Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-10-10
and disgraceful surrender to the rebels
compelled on their own terms.

and disgraceful surrender to the rebels
compelled on their own terms
Is this an improbable supposition?-
Let US reason together. A little more
than two short years ago the Demo
cratic party was unit. 1t gloried in
the fact that it was the same everywhere
the same in Massachusetts and Ohio,
that it was in Louisiana and South Car
olina. jeff. Davis, Cobb, Benjamin,
Floyd, Wise, Breckinridge, Vallandig-
ham, Cox, Medary, Morris, and their
compeers, were the acknowledged lead
ers of this party. Two. years have
passed, and ere,y State which gave this
/ party majority, is in open treason,
and the leaders of the party in those
States are the leaders of the rebeAion-
So much is history Have these lead
ers changed? No! They disclaim any
change of sentiment Have Vallandig-
ham, Cox, Morris, Medary, and that
class changed? They utterly deny any
change, but claim your votes 6ecause
they are representatives Of the party.
! We do not say that those who are ex-
pected to vote these men into Congress
are traitors. We know they are not
Neither was one in fifty of those now in
the ranks of the Southern army, traitors.
They were simply used by their leaders,
as their instruments to place these lead.
ers in power, and then they were COM
pelled to take up arms. And thus is
half million of almost naked and fam
ished men-their own liberties lost
made the tools for the destruction of
the liberties Of all of US. Two years
ago you repelled, as reckless partisan
ship, the charge that these Southern
men were traitors at heart History has
placed the seal of eternal truth upon
the charge. Will you, by placing their
Northern accomplices in power, place
yourselves by the side Of the poor whites
that fill the ranks of the Southern army
objects of pity, even to the negro
slaves?
In the name of God, your own self-in-
terest, and the hopes of your children,
will you look at this matter!
We do not charge Mr.. Morris with
conscious disloyalty. To him, per-
sonally, it is matter of great import
ance to be elected. He will get $4,000
year, and perquisite. But will his
election aid in suppressing the rebellion?
How can it do so. He is utterly op-
posed to the President, the Senate, and
the great majority of the present House.
! If elected, it will be because he is so op-
posed. He will be constrained to op-
! pose the measures which the Admins :
tration has adopted to suppress the re-
bellion. This opposition can effect the
South only in one way-that is, to en-
courage them by holding cut the hope
Of help.
Let no one say that we herein charge
the Democrats with disloyalty. We do
no such thing. tits because we believe
them loyal that we thus appeal to their
reason and their patriotism, against the
seductions of party. You, Democratic
/ fellow citizens, have a stake in this
struggle as deep as ours. If We can
save our own liberties, we save yours at
| the same time. IF you sacrifice ours,
you lose your own In the same wreck.
| We save our country for our mutual
good, or we 60 down with it together in
common ruin. Your passions will be
appealed to, and the old, stale slang of
"Abolitionism and the "nigger!' will
be expected to close your mind against
truth and argument, and drive you to
the polls with a vote that will help to
make you serfs, while you suppose you
are only spiting the Republicans. Are
you ready to be so used? God pity our
doomed country, if you are
But the great duty of every loyal man, :,
on the day of election, is to go to the
polls and vote. Now, that SO many of
the Union men arc absent in the army,
this duty is doubly imperative upon
those who are left. Let no one remain
at home that day See to it that every
loyal man deposits his ballot for his
country ard its unconditional supporters.
And God defend the right
Two Hundred Thousand
i btuskets we're NOT thrown down by