Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-24
AND STILL THEY COME.

trammels and determination to support
the Republican ticket. An important
acquisition within the last week is the
Piqua Enquirer, one of the ablest Dem
ocratic papers in Ohio, published at
Piqua, in Miami County. The editor,
D. NJ. Fleming, Esq, has done more by
his earnest and able advocacy Of the
right, to keep the party together than
any other man in the State. Opposed,
conscientiously, to the extension of
slavery, and believing that the party to
which the labor of his life had been de-
voted, could be redeemed from its pro-
slavery tendencies, he labored to upbuild
it with that view, and advocating sub
stantially Republican doctrines, the
party in his county, remained impregna-
BILE. But, Mr.. Fleming having at lasts seen
the hopeless subserviency of his party
to the slave power of the South, had no
resource left, as an honest man, but to
abandon it, and join the Republicans
1t required hard struggle, of course,
and involved large sacrifice of personal
and political ties; but Mr.. Fleming has
proved himself equal to the task. He
gave Douglas an earnest support until
for the sake of Southern votes, the Bal
timore Convention which nominated him,
adopted the Dred Scott Decision, and
Slave Code plank into the platform, and
Douglas accepted it. This severed the
last link which bound the honest editor
to the fortunes of Douglas, and in his
last paper he hoists the Republican ticket,
and gives the following explicit and sat
isfactory reasons for so doing: He
says:
"We demanded as a condition pre-
cedent to our support of the Charleston
Baltimore nominees, that the platform
adopted should recognize the great doe
trine of Popular Sovereignty. After
hoping against hope, this principle was
repudiated by both wings of the party to
which we had for long years given a
cordial support, the one boldly avowing
the doctrine that the Congress of the
United States were bound to enact laws
for the protection of slavery in the Ter
ritories, and the other accomplishing the
same purpose by making the Dred Scott
decision part of their political creed.
On these two platforms are placed nom
inees, and our support demanded
''The position we have occupied for
years on this question has been familiar
to our quondam political associates. We
have openly avowed our most unquali-
fed opposition to the principle that the
Constitution recognized or protected
slavery in the Territories, and to that
other modern political heresy, Slave
Code, in no measured terms. We de-
manded the most perfect freedom to the
people in the Territories, with the right
guaranteed them not only to regulate
their own affairs in. their own way, but
to elect their officers from Governor down,
thus giving them Popular Sovereignty in
the truest sense of the term, but we have
got neither, and are now required to
swallow Breckenridge and Lane with a
Slave Code, or Douglas and johnson and
the Dred Scott decision with the South
ern Interpretation, or 60 out of the party
to which we have ever belonged. We
have chosen the latter.
;'We find ourselves without political
sympathies with our former political as
sociates. We are driven to the necessity
of seeking new; and we find in casting
our eye over the political field an hon
est man entertaining honest sentiments,
uncontaminated by contact with polit-
ieal tricksters and lifelong struggle
for the Presidency, representing all the
generous feelings of his party in favor
Of Free Territories. We find him rep
resenting the sentiments which we have
in vain sought to make the sentiments
of the party to which we have belonged.
We therefore place the name of Abra-
ham Lincoln at our masthead, and pro-
claim him as our choice for President of
these United States, believing that a
generous public will sustain us in thus
adopting the right @
There spoke an honest, independent
man. And hundreds of those who have
known and honored him for his manly
course IN the party, will doubly respect
him for his adhesion to the right when
that adhesion leads him ont Of the party.
The loss of this influential paper, and
it's able editor, is perhaps the severest
blow that has yet been given to the pro-
slavery party in Ohio. The editor gives
the Dismsion and tSlaue Code views of
johnson, the candidate for Vice Presi-
dent on the Douglas ticket, and adds:
"Let the Democracy of Miami County
understand that this is the man, and
these the sentiments which they are
called on to support. If they are ready
to adopt the above as their platform, and
place men in power who entertain such
sentiments, so be it. If, on the contrary,
they see political heresy in this which
they cannot support, let them follow in
our footsteps, and like honest men refuse
further to follow in course which must
eventually lead to political ruin. y
And hundreds and thousands of fair
minded, honest men will do as this indie
pendent editor has done, and will swell
the majority for Lincoln and Hamlin to
figure unprecedented in the political
history of the State.
The Campaign i'm Indiana.
In no State in the Union is the canvass
proceeding with such vigor and enthusi-
ans as in Indiana, Appointments are out
and mass meetings are being held al!