Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-09-27
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The harmonious Democracy" are in Q
terrible ferment. The war between the
Douglas faction and the regular Demo
cratic leaders is becoming fierce beyond
all former precedent.
Douglas recently published labored
article in ''Harper's Magazine, /" in which
he attempted to maintain his recent inven-
ton of "squatter sovereignty, and at the
same time to reconcile it with the "Dred
Scott Decision" and all the other contra
dictory and irreconcilable dogmas of the
several factions into which the party is di.
vided.
The effort was a hopeless one, Of course,
hnt it was the last desperate chance for
the Illinois Senator to reach theaimo of his
ambition, and with "a desperation equal to
the emergency Of the case, he has given
himself up TO the work,
The Richmond Enquirer" the organ
of the Democratic party in Virginia. and
a supporter of Gov. Wise for the Presi-
dency, soon after the appearance of Doug
las article, contained long and most
scathing review Of the positions of Doug
las, pronouncing the Illinois Senator an
'incendiary," and his article an "incendi-
ary'' document. This terrible onslaught
is attributed to Gov. Wise himself, and is
producing quite sensation in the South.
More recently the Constitution" Bu-
chrnan's Organ at Washington, issued an
other manifesto against the "litlle rebel, :"
which is fiercely severe, ifnot annihilating.
This is said to be the join. production Of
Buchanan and the Cabinet. Douglas says
Attorney General Black is its author, and
in his speech at Wooster the other day, as
reported in the Statesman, Douglas re-
piled to this emanation'of the Administra-
ton in strain of the bitterest inviclives.
Douglas says the boys in the streets are
circulating this Administration document
by the thousand for the purpose Of injuring
him, and "infdmous talsehoods" ds"-"dou5le
taisehoods" .premedaated faleehoods, +"
&C., &C., are the terms in which he char
acterizes this product of Buchanan and his
Administration, as put forth through the
Attorney General.
We would like to publish these docu-
ments that our readers might see the low
ing affection with which these ''harmoni-
GUS Democrats speak Of each other. If
the hundredth part of what they charge
upon each other be true, patriot army
would be safer under the command of
Benedict Arnold, than the interests and lib
critics Of the country under the manage
ment of either of these factions. " -'-
Douglas is straining every nerve to Sc
cure the appointment of Delegates to the
Charleston Convention that will work for
his nomination. Many Of his friends say
that if he does not succeed his friends will
break up the Convention and run him in
dependent. On the other band, many of
the Administration journals boldly pro
claim that if he gets the nomination tile
whole South and the Buchanan men in the
North will bolt, and run another candidate.
But in the midst of this babble of con-
fusion and strife the papers and stumpers
of Ohio are singing the praises Of the char
monious Democracy" and proclaiming
that the party is one in sentiment and one
in action everywhere! And on this trans
parent deception the leaders are fattering
their followers with the promise of sue
cess! .,...