Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-10-19
ARE THEY INSANE:


The conduct of the Democratic leaders
is perfectly inexplicable on any other
theory than that of monomania. Start
ing out with the assumption that the
people were to be moved by prejudice
alone and not reason, they got up a
string ofepithets, such as ''Abolitionists, :"
"Woolly heads" "Negro worshipers,"
&c, which they supposed, ifwell shouted,
would crush out the party to which they
were applied.
This policy was inaugurated when the
Republican party was first organized,
and the whole land was made to rever-
berate with the ribald slang. Six years
ago, every Free State but Massachusetts,
and Vermont were Democratic, and
nearly all of them by overwhelming
majorities. The Republican party was
then organized, and the cry of ''Aboli~
tionism" rang out from every Democratic
stumper's throat. Itwas confidently be-
lieved that the Republican party would
sink beneath the. attack. But the first
campaign closed with a clear victory in
many States. Amazed at the result, the
leaders of Democracy opened the next
campaign with repetition of the same
slang, shouted with wilder phrensy, and
were rebuked by a popular verdict of
still greater condemnation, and several
other States fell into the Republican
ranks. And SO it has been from year to
year, until all the Free States, except
Pennsylvania and Indiana, had ranged
themselves on the Republican side.-
These two great States, at the opening of
the present campaign, still remained, and
if they could be held in their allegiance
to the Democratic party, or by fusion
of all factions, could be made to out
vote the Republicans, it was thought
possible by these leaders, that Lincoln
could be defeated in November.
| With this hope fusion was formed
between the Douglas, Bell, Breckenridge,
and all other factions and fag ends of
parties, and the campaign began. What
was mere phrenzy in former contests
was wrought up to perfect fanaticism in
this. One long, hoarse, dolorous, frantic
howl of "ABoL1TIoNIsM" has vexed the
very elements of these two States for
mouths past. And what has been the
calm response ofthe people through the
ballot box? Such majorities for the Re-
publicans as no party ever received be-
fore! A rebuke SO emphatic-a defeat
SO crushing condemnation so clearly
expressed were never given before in the
political history of the country
Every Free State, except possibly Cali
fornia, has thus placed the seal of utter
condemnation upon these demagogues,
and have, by unprecedented majorities,
affirmed and approved the Republican
platform. In view of this history and
experience, one would suppose these
leaders would learn some sense, at least,
if they did not choose to become decent
in their language. But they seem to be
wholly infatuated. The better class of
their own partizans have left them in
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utter disgust, until the Republican ma
jorities are swelled to unexampled thou
sands, and yet these leaders, as if struck
with utter lunacy, are straining every
faculty to send out, if possible, still
more unearthly "screeches' of "AboH-
tionisns." If the thing did not, of necess-
ity, inspire a feeling of loathing and con-
tempt, it would be excessively amusing
to read the Democratic papers, since the
election. Well, let them "screech!"- -
The masses of the party-the honest
voters are beginning to sound the depths
of their leaders, and the result is, these
terms of intended reproach and insult
have lost their power. And now, that
the spell is broken, a condemnation, never
to be reversed, will be passed upon the
political jugglers who have, for their own
personal ambition, attempted to degrade
the popular intelligence and debauch
the moral sentiments of the people by
these base appeals to passion and preju-
dice. Retribution, though sometimes
slow, is always sure, and truth and JUS
tice will, in the end, stand approved by
the people.
Well Done, Old Berks.
Old Berks County, in Pennsylvania,
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