Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-09-27
The Campaign i'm Ohio.

Ine campaign I'm ONO.
The telegraph from Washington an
nounces that the Administration has sent
out ex- Governor Medill, as a missionary,
to Ohio, to countcract the effect of the
late visit and speeches of Douglas. Our
readers know Gov. Medill. When he
failed to secure a seat in Congress, by
humbugging the people, the President, of
course, had to take care of him. He was
consequently put into nice office at
Washington, where he has been ever since.
Being under the pay of Buchanan, he
must do Buchanan's work. That is fair,
and according to the contract. But Bu-
chanan's main business now is to hunt
down Douglas, and no filter instrument
could be employed than Gov. Medill.
Whether he is to stump the State, or
work under ground, is not stated. Per-
haps the latter, as it would be more in
accordance with the habits of the Cover
nor. The work requires peculiar engi-
neering. IL is of vast importance to the
operators, all round, that the party should
be held together; and the voters of both
factions are needed for that purpose. But
for national purposes, and to carry out
the Lecompton schemes of the Admins
tration and The 81; We power which rules it,
it is equally important that Douglas
should be "suppressed.A Thus, each
faction is laboring to circumvent the other,
and both hope to use the party organiza-
ton to accomplish their purposes. And
hence Douglas calls on his friends to
"sustain the p0rty," as the only means of
rescuiug the Government from the hands
.of Buchanan's Administration, and thus
securing the liberties Of the people, which
he says are endangered by the despotic
schemes which that Administration is de-
termined to carry out. While Buchanan
and his followers, quite as Justify, call
upon their clansmen to "sastdin the
party" as the only means Of "subduing
The Ybel," and saving the Constitutions
from utter overthrow, through the
"squatter sovereignty" heresy, and
Pugh is dodging between, and, like the
bat, in the war of the beasts and birds, is
On either side, according tc the company y
he happens to be in; ready, like that fitting
type of his class Of politicians, to side with
the victors, and equally clamorous for the
party, in order that he may belreturned
to the Senate. ''- IS
In this game Of cheatery, circumvenlion,
sham and humbug, the welkin is made to
ring with shrieks of "Abolitionist!"
"Black Republican ! !" and "Woolly
heads J" shouted in chorus by the war
ing factions to their respective supporters
as if the people were bereft of reason, con-
science, and common sense, and were to be
moved only though the lowest and basest
Of passions and prejudices.
But Will they win in such a contest?
We do not know, but can hardly believe
itpossible. Thesame stale slang has been
employed for the last FIVE years, not Only
in Ohio, but in all the free States, and the
result has been that the people have every
where rebuked the insult offered to their
manhood. And we believe that rebuke
will be mademore emphatic than usual, in
Ohio, at the coming election. We are en-
couraged in this opinion by the overwhelm-
ing prostlation of the Democratic party in
Vermont and Maine, whose elections have
Just come off, and where the same tactics
were employed with all the energy that
desperation, and the patronage Of the Gov
ernment could lend to the leaders. We
believe the same result awaits them in
every free State. The advance of educa-
ton and morality will, we trust, soon rem
der such mode of political warfare SO un.
profitable that self interest, if not a better
taste. will compel the adoption of at least
an approach to outward decency of Ian.
guage If not aneaer approximation to
truth,