Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19

SelLle nulllHcaGlOn forever. lnere VIII!
be no secession or disunion on the elec.
ton Of Lincoln.
HUMBUG.
The latest telegraphic dispatches from
Richmond, Virginia, assert that ",South-
ern men Of all parties, have resolved to re-
sist the Inauguration of Lincoln, By torce
should the people elect him President O
the United States" Now we venture to
say, that Southern men of all parties,
have done just no such thing. That a fac
tion of nullifers and disunionists, headed
by Governor Wise, jeff Davis, Yancy, and
such, who unhappily control the Demo
cratic party, would do so if they dared
is not to be denied. But that ''South
ern men of all parties" have resolved on
any such reasonable plot, is simply not
true, and is but part of the game Of
bluster and gasconade, with which it is
hoped to frighten week-nerved voters
into the support of the party. That
system of tacticsis, however, pretty nearly
worn out. 1t can hardly save the sink
ing fortunes of the party any longer.
Let it be remembered that in the
coming campaign, the Republican party
will have ticket and respectable vote
in the slave States ofDelaware, Maryland,
Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and Texas,
and possibly in Tennessee and North
Carolina. Will they make portion OF
the Southern men of all parties?' who
are to 'resist by force the Inauguration
of Lincoln if elected President" Hardly,
we think. Again, John Bell, of Ten
nessee, is the candidate of those who call
themselves the Unconstitutional Union
party And he will get large vote
in all the Southern States, and will most
probably carry several Of them. Have
the supporters of Bell, 'resolved" with
the nullifers to resist the inauguration
of Lincoln if elected by the people?-
We do not believe it. While some of
his supporters partake of the fanaticism
of the ''propagandists,' the great mass
of them are Union loving and law abiding
citizens, and embrace within their ranks a
very large portion of the conservatism,
which has not by any means wholly dis
appeared from the Southern States
And thousands of them would infinitely
prefer the election of Lincoln, to any
Southern nullifer or Northern dough-
face that can be set up by the Baltimore,
or Richmond Conventions. They have
not entered into any such conspiracy
Again, the intestine war in the ranks of
the Democratic party, has been so in
tense that the factions of which it is
composed, hate each other with hatred
quite as intense as that which they
lavish upon the Republicans. In fact, it
has become the fashion for the Douglas
organs to protest that no man but Doug
las can be elected over Lincoln, and that
if he is not nominated, Lincoln will be
elected by the irresistible voice of the
people. And many of them do not dis
guise the fact that they would prefer
Lincoln's election to the sacrifice of
Douglas and the principles he represents.
Will the Douglas men, if their chief is
thus sacrificed, and Lincoln elected by
the people, join the disafected wing of
their former party, and resist, by force,
the Inauguration of the choice Of the
peoule2- believe this when it
happens, but not before.
But should Douglas be nominated, and
Lincoln still elected, will Douglas friends
join this clan Of traitors to resist his
Inauguration? Not unless they are
wholly bereft of sense as we'll as princi-
pie. What would they gain by such a
desperate attempt? Could he or his sup
porters suppose for moment that in a
country like this, the people, when they
had, in a perfectly constitutional manner,
elected the man of their choice, ,as the chief
magistrate of the nation, would submit
to see him excluded from his chair by
"force'' and his rival usurp his place, to
be maintained therein by the lawless vio-
lence of open traitors? He could not be
so hopelessly mad. The Douglas wing
of the party cannot then be counted as
reliable aids to carry into effect this
resolution And who then are left to
accomplish the feat? The question
needs no answer. The threat is simply
as ridiculous as its utterers are impo-
tent. We sincerely trust and confidently
believe that Lincoln will be elected by
the people. And if elected he will take
his seat as the Constitution and the will
of the people have determined, and woe!
to the conspirators who shall attempt to
resist, by force, his Inauguration