Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-04-25
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For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph

Mr.: Plants: I address my letters to
you because it seems proper to do SO as
long as you publish them, but | wish it
understood that am writing to the De-
mocracy. There are good many who
call themselves Democrats and who
seemed to be acting with US when we
were in power, that have really left US,
ana have placed the Union, as they term
1t, above Democratic principles. [ do
not write to them. There is still an
other class who sympathize with Democ-
racy, but who are afraid Of being called
traitors if they do anything to thwart
the Government. All have to say to
them is, join the society of the Golden
Circle and attend the meetings of the
Castles and getthoroughlyi indoctrinated
so that you will act with US when the
time Of trial comes, or else we shall ex-
pect. you will leave US, as many have al
ready done.
But promised in this letter to say
something about the taxes which the
Lincoln dynasty are fastening upon US.
Now if our party were in power, and the
taxes were for beneficial purpose, we
would not complain. But if Breckin-
ridge had been elected President instead
of Lincoln, a very large direct tax would
not be necessary. His friends would
have made no disturbance, and the Abo-
litionists and Black Republicans would
not dared to have done it. We have tried
them pretty effectually and find they
never dared to lift their finger against
j the Government. They did not like
either Pierce or buchanan any better
than Breckinridge. and they made some
resistance to our ''Lone Star" fellows
that were sent out to save that country
for gentlemen that owned niggers; but
when the Government interfered they
suffered themselves to be shot down
rather than resist the Government. So
we should have avoided the war and
taxes if Breckinridge had been elected.
In the next place, the tax is designed to
support the Black Republican Govern
ment in barbarous aud brutal war
against our Southern brethren. They
have raised a great army Of 600, 900 men,
and built gunboats or mortar fleets, and
hired or bought the steam and sailing
vessels to blockade their ports and starve
and kill our Southern citizens and steal
thsir niggers. They are even threaten
ing to hang such men as Cobb, and Yam
cey, and Floyd, and Davis, and Breck-
inridge, and many others of our party,
who have been our most trusty leaders;
and all this because they have been ele-
vated to power and office. True, they
would not stoop to live under the Gov
ernment of any mean Black Republican.
/ suppose that men who own negroes,
and in the school of negro driving have
learned how to govern, and who have,
when elevated to power, shown capac
ity to govern this great people, find it
mortifying to leave Office and go back
again to negro driving. 1t is far more
] honorable to govern the nation than to
govern negroes, and it pays better. And
then the Republicans charge our great
men with stealing, when the onl y foun
datiou for such charge is, that they,
when in power, having the right to de-
termine where the munitions Of war
should be kept, placed them where the
Black Republicans could not use them,
when they came into power and where
our brethren could, when they needed
them for self defense. The doctrine of
State rights, which has always been the
doctrine of our party, justified them In
taking possession of she Mint at New Or
i leans and the Forts within their State
| lines, and the war vessels in their har-
bors l have taken up so much space
in showing that there would net have
been any war, nor any occasion for
| large increase in expenditures, and, con-
sequently, no need Of direct taxes, that [
cannot discuss the tax itself, nor what
we intend to do about it in this letter;
but you will hear again from
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