Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-11-07
NUMBER a

A. E. McLAUGaLIN,1
NUMBER a
to our pity and commiseration, rather
than abuse and contempt; and none bus
traitors or coward who would strike
woman and abuse children, would wan.
tonly maltreat them. It is suspected
that the rebels have hired these bad
men to enlist in some of our regiments
as spies, and for the purpose of abusing
and driving back the contrabands, that
they (the rebels) may have the bene6t
of the services of their slaves, and they
be deferred from coming into our lines.
1t is, therefore, ordered, and hereby
made the duty of every officer and soldier
of this command, to Immediately shoot
do,en every soldier or other personswho
may be found eauselessly abusing, beat
ing, Or otherwise Insitreat Ing any u
the negro or mulattos serva dts or dzisosa
in or about this command. {. fsfe;
by order Of
Brig Gen. r. H. MILROY."s
The above is verbatim copy Of the
printed order, even to the italics. We
do not know what others may think
farther than thatitis generally approved
here-but according to our notion OF
things, it rings of the true metal. You
may rest assured, too, that, while Mil
roy is in command, it will be carried Gus
to the letter. : i.tE1tSr
/ The Generals views in reference to
the mode ofeonduc:ing the war are ex.
actly right; and if acted upon, would.
undoubtedly, have crushed the rebellion
long before this time. His detestatioa
. of the miserable and suicidal .concilia.
tion'' policy, which has so nearly (if
not quite) made our cause hopeless, is
most intense and but little concealed
In his Judgment, man who voluntarily
takes up arms to destroy the best Gov.
ernment upon which the sun of Heaven
ever shone-and, as in the present case,
without even the shadow of justifca-
tion--deserues nothing less than hanging.
Nevertheless, in consideration Of the
cloud Of ignorance and prejudice under
which the masses of the South have
been led-of the iron despotism thas
has driven them into the ranks of the
rebel armessby thousands-of the un-
accountable, if not criminal, failure Of
the Government to sirescue the real
Unionists of the South from the thral.
dom in which they were held-Generai
Milroy would hold the masses captured,
as prisoners, while hes wodd hang the
traitorous wretehes who haye led the
Southern>people in this internal carni-
val of treason, against the Goyernmene
of our country, aud the holiest hopes
and purposes of mankind. There is NO
false, sick hearted sentimentality abous
him, which would put murderous, red:
hearted treason at premium. and ex..
empt the leaders of this attrocious rebel.
lion from thesjnsts deserts of their un-
hallowed crines.s He believes that
traitors should bear the legitimate bur.
dens, and feel the terrible consequences
of the bloody arbiter which they have.
invoked, and no hypocr;ticai cant about
:
Southern Rights" or estate Loyalty"
would induce him to make treason hons
orable, by pampering its authors "a
l"Southern Gentleman well meaning,
of course, but misled as to the purT ose
of the loyal North. With him, treason
what the laws of all civilized nations
concur in pronouncing it-a war against
society itself-iuvolving every crime
4 known to human wickedness-an justly
putting its authors and supporters be-
yond the pale of law-whom it is tho
duty of loyal citizens to destroy, as they
would wild beasts, running at large
He remembers that all civilization is
united in fixing upon death as the le-'
gitimate doom of the traitor; and, SO far
as the leaders-Davis, Toombs, Toucy,
|&c.-who inausurated this well-nigh
? consummated treachery, is concerned.
the General would vitalize this judgA
ment of mankind. AS asoldier, we say,
SO let it be-life the forfeit for treason.
till the insuted majority of our Gov
ernment is vindica ted-its authority re-,
stored-or the hopes of our people
swallowed up in the crimson sea Of their
own blood-shed in a heroic attempt to
maintain American Institutions, and
constitutional liberty! 81
5 But l find that my. lotter is getting
very leng-"metropolitan" in that re-,
spect-and, although intended to
speak of Col Latham, the preseutcom-
mander of our Brigade, soldier and
q a geniIeman-I will defer it till my
, next, when greater space will allow mo
to do him more ample justice. s.
. For The Porner,y Weekly Telegraph.
BOLIVAR, Tenn. Oct. 9Th, 62
D lNr. Editor:-I am happy to inform
' you of the bravery displayed by Capt.
G | R,-,,n ,e tho 7th Ohio R.ttery and