Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-07-04
From the Nashville Union, 1st.l
A Word to the President.
Would that our feeble voice were I

whose hands is placed the mighty charge
of ruling this republic. The words
which we shall speak will be re-echoed
from the lips of every thorough, ener-
getic, unconditional Union man in
Tennessee and Kentucky. We tell the
President then that in regard to the
measures to be employed to crush out
this unholy rebellion speedily and
utterly, the people are far in advance of
most. of their ruIers- Plain men who
pay no attention to the ambages, quib-
bles and hair-splittiny arguments on
constitutional powers, of special
pleader, and Who don't value al the
fine rhetotic in the world straw, un-
less it arrives at valuable practical re-
suit, wonder why it is that notorious
traitors, whose hands are black with
robbery, and red with murder, are let
loose Oh parole of honor by our Govern
metit, and that other traitors who are
now, all through the Border Slave
States, holding midnight meetings in
the Lodges of the Knights of the Golden
Circle, to aid guerrilla chiefs in ravag
irg the country, and to point out to
them their Union neighbors who are
actively loyal, as objects of vengeance,
are allowed by the Government to live
unm mols5tsd.
Yes, incredible as it may appear to
sensible men abroad, it is nevertheless
true that in louisville, in Nashville,
and in other Southern cities now held
by the Federal Government, traitors
boldly proclaim their insulting and
outrageous sentiments, express their
hope of speedy return Of the rebel
army, pray for guerrilla invasion, and
exult like devils at tidings of a reverse
to the loyal arms, and the butchery of
our wounded soldiers in the streets Of
perfdious town. It is SO. We have
heard it. We know it. You cannot
duenck the fire Of rebellion by pouring
oil upon its flames. Whenever its
flames burst out or even its glowing
embers still sparkle with ll-repressed
rage beneath the gray ashes of seeming
acquiescence but real opposition, the
FIRE must be quenched--it Sload if
needs be, or else we all shall perish in
general eonhagratiou. Are the lives
of the rebels to be put in the balance
against the lives of the loyaR Is the
existence of a traitor to be tolerated
when it imperils that Of a loyal, up
right citizen? Are we to submit to the
impudence of rebels lest We infract
some ambiguous article of our Consti-
tution2 Must we be SO scrupaldus
about the sanctity of one clause that we
must suffer the whole to. perish in order
to save the part? What would be
thought of man who valued tooth
SO highly that he would not let it be
drawn, though by not doing SO be would
certainly forfeit his life?
Why in many counties Of Kentucky,
as we were informed yesterday, by
gentleman holding high civil Office
under the Federal Government, and as
We EnoW TO be true in some counties,
notorious rebels are coming oft as can
didates for Office, and while breathing
treason express their intention to take
the oath of allegiance to the Federal
Government! loyal MEN look at such
insolence and contemplated perjury
with amazement, and ask will the Gov
ernment tolerate this? Are we to have
baud of traitors returned to Frankfort
to sit in the Legislative Ha1fs2 1t is a
fact that the word has been sent out
secretly by the leaders of the rebel
Home Guard, which now infests that
State, to. their clansmen, the Il T'iioGs Of
George Bickly: ''The Federal Govern
ment feels that it dare not modest those
who have not taken up arms. It will
be next to impossible ever to convict
any of us of treason, because the crime
must consist of an overt act, aud that
act must be proved by Two Witnesses
So we can talk treason and run for
office, aud snap our fingers In the face
of the Union men,"
Bonds and oaths and paroles of honor
are prescribed by our tender-hearted
rulers for such cases. Bonds and oaths,
forsooth! Place skulking, cowardly,
ferocious hyena under bonds to keep
the peace, and then turn your back on
him for a pleasant sleep; or administer
the oath to rattlesnake, as he pre-
pares to
And hur1 at once his venom and his
lstrength."
And then, if these iiiiissfscffffGl measures
prove successful, employ like means to
subdue the incendiary spirits who fire
EeighborEoods with false reports, and
aid guerrilla chiefs in their depreda-
tions. 1t will not do to rely on bullets
alone. Hemp must follow in the wake
of bullets and bayonets. If the Gov
ernment does not change its policy we
shall witness scenes ere long whose
atrocity will shock the stoutess heart
The people. as We have already said, are
ahead Of the Government. We have
heard their deep and hardly suppressed
murmurs for weeks and weeks. If the
Government dallies much longer they
will break over the restraints of law,
and then woe to the rebelsl Look at
Baltimore the other day, Mr.. President.
1t is wonder that the Unien men were.
as forbearing as they were. Louisville
#ill witness scene yet more terrible
before long, we apprehend, and her
rebels will be licked up by popular rage
like dry grass before the IRE. We are
foE peace and lsnity, and the only way
under Heaven to get at it, unless Provi-
dence blessss us with a special miracle,
is to make turbulent and insoF6ut rebels
exsiat9. their ofenses with their Blood, },
and to take such measures as will ef-
fsetually prevent any rebel from pollut-
ing solitary Office within She authority
Of the Federal lines, with his presence.
Ii must Be done. If there is no pro-,
vision IN the Constitution to meet the