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

lFrom the Raleigh IN. c. Standard, April as:l
The Impressment of Qual>ers by the
Rebel Authorities.
MEMORIAL.
We insert the following memorial laid
before the State Convention by the
yearly meeting of Friends, on the sub
ject of bearing arms:
At stated Meeting for Safferings,
representing North Carolina yearly
meetings of Friends, held at Deep river,
the 14th of Fourth month, 1862, the
subject of our present sufferings, on ac
count of our Conscientious scruples
against bearing arms, claiming the con
slderate deliberation of the meeting, and
believing it right to embrace our privi
lege tospetition those in authority, we
therefore adopt the following:
TO the Consesssion of North Carolind IN
Coauention 4Assesebled:
Your petitioners respectfully show
that it is one of our fitnd@mentgl religi-
Gus principles to bear faithful testi
mony against all wars and fghfings, and
that in consequence we cannot. aiA iit
carrying on any carnal war.
This is no new. principle Of our so4
ciety, but one which was adopted at it's
rise, as the doctrine Taught by our Saw
Jour and followed by his disciples for
more than two hundred years, and has
ever been and is now held as one Of our
fundamental and vital principles, and
enc that we cannot yield or compromise
In any degree whatever.
i Il Al
whole number of our members in
the Confederate States Is less than ten
thousand, while in the United States the
number probably exceeds two hundred
thousand, who bear the same testimony
against all wars and fghtings; ana that
in every nation and cline where our
society exists, it is at this day, as here
tofore, maintaining this precious prin-
ciple of peace, and that we everywhere
in this respect speak the same language
and mind the same thing
We may further show tiat; according
90 the best informa ion' we can obtain.
until the present time, Friends of n orth
Carolina have not been called on to aid
in the battle field or military camp; hut
now our peaceful principles are in a
measure disregarded, and many of our
members gre drafted to tahe part IN the
conflicting armies, aohile ice understand
ossn brethren IN tie United States are not
We have enlisted under. tie banner Of
the Captain Of our souls salvation, Je-
sus Christ, the Prince of Peace; there
fore, in obedience to his express com
mand, we cannot fight OF aid directly or
indirectly, in any carnal wars. But
your petitione would represent to you
that we believe 1t to be our moral and
religious duty te. submit to the govern
ment under which we live, and to the
laws and powers that be, or suffer pa
tieutly their penalties.
We love our homes and our country
much, but at the same time we love our
religious principles more; therefore your
petitioners would most respectfully ask
that you grant us the enjoyment of this
iE.pertant raligious prineiala.
We own. mo God but tie God of love,
peace, mercy and judgment, whose bless
ings we invoke, and whose wisdom we
implore to Re with you in your legisla-
ftCe deliberations.
Signed on beitalf and by direction of
the meeting.
NATHAN F. SPENCER, Clerk.
Timothy Titcomb," alois Doc
tor Holland, of the Springfield BcpubH
can, is down upon the sour kind.of dea
cons; he likes whole-souled man, and
thinks, the 'lugnbrious sort of religion
lists are serious injury to. the reputa-
tion of genuine Christianity. He says:
l have seen deacon in the pride of
His deep humility He cembed his
hair straight, and looked. studiously
after the main chance; and while lie
looked, he employed himself in setting
good example. His dress was rigidly
plain, and his wife was not INDUCED in
the vanities of millinery and mantaa
making. He neverjoked. LIE did not
know what a joke was, any further than
to know that it was sin. He carried
a Sunday face through the week He
did not mingIe in the happy social par
ties of his neighborhood. He was a
deacon. He starved his social nature
| because he was a deacon. He refrained
from all. participation in free and gen
erous life because he was a. Deacon
He made his children hate Sunday be-
cause he was deacon. He SO brought
tfsem'up that they learned to consider
| themselves unfortunatein being the chill
dren of deacon. They were pitied by
| other children because they were the
children of a. deacon. His wife was
pitied'by other women, because she ws
the wife. Of deacon. Nobody loved
him. If he came into a circle where
men were laughing or telling stories,
they always stopped until he went out
Nobody ever grasped>h his hand cordially,
or slapped him, Or the shoulder, Q,
spoke Of. him, as, good fellow. Et
seemed as dry and hard and tough as a
piece of ierked beef There was nc
softness of ckaraeter-no juciiness-no
loneliness In him.
Now it is of no use for me to under
take to realize to myself that God ad-
mires such a, character as this.
More GaerriasH' ontragss.
On Friday the 10th inst, Corporal g.
D. Baylis and ten priyates of Co. A, 9th
| Virginia Regiment, started from Spen,
Ger with wagon and four horse team
/ for this nlace When,o ha,,t aipbt mi los