Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-08-08
Declaration of Principles.

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The following is the declaration of
principles, adopted by the great War
Meeting held at Cincinnati on Thursday
The meeting, all the loyal papers of the
city say, was the largest ever held in
the West, numbering at least $4,000
persons.
This meeting of loyal citizens, de-
voutly thankful to God for the mani
fold blessings which He has SO graci-
ously vouchsafed to us, as nation, de-
clares that each and every individual of
it, is fxedly and Analterably in favor OF
sustaining the President of the United
States, and every Department of the
Government, in the vigorous proseou-
tion of this war to put down this wicked
and causeless rebellion. To that end,
they pledge their fortunes, their time,
and if need be the sacrifice sof their
lives. Loving the Governmental the
United States above and beyond every;
other earthly consideration, they hold
all to be Its enemies, whether found in
the rebellious States or in the loyal
States, who do not sympathize with aud
give tisat Goyernment their active and
cordial support in maintaining its exist
epce. Andeme do expressly declare that
the Governmentshould deprive all such
disloyal citizens Of their property, and,
strip them of every civil right, in order,
in the one case, that thereby the Gov
ernment may be assisted in paying the
expenses of this war, which is Of their
wicked making, and at the same time
depriFing them of means to furtner aiI
our enemies, and in the other case, the
more efeetuaily y to punish these bad
men for the commission of the greatest
of human crimes.
1t is further declared, that all eiti-
zens should adopt the fundamental doc
trine of sustaining the Government in
the suppression of the rebellion. All
who fail to do this are unworthy of the
protection o. the laws. They are and
should be dealt with as traitors.-4
Whether their treason is distilled in
public or private speeches, or in the
public prints, they are nevertheless the
wickedness of sedition, and mark their
authors as the most dangerous enemies
Of the Government.
Ignoring all former party ties, we
call upon all true men, ofwhatever creed
or nation, who enjoy the protection of
our Constitution and laws, to rally to
the call of our beloved country for the
additional three hundred thousand
troops, that they may assist in main
tanning in its integrity the Union of
these thirty four United States, and in
the preservation unimpaired of the Con-
stitution of our Revolutionary fathers.
As in the days of the Revolution, and
later, when Madison and Monroe held
the helm of the Ship of State; and later,
when General Jackson stretched forth
his arm and crushed notification, the
whole people rallied as one man to the
support Of the Government. So now,
trampling under foot, as was then done,
the miserable yestiges Of party, We will
throw around the Government all the
influence, and furnish all the means, and
all the men to aid and support it Within
the compass of our power. We tender
the brave men who have fought the
good fight thus far cur warmest graft
tude, and pledge them and those who are
now foeking to the same standard, our
undivided support, in every way in
which we can manifest ourselves in
words and deeds. Cherishing every
man of them as a hero, whose laurels
are won in the holiest cause in which
humanity has ever struggled, we invoke
for them the grateful hallelujahs of our
race, wherever freedom has votary.
Unalterably opposed to compromising
with traitors, we are as we'll defined in
our hostility to all attempts of foreign
nations to iatervene, and have the most
mistaken confidence that our Govern
ment will spurn all such impertinent in-
termeddling.