Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-09-07
SAM HOUSTON IN NEW YORK.

have ust nominated a full electoral
ticket, for Sam Houston, of Texas, for
President, and Commodore R. f. Stock
ton, of New Jersey, for Vice President.
The Committee have also published an
address urging tic people to rally to
this ticket, as the anchor Of hope and
safety of the country.
If those opposed to the Republican
party cannot find candidate to their
taste among all the factions now in the
field, we trust they will persevere in
getting up new ones until all classes
are satisfied. There are now, opposed
to Lincoln. First: the Bell and Everett
party proper. This party will receive
respectable vote in. most of the Slave
States, and will, we think, carry a num-
Der of them. 1t has no real strength in
the Free States, and is only engineered
by the Douglas men with the hope of
drawing votes from Lincoln. This it
will do to some extent, but not enough
to effect the final result
Second: The Douglas party, proper
This party will get respectable vote in
the Free States, but not sufficient, we
think, to carry any one of them, OF even
to defeat Lincoln in any of them, as
seems to be the common object and only
hope Of all of these parties. Third:
The Breckinridge party proper. This
party will get a strong vote in the South,
and will carry all the ultra, disunion,
Democratic States, and all the Slave
States which do not vote for Bell, except
Texas. Fourth: The Houston party
proper. This party, will carry Texas,
but no other State. In many of the
States We presume there will hardly be
an electoral ticket formed. Fifth: The
Ultra Abolition party. This party has
not yet made it's nominations, but will
probably nominate Gerritt Smith of
New York. Mr., Smith has written
letter deprecating the election of Lin
coln, but whether his friends will run
separate ticket, or vote for some of
those already in opposition to Lincoln,
we arc not advised. We presume they
will have a ticket of their own. ,Sirth:
A movement is on foot to bring out
Judge Taney, on his Dred Scott Decis
ion. But this scheme we do not think
will be seriousl y prosecuted. -
|, All these parties are actuated by
common impulse. None of them have
the remotest chance of an election by
the people, but, as it requires majority
of all the electoral vote to elect the
President, it is hoped by the leaders of
these parties that by possibility they
may prevent Lincoln's receiving a ma
jority over all the opposing parties, and
by that means throw the election in
Congress where bribery and corrup-
ton may be relied upon to defeat the
will of the people. ~ nH
But, as the prospect of Lineoln's
election grows clearer every day, the
leaders of the factions become more
desperate, and are now forming coalitions
with the forlorn hope of thus defeating
him. Hence in some States the Doug
las and Bell parties have amalgamated,
and are running a mongrel ticket. In
others the Belland Breckinridge parties
have coalesced, and in Pennsylvania the
Douglas and Breckinridge leaders have
combined their forces, while the engi-
neers of all the factions in New York are
trying to patch up a bargain which
shall bring the Irish Catholics and pro-
scriptive Know Nothings-the Slave
Code Breckinridgers and the radical Abo-
litionist-the Hnuker and Barnburner-
the old line Whig and soft shell Demo
crat-the Calhoun free trader and the
Clay protectionist-':black spirits and
white, blue spirits and grey"-to fuse
and mingle in one discordant mass Of po
litical corruption for the defeat of the
people and the securing of the spoils.
The means thus resorted to show at
once the admitted strength of the Repub-
liean party, and the weakness and utter
Generalization of its opponents. In the
,,1et e II, onl licanrl &ho
people, conscious of their power, are
moving straightforward to the consum-
nation of their purpose-the triumphant
election of Lincoln and Hamlin in No
vember next We do not believe it is
in the power of intrigue, corruption, CO.
alition, bargain and sale, fusion or con-
fusion, to prevent the auspicious result.
na. The factions in Illinois have be-
come perfectly alarmed at the daily ac-
cession to the ranks of the Republicans
of that State. It has become manifest
that neither of the parties stand the
slightest chance of carrying the State
against Lincoln, and the leaders are
moving heaven and earth to secure a
coalition of all the factions, in the vain
hope of thereby accomplishing his defeat.
For that purpose it is proposed to call
off all the electors now nominated, and
form new amalgamation ticket com
posed of five Douglas men, four Breck-
inridge men, and two Bell men. 1t is
admitted by all the leaders that without
this coalition Lincoln will sweep the
State by. very large plurality. The
very proposition to unite all the factions
against him shows their consciousness of