Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-05-18
y. 90
An Appeal to the People of Ohio.

The proceedings of public meeting held
in Columbus last week, at which it was re-
solved to erect memorials to Abraham Lin
coin and the Ohio Soldiers who have fallen in
defense of this nation, have already appeared
in our columns This meeting was partcipa-
ted in by gentlemen from all parts OF the
State, and measures were taken to secure the
necessary lneans to carry out the project
The Executive Committee, of which Cover
nor Brough is President consists Of the State
officers and some half dozen of the prominent
citizens of Columbus. At Il meeting of the
Executive Committee, Committee Of three
was appointed to draft public address. They
have accordingly issued the tolowing:-Ohio
State JouTnal u.
APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF OHIO.
The State of Ohio honored Abraham Lin
coin as Chief Magistrate and loved him as a
man. That honor and that love we're descrv-
ing of a permanent record had he been per-
mitled to reap with us the full fruition OF his
labors of the past four years They are infln-
| itely more so now that he has been struck
down in his career of usefulness by the ruth
less hand of the assassin; struck down as the
representative of civil liberty and free gov
[ernment. Such record it is proper to make
in enduring marble, fashioned by the hand OF
| Art, and erected in the beautiful capital of our
proud commonwealth, and which will speak to
every behoder our appreciation of his lofty
virtues and his uneXamplcd public services,
which shall to all future time incte an emula-
ton of those virtues and those services and
which shall speak to each generation the in,
telligcnt appreciation by a free people OF un
selfish ambition and unsullied patriotism.
Soldiers of the Union armies! when Abra'
ham Lincoln was struck down by the ASSASSIN
the stroke was aimed at you; the blow aimee
at his life was directed at the same time at thu
life of the nation, for the preservation ofwhicl
YOU have barred your breasts to the storms o
war during the four weary years of his admin
istration. He has fallen i'll the hour of you
triumph martyr to the principles for whicl
YOU have fought. Shall not Ohio, pre-cmncn
in the field and in the Cabinet be the first t.
give durable expression to the gratitude whicl
not only our state but the nation, and th
friends of liberty everywhere, cherish for tn
memory of this ilustrious son of the West
We know full well what your response will be
Nor are the brave men of, Ohio WHO hav
fallen in defense of the nation, to be forgotten
1t has been decided to erdct to their memor
= monument in the Capitol grounds, and
: memorial to their fallen commandcr-in-chit
$ ut same time 1t must he shown tn;
their services and sacrifices so bravcy an
glorionsy made, are tondly and proudly che
n ishcl by those who survive and those VIII
i come after Them.
People of Ohio, we ask for these purl os'
your generous contributions.
WM. HENRY SMITH,
e Secretary Of Stat
l. G. VoLNEy Dorsey,
Il Treasurer Of Stat
T. j. J. JANNEY,
s. Secretary Of Committc
s. On behalf of Executive Committee of Oh
Monumental Association.
= Columbus, O., May !, 1863.