeeful, more tyran-
nical. God-abllorred and wicked, than
ever disgraced any nation upon the face
nfiGodts green earth either civilized or
heather. This is our honestsand CON
scicntious opinion, formed by reading
much ofsthe history Of the world. both
sacred and profane, and We are deter
mined to express this opinion whenever
wechoose, despite the threats of all the
AboHtioniell hounds this sidesof helH'''
That is reasonably strong. True,
Stanton is lifelong Democrat. But
the moment he touches one Of the open
eonspirators who was preaching inaam-
atory appeals tositsf fsnaticalrpartisaps,
he becomes an Emf anaous Abolition hell-
houutH, : =
KEGS has been very busy Of late.
,naking stump speeches, to secure his
nomination at the Democratic Conyen-
ton. A few days before his arrest, he
visited Washington, the county seat oi
Fayette county and made a two hours
speech to the Democratic Convention
there But sooutrag geousf tsea sonable
was hisharrapgne that . majority ofthe
Convention would not let him make an
other speech at night. He persisted
however in his attempt, and was mobbed
by his oan party friends. The how
which ke put forth over this was truly
t,rri6c: Ii istoo long to copy. he
Gays the most Of ihe Democrats Of that
county hase turned e Abolitionists;" and
the way he shrieka is sralg ludierous.
He then turned Iis missionary efforts
to 5Williamsburg Here toe e-found a
portionof the Democracy not quite ready
10 eseedts the decrces Of the K. G. Gs.
place: