Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-11-09
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Mr.. EDITOR

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Twas surprised to find in your issue of the
I'd inst, the following statement: The Gene,
raj Convention Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church tabled Il resolution proposing to thank
God for the suppression of the rebellion, ,snd
the restoration of the Government to its want.
ed supremacy, in order to please ecclesiastic-
al representatives ofth southern rebel church,
who, it appears, now that their mission of in
iquity bas failed, seek n reunion of the sew
eral parts of the Church y odi ao a9usnF
This statement is probably on your
part simply mistaken. while with those with
whom it originated tits false and malicious.
But as an editor, you ought To be aware that
almost the first business transacted by the
Genera! Convention, was to pass a resolution
to observe day of special Thanksgiving for
"thc restoration Of National Peace and I'm
ion" that this resolution passed unanimous
IN, and that the services which we're held in
Philadelphia, agreeably to its directions, were
confessed on all hands to be most appropri-
ate, and in every way equal to the occasion.
How with that fact before you, can you say
that the Convention tabled arcsolution propo-
sing ito thank God for the suppression of the
rebellion" &c, thus indirectly imputing disloy-
atty to body of men. comprised ofsome Of the
most distinguished patriots in the land and
foremost supporters Of the administration Of A.
braham Lincoln and Andrew johnson, as if
they were sorry for the suppression of the rebel
lion andthe vindication of the national au-
thority ~. t'e'pi Ii,9LfE n.' p
In the very crisis Of the war, the
Convention set forth, in clear and viv-
id terms the sin of rebellion, and the duty
Of the citizen to defend the Government Of
his country To suppose thatmen after the
war is over, are going to reverse their course,
is against common sense, and offensive to
common decency The Convention did all
that twas called upon to do in its religious
capacity, and in its establishment of Freed
mems Commission, ,cith the concurrence of
the southern church. it secured a most effect
ual guarantee for the moral and intellectual
improvement Of the colored race, for every
man in his senses, knows that the work of ell
eyating the black man Of the South must have
the concurrence Of the white man of the South.
Perhaps If the Convention had committed It.
self to negro suffrage" and denounced Pres.
ident Johnson, its libelers would have been
better satisfied, while the sectarian enemies
Of q Church the last to separate, would have
been better pleased had it not been the first
to unite But 1t seems this resolution was
tabled in order ito please ecclesiastical rep
resentatives of southern states, who itappears,
now that their mission of iniquity has failed,
seek o reunion OF the several parts Of the
Church" These Ecclesiastical representa-.
tives" kept very quiet, and il they were pleased
with the day Of Thanksgiving, they will not
be hard to please hereafter Certainly none
but the advocates Of disunion, would seek now
to perpetuate animosities, and have good
authority for saying that President johnson