Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-05-02

Lincoln and his Cabinet, that it was NJ
done. But full survey of the wlo]
G heid, satisfies us that the Governmer
: has done all it safely could d,
o II oil, or even large majority c
9 those who have so long acted in part
. afhliatioh with the Southern secession
lists, had taken up arms with them, til
overthrow Of the Constitution weul
have been inevitable and a universal desc
iatlon would have swept over the Ere
states, sweeping, in its course, all trace
OF order and security, dissolting so
: clety itself in the common ruin.
But the indications were everywhert
manifest, that the leading politicians o
: the North, were. at heart, with their old
political Southern associates. 1t was
evident, too, that they still held pow.
eriul influence over the honest masses
OF tho party, and might, by party ap.
peals, stir up the more reckless and
desperate into open treason, as was
done in the South. To avert this dan
ger, and to gain time, it was absolutely
necessary to SO shape the policy of the
Administration, IS to take this weapon
from their hands. And hence, that
course of policy which would have
crushed the rebellion at once, if we had
been united, would, probably, hare en-
abled the Northern leaders to have
armed their partisans against the Gov
ernment, and made the suppression Of
the rebellion an impossibility.
1t is true that the policy adopted has
cost US thousands of patriotic lives and
hundreds Of millions of money, but it
promises, in the end, to save the country.
Thousands are coming to see the real
cause of the war, and every patriot
whose life is sacrificed in the holy cause
OF the Union, sunders by his death, the
ties of party which trammeled the free
action of some friend, and makes that
friend into true patriot. By this pro-
cess, the convictions of thousands are
being reached through events, stronger
than arguments, SO that it will be rem
dered safe for the Government soon to
strike the decisive blow, that will for |
ever make another insurreetion an i'm
possibility. 1t is difficult to conceive
the embarrassments which have surroun. |
ded the Administration. 1t has re- !
quired the proloundest wisdom to SO
guide the afFairs of the nation as to |
save il, from utter destruction. The |
Administration has, We believe, been
lmbued with the full appreciation of the
great trust. 1t has been found neees-
'ary to place men of doubtful fidelity in
places of trust, in order to stop their
,lamor, and prevent them from inflam-
ing the passions of their partisans.-
And hence it is that SO many bitter OPP
oonents of the Administration are
placed by it in high positions in the
lrmy, the navy, and in all the Depart
nents. 1t was clearly seen. that while
.hey would use their posrrTons TO delay
md retard active movements against the
ebels, it would prevent them, through
heir selfish interests, from raising the
tandard Of epen treason for them
And the masses Of their political fol
overs, seeing these leaders, professedly,
t least, in favor of the Union, are be-
oning 50 in fact, and are thus Heaned
rom their attachments to party upon
,hich alone the rsbels relied for
uccesa.
We therefore say to our friends-to
II true Union men--to all who, like us, =,
ave been fretted and chagrined at the d,
eeming dalliance of the Government
itn it's enemies - be patient-this
curse has not been from choice, nor :,
'om sympathy, but is the result of the
rofoundest statesmanship-and was the
My policy which, under the circun v
ances, could save our institutions from =
le utter destruction which must have
'llowed in the steps of anarchy at home,
n which the hopes of the conspirators
'sted. Again we say, "BE PATIENT" r
& OHIO RAILROAD. o.
Some week or two ago we wrote and e
lblished an article, rejecting upon the W