Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-06-27


eexaral counties;
rEudcr the apportiounent, .Meiss
county is entitIe,i to six delegates. Ed
M
AYE recommend that the delegates be
chosen by coaxentions in the seyeral
ceu1Aes. 10 be held on Saturday, the
18th of Apgast
The gonVention will assemble at i ]
oseleek a. Ms--thes place of meeting
Will be hereafter aesignated.
GEO. 81. PARSONS, Chm,
sassy sR r MARTINI Sec g
@ Union Executive gommittee,
Eeianlbus, sJune I'd, 1862 @
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Gen. Mcclellan.
Ite tc!egraH Hhics dispatches. q ano anes
thessayd .lsat Gem MeGlellan has
beenssery aafaals sseinforae.l, 80 thatshe
feeIsshimssif pcFfsetl yable to axe Rich.
nioud.as so d as he thinks It expedient
to ssGiSe As defeat there, aud now
would shesdisastroas beyond conception,
aud as the eyes and hopes Of the nation
are upon him, and The prayers of all
good men arc raised III his behalf, NC
trust. sos,a to be .able to proclaim, that
be has Struck the 6naf blow to the re.
bellfen. s
There eau be no doubt that the enemy
bis likesise, been powerfully rein
teEeei hy the transfer of Beanresard' g
heststroops from Gorfnfh to Richmond.
The great body of tho Southern arm ,
is now concentratei there. It is the
last desperate stalks Of the cnnspiratnrs.
fdefsated at Richm ond, with the power
fal army they have eoncentrated, aud
behind the defenses which they have
bad thousands of slavcssat workzfor a
year IN building, the leaders will not be
able again ttlsrsity their dipped aud de-
nleralizea fo!lowers, ana will be com.
reile1 20 Hg from the country. Aud
this fact will make them desperate, On.
TIE oti.er hand, should they defeat
Mcclellan, it will end the summer cam
paicn 10 stier disgrace to aur cause--
ii viii iasafe the capture Of Washing
ten. the uprising If the Border States,
and their synpathisers in the North
the interxention of foreign powers, and
,hsutter wreck ofbusin prosperity
in the loyal States, if not the sacking Of
our chief cities, aud tho desolation of
the eountEy. We are sure the great
mass Of eur people do not fully eompre ;
heea the momentous consequences of
1te impending struggle At Richmond.
The Administration at Wasi.ing gten
must have confidence in Mcclellan, DIT
he would not be kept IL the position be
occupies. They must gee the untold in
terests to the country, and to themselves,
as It's executive power, which hangs
upon his generalsiiip- Aud heace,
they have waited patiently for him TO
mature his plans for whole year, and
have furnished him with the willingly
offered hearts and hands of.hundreds of
thousands Of the brayest and trHest men
that eter volunteered their services in a
holy cause. He has made of these
brave volunteers, the best army that
ever answeredtotheba battle. call, ofsacom-
lnander upon Garth. The A,sministra
ton have likewise furnished the means
of equipping this splendid -army, as no
other army on this earth was ever be-
fore equipped. In addition to all this,
Gen. Mcclellan is stereotyping the page
Of history which he is to occupy in all
future time. Success crowns his brow
with aslaarei wreath, and gives his name
to immortality, even If half the men
who win sink 10 oblivion in indistln-
guishable graves. Defeat viii damn
him to everlasting infamy, no matter
what may bestbe casualties which ac-
complished It, And Gen. Mcclellan
knows. and feels ali this. xnd Know 4
ing and feeling iteall, he does not mean
to be defeated. And he will not be-
There is no such thing as defeating the
army he commands ina fair battle, and
he will not be defeated in battle. The
only danger is, that the rebels will
evacuates and go elsewhere: to set their
slaves to work again building other in
trenehments to be in their turn eyacu-
ated until oar arm les are utterly wasted
away in the labors of treueh-d digging, in
Il climate to which their constitutions
arc unequal, while the rebels rest in
their camps, while their slaves do for
them, unwiliingly, the labor which is
consuming our volunteers a hundred
fold more rapidly than battles, and
which these same slaves would do for
them joyfally,if permitted, with the
hope of final freedom. .
But we hope and trusttlie precaution
has been taken this time to prevent the
escape of the rebelsarmy. And if II has,
then it cannot be many days until the
decisive struggle comes; and when it
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