Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-10-26
Special Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.
Something About the ParllonesI
Alabamians.

Special Correspondence of the Cincinnati Cazett
: Something About the Pardone
Aiabamians.
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Mon.somefy, hia, oep.: oo.-lt may (
.u'elestnS, ~ IL ho' Instructive 10 9iahce owe
.he ~ ie.o,u o, vi some oi 'lle prominent men
nus nus 1.a.e pa VINO nave peeh recommended
= Wv Ios, alsons lor l'aruo", Most OF tncm nav
, slreauy lceeNeu u, ana are now looking OIL
ior iucla.iYe li Posluons ~ either IN the etate
unuer tne uehera, government
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SSr SISI, lnu ~ ~ .n9 i',he ""' ooseiho
IL nn,,"naJ I A. " 'rI r o.a'1 seoeueu-
Ga;nas tbe arsonaI ns NJ Var,on sy;.l, al, II,
hair arms a nd ean;rments.,1so no nomn,ond mm II
ad tha .-l;na Of Forts pickcns McG,rao nm, u
Pan 10 .,;,.-;Jo ord all mon b;s o,v,
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uoou oonn vnn,a o, or. ssc'es.ol sa ~ uo'erno Gn
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. S''onol " ~ h.oa anu Dep"y ~ .ao ,uDe
Cong .ess .11,,a, "m "o.o n,oes.s nJ
persecutor OF 0'' '" IT, '',u. nSs -, Ga ..o"
Ing them into sons I;s, ,or,;"i ,ns ~J'''o'
whose proclamation mss.d 'u" p SLa"ta. =.
Thos. Hill Watts, successC.r u oiiots.i "
1868, recommended for pardon, W. 'oihl
neut lawyer, as were also his two pre-. .."ces
sors. He was Colonel in the rs bel army,
aud ufterward Attorney General of the Con-
federacy. The following extract from his in
auourai message will define his position -
AZ, ct MS renew our faith to the Southern
cause and LET us swear before high heaven
wbatavor else NAV he our fate we will never
bove rolitical connection with such q God
cursed raco Death will he n heavenly boon
comnorrd with the miscrics of Yankee rule"
He Vas n member Of Che secession conven-
t;o, and in comnonv with Mr.. l., Yanccy,
.nII od ~, grst to mt his name TO the scces-
s;nn orJ;nonce Hc was the chairman of the
committcc which rcported the confscation
md scouestration act and, as late as March
1861 was President of thc society known as
..Thc loyal Confederates of Montgomery"
I,crov Ponc Walker recommended for par-
don was prominent LAWYER He was com
missioner to Tennessee and afterwards Major
Cnnnral in tbn rchel army He ordered the
fr;nG nf tho Grst gun IN Fort Sumter. and on
tho Same cvening declared hc would plaut the
rnLol aoo IN F,nuo,l Hall in Boston
Rem; Fitznotric,, hardened, and prom
;rcnt Candidate for the II s Senate, was a
lawyer He abandoned his seatin the Senate,
toretber with c. C. CLAY, (who is now chagcd
w;,h consn;r,cy) and indorscd the sentiments
oynros,od in All memorable farewell speech
Of Claws, in which he declared himself to be
,bsoIved from al obIigatiCns to support the
Constitution ofthe United States. litzpatrick
was also one of that caucus IN which southern
senators arreed to. and did advise their
States to speclc
J.L Pugh, recommended for pardon, and
n candidate for Congress, is a lawyer of con.
siderable note He also abandoned his seat
! in Congress-, and advised the Convention in
Alabama to mass the ordinance of secession
lie declared he would raise regiment, 20 to
Washington ana set the Cnpitoi Ill mines,
was one OF the vilcst seceshonisss and most
vigilant prosecutor OF unon men.
Jabez l.. NJ Curry recommended lot par
don, is lawyer, and was one OF tne n Non-
gressmen who abandoned thclr seats IN iooo'
with f"Sh he wrote a ic''cf 10 .he A,uo"''a
Convention urging them to pass the ordnance
of secesson-was Commissioner TO Maryland
aud Deputy to the rebel Congress an orlgl
nal proseyte of Calhoun and violent pcrse-
cutor of loyal men.
Wm. Chiffon, pardoncd, is lawyer. lie
was a Deputy to the rebel Congress and an
active agent to procure subscriptions to the
Confederate cotton loan, lent all his influence
and energies to the cause OF secession and
was working member OF the Montgomery
Confederation"