Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-10-19


We have not yet .Iecsiyed the full de-
tsils Of tbs. election, in the four great States
Of f.Pennsylyaria, Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa,
which came off on Tuesday last. Enough,
however, has. been received to render it
certain that in all of them the Republicans
havetriun13hed over the combined factions
that have been arrayedsa against them. ..,--z-
in all the past history Of political war
fare IN this country. a campaign was never
contested, with more desperate purpose, or
more, inscriptions means, than the one
just closed in these great States. The .Ad-
ministrauon, with an open audacity never
before Witnessed, prostituted the whole
power and patronage of the Government
to.oorrupt,ard oyerawe the honest convict
ions of the people,. The swarnts Of Office
hoiders fought like hungry wolves for their
prey, well knowing that the people were
determined to unloose. their grasp upon
the vitals of the country. and send them
aarift with the Administration which sus--
tanned them. Never were greater interests
ut stake in an election, and never were
more desperate means resorted to by those
in power, to retain their positions against
the will of betrayed and indignant peo-
pie, 49, .-- -, ',' @'''e @.h .7' d
1t was clearly seen, by those in power,
that if the people were cleft free to regu-
late their own affairs in their own way"
the reign of dough-faces and servile syc-
ophunts would be at an end. 1t thus be-
came an object of life. e.or death with them,
TO retain the control of the Government,
and hence the desperation with which
they. maintained the contest. Substan-
tally, it WAS a contest between the people
-en the one side,, struggling to retain what
Of their rights yet remained, and to regain
what had been wrested from them by fraud
and treachery, and, on the other, q deter
nihation on the psrt of the Administra-
ton and it's supporters, to continue to rule
a people against their will, and whose in
terests and confidence had been SO basely
betrayed. The lovers Of justice, of free
dom, of Republican Government, every
where, will be cheered by the result. The
people have triumphed. The spell has
been effectually broken. A rebuke has
been administered to the betrayers of the
people that will be felt and acknowledged
The example of these four great States
will have a controlling influence in the
States in which elections are yet to be held
The indications are, that in every tree
State the people will triumph. The false
hoods that have been reiterated for years,
are beginning to be understood. The un-
meaning slang of the Democracy has be-
come stale. People more and more con-
suit their judgment. and appeals. to pref
udice and passion are having less and.less
effect. The time, we are sure, cannot be
distant, when people will feel themselves
insulted by the low and contemplate APP
Peals to their supposed prejudices, which
now constitute the only weapons of Lee
comptonites. The vote Of last Tuesday
clearly shows this, and is a sure promise
of the rapid spread of RepuLlicanism
heneeforth.
III Let all the lovers of their country-a
haters of oppression and wrong, take fresh
courage from the success of their past la
bors, and stimulated thereby, press onward
to the great National victory that await
them in 1860.