Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-03-09
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COLUMBUS, Feb. 92, II


Dear TsIsgraph-In our last letter we
promised an account or tho great Demo-
cratic indignation meeting to come off on
the Goth. Well, the goth came, and the
Democracy and the indignation came with
It. We may as well promise in the start
that We have no ability 70 portray the
scene. or do anything approaching justice
to the occasion We shall not, therefore.
attempt report, but merely give the i'm
preston left on our mind. We thought,
from our recollection of the days Of " Capt.
Tyler" that we had formed a tolerably
distinct idea OF what was meant by ''in-
dignstion," but we confess that, up to
that day. We were profoundly ignorant OF
the force of that tom.
The meeting was held in tho City Hall,
which. soon after two o'clock, WAS crowded
30 its utmost capacity. and hundreds we're
unable to obtain admittance. We need
not take up time to give the preliminaries
Of the organization. Tho usual array Of
officers aud committees were duly ap-
pointed, and the positions filed by those
who had heretofore been the most prom
inent Democrats of Franklin County-the
editor fthe "Westbote, late candidate for
Secretary Of State being Chairman, who in
ro duced to the audience, as the first spea-
ksr, Judge johnson, Of Kansas. This gem
tleman is a very fair speaker-has been a
resident OF Kansas ever since its organi-
Sa,ion, aud was, therefore, competent to
give a truthful account Of the troubles
thore. This he did in manner that must
have carried conviction to the minds OF
every person mol willfully blinded by party
prejudices. He gave us full history oi
tho violence, fraud, perjury and outrage
which has been the order there ever since
the FIRST entrance Of the Federal officers
into that unhappy country. He selected
scenes that came within his persona
knowledge. which would curdle the BLOOD
ofany one, not in heart "border- ruffian.' >
He said emphatically that the worst re
ports ever published fell infinitely below
the reality.
But the great significance of the occa
sion was, that the speaker did not de
nounce these border-rufian villains, ant
excuse the greater criminals, whose in
struments they were. The whole matter
was placed. honestly and fesrlessly in its
true light. these scoundrels being but the
instruments Of the Administration n,
Washington, which Administration itsell
Was but the supple tool of the slave power
of the South. The whole system of fraud
oppression and outrage was traced directly
to its source, and the forged election re-
turns, sustained by open and notorious
perjury, and the whole backed up and en-.
forced by the United States army, was
concocted in Washington, and every man
appointed to Office by the Administration,
who would not bind himself to carry il
into effect, WAS instantly insulted and at
tempted to be disgraced by the President
Calhoun, Emery, Henderson, Pate, Jones,
Lecompte, Cato, and the whole host oi
minions were in constant communication
with the Cabinet at Washington, and
secret agents were constantly passing
TO and fro between them and their EN-.
ployers. While these miscreants, carry
ing the commissions of the President
were committing open robhery-stealinG
the property Of Free State p,en-destroy
ing their presses, and numbering the peo'
rle--sacking their towns, and battering
down their hotels, and burning theil
homos--the army Of the United States
was kept in requisition to exterminate the
people if they dared to resist. While
the concocters of all these enormities
in Presidential messages, Congressiona
speeches. and through the press, insultec
Heaven and outraged the Intelligence o
the civilized world by their mendaciou:
falsehoods that the people were in rebel
lion, and all this was necessary to keeE
down insurrection / do not pretend t.
quote the language Of the speaker, bu
give an indication of the idea. 1t wa,
bold, clear, distinct, unequivocal anc
manly-no subterfuges, no pa!liations
No fawning to the powers that be.
The next speaker WAS II. B. Payne, th'
wouldbe Governor. If we coulI have
forgotten the speech he made at Pomeroy
last fall. we could have said of it, too
that it was bold, manly, and straightfor
ward. But his sneers at bleeding Kan
sAs." and his bold, and by him. known t.
be false charges, then made, that al the
stories Of frauds and wrougs in Kansas
ware "Black Republican lies. j" would fore,