Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-01-17
EDIToRIAL coRREspoNDENcE,
Dsmeeratle STATE convent.on

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The ostensible object sof the Conven-
tion was tosselectsfour delegates at large,
to represent the party in nsthe Charleston
Convention in April next. That the
friends of Douglas were in a majority
in the party in Ohio, no one seemed to
doubt, and with the hope of securing
his nomination and possible election,
the politicians of the party, with an eye
to the future, desired to be excessively
devoted to the fortunes of the Illinois
Senator. While those who now hold the
Federal offices, knowing that their places
depended upon devotion to Buchanan
came up in mass, inspired by any amount
of patriotism and perhaps of something
else. We are not about to report the
proceedings, for that would be utterly
impossible, but to give very faint idea
of the scene. Er
To reach the end arrived at, required
the skill of practical engineers. The
various factions were first intent upon
undermining each other, and then to
construct such double-faced platform
that every local prejudice and sectional
fanaticism, could swear by, that the votes
Of the unsophisticated masses might be
obtained, and the Government continued
in the control Of the Southern disunion-
ists, through whom the slippery dough
faced politicians Of the North might
creep into the Federal Offices as a reward
for servility. But to accomplish this
all factions must be conciliated
|, Resoldtions in favor of Douglas and
popular sovereignty We're therefore in
ktroduced, at which the Administrations
lists set up such storm as we presume
was never witnessed before in any body
of civilized men, But after all the
sereeching, the howls and Kisses, and
threats Of dissolving the Convention had
all been exhausted, Douglas and sq1at-
ter sovereignty were indorsed. That
would do for one wing. But the Aa-
ministration was not to be snubbed in
that way. A resolution was, thereupon,
introduced, fully indorsing Buchanan
and has measures. This produced scene
beggaring all description. Every spec
tator supposed that the Convention must
break up in a row, if it did not end in
an universal fight The immortal "Joe
Geiger" pitched into six footer who
called the little General liar, and but
for his insignifcance which caused him
to- be lost in the melee, "little Joe"
would doubtless have been a used-up
Democrat, ..sla3
Bat the~Gonvention, or raSber asphs
for such it had become, by seme hocus
pocus, foRnd itself ''adjourned" uRtil
night. In the evening session the scene
was again renewed and kept upfora long
time. At last gentleman with lungs
strong enough to be heard above thetu-
AuH, plead for 'sharmony.' "The De-
moeracy were a great and Harmonious
party If they were divided the Black
Republicans would elect their President.
and then, as everybody knew, theUnion
/ would be Instantly dissolved He was
an Administration man, but he was a
Democrat, and he put it to his brother
Democrats if it was fair, or goodpolicy
to approve of Douglas and has policy
and refuse likewise of Buchanan and hii,
policy. They were both Democrats, and
it would require the votes Of both par
ties to beat the Republicans. How
else could they go to the people with
any hope of success? They had in
.dorsed Douglas which would secure al
those in favor Of popular sobc5eiy'ety
But if you stop here, the large section o
the party who hold to the opposite viev
will not act with you. But nov indors'
Buchanan and his doctrines, and auwil
be satisfied and act harmoniouslI" Thi
policy settled the storm. Itswas jus
the thing. Take all sides Of all ques
tions and swear that each is the essenc
of Democracy, and if that don't ruii
them there will be no hope of humbug
ging the people any longer. a-And S
Buchanan, and logically, with him, tn
Z Dred Scott decision, a slave code. for tn
Territories, the stealing of Cuba, an
the programme Of the Disunionists1 gen
orally were fully indorsed.
! This settled the difficulty between tn
Z Douglas and Buchanan factionsin Ohio
But it still remained to construct such
$ platform as would permit the Norther
! and Southern wings =of-.the party to pla
into the prejudices of each section. An
to this end it was believed that no pos
!, sibie ingenuity could lconcoct a MOI
: hypocritical document than the Cincir
7 natl platform. It had beenStried an
found to work admirably. The mo-
extreme slave trading Disunionists, lik
Hammond, Shorter and jeff Davi
could hold up the platform as embodyin
the very quintessence of slavery prop:
gandism. While Douglas, Pugh, an
their accomplices in the Northeould rel
q resent the platform as the perfect emboc
: iment of popular sovereignty" l
: this way the entire South could be s.
cured on their Interpretation of the pla
form, and two or three Northern Stat,
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