Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-02
EgrC. D. Martin is elected, in this Dis


have owe vote reliable for the spread Of
slavery everywhere. and we have people in
Meigs County who pretend to rejoice over
his election as Democratic victoryl Well,
let them rejoice if they can find it in their
hearts to do 90. & la,t0H1
We have not doubt that majority Of
those who voted for Mr.. Martin, in their
honest, calm reflection, regret his success,
as we believe he will, himself. before he
has served his full term. We say
this without intending any personal fleet
ion upon Mr.. Martin. We did not, during
the campaign, either write or speak a sin
gle sentence rejecting upon him as man,
| We shall not do SO now that he is elected.
1t is simply his political position Of
which we speak. 3a '.a' e "t ,oa
Mr. Martin will take his seat in the next
Congress along with about 80 members
from the slaveholding States, nearly all of
them fierce for the spread of slavery over
all the continent, and controlling the entire
machinery of the Democratic party to
which he belongs. He will also find about
90 members from the l z free States elected,
like himself, by total perversion of the
true issues that divide the parties. The Re-
publicans will have. in the same body.
something like l25 members who will,
substantially, represent the people of the
II free States. ~
Now, every intelligent person knows
that the objects and aims of the Demo
cratic party, as controlled dy these Stare
holders, and the pretended views of these
few Northern members are as opposite and
irreconcilable as light and darkness. The
schemes and professions of both wings can
not be carried out. The constituents of
one or the other must be cheated, or the
party is disrupted. There is no other re-
suit possible. Between the calm, clear,
national doctrines of the Republican plat
form, and the ultra, pro-slavery. sectional
fanaticiSm of of the Southern Democracy,
there is no ground upon which to stand.
Mr.. Martin will find himself in this un-
pleasant dilemma. He was elected as a.
Democrit-is classed rs such, and will be
expected to act with the party in Congress.
But the great majority of the party in Con
gress, as is seen, consists Of these ultra
party he is but tool in the hands of these
negro fanatics, and must, therefore, betray
the interests and mierepresent the honest
sentiments of the people who elected him.
He must do this, or substantially join the
Republican party, by voting with them
and against the Democracy a,L .r.,
Will he have the nerve to do this? Can
didly, we don't think he will. He will be
constrained to do do as Buchanan, and
nearly all other Northern men who still
cling to the party have done. Mr.. Martin
may, therefore, be set down during his
brief official career, as a feather in the tail
of the kite. He will be compelled, through
party drill, to do things abhorrent to his
judgnlentand conscience, and in direct op-
position to the known opinions, wishes,
and interests Of his constituents. Having
SO acted out his short term of two years,
he will return to his deceived and hum
bugged District, to be repudiated as al
traitor for doing precisely aohat he could
not avoid doing and reauain IN MeI
party. Henceforth he must rely upon the
slave power to reward him with Federal
appointment, or sink out of sight into the
obscurity from which he had better never
have been raised. But the prospects,, that
before his term expires, this Oligarchy
will be overthrow by the election of a Re-
publican President, and will have no Of
fees to bestow. H,s
Having no personal illwill, or even the
slightest prejudice against this young gen
tleman, we sincerely pity him for the great
misfortune which his election must bring
upon him.
We shall send Mr.. Martin, in honest
friendship, this paper, and ask him to cut
out this short article and preserve it |
until his term expires; and then, if he
does not agree with us, that the most dis
astrous event of his life was his election
to Congress. we predict it will be because
he will have had the moral courage to
abandon the party which elected him, and
like thousands of others in whose hearts
the fires of freedom have not been extin-
guished, will help to swell the mighty
host whose gathering numbers promise by
that lime to sweep away the shams and
delusions of the past, and inaugurate a
new era of justice, truth and freedom.
Frauds TO be PerpetrnIcsl
In the Illinois Election.