Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-07-12

result of esprit knocking" If this be
true, we think it demonstrates that they
are .'eUl spirits,' and the best thing for Mr..
Coway would be, to refuse 10 act as a "me-
dunn any longer. We believe these
..spirits" do net disturb those who are so
fortunate as to board in the above named
..institution," and perhaps they will let MIR.
Cowcy alone when he leaves it. Mr..
Coway pays about $15 for the privileges OF
the .~'inStitution'' for two days. We hope
he will get his moneys worth.
ES-On our first page will be found a
very readable story, by "Arcola," under
the head of "Washington's Revenge
No one will be the worse for reading it.
On the same page will be found a com
munication that is worth reading. The
bid OF Senator Douglas for the Presidency,
will also be found there. Let no one over
look it. 1t is one of the most important
political mauifestoes that has yet appeared,
and has caused more comment by the press
of all parties than amy other announce
ment which has been made for a long
time. The New York Herald" and
other Buchanan organs, assert i'll the most
positive terms that the letter was drafted
bv Ex-President Martin Van Buren,. We
confess to the ,Jory character Of the docu-
ment, but think it nevertheless, peculiarly
.Douplasish. 1t has the impress of the
willy Illinois Senator all over.
The letter seems TO be very brave, puI
if analyzed will be found in perfect ac-
}cordanoe with the double faced policy ever
pursued by its author. 1t purports to be
IN answer to somebody who seems to nave
asked him if he would be a candidate Tor
the Presidency in 1860. And the reply
"a Characteristic. eff" says the Senator
1.-The Democracy shall adhere to the pm
ciples of the compromise measures oi :e''
the Observation-Disclosures act of l854-the
Cincinnati Platform of 1856, and Buchan-
ans letter of acceptance" &c, then he Is
n candidate. But if the Democracy, re-
pudiote all THIS, and in lea thereof, adopt
as the creed of the party tile re0'""I Of
HE slaue- trade-a Congressional slave
l. code for the territories-or the doctrine
S that the CONSTITUTION eltllel
prohibits slavery in the territories beyond
Il the power of the people to control 1t, As
4 OTHER then he is not Il can
If didate.
Strip the thing Of its very thin veil, ant
it is a simple declaration hat "l' Stephel
A. Douglas, am a candidate" For doe
Mr.. Douglas, or any other being in tn
l6 .o. tbot tho nnnOcracV II
'e Convention assembled, will, by Il forma
ID vote, repudiate everything they have here
+" tofore used as gull-traps with so niue
y success, and as formally, and in lie
thereof, make 'the reviVat Of the sId0t
AZ trade, &c." their platform? 1t will
seen that the letter is so adroitly worde
II that the extremes Of both wings OF tt
. party, can go before their followers an
claim the Senator as fully with them'-
" And for this very purpose 1t was Col
ceived and published. The NortheI
io dough face will hold up this letter al
!" swear that Douglas is utterly opposed
The slave-trade, so much SO that he won
" eveu consent to be a candidate if the par
ID adopts hat as a plank in their platfor1
and will then claim the votes OF Northe
men on the ground of this opposition
~ While the extreme South, to secure t
~sni,port of the propagandists, will ia
'b- the sane letter, and show that Douglas
The not opposed to the sl"ve-trade or any
be their other schemes-that lie is not ev
lch opposed to having these schemes @dded
De the platform. That it is only the Torn
his yepudiation Of all past professions a
the substituting, in their place. Inc sia'
sti- trade, &C. which he repudiates. "A
lim they can thus demonstrate to the tree
his ing d~isunionists, that Douglas is the tru
'ys. representative of their fanaticism OF
line other man in the Union.
but And thus the game is fairly opened
side deliberately concocted scheme to dece
line the people of the free States into the s
ion. mort OF men who viii as deliberately sa
the fee their interests. 1t is wholly Impo'
rea- bic to meet the views OF both sections
ear, the partv. One or the other must
lime che0ted. No sane man can iah to see =
ghts But havd not the North had sufficient
,oerfence to convince them which VIII
!, eff the victim?