Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-04-27

ernment will not always bear with its enemies;
that it is strong not only to protect but to
punish, When. we turn to the criminal code
and examine the catalogue of crimes, we there
find arson laid down as crime, with its ap.
propfiate penalty we find there theft and
robbery and murder given as crimes, and there
too we find last and highest Of crimes, trea-
son. @ W. IT. fea
With other and inferior ofenses our people
are familiar, but in our peaceful history, trea-
son has been almost unknown The people
must understand that it is the blacklist of
crimes, and will be surely punished. ! make
this alluson not to excite the already exas-
perated feelings of the public, but to point out
the principles of public justice which should
guide our action at this particular juncture
and which accord with public morals. Let it
be engraved on every heart that treason is
crime, and that traitors shall suffer its penal
y. While we are appalled, and overwhelmed
at the fall of one man in our midst by the
hand OF a traitor, shall we allow men-I care
not by what weapons-to attempt the life of
the State, with impunity? While we strain
our minds to comprehend the enormity of the
assassination, shall we allow the nation to be
assasslnateu Z l speak In no spirit OF unkind-
1ess ! ieaVe the events OF the future to be
olSposeu ol as tney arse. Regarding myself
do .he nuihDie instrument OF the American
peopIe In i"is as IN all things Jusuce ana Judg-
harbor bitter or revengeful feeling toward
any
III genelal Terms would say, that public
nI 0. a's anu puolic oP,h.on shouio De estaohsh
eu upon tt,e m sure ana innexloie principles OF
Jusuce' "heh !he questlon OF exercising
mIroy 'cnIs oei9re me- IL VIII De CONSIDERED
oa,%y, .ha JuG:leioas.y' remembering that am
'"I i1Aecu'iVe i. " tne nauon;
oe: Ano~ men io'e 70 nave the'r names spoken
OF IN connection with acts OF mercy, and hcw
e.s' GU. IL 10 10 {leio 70 ln'simpulse, but we must
noi noI ;ioise. Msa' may Se mercy 10 the analVid
a"l 10 .iuelty W Ine otate' IN the exercise OF
aeloy h;I tnere snou!u De no aouDt ieit that TINS
n.shh pieroeuu'e 10 hot uSed 10 reheVe lew
'' tne Expense ., t1e many
ne assureu l shall never lorget that am
hot 10 consult my own feelings alone but to
sNe an account 10 the whole people inre-
sa'u " NY lu'uIe course l VIII make no
ple.ses' nave oeen connected somewhat
ac.lveiy WIN Puohc analrs, ana T.: to the history
VI my 'upic acts' wh!ch Is lamlIlar TO you'
reier' lor tnese principles which have govern
Gu me nereto1ore' ana Will guide me hereaf-
Mr vi g. In general, l VIII say nave long labor
ea ior tne eleVatlon OIL the great mass OF man.
kind My opinions as to the nature of popu-
lar Government have long been cherished, and
constituted as am, it is now too late for me
to change them. | believe that Government
was IS, made for man, not man for Government
ms struggle OF the people against the
most ,glngantlc rebellion the world ever saw
has demonstrated that the attachment of the
people to their Government is the strongest
national defense human wisdom can devise.
SO long as the rich man feels that the inter-
eests OF the Government are his interests-so
long as the public heart turns in the right di-
rccctlon, and the people understand and appre-
clate the theory of our Government and love
liberty, our Constitution will be transmitted
unlmpaired. If the time ever comes when the
people shall fail, the Government will fail, and
we shall cease to be one of the nations of the
earth.
After having preserved our form of free
government and shown its power and main
tanned its existence through the vicssitudes of