Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-07-25
The Way it Works,

the celebrated Order. No. 3, of Gen
Halleck, which forbid, absolutely, any
slave, upon any account, to come into the
line of his army. The disgraceful EN-
ployment of our yolu1teer boys, in the
capturing and returning cf fugitive slaves
to their rebel masters, induced Con
gress to pass, by large maorities in both
Houses, and the President to sign, an
act utterly forbidding the employment
Of men in the degrading and HIegal
service. Thereupon Gen. Halleck is
sued his celebrated Order, No. 3.
son the 18th of this mon: III, Hon.
Joseph A: Wright, Senator from In
diana, a lifelong Democrat, made one
of the noblcst, truest, and most telling
speeches Of the session. 1t is published d
in full in.the Cincinnati C3mnaereial of
Monday. In this speech, Senator
Wright read letter from friend
which he fully indorsed, and for every
word of which he nade himself respon n
sible. Here it is:
'"Halleck's order No. 8 has killed at
least ten thousand Of your Western soldiers.
You can see them in every car and on
the corners of every street. At Ham
burg, four miles above Pittsburg Land
ing, there were two thousand seven
hundred soldiers sick, and SIX hundred
had been taken away the day before we
were there. | saw detachments tf our
troops making roads in the hot sun;
saw the boats being unloaded by them;
and, in fact, young men, noble men who
had sprung to arms to save the country,
were performing labor which was
enough to break down the constitution
of the strongest; and l did not see a
slngle black man at work at any of the
landings on the Tennessee or Cumber-
land Rivers; but did see 900 stout tez-
io,es Jlackng the boots Of rebel prisoners
on board the steamer Uncle San, at Pits
burg Landing
No one dare to say that political feel
ing had anything to do with the above
statement. Senator Wright is a Dem
ocrat, and has been all his life. So is
Gen. Halleck. So is the writer Of the
above letter, which Senator Wright in
dorses. But, with many other patriotic
Democrats, he has come to tie conclu-
sion that his country's salvation is
deafer object to him than the protection
of slavery in the hands of rebels, and
that the lives of ten thousand of his
own constituents is too dear a sacrifice
to be madeto crafty the pro-slavery feel
ing even in commanding officer. We
publish the wholespeeeh here
after.
But while Senator Wright was max
ing that speech. and demonstrating that
ten thousand volunteers had been sac1i-
feed TO that strange Oraer, two whole
regiments were being added to the list.
Two regiments, one from Wisconsin and |
the other. from Minnesota, were sta
.icned some two miles apart in Tennes
see. They were in an enemys country.
The guerrillas were informed to the
minutest pafticulafs of tl1eir+condition
by the white inhabitants. The only
Ioyal people in the country were the
slaves, who would, as they have where
ever permitted, have given our men full
of the movements of the
,uerrillas. But Gen. ,Halleck's Order,
which he has re-published at every
movement of any portion of his troops,
forbid his subordinates to
permit any slave to come within our
ines to give the information. Thus
olaeed, and thus prohibited from learn
ng the movements of the enemy, these
egiments were attacked and captured
II succession, with ali their arms, equip
nents, stores, &c. Adding this to the fear
ul picture, drawn by Senator Wright,
s it any wonder that even patriotic
Democrats demand change of policy?
Yell, we think the change is inaugurated.