Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-11-18

WIN. V. PECK.
GEN. CAss LAID UPON TIE SHELr.--Thc
success of Fremont and the election OF Il
republican Legislature in Michigan lay
Gen. Cass upon the shelf His term IN
the Senate expires on the 4th of March,
and he will go out as Mr.. Buchanan goes
in. What pity! If there is any man i'll
the world who is entitled to all tie honors
of squatter sovereignty it is General Cass.
If there is any man in the United S'a'es
better calculated TO eXpound the mysteries
Of that doctrine in tic Scnate in behalf of
Mr.. Buchanan, we should like to see him.
What will tie Northern Democracy in that
body do without him? Who will take the
place of Cass as the Northern medium of
Mr. Buchanan in the Senate? What a
sLame we look back upon the whole
course of General Cass during the last ten
years, as between the North and South,
and we are compelled to say that no man,
living or dead on either side Of the Allan
tic, has struggled more patrotically orin-
geniously to occupy both sides of the fence.
He has done almost everything that Jetfer-
son Davis has required and where he could
not do it without giving an objectionable
offence to his constituents, he has split the
difference, like patriot, by dodging.--
Who can tell the number of times he has cut
and run on test vote on rivers and har-
bors, and on Kansas bills and amendments?
And all for the good Of the county. This
defeat of General Cass is one of the prom
innnt landmarks of the campaign, and shows
hat under the iron heel of popular wrath
The GIANTS and the dwarfs of a demoraIized
r,r'y are liable to be crushed together
". Y Herald.
OVERTURE TO Fremont TO DE THE DEM
ocRAr1c CAND1DATE.-Several times du-
iing the Presidential campaign it was sta
Ted, rather vaguely we believe, that over
lures had been made Mr.. Fremont TO be
brought before the Cincinnati Convention
to compromise the struggle between Bu-
chanan and Douglas. We had not seen
this story in a form quite so precise and
authentic, as the following from the Chi
cago Democrat Of Nov lst:-
It has been alleged that Fremont was
rendered the honor Of nomination by the
democracy. This has also been denied
Speaker Banks, at the late meeting at Free
port, Illinois, referring to this matter said:
-"Why do they speak Of Frcmontas light
metal?' Because he repclled their pro sla-
very overtmes. A Voicc--'That's de-
nied'1 1t cannot be--that overture fell
on these ears. Loud cheers. A prom
inent southern man, in my presence, asked
his opinions on the slavery question in ref
erence to becoming candidate for the
Presidency. And he rcplied--'Presiden-
cy or no Presidency, living or dying, am
opposed to the spread of slavery" Pro-
longed cheering.
TURKISH HONESTY The Messrs. Alb
bott were heavy sufferers by the recent
great fire at Solonica, in European Turkey,
having lost their books and papers, con-
tanning bills to large amount against some
of the principal inhabitants and merchants
of the city. On the day after tie fire old
Yussef Pacha, who is debtor to MN
Abbott for sum Of several millions pias-
ters, went to them and said. that having
heard that all the bills they hell ofhis had
been destroyed, he had brought a copy Of
hisaccount with them, taken from his books
and also fresh bills for the amount DUE
This example was followed by all the Tur-
kish debtors to the firm.
Does the "oldest inhabtan." rccollect
of an occurrence similar to the above evel
having taken place among the Christians
of Europe or America?
MORE DEMOCRACY" The New York
Day Book is one of the two journals in that
city that supports Buchanan for President
This paper reiteates the idea of its South.
ern allies, and proposes to enslave pool
men, who by reason Of poverty or msfor.
tune may be unqble to support their fam
lilies, Here is what the Day Book says o.
poor white people:
"Sell the parents of those children intc
SLAVERY. Let our Legislature pass {
law who ever will take these parents ant
take care of them and their OFFSPRING
in sickness and in health -clothe them, teeo
them, and house them--ShoH be legally en-
titled to Meir services; and let the same
; Legislature decree that whoever receives
these parents and their CHILDREN, and
obtains their services, shall take care o.
them AS LONG AS THEY LIVE"
This is no invention but the exact words
ofaprominent exponent of Democratic prin-
ciples. How do youlike il, aboring men,