Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-10-03
PoMERoY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1856 i

of the oppressors; but no one of them ad-
vocating the cause Of Kansas, or favoring
her admission under the Free State Con.
stitution adopted BY her people. -.za
In the public demonstrations and pro-
cessions Of the party, | find banners and
devices containing brutal insults, in re-
sponse to the appeals of that people for pro-
lection against unparalleled wrongs, calcu-,
lated, as no doubt they must be Intended,
to prepare the masses for continued refu-
sal Of justice and protection, and relent-
less persistence in outrage and oppression.
/ find all the Democrats South, and a
portion Of lhe D DISgoeracy North, boldly.
irepQ 3la g s. vi l2seN ebraska bin, by
hss q no V go mo
1the retsi.oaes, IL pi.e of gongless or the
people; and that the inhabitants oftha Ter
ritoiy have no right to pass Territorial laws
to forbid it or exclude It. Democratic
Representatives from Pennsylvania even,
in the Senate and House, hold and proclaim
these opinions, while other Representatives
from Pennsylvania, with other Democratic
leaders from other States, declare them
selves publicly to be non-committal upon
this heresy; the inevitable tendency of
which, it is easy to show, will be to prevent
almost entirely the formation Of any more
Free States. s..r.aa.t
Having originated . movement myself,
to aid our people by sending them men and
money, and having prosecuted it with the
strictest avoidance Of party character and,a
studied neutrality as to the political can
vass, and having earnestly asked the CO.
operation ofmen of all parties, | have failed
to enlist in it, to my knowledge, single
Democrat. In the Conventions of Cleve-
land and Buffalo, called without distinction
Of party, in furtherance of this enterprise,
there was no Democrat present but myself
This cannot have been forany want of gen
erosity, or of means, but only in Difference
to the prevailing tone and sentiment of the
party which is enlisted upon the other side
Of the question. And not only have they
abstained from aiding The movement, but
in their presses and by their private infu
ence they have endeayored TO- ietard ant
cripple it by sneeling at it, warning thC
community against it as reasonable, ant
declaring that the money would be misap
piled, thus endeavoring to prevent contribu
tions even from the friends Of the measure
Imight go ON with this catalogue an(
enumerate other indications, il necessary
showing that the prevailing tone of the par
ty is hostile to Kansas; bnt | consider j
only necessary to add that what | have saiC
relates but to tls North. The South
where the great mass of the party is to b
found, making no Pretension, as a whole
to the advocacy of anything but pure Boz
der Ruffianism. .,.-r .'.-.
What, then, have the Free State men Q
Kansas 10 expect from Democratic Ad
! mmistration, even ii presided over by MI
Buchanan? If he could be left to act upo
: his own impulses, unanected by external in
tluences and free from all pledges and obi
cations, express and implied, the case woul
be very different BuL, unfortunately, thi
is not so. His election would nghtfully b
considered a decision against us, whateve
may be his own private feelings. His off
Z ces at Washington, in Kansas and else
! where, would necessarily, to alarge exten
- be filled with our enemies. His inform;
ton wonld come through distorted mt
= dium; and lastly, he could not aid us witt
|, out having first made up his mind to |
. abandoned and warred upon by his ow
y party, The South would charge him wit
violating lis pledges, and turn upon hi
: with H., binera;t hostility, and at least
:, p5riaov. .ao Northern Democracy wouI
- lollo~ q ro~a cXgmple, Ae would ii,
o. .sl5 Without P.1y 10 suppor his, AZ
; minis ration, unless he should cas-. himse
! INTO the arms of the Republicans. v
4 cannot, it seems to me, either ask on expe
Il him to do this upon a question where par
% 10 lines are so plainly drawn before his ele
= 10 ton. Like all other men in the same sit
= to alton, he must obey the party sentiment I
y !, which he is elected That there are Der
y ocrats in Pennsylvania who are full of j
~ dignation against the conductof the Sou
. in regard to Kansas, l am well aware, al
- that they will use their influence to redre
W W her wrongs, l am well satisfied; but tn
u are too few in proportion to the whole par
nf % of the Union to sustain his administrati
-, IN in war with his party. They ha
II as yet been unable to make their opinio
= appear and be felt in the party, and
NJ course, cannot do so hereafter. | hon
tee their good intentions but cannot believe
I'd their power.
IS. l repeat that Ihave been forced to the
an conclusions after no slight struggle with l
mt feelings and inclinations, Should Mr.. B
n chanan be elected, and his admmistrati
of be different from what my Judgment Co
pels me to believe, | shaI give it my G
,ot dial appreciation, and my feeble thou
in in willing support. AS Ibelieve now, | mi
r. regard the Democratic party as fully co
'os mitted to Southern Sectionalism, towi
cd which, for some time past, ithas been rap
NJ ly tending, and / quit it, we'll assured d
W. my duty to my country demands at
he hands this sacrifice Of personal feeling.
ev Very truly yours, A. H. REEDER
ar .