Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-04-20
LeconlPIoD IN COngress.

- fAHoi ANSPuDiSth f1io hHJi-1ASCOAuP PyOu
papers throughout the country, have been
Irejoicing for several weeks over the defeat
of that stupcndoas vilIiany in Congress.
AS our readers will remember we did not
tsharein that rejoicing; for while eve ear
Enestly.wished it mightEbe so, the history
of the past had taught us that the defeat
of this darling scheme of the Slave power,
backed as it was by all the power and pat
ronage of the Administration, would be
too glorious a trinmph of justice and right
to DE realized at present. The victory
however seemed complete. On the fullest
vote ever given in Congress-but one
member being absent-freedom trlumphed
by majority of eight. This, it was sup
posed, settled the question forever in favor
Of the people, and against the border ruff
fan Instruments of the Administration
which opposed them. But it seems the
end is not yet. The ''States,' Demo-
cratic paper published in Washington,
says that two hundred thousand dollars
have been subscribed to reverse the vote
in the House and carry Lecompton
through! Sc thepower of fmoney-naked,
bald, damning bribery, is to accomplish
what party drill and Government patron
age failed to do. But will it succeed? We
fear it will. Only four men are needed,
and if in every twelve there is one Judas,
the number can be secured.
The House, after voting by majority
of eight to adhere to It's position in the re-
lection of the Lecompton fraud, has been
brought to reconsider it's vote and appoint
a committee of conference with the Senate
to compromise the matter. We all know
what compromise means. To effect this
degrading purpose, four members who
had steadily voted for the right, must be
brought to betray their country, trample
out the hopes of freedom, and damn their
own names to eternal infamy- and they
were hadl And alas! for the honor of our
noble Buckeye State, two of them-Pen-
dleton and Hal--are from Ohio! Two
other Ohio doug ughfaces--Millera and Burns
were brought over in the early part of
the contest. Pendleton and Hall stood
firm, and their friends claimed for them
unbounded praises for their unbending in
tegrty; but the twohundred tho and dol
lar bribery fund was raised, and these prec-
ious Democrats have obtained new light,
and now vote to undo the noblest deed
of all their lives, and in utter disregard of
no vii ,f fhai, o,,J
their own re corded convictions of right,
consent to the consummation of crimes
that would dethrone any Despot in Europe!
1t may never be known absolutely, what
portion of the bribery fund was exhausted
in the purchase of these votes, nor is it of
any Importance that it should. 1t is set
tied that the proposed outrage can only be
by corrupt bribery. All the
other means in the power of the Admins
tration have been exhausted and the
scheme brought to dead point, when
nothing but money in lavish profusion,
acting on the sordd avarice of Democratic
Congressman can pnsh it through. This
last appliance is now being used, and with
what effect we soon shall see. It has al
ready secured q reconsideration of the
vote rejecting the Lecompton fraud, but
whether it will be able to secure its final
adoption remains to be seen. ..
Pendleton is from Cincinnati, which has
just spoken through her municipal cleo
ton, in an anti-Lecompton majority of
nearly four thousand. Pendleton will
never dare to return to that city if he
finally betrays his constituents, and through
his treason, secures the success of this pet
measure of Buchanan. He knows this
well. He cannot afford, therefore, to sell
himself for an ordinary sum, and may de-
mand a larger fee for his treason than his
employers can give. But it is certain that
if he finally votes with the Administration,
it will be upon the consideration of being
first paid. A few days will doubtless bring
the House to another vote, for which the
country will look with deep anxiety. In
the meantime Kansas has held another
fairly elected under law
passed by the Territorial Legislature, and
adopted Constitution, which is published
in the Cincinnati Gazette" It is almost
a transcript of the Constitution of Ohio.
1t will be ratified by the people, and pre-
sented to Congress for acceptance in a few
days. But as it will be the free and un-
biased expression of the will of the peo-
Pile, it will not be acceptable to Dem
ocratic Administration of course. Width
Or are we drifting?
Gov. Chase Republican Me sn berS
of the LegiSlHturc-LecOH |
The Cr1ttcndcm Amend nAent.