Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-04-27
THE ISSUE,

experience hath shown that mankind are
more disposed Is suffer, while evils are
eutTerable, than to right themselves by
nbolishirs the forms (which they are nc
customed." This conServatism--this re-
pugnance 60 change--tlis fond cling'ng
to old and hong established habits oi
thought. associations, FORMS and instltu-
tions, while it is the basis of all stability
and permancnce in the affairs OF men. lay
inv broad aud stable foundation, OH which
progress may build her most beneficent
superstructures, is, nevertheless, liable to
become the nesting place of hoary error,
the den Of irredeemabfe corruption, and
the strong citadel of grinding tyranny op'
preston and wrong. We can all clearly
perceive this ira Ii when applied to coun-
tries, castozns, people. religions and gov
ernn,ents, of which we do not form part.
But it is exceedingly difficult to realize that
we arc, ourselves, at all Influenced and
controlled in the same way.
Hence il is, that we wonder at the per-
tinacity with which millions of our race
cling to the most absurd and degrading
superstitions, and age after age, perform
their unmcaning ceremonies with no other
reason therefor than that their fathers did
the same Egnpcrors rule, Kings reign,
and petty Despo!s trample upon the sacred
rights of the pcople-pressing the very
humanity out of man-and yet the popu-
lace throw up their caps and shout them
selves hoarsc in praise of their masters
Millions toll that one may revcl, and thlak
themselves honored in obeying with alb
iect seryiliy and unreasoning submission
the most capricious commands OF thei'
"bcloved sovcreigns," because theirfath
ers did so before them. All this we Cal
clearly see in other nations, and, at 1t all
we can wonder and disclain, without
suspicion that ye are unconsciously play
ING the same drama, only on dlilcren
stare, and in other costumes.
What else can retain the thousands {
honest citizens of Ohio and other Ere
Sa:es in the pale Of the Democratic party
as ii is at present controlled and used tl
the personal aggrandizemcnt of an oil
garchy of petty, plantation despots? "a
there be any other reason assigned than
reluctance to. form new political assoc
ations-tc fo,snbe old habits Of party a
ton, and the easy compliance with lol
habit of following the train Of those, VIII
in the name Of Democracy, have pervert
the organization into an engine of tra'
and oppression? There are not, prot
bIy. ten thousand men in Ohio, who
not, in their inmost souls, deplore and
test the measures of that party as now &C
trolled, and yet they go wherever the pal
goes. They vote for the men who cont
the organization. knowing the purpo
they intend to accomplish, yet hopel
that in some way-hy some undetr
means-that purpose will be dcteat'
With the namelcss denominations OF
vcry-with its degla1ations OF labor
blighting curse upon all that is pure
goodwill its increase, spread, and /
pctuation, the Democrats of Meigs Cou
and Ohio, have, and can have, no sy
natl,y. and vet they vote with the pert.
eleva,. to the Presidency, men, who, fl
their very position, mast be the mere
stluments OF the slave power, and t
hope that lie Will not execute the vii
that very power whose instrument he IA
This reluctance to change party asso
tions, is doubtless the cause Why thousa
of honest men arc sustaining by their
sition, what their impulses and judgn
condemn. They have trusted that SO
how, they could remain in and act
their party. and still not aid in acc
plishing the objects which the Sout
leaders have in view. We rejoice that
question is about to be settled in a I
nerthat we think must convince al no
men that the thing is impossible.
issue is fairly made up and is now on
in Congress. and the country Is wa
the decision with intense interest. n
were the circumstances more favpraol
those who have claimed that the ID
cratic party could no: be used for the
port and spread Of slavery than al
nrssent time. We have always bell
tl,at no party which did not make 1t {
ti,nof paramount Importance in It's
form, could resist the aggressive n
ents of the slave power with success.
Northern Democrats, while ignoring
question in their platforms, have ella
that their candidates were all right an
our readers know, in the last Con
sionaI canvi IS, claimed that the onlN
=. ..o Kansas was through Demo,