Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-10-10
Choose Ye.


lowed them, will be called upon to as
sist in the election of member of Con-
gress. There are but two men before
the people of the District. One or the
other will be elected Between the two
you must choose. To stay away will
not relieve you of the responsibility
Mr.. Cutler or Mr. Morris aciU be our
Representative. 1t is worse than folly
to say it makes no difference which
They stand directly opposite to each
other. They represent directly oppo-
site ideas. Their influence and their
votes are expected to be exactly cover
against" each other, else why run Mr..
Morris as mere partisan? We cannot
stoop to the low abuse of Mr. Morris,
which his partisans employ toward Mr..
/ Cutler. Nor would it effect our pur-
pose to do so. Our readers are gov
erned 5y reason. Appeals to passion
and prejudice, in these columns, would
not reach that class of minds controlled
| by such influences Mr.. Cutler, whom
. you know to be statesman, a man of
clear head, pure heart; and of un-
doubted patriotism, is in perfect har-
mony with the policy of the President
in the future prosec ution of the war
and will act in unison with al Depart
ments of the Government, in measures
to sustain the Union. With him, and
such as he is, in Congress, all the De-
partments will be in harmony, and will
present united front to the enemy
He is the candidate OF the true Union
men of the District, without regard to
party. His election will be hailed by
every loyal man in the Union, as a tri-
umph, as it will be felt in the obscurest
dens of rebeldom as defeat.
Mr.. Morris, on the other hand, it is
not pretended, is the peer of Mr. Cutler
in intellect, in commanding influence,
and practical craftsmanship. He is the
candidate of a mere sectional party, un-
less he still claims full fellowship with
the Southern rebels. lie belongs to
the same class with Vallandigham, Ne :
dairy, Cox, &c. He is in deadly hostil :
ity to the policy of the President, which
Mr.. Cutler sustains. If elected, he will
oppose every measure of the Admins
tration, the Senate, and the loyal part
of the House, proposed for the conduct
of the war. So far as it may be in his
power, he will create division and fac
ton in our councils, and defeat the sup
preston of the rebellion in the only
manner in which it can be accomplished
Every disloyal man in the North, every
sympathizer with the rebels, every
shade Of faction and every phase OF
unreasoning prejudice will rejoice in
his election, or will be defeated in his
defeat. His election will create no
alarm in the South, for the greatest boon
they can now hope is, to secure a fac
ton in our Congress, that will, by tn eir
opposition, embarrass the Administra-
ton.
Such, in brief, is the position of these
two men. One Of them utU be elected.
You, our readers, must do your part in
placing one or the other of them in Con
gress. Choose, then, as wise and hon
est citizens, which Of these it shall be-
eG" Prentice, Of the Louisville Jour
nal, pays high and touching tribute to
his eldest son, VIM. Cortland Prentice
who was killed at Augusta recently
He had joined the rebel army five weeks
before, and lost his life in the mad at
tempt to aid in the overthrow of his
country. Prentice's second and only
other son, is also an officer in the South
ern Army. AS father, we can sympa-
thize with the parent in the loss of a
son; but 1t seems most passing strange
that the sons Of all the Border State
Union men should be the most persist
ent rebels. Prentice, Wickliffe, Crit
tenden and the rest, profess to be Union
men. They insist upon debating the
policy of the Administration in the
prosecution Of the war, and have been
too successful. But no man can be Sc
stupid as not to see that their whole in
fuence has been to prevent the adop-
tion of such policy as would efectu
ally put down the rebellion. Would
the sons have all been open, active trait
ors if the fathers, had been earnestly 10y
al? The supposition is absurd. The
fathers were too old to fight But in
the Senate, and in Congress, and as con-
ductors ofinfuential journals they could
have vast influence Processing to lie
Union men, they have denounced the
truly loyal people of the Free States as
the real disunionists. No epithet has
been too insulting, no abuse too coarse
no charge too reckless to be hurled by
them at the people of the loyal States,
or the majority of them. They pulled
in the same traces with our Valanding-
hams and Coxes-were conservative,
and therefore had right to dictate the
policy of the Cove rnment.
Well, is. it any wonder their sons