Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-10-03

like and patriotic as it is, will of course
not satisfy the ultras Of either political
extreme, and We shall be prepared for a
renewal Of the usual howl of denuncia-
tion. But the President will be sus-
tanned by all who are truly loyal, and
whose patriotism is not squared by party
prejudice or narrow notions Of policy" u"
The Cleveland Herald Conservative
says:
"The proclamation oe Mr. Lincoln will
quicken the pulse of the nation; it will
strengthen the arms of our soldiers, and
it will show the rebels in arms that
whatever stands in the way of the per-
petuity Of the union Of the States must
go under
The Wheeling Atel1igencer indorses
the proclamation as follows:
an this proclamation the Presiden.
will have the warmest support of the
loyal States. HIS friends will all be
united now and he will not ALLEVIATE
single man whose heart is truly in the
cause. All men have taken their sides
ere this, and he who is not fer the
Union now will never be for it except
upon grounds of policy. The Presi-
dent does what he proposes, simply be-
cause he finds it necessary for the saliva
tion of the Union, and with his great
opportunities for knowing what is
necessary, and his honest heart always
to dictate to him what is right, the peo.
pie will rally round him closer and
closer. There will be some persons
who will make the proclamation the
occasion for the commencement of hos
tilities-just as they made the first
proclamation he ever issued an occasion.
But as they did not effect their ends then,
so they will not now. Such people will be
tramped to the bottom. They cannot
roll back the tide Of events. That
which has been SO long prophesied is
now upon US. Let the guilty head of Sc
cession bear it all, without word of
sympathy from one loyal man or W oman.
For our part, while we deplore the stern
necessity that has compelled the Presi-
dent to the step he has taken, we say
thousand Amens to the proclamation
In the language of that distinguished
patriot, Colonel Metcalfe, of Kentucky,
We say, IF we cannot have Slavery aud
The Union both, give US the Union, and
let Slavery die the death it has brought
upon itself
The Dayton Empire (Vallandigham' y
organ,) says:
cat last policy has been enunci-
ated, and Democratic predictions and
assertions fully verified. Fight, Tax,
Emanciplte, is the programme. In the
hour Of the country's greatest danger,
and when the Border Slave States,
wrought up by the Abolitionism of the
Republican party, hang trembling in
the balance, this second Jackson issues
proclamation adding fuel to the flames,
and with seeming purpose of driving
them from the Union He babbles Of
the negro while the very pillars of the
Government are crumbling and crash
ing around him. Who now dare deny
that this is an Abolition WARP Is it
now considered 'discouraging enlist
ments' to say that it is? II so, Abra-
ham Lincoln stands guilty Of the charge
At last he has shown his hand"
The Pittsburgh Gazette says:
eve cannot now give utterance to all
that we feel upon the subject, It is
sufficient to add that we are reioieed at
the opportunity Of chronicling this proc
lamation. We thank the President
most heartily for issuing it, and We
thank God we have lived to see it. A
grateful people will stand by the Pres
ident firmly in executing it, and all the
more gladly that noeo they see the way
clear to the final and utter extinction
of the rebellion"
The Free Nation Anti i-Slavery) says:
"We are disposed to accept it as an
act which is right in itself, apart from
the ideas suggested, and one which is
fraught with untold blessings to our
unhappy and bleeding country.
We rejoice that freedoms voice has
been heard high above the din of war,
speaking through our President. This
is the act of Abraham Lincoln's life,
which will secure his name a record in
the history Of our countryside by side
with that of Washington"
A great serenade was got up in Wash
ington, in honor of the proclamation.
They serenaded the President, and
would not be satisfied until he appeared
and addressed them, which he did in
brief and modest speech, which was
cheered with enthusiasm. They then
went to Secretary Chase, and called him
out. In his short speech he fully in
dorsed the proclamation, as did also
Cassius NJ. Clay, and others. 1t is in
dorsed by all truly loyal men in Wash
ington.
The St. Louis Democrat is perfectly
enthusiastic over the proclamation. 1t
sustains it in every particular, as the
right thing, at the right time. We
cannot give its language, having mis-
laid the paper.
The Union, also published in St.
Louis, gives it an equally cordial sup
port.
The religious papers of the country,
so FIR as we have yet learned, sustain
the President cordially, and receive his
proclamation as the answer to the pray
ers of all christian people. Of course
those professedly religious journals