Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-09-05
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For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph
paMERoY. Aug. 80, '62.

For the Pomeroy weekly ieiesi"Pn'
PeMERoY, Aug. 80, '62.
Editor getegraph:-In your last issue
Is a long communication from Wm. IT,
Remington, in which he endeavors to
show that he had been wonderfully
slandered, &c. As l am personally
named in that article, 1 would ask the
favor of making a short reply.
AS one of the Committee appointed to
solicit subscriptions to the Military
Bounty Fund, for Salisbury Township,
called on Mr.. r. After making my
business known, he wanted to know what
we proposed to do. | told him we
wanted to raise a. amount sufficient to
nav at least twenty dollars to each man
that would volunteer from the town
3, ship, and have fund left from which
their families might draw in case it was
necessary; that We had already some tif-
teen hundred dollars subscribed, and
were anxious to raise the amount to
three thousand.
After making some excuses about
having advanced money to sustain the
Government, &C., he said we had al
ready too much money subscribed, and
if the men could not be had at the
twenty dollars bounty, he was in favor
of drafting, and would not give any
thing.
Now, sir, the old hypoerite comes out
and would have the community think he
was desperately abused by his name ap-
pearing in the list of subscriptions as
having refused to give" aud, as usual
makes a desperate effort to shield himself
behind Democracy, and the cry ofperse-
icution, and thinks it very strange that
s, few names should appear as his own
The only answer to that is, that there
are but few of that kind of men in the
township. A considerable number of
the names on the list are Democrats, but
not of Mr.. Remington's kind.
Mr.. r. says:
.aI replied to him that had last year
advanced large amount to sustain the
Government and had now about fifteen
hundred dollars due me yet, on whi ch ]
expected to sustain loss in amount ex-
ceeding any subscription on his list. =
Some of which were two hundred dol
lars. .r.fs
Now do you suppose Mr.. Remington
will be able to make the people Of Meig:
County believe that if he has an homes
debt of fifteen hundred dollars agains
the Government (of which [ would wan
better proof than merely his word) thu
he would have to sustain loss of owe
two hundred dollars in order to get hi
money! The thing shows plain on it
face that there is good deal of bogus
about the claim, or else the man has bu
little confidence in the Government On
would have you believe) he has mad
so much sacrifice to sustain.
Further, he says:
IL presume that the object in view
to divert trade from me.
Well, that must be a joke. The ide
of divertng trade from man that ha
the we'll earned reputation Of being tn
greatest women's man in town. to
gether with his ancient stock Of good:
comprising, i'll style, the shoes worn b
Moses in the wilderness, and hats, bon
nets, &C., running down to within filtee
years Of the present time, is perie.tl
absurd. But, suppose i man was foo
ish enough to attempt the like.
would be desperately mean, judgin
from the assessors returns for the la
few years, Of the small amount of cap
tai employed. | think that any me
who would stoop to SO little thin
would steal mortified skunhs.
S. A. NJ. MOORE.