Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-03-02

formerly denounced the Republicans as
liars, when they published the facts to the
people, and who did all in their power to
crush out the Free State men of Kansas
when they were weak and needed aid, now
eating their own declarations, and endor-
sing all the Republicans charged against
them. Whether the leaders are honest or
not, the truth is getting to the people in a
form that will not be repelled by party
prejudice, and in the end it will have its
influence and bear the glorious fruits of
righteousness. We say, let them shriek.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 18, 1853.
Dear 1slcgrapA-We have had quite
an episode in the dull routine of business
to-day. Ever since the Janus-faced reso-
lutions of the Democratic caucus were
forced through the House, in the early
days of the session, there has been a fer
ment in the camp. The telegraph and
the mail have been in constant requisition
in bearing hurried messages from Wash
ington to Columbus and from Columbus
back to. Washington. The wrath of the
indignant, the trepidation of the fearful,
the torturing incertitude of the willy trim
mer. the ebbing and flowing of the hopes
of the "waiters on Providence" in gen.
eral. was sight to move commiseration
in the hearts of Republicans, notwith.
standing the scene was naturally more
provocative of mirth than tears. The
great problem was, "Who will come out
victor''-Buchanan or Douglas? Our
wise politicians, as you know, had con-
ceived the extremely original idea of car
rying water on both shoulders. In their
resolutions they had devoutly prayed,
GOOD Lord, good Devil" They had
Endorsed Buchanan and denounced his pet
measure, and the thing was nicely fixed.
But the apparent cause of the present
time Of sore trial was that the thing
wouldn't stay fixed" The master had
spoken and the men must obey. Heads
were falling fast. and no halfway devo-
ton, it was clear, would be accepted by
the dispenser of Postoffices and Marshal
ships at Washington. And so it seems
that some of the very Hon. members, after
having placed themselves right with the
people Of Ohio, by voting, with ostenta-
tious publicity, to instruct Senator Pugh
to vote against the Lecompton villainy,
wrote to him, privately, to disobey their
instructions. This double game has been
the theme of free remark for some time,
but it never appeared in tangible shape
until to-day. The Cincinnati Enquirer,
which is after the Cincinnati Postoffice,
and is consequently hot for Buchanan and
Lecompton, told the tale, which made
more pale faces in the Legislature, than if
it had announced the approach of pesti-
lence. Its article. although short, like the
internal machine thrown at Louis Napo-
leon, is also, like it, filed with terribly
explosive matter. The article is as fol-
lows:
"SENAroR PueH AND DEMOCRATIC MEM
BERs OF THE ONO LEGIsLATURE.-A
Washington dispatch to the Cleveland
Herald, of the 18th inst, says that the
Democratic members of the Ohio Legis-
lature have written to Senator Pugh, with
drawing all instructions as to how he will
vote on the Kansas question That, we
suppose, is partly true. We know that a
number OF members signeda paper Of that
kind; to what extent, however, we are ig-
norant. We are also aware that great
many members were satisfied that the res
olutions were ill-timed; and many others,
that they should not have been passed at
all; and we suspect that nearly all of them
think they had better have let Mr.. Pugh
act untrammeled."
Such was the language Of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer" the largest Democratic
paper in the state, and speaking, as it says,
from personal knowledge. Before the
Democrats recovered from the stun of the
blow, occasioned by the distribution of
the paper through the hall, Mr.. Harrison,
a Republican, offered the following pre-
amb!e and resolutions:
"WnEREAs, The Cincinnati Daily En-
quirer' Of this 1.-THE 18th) inst. contained
the following editorial article the arti-
Gle quoted above,
..And whereas. the disparaging refec-
tions cast by said article ON the action and
Integrity and disinterestedness of the Cen
eral Assembly, is calculated to weaken
and degrade its position in the Congress
of the United States, and before the coun-
try, and consequently demand our en-
phatic and indignant refutation; therefore,
be it
Resolued, BY the General Assembly of
the State of Ohio, that we hereby, without
any qualification whatever, re-afirm the
instructions hitherto given to our Senators
and Representatives in Congress to vote