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


efforts making at Washington, and5other
places, to ''eompromise' with the rebels.
The article is severe, but it is as just as
it is severe We believe that there is
infinitely more danger to our country
! from the willy schemes Of unscrupulous
partis%s in the Free States, than from
all the armies ofopen rebels We have
class of politicians who have SO long
held the chief offices of the country by
virtue of their subscrvieney to the South
! ern conspiraSors, that they have lost all
! sense of manhood in the emselve5, and
seeing no hope of again reaching these
| officers except through the return of these
rebels to power, ready to make any de-
/ grading terms to accomplish that object
or failing of success, would rather see
the whole country ruined than to see-it
prosperous and happy under the admin
istsatioa of men chosen by the free suf-
! fragss of the people. But here is what
aloyal Southern paper has to say such
!. men, Let it be read aud considered.
j sThe Compromisers are busily en-
t,ployed at their great work in Washing
ton, and VIII probably present THAR
/ bahtiing to Congress In a short time.
/ While the pcop{s OF the Union are awake
/ to the grand questions Of the day, ,,and
/ the afH,ics Of the Ipiou are going on
from triumph to triumph, and the enc
a,fes cf the Union stand on the verge of
1 utter defeat, we l.ear feeble cry coming
:. from men who are not Of this age and
do not comprehend its momentous Issues,
aud are not qualified to direct its prog
! Tess-" Don't be radical. You must be
/ conservative, or the country is ruinedr'
i Now conserva tis1ni is an admirable thing,
i and not ouly So but essential to. the ex-
| istence of every Government, and so far
as the word signifies the preserUaticn Of
/ what is good we are Conservative. And
| SO far on hecther hand as radical means
1 uprocting and destroying what is good,
! We are anti-radieal. But We have heard
! this cry-e Of conservatism and radicalism
too long not to know that the FIRST term
is often used to express that which OBJ
struets the path of human progress,
Fwhile radicalism is an epithet used to
i brand that course of action which is
j prompt, bold and decisive. When a
man lacks moral courage to strike like
hero he steps timidly back f1om the
scene of danger and calls himself con-
sseryative; and such man is sure to call
his independent, bold and energetic
neigh boz, who fixes his eye upon one
1great and heroic purpose, and lets col
,laterals and minor consequences take
care of themselves, a radical. -.4i
/ Well, what are these Congressional
conservatives aiming at in their efforts
Ito compromise? Divested Of an i'm
mense cloud and fog Of verbiage and
threadbare com mon places, they yirtu
! tally tell this great nation now fighting
for its life against the most wicked, and
tdesoerate, and reck less rebels the world
Fever beheld: You must fight your bat
ties tenaerly and with great regard for
the welfare of your erring brethren.
When You fire your cannon, ''toucA tic1e
Ief easy .. .aa .e..i.
] I ou mpzt he vieiant in protecting
! Liic property 5i lcpeis, lpI Il III iiidl SiI-
ing through q district where the peop le
try to POISON assssssirrsste-
/ your soldiers, slave shoafd aeciden
tally run off, it might sour some traitor
against the GoMernmeBt
/ On no account hold leading rebels in
custody, but if you DO, lionlze them and
feed them high at first class hotels.
+ The. first grand requisite is for eur
army to protect rebel property, especi
ally negro property, and rather than
this should not be done, let the Constl-
tution and the Union pesishl
/. This is fair statement of the creed
v hich old political fossils are trying to
force upon this nation. The army of
the Republic is to be fettered and dis
armed in the flush of success and Iaade
subserwient to the shims Of clique Of
compromisers, who seem more anxious
TO secure the reinstatement of the rebel
leaders in then former political power
than to redeem struggling nation. If
texpect to see Davis, Stephens, Nisfall
and Floyd in Washington before many
;nonnths, again uttering their treason
boldly and defantly in the ears of the
/ National Council. - z'f' #@- @ as
We utterly repudiate such mischiev-
I .ous heresies They are fraught with
nothing but. mischief and disaster. If
the tcompromiserss carry through their
plans, treason, far from being destroyed,
will pause only while it takes breath
ing spell and gathers fresh strength to
renew its attack upon the Union. We
shall have troubled sleep for a few
months until Cancellation has given over
the chief posts Of honor and profit to the
arch rebels. And then when 'streason
! has done its worst, - he clangor of the
fire-bells, the glare of general confagra7
ton, the crash Of topping buildings,
and, the shrek of mortal agony will
/ again awake US to drama tenfold more
dark, and bloody and horrible than that.
now being enacted. We sh adder as We
now contemplate the picture ...
Democratic Convention.
The Vallandlsham Democracy have
called a State Convention TO meet at Co.
lumbus on 'tte fourth of July, fer the
nomination of State officers and other
purposes. The organs of the party are
assuring their Southern friends that they
will carry the State this fail q" -z-
With eighty thousand Of the Union
! citizens of Ohio in the field, fighting for
the cause of the eeuntry, the leaders
| hope to carry through partisan ticket,