Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-10-26

: S A"4""ct Will nave fusion
whether or not, and threatens, if the
Committee will not call themselves to-
gether, the Enquirer will call them, and
make fusion with the Bellgeriens, and
Breckinridgers whether or not. And
therefore committee of Douglasites and
Bell leaders call upon Hon. George
Fries, one of the Dreckinridge Electors,
and requested him to 'fuse" The Hon.
Breckinridger replies and from his re-
ply we take the following choice para
graph. The DIR. says;
i Since the State election, these men
who spurned US sixty days since as too
small party to be of any Importance in
SO great contest as that going on in
the great State cf Ohio, where three or
four hundred thousand votes were to be
cast, 'aoso that their parties arc dead, come
to as and ask as 10 fuse. No, sir, If I am
10 be pal h, bed, It shall not be wih the
ez,svsss Of a dead dog-the Douglas party
s'ssd the Raop Nothiny party-ond IN the
snny.snge once used by an Ohio Senator of
tie oh Wing party, They are not only
Jes,d but they sink"
! Well, that is rather specific It is
classical; and will pass into future use
as one of the happiest epigrams of the
age. The Douglas party, and the Know
Nothing party" in the language of Dr.
Fries are "dead dogs and stink at that.
And he is not prepared to- "cuddle under
dirty bed clothes with them. Go it
Fries! the Tower will soon be built! But
now comes the Cincinnati Times, the or
gan of the "Bellgerines," and brings his
"hod full In the course of a long ar
ticle, from which we extract, the Times
says:
THE fusion eontagion has reached
Ohio. The Enquirer, and other Douglas
organs. are Justify calling upon the State
Contra! Committee of that party to as
semble and tender terms of compromise
to. their Union allies. The Central
Bell and Everett organization and the
Electors of the same party, have enjoyed
a consultation, in our city, with the view
of ascertaining the sentiment Of the Bell
and Everett voters as to the same point
And for the sake of furthering the project
the election returns haze been falsifed,
stubborn facts distorted, and a rast amount
Of editorial sohistling done, to keep the n-
SION courage up x
a l
The Times, after showing that no hon
stpurpose can be subserved by "fusion,"
continues: .e.E=
This fusion movement is a sharp
dodge of the friends of Stephen A. Doug
las. 1t is shrewd measure to save the
sinking fortunes, Of the Illinois Senator,
and like everything heretofore connected
with the Douglas movement, breathes
death and destruction to all who partic-
ipate init
And after showing that the Bell party
had been deceived by the lying preten-
ses Of the strength of Douglas, into fu-
sing with them in other States, the Times
continues:
awe consider the New York fusion an
act of deliberate suicide. 1t has olready
issused the trt~mph of the party 1t sought
TO defeot, and if extended throughout the
North, will strangle the infant Union
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with our understanding ofthe senti-
ment of the people-and we have been
close observer for many years-,oe be-
liepe that a1y cause aoiH be damaged By a
anton aoab the Democratic party. We
haze already hroaom out the opi,ttou, and,
backed by the erhibit of the late elections,
repeat 1t, that all combinations aoith the
Douglas party IN the Northern States, acilI
only SERGE to increase the relative Repubh-
can stremgth. If Lincoln is elected, to
Douglasism first, and fusion with
Douglasis,n second and lastly, may be
attributed the sectional triumph" J"
Surely, few more such rounds as that
will finish the Tower. And here we
have one from the National Democrat, of
Cleveland, the organ of Breckinridge
Democracy in Northern Ohio. It reads
as follows:
<The Cincinnati Enquirer has shown
an anxiety to fuse with the Know Moth
ings-it has invited the dark-lantern
party to make common cause with Doug
las. That paper and the Statesman are
as much united in feeling as the Siamese
twins are united in body. They seek
their associates out of the Democratic
party-seek them among the most bitter,
proscriptive and unscrupulous party
that ever disgraced the country, because
they wish to use them in future. Men
who do this-who coalesce with the
enemies Of the Democracy, are no longer
with the Democratic party, or belong to
its organization. They are, as were the
Swiss in the days of the Revolution, but
the hireling soldiers Of those who would
pay them best. They aided Know
Nothingism in its triumph in Kentucky,
they will ever aid it in its conflict against
the supporters of Breckinridg ge and Lane.
!" With such men zee a0ish to haze no terms.
Led on by such men as Manypenny, of
the Statesman, they cannot act honest
while following his lead. 4 union IN
Ohio aoould be Of no sort of use, for no
earthly dependence could Je placed on the
supporters of the Little Squatter,' for
they haze been tried aud haze erer prouen
ta'thIess to euery pledge" .-..-
That is the contribution which the
leading Breckinridge organ brings to the
great work Of fusion. Is it not encour-
aging2 Surely, with such a cordial
union and such an intimate ''cudling'' of
the leaders of all the factions, along
with 'dead dogs" under "dirty bed
clothes and soothed with DR.. Fries
perfume, our modern Babel builders