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

one. February has been the coldest o
the winter months.
For the Telegraph.
DOugIns---LecomPtOn---Pugh.
The timely Scripture warning. to .Nakt
heed when you stand-lest you fall" is
we'll illustrated, politically, by the present
position, rs regards influence, of S. A
Douglas, in the U. s. Senate. A few
months since and his power was seem.
ingly irresistible now, in the language
OF Pitt, "none on the Democratic side oi
the house SO poor as to. do him rever-
ence." When the Nebraska Bill was to
be forced through the Senate. his untiring
energy, his marked ability and high posi-
ton with those Of his own party, pointed
to him as pre-eminently the man TO lead
in SD great contest. When the practical
effects of that measure began to exhibit
themselves in the numerous "Border Ruff
fam outrages in Kansas, again Douglas
was called TO the warfsre--was made to
"face the music" And this not only r.
Congressional Debates, but also before
an aroused and deeply offended people.
Whenever, wherever, and however he
could be used to advance the interests of
the oligarcl.y Of slave holders who control
,he national politics, his services we're in
immediate requisition. AS long as lie was
true to the slave power, so long he was
made to lead in its continual aggressions
upon the constitution of our country and
the rights of our people. But as far as
he had gone, there is one deeper deep"
to which he could not descend. He can
not support that Infamous swindle, the
Leconpton Constitution.
But the slave power is one of those in
exorable monsters--"conceived in sin and
born in iniquity'-which never yields to
cries of mercy, nor to anything but de-
termined -powering opposition. Its
only hope of existence lies in persists mt ag-
gIessions upon its ancient and natural en-
emy, freedom. Hence the present un-
gratefuness in lis treatment of Senator
Douglas. His aid in times past could
not suffice. His repeated and solemn
pledges to the people could not be re-
ceived in extenuation for his present crime.
If he proved faithful in ninety nine efforts
and faltered in the last. he cannot be saved.
Only constant. never-failing watchfulness
over the interests of the slave power. will
ever commend its confidence.
1t is, therefore. but little matter of as
constituent that MIR. Douglas, in opposing
the adoption of the notorious usurpation,
the Lecompton Constitution,
should forfeit the confidence of slavery,
and also lose the apparent influence which
he had gained, where the slave interest
is well-nigh omnipotent. Hence, without
surprise, we find the following in the pro-
ceedings of the U. S. Senate for Wednes-
day, Feb. 10, 1858:
"MR. DOUGLAS REsoLUT1oNs-During
the morning hour, Mr.. Douglas made
more than one effort to take up his resolu
lions calling on the President for INFOR-
NATION touching the elections in Kan
'as, but WithoA success"
The Vice President then announced the
special order; when
Mr.. Douglas moved to postpone the
special order for the purpose of taking up
MS resolutions"
Mr.. Douglas then proceeded to give the
'easons for his motion, but was repeatedly
by Messrs. Mason and Davis,
who desired the Senate should pursue its
'egulsr order of business, and who also
'egarded The information desired as "en-
irsly irrelevant" and belonging only to
he "people of Kansas" Constant in
eruption seems to have made Mr.. Dong
as indignant, for he replied, "Tbat if
he facts in the case were to be smothered,
t was competent for majority Of the Sen
.te to say so now, and he therefore felt
to persist in his motion to post
oone the special order of the day, for the
purpose of taking up his resolution"
The question was then taken on the
notion of Mr.. Douglas, and decided in the
NEGATIVE, by the following vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Bell, Broderick, Cam
eron, Chandler, Collamer, Dixon, Doolit-
lie, Douglas, Durkee, Fessenden, Foot,
Foster. Hale. Hamlin, Harlan, King, Sew
ard, Simmons, Stuart, Sumner, Trumbull,
Wade and Wilson-twenty-th
NArs-Messrs. Bayard, Briggs, Benja-
min, Bigler, Bright, Crittenden, Davis,
Evans, Fitzpatrick, Gwin, Houston, Ham
nond, 'Irerson. johnson of Tenn, Jones,
Kennedy, Mallory, Mason, Polk, PUGH
If Ohio, Sebastian, Slidell, Toombs, and
-four. b. -'-' ~
So Mr. Douglas resolution was not
AIKEN up. His power ever the controlling
element in our politics is gone. His voice
'nce 80 potent with majority Of the Sen
he, is now sounded in vain "IIow are