Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-05-30


Information of all the movements of
your army and of every other Important
fact to the enemy, so that they have it
earlier than we. You would not expect
that man taken with arms in his hands,
fighting against our armies, prosecuting
us to death, should go entirely without
punishment; and yet he does the enemy
/ infnitely less service Shan the man who,
! pretending to be Union man, pretend
ing to be loyal, worms himself into the
knowledge of the most important secrets
of your Executive, and then goes forth
and gives it to your enemies, whereby
!, thousands Of your men may die in vain
upon the field Of battle, and all brought
about by this slippery, Shiny traitor
There arc men who would get up after
ward in this Senate, and, with tears in
1 their eyes, plead the cause of just such
a wretch as that who, with all the eyi-
dence CT guilt upon him, was sent off
/ for little while to sojourn in one Of
our Notifications, and call it inquisito
rial, tyrannical, devilish.
| Sir, the man that makes use Of these
arguments reed not tell me he is loyal.
L tell you the danger to our institutions
! is not SO great from traitors in the field
! with arms In their hands as 1t is from
the uimble tongued, slippery hypocrites
who go forth apologizing and counter
manding every energetic measure of the
Administration as tyrannical and wrong,
+, and endeavoring to deceive the people
and stir them up to hostility against
this wise, this just, this most moderate
Administration. | do not believe the
people are going to be deceived by it.
! do not believe that your night meet
ings to reconstruct the Democra lie
party, your resolutions Of censure ac-
. cusing them of tyranny here and intim :
idation Abroad do not believe all
these things and all your Vaccinations
will be able to deceive an awakened peo
pie who understand all your arts, and
are determined to back a wise Admins
tration in the course it shall pursue.
noticed that the Senator from Ken
lucky (A1r. POWELL in the speech he
made here the other day, mourned over
the degeneracy Of this Senate. lie was
horror stricken or sorrow stricken with
the comparison of the great mel who
were here in former times and
those who are now here. He especially
referred to Massachusetts,. Well, sir,
! Massachusetts, is my old mother, and l
do not like to hear her assailed without
saying a word in her behalf tell him
I Massachusetts, was never more adorned;
there never was more patriotism, there
never was more efficiency to extricate
the contry from the difficulty into which
1t is plunged, than there is from Massa-
chusetts to-day. How is it with old
Kentucky? Did the Senator think of
that in the remarks he made? His
former colleague stood here year ago
preaching these same doctrines of con-
ciliation and anti-coercion, invoking
the Constitution in favor of traitors,
taking pay out of the Treasury, hold
ing up his hand to God and swearing
he would be loyal to the Constitution,
and then sneakiEg off into the rebel
army to stab your Cons titution to death
That is the successor of old Harry Clay,
of glorious memory. Is not that de-
generacy? The Senator himself CON
fesses that he has been suspected, at
least. Should he, standing upon ground
Hike that, have made this inquiry into
the standing of the present aud past
! Senators?
Mr. President, | have said, perhaps
all ought to say, and more; but mark,
this controversy was not provoked by
me. The Senator from California
with whom | have always lived here on
/ the most intimate terms of friendship,
or if not the most intimate the most
cordial-though it proper to assail me,
and the Committee with which act; to
assail us violently, as inquisitors. as
men that went about accusing and SLAM
dering aud stabbing men in the dark
| 1t is true that he revised the speech
that caused my speaking at all, and, |
believe, struck out every single word
that related to the Committee of which
am member. Sir, this is all wrong.
l do not know but it is permitted in
the course Of remarks we make here
that man may revise, strike out, and
put in whatever he pleases. | care
nothing about that. If he says any
thing here that he is not willing to go
to the country, I pity him, or anybody
else in that position.
He has endeavored to implicate me
in asserting that the Constitution and
the great guarantees of liberty should
not be invoked in behalf of men in ju-
dicial tribunals. Sir, [ never alluded
to any such thing know their value.
My zeal is stimulated because [ see
them endangered by this gigantic re-
bellion. 1t is to preserve these great
barriers of American liberty that [ am
Jealous in the defense of my country,
when they are sought to be overthrown
by these traitors with arms in their
1 hands. But, sir, is it not marvellous,
that they who are SO Jealous of this
CONSTITUTE on, and of these time honored
guarantees should not have single
word to say against those who are in
! open hostility to overthrow and destroy
them all.
Mr.. President, in conclusion I will
say, [ have no fears in this great con-
troversy, do not agree with many of
my brethren whose hearts seem to fail
them before the magnitude of the great
issue in which we are embarked. l be-
lieve in the justice of God, in His over
ruling providence, that He will nerve
the arms of those who are contending
for the right, and will make them vic
torious at last. I have no. fears of it
; When this great war is over; when re-
bellion shall be trampled under foot
when Southern men shall see the error