Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-01-26
MEIGS COUNTY TELEGRAPH


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January 8, 1868. 81
.fe DEAR TELEGHkril From the abov
date il viii be seen HAT this is the Qloriou
4 9Th Of January. You would therefor
naturally expect sd. aceount of the sin
lsyitabls' eslebts, sIla ..d5iHgA,' j
4 honor Of the great occasion at this cente
of Democracy. But alas ..things ain
now as they y'used towas." Times change
and Democracy ditto. Who would hav
/ dared. few years ago, to predict that tn
time could ever come when the great sun
terrified would cease to be jolly en- thi
hitherto consecrated political holy day
Yet such is the fact The day has no
only been neglected, but apparently for
gotten And there is certainly grea
propriety in this. For the servitors o
this administration thesupple spoilsmel
who yet linger in the train OF Buchanan
to desecrate the memories Of the day By
the mockery of Observance would have
presented a scene TOO audaciausly hypo-
critical to be endured, and SO the decen.
cies of life have not been outraged by the
intolerable sham. There has not been
even big drunk on the occasion!
And here, by the, way, we wish to re-
cord our agreeable surpr Use and disappoint-
ment after weeks sojourn in the city
We had been led to suppose that .Colum-
bus was the almost daily and nightly
scene of drunkenness and reyelry; and
such, indeed, may be the case. But if SO,
it has wholly escaped our notice. True,
we have not been much abroad, and our
opportunity to observe has not been ex-
tensive. Nevertheless, if drunkenness
was very prevalent, we would probably
have seen some of it. But on the con-
trary, we have not seen drunken man
since coming to the city. So far as the
members of the House are concerned, we
do not believe there is an habitual drinker
in the body, and rum hole Keepers we ap-,
rehend will not hold the names of the
members of this Legislature in very high
esteem for their personal patronage. -"
To-day the joint convention of the two
Houses finished the counting of the votes
cast for State officers at the late election.
The result being the same as heretofore
published in all the papers, is already
known to our readers and need not be re-
peated here. s ,si,,ss, ~. sa.sre
There seems to be rivalry among sew
eral of the Democratic members as to who
shall best recommend himself to the no
ice of the Slave Power at Washington,
BY placing on the record conclusive proof
If abject and cringing servility- 1t is
every day more manifest that
he past must be rendered ''obsolete'' in
Ohio, and the hope of doughfaces is turned
10 the President for future spoils, and the
,nly service that can recommend them
here, is such total self-abasement as
brands them as wiling slaves.
FOR this purpose, and probably to illus
rate the beauties and constituencies of De-,
an Hon. gent fastened to in
roduce bill to prevent colored persons
rom coming into the State of Ohio. This
ill, if passed, will prohibit persons as
White as some of the amembers, and native
,orn citizens of the State from coming
nto Ohio even on the most pressing occa-
ion,s under penalties appropriate only to
he punishment of high crimes. 1t is
imply gratuitous thrust at natural rights
n the persons Of a class supposed to be too
Ieak to offer a successful resistance to the
despotism. And this, too, in
he insulted name Of Democracy, and to
lin the smiles along with the contempt of (
city tyrants. Il
Another Hon. introduced bill for the
speal of the Habeas Corpus law; thereby {
our own courts from in any i
lanner inquiring into the legality of the
of any person Purporting to |
ct under the process of slave-eatchers 8
nder the Fugitive Slave Law. This, q
loyement, striking as il does an assassins >
lab at the dearest rights Of the, citizens
Ohio, was large bid for the favor of
le slave breeders. 1t lays the sovereign /
Of the State of Ohio a nanacled cap I
We at the feet Of Southern. arrogancy -
the mover of it does mot attract the /
otice of his oTerseer, he btlessi IL
onsole himself with theGefeetIon bat it'll
the fate of slaves to be Some tim 8 cuffed /
y their masters for services performed
18th overdone obsequiousnesss ~