Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-10-26
The Nove,,b,r EIcc.tOns.

The n OVeIm ber ElccatOns.
The crushing defeat Of the Democratic
party in the great States of PennsI lvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota, on the
second Tuesday of this month, has rendered
the Administration perfectly desperate in the
States where elections are to be held in No
vember.
The only hope Of the LecemptoniteS is in
the division of the Opposition forces. The
New York "Herald," and its compeerS, fairly
howl in their frantic efforts. In New YORK
there are four regular parties i'll the field. The
Abolitonists, with Gsrrit Smith et their head,
as their candidate for Go yernor-the Know.
Nothings, the Democrats, and the Republi-
cans.
The Administration, knowing that it is in
minority of, at least, 100000 in the Slate,
can only hope 10 retain power by keep
ing up these divisions among the people. AS
there is no danger Of either the Know Nothings
or Abolitionists carrying the State, the whole
force of the party, backed by the Admins
tration, is brought u bear on the Republican
organization.
Every falsehood that ingenuity can invent
and malignity propagate, is heralded forth
from the pc nsioned presses in the pay of the
Government. Every passion is arou used, and
every prejudice stimulated, to defeat the Re-
publicans.
1t is difficult to tell, sometimes, to which
party these Government papers belong. You
will find in one column the most infamma-
tory appeals 10 the Know Nothings 10 stand to
fla,r ,oIra tIa ID ~,,I,l II
and Americanism thereby be forever wiped
out representing the Republicans as the most
deadly enemies of the American party. In
the next column you will see an equally fa-
natical appeal to the foreigners, as a class, to
crush out the Republican party as TME IR
worst and bitterest foe. Right under this may
be found another, calling on all anti slave ry
in sentiment, to vote for Smith at the risk Of
their souls salvation, and representing the
Republicans as having voted for Dunn's Bill,
TO fasten slavery on Kansas, and being so
pro-slayely that no honest anti slavery man
CAN vote with them. The next article will
proba bly, be an appeal 10 old -fogy Wings, and
here the tune is changed again, and the Re-
publican party is represented as the real Abb
clifton party, and all the sumbering preju
dices of HunkeriSm are invoked to defeat
them. The Temperance men are appealed to
with all the zeal of consecrated missionaries,
to defeat the Re publicans, because they won't
make prohibition plank in their platform.
And then the liquor seller, and all in his in
terest, are invoked TO annihlate the same Re-
publicans as the only safety to their craft.
In short, there is not a faction-not class
intereSt-not passion-not prejudice that
is not appealed to. Even the neg roes, who,
in New York. have a vote, are appealed to
with an entreaty-a pathos-a brotherly ex
postulation, which, if resisted, will show
the sable biethern to be hard hearted, in,
deed. Mingled with all this sickeninG med
ley Of hypocrisy and cant, this hotch- potch
of false hood, fanaticism, fraud and folly, are
the patent, slang terms of our own i'm
mortal orators, such as "Black- Republican,
Wooly Head, Negro orshiper," &c. ad
infnitum.
1t is not among the possibilities, IN the ma
ture of things, and the moral constitution OF
man, tn at such desperate-such reckless vio-
lations of all social and moral propreties can
be long continued, without total change in
the structure OF society. 1t must either dis
gust the people until they arise in their indig-
nation and flown it down forever; or it must
S 20 corrupt them that there will not be virtue
enough left to preserve the fabric of Socie ty
in its present form.
We think the indications are, that these pa.
perS have under estimated the virtue and in
teligence of the people, and that ey will
meet with the same rebuke in New York hat
they have in Pennsylvania and the 9th er Safes
named. 1t will be happy day for our coun.
try, when the people shalt teach, in unmis
taxable emphasis, the great lesson, that
they will be addressed as rational, thir k
ing, responsible men, or not at all. When
that time arrives the reign of Demagogues will
cease, and cur Heaven favored land, under
the wise guidance of able and honest men,
will run her race of destined prog
reSs, in the serene quietude OF calmest social
repoSe. Courage, then, friends of freedom:
The night advances--the dawn approaches-
the morning light appears!
''Therc is n good time coming, boys,
Wait little longer"