Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-10-12
E1ls0m II. Ol,la.


for the undertaking. He did not read tn,
affidavit, published in our last number
got up by Martin and his friends, to be
used in the country gatherings.
Our readers will remember that this il
an affidavit made by a Democrat of Cool.
vile, in substance, that Mr.. Van Worries
on the Fourth of July, 1856, at that place
i'll conversation with Judge Fulton,
declared himself disunionist 1t was
hoped that by adding deli6er0te PERJrRY
to the mendacious LIE, they could swee.
the District. Judge Fulton WAS in Iowa,
and of course, it was deemed impossible
to get his testimony before the election. Ii
was n nicely laid scheme, but not so sue
cessful as anticipated. Judge Fulton un-
expectedly returned to Ohio, and promptly
nailed the lie to the counter. See his afli-
davit in last weeks paper. Well the Dr did
not venture to read that affidavit here! But
being great on affidavits, the Dr., in his
speech, offered to nuke one, himself, on tie
spot.
1t isknown to everybody who has heard
a certain class of Democratic speakers any
time within the last fifteen years, that they
have charged that the venerable Joshua r
Giddings, somewhere, on some occasion,
said, that he would hail as political mil
lenium, the time when the slaves, with
British bayonets in their hands, should
rise in insurrection, and with fire and
slaughter-with rapine and massacre
devastate the Southern States of this Union
We do not pretend that these are the exact
words, but it is, in substance, the charge
that has been made against Mr.. Gddings
every campaign for many years. Mr.. Gid
dings has, in every possible form, de
nounced the thing as base, unmiti-
gated FORGERY. Everybody who knows
anything of Mr.. Giddings. knows that the
sentiment is in direct opposition to every
impulse Of his nature and act of his life
Beside, Mr.. GidGings is not fool, and
every person can see at glance that no
same man would utter sentiment that
must forever damn him in the estimation
of all good men. Mr.. Giddings has been
returned to Congress, BY a larger majority.
and for longer series of years, than any
other member of that body, and by as in
telligent, as moral, as patriotic District
as is in this Union. Nobody pretends that
there is another man in his District that
holds such a sentiment. Everybody
knows, and more better than Mr.. Giddings,
that the man known to hold such senti-
ment, or suspected Of so doing, could not
get a vote in the District. Yet people
here in Pomeroy, are asked 10 believe the
pre- Dosterous LIE.
This BASE FALsEHooD--this fifty times-
branded FORGERY, that has been tlo.tiny
for years through the lowest class of parti-
san papers, and been retailed or the stump
by the most reckless Of partisan denim.
gogues, has, at last, found man to father
it. DR.. Edison B. OldS, IN his speech in
the Court House IN Pomeroy. Oc'. 6, 1858,
acknowledged himself as the author ofMe
report ofhatpretended speech of Mr.. Gid
di"gs!e Not only this. but he proposed, if
a magistrate was brought in, that lie W ould
solenanly s,cear that the report was correct,
that he. EdsoN B. Obs, heard Mr.. Gid
dings deliver that speech IN CONGRESS-
and that he. Epson B. OLDs, then and
there, scrote I doaon. word for word from
the lips of Mr.. Giddings! To this, Edson !
B Olds said he would Solenanly SWEAR!
Ef3- AND WE RATHER THINK HE Would -zT
The man who will read the resolutions Of
Garrisonian meetings, and deliberately an
nounce them to his audience as the senti-
ments Of Republicans, as Dr.. Olds did, we
think could swear to anything.
AS we said, it is not our purpose to re-
port the Dr.'s address, but to put on
record the admitted fact that DIR. OLDs is
he author of the report of that Giddings'
speech, With this fact known, we leave
,ur readers to form their own conclusions.
We frankly admit that if craftsmanship
in melting the insane prejudces of
he people into madness-in stirring these
orejudices and mad passions into blind
in inculcating the most nalig-
ant hatred against the purest and best
nen of the country, and if the most un,
Misrepresentation are The ap-
'ropriate means to this end, then is DR..
Idson B. Olds the greatest statesman of
his age!
But. believing as we do. that the people
ave better impulses-that truth is, in it, ;
eli immortal, and finds in the hearts and
understandings of men, tie sure element
+ final triumph; we are, with contempt