Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-09-13

/ No doubt ofitl And why not? Tht
only real contest being (which party will
supply the cheapest niggsrs and most oI
them. with which TO, stock our Terrific
ries," this editor could not help but pre-
1 fer the success of ''moderE Locofocoisni, u
which he seems, on other accounts, To dis
like. But the editor says further:
"The people Of the South have inst Al
much right to their slave property IN III
Territories, as in the States. The Terri
tories belong to the citizens of all th'
States. They all have equal rights ant
equal interests in them---to go there will
their several species Of property and b
protected in the enioymentofit., And any
party of men who desires or attempts t
defraud them Of their rights in this re-
spect, is guilty Of a gross wrong aud out
rage upon the Constitution and laws Of the
country ,,,r'#l 5teit}
win any one tell us the use Of an "Op'
position |" party founded on these primer
pies. when the Democracy already have
them patent righted? Can't Democracy
import negroes from Africa, and force
them on the Territories against the. will ol
the people just as well as new party!
Defea, the Republicans and this copsnn-
ruation will be reached through the Dem.
ocratic party just as surely as through the
new organization. We can't see. there.
fore. that it would "pay" 70 make the
change. na,, .5oaal al,.--asAsa,q ,ia
But could infatuation 60 beyond the
preposter6us scheme Of uniting Tie iRs-
publicans and this Southern propagandism
into great "Opposition,' party? What
would be gained BY riff successful? The
installing into power . set Of gambling
demagogues as corrupt as selfish and
despo.ic as those it would displace! Moth
ing more. But. thank God. and an. intel
ligent people, success is impossible. The
Republican party is not in market. and the
few willy compromisers and fusionists who
are attempting its decentralization will find
their labor lost. hlcsT'%' 20
Success in such q scheme would simply
place the Governmental the hands of q
set Of Southern slavery propagandists, and
Northern dough-taces, whose chief quarrel
with Democracy is the false charge that
it is not sufficiently pro-slavery. But is
success possible on the theory Of such a
union? Clearly, it is not. lie: such .
fusion take place, and it would not give
the new party the control Of a single South
ern State. All that has enabled the South
ern opposition to maintain show of
strength is it's -extravagant pretensions to
extra devotion TO slavery. But the "slave
power" has tested the subseryiency Of fthe
Democratic party too thoroughly to for
sake it, and the South will stand, as it now
does, only with doubled majorities, relia-
bly, Democratic.
Aud how would it be in the North?
Thirteen, Of the Free States are now con-
clus,vely Republican. and il true to their
position and organization, the other four
may be confidently relied upon in the con-
test of 1860. In addition to this, there
will be strong Republican vote in Della:
ware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky. Ten
nessee, Texas, and Missouri, the latter Of
which, is much more likely 10 vote the
ticket than any one Of the Free
States is to vote for the nominee Of the
Charleston Convention. But demoralize
Ibe party by gambling union with this
Opposition" and how many
Northern States could be carried? We
honestly believe, not one! Is it, then, in
which induces these men TO seek
his Union? Or are they mere spies in
The camp, in the employ Of the enemy?
In any view Of the subject the schemers
had better stop! sef y