Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-08-17
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Douglas, in his late Springfield speech,
says:
81 did not consider the mode Of sub
mission provided, in what is known rs the
"English" bill, fair submission, and for
this simple reason, among others 1t
provided in effect that if .he people Of
Kansas would accept the Lecompton Con-
stitulion, that they might come in with
$4,000 inhabitants, but that it they re-
jected it i'll order that they might form a
Constitution agreeable to their own feel
ings and comfortable to their own princi-
pies, that they should not be received into
the Union until they had 93,42O inhabit-
ants. In other words, ii is said TO tie
people If you acW come into the Union as a
$'oveholdtng State, you shall be admitted
qciM 35, 900 .inha6itonts, but if yoa insist
on being a free State, yOw shaH not be al
mi1ed until you have SO, 42O. l was not
willing to discriminate between free States
and slave States in this confederacy."
And large numbers of Democrats in
Meigs County say they agree with Doug
las, and never will consent to, or in any
manner sanction, the swindle which Doug
las so manfully resists .
Now LOOK ON THIS P1cTURE.-Buchan
an, through his organ, the Washington
"Union," says:
"Now, what we have to say is, that the
position of Mr.. Douglas is one of essen
tial hostility to the Democratic party
We maintain that he is traitor by action,
design and position. He is not re-
for mer for he denounces the friends and
applauds the enemies of the Democracy.
He does not seek to apply remedy, but
to destroy the patient-not to remove n
disease, but to PROSTATE the subject. He
is traitor, then, in his very nature be-
cause he forgets, dsregards, and over
looks, the highest interests of the De-
mocracy, seeking only to enlarge his own
fame ut their expense. His success in
the field of his labors, would intlct a
lasting curse upon the great cause ofpopu-
lar rights, for he utterly abjures his asso-
ciatcs who have stood by that cause in a
wicked attempt to advance his own politi-
, cal fortunes"
And large numbers of the Democracy
of Mcigs County say that Buchanan and
the Administration are right, and that they
will tolerate no traitors in the camp; that
all such abolition tendencies must and
shall be crushed out.
AND Now LOOK ON THIS PIcTURE.-The
Democratic Stale Conventions lat Columbus,
adopted this resolution, as the third plank
in their platform.
Pesolped, That we regard the Lecomp-
ton controversy. so-callet, rs at an end,
and as being a settled issue; therefore, we
refuse to recognize it rs test to be pre-
scribed by either side of those who differed
in opinion upon it, believing that all who
uphold the cardinal principles of the party
and sustain its organization by voting the
Democratic ticket, are good enough Demo
Gratis for all purposes.
And it is confidently expected by the
Oligarchy at the South, and their supple
servitors-lhe leaders of the North-that
the Democrats of all kinds in Meigs County
will stultify themselves by voting for Il
man for Congress, who was nominated
after twenty-six ballots, by Convention
which did not dare to adopt the principles
Of either Douglas or the Administration,
nor express a sentiment Of its own.-
They are simply asked to "go it blind
And perhaps they will. If they do it,
it will be because they will succeed in de-
luding themselves into the vain hope that
their man, somehow, will carry out their
sentiments if elected. But here comes
up an important question, "whose senti-
ments will he represent % If those OF
the Administration, the Douglas men are
cheated; if those of Douglas, the Buchan-
an men are betrayed, if neither. both are
sold, and to go with them all is clearly i'm
possible. But there is not an intelligent
man in the county but what knows he will
sustain the Administration if elected
Whatever his private sentiments may be,
he is not stronger man than Cox, and
Pendleton, and Grosebeck, and the entire
delegation from Ohio. And every one oi
them was finally bought over. And SO
will Mr.. Martin if elected. Yet such is
Democracy.
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Very Stupid or Very Dishonest.
The Democratic papers and stump
speakers, have, for years, employed as
their most effective weapons against the
Republican party, the :avings of VIM
! Lloyd Garrison. and his followers. falsely