Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-08-21

could carry single Free State. Blu
when every man who can be rallied upor
that platform votes for set of electors
pledged to carry it out, you, Douglas mer
of the Free States, are expected, under
the audacious pretext of sustaining
Douglas and popular sovereignty, to vote
for tie same electors' That Breckinridgt
will carry most Of the Slave States, or
his Slave Code platform, is admitted by
all. Now, if by this shameless fusion
you, the Douglas men of one or two o.
the. Free States, can bring votes enough
to this mongrel electoral ticket to elect
it, what have you accomplished? Simply
the election Of Breckenridge, and the
inauguration Of his disunion policy
And is this the feast to which you have
been invited? Is the pretended quarrel
among the leaders mere sham to de
ceive and cheat the voters? Was it all
arranged beforehand, that demagogues
might reap the spells? Can it be posi-,
Bile that the body of the Democratic
party can be thus sold7as openly as slaves
are auctioneered off in the shambles!
! We do not believe it. We believe the
indignation of every honestman in either
wing of the party will be aroused by this
inetfably base and corrupt attempt at
swindling.
| BUTT was necessary, perhaps, that this
! lowest of all possible movements should
, be resorted to, to break the ties which
still bind honest men to the party This
we think will do it. Those who remain,
and suffer themselves to be used in car
rying out this fraud may safely be relied
upon for any scheme in the future.-
They are slaves, simply from an innate
servllity of soul. and no amount of fog
ging could possibly arouse spark of
manhood within them. There will only
be left for them the pity of freemen,
mingled with degree of contempt, but
no hope of their elevation into sphere
of self-respect and manly independence.
They must remain serfs, for freedom is
an element uncongenial to their natures.
GOOD, FOR THE CINCINNATI TIMES.
The Cincinnati Times is the organ of
the. Bell and Everett party in Ohio.
And, strange as it may seem, the editor
appears to be honest in its support of that
ticket. 1t will not give its assent to the
bargain and sale movement of the lead
ers of its party in the other States. We
clip from the Times the following manly
rebuke of the utter baseness of the cor
rupt ~fusion' of the Know, nothings and
Douglasites in New York, entered into
by the leaders with the desperate hope
of defeating an election of President by
the people, in order to throw it into the
House to be the prize of bribery and
corrupt bargaining. The Times says:
"Nothing has transpIed in the polit-
ical history of the country, within our
recollection, that exemplifes more
strongly the corruption of the political
leaders of the United States and their
want of principle, than the proposed
New York fusion between the support
ers of Douglas and the National Con-
servative Union party. Of all the ele-
ments that have stirred the political sea
to exciting strife, none are more antago-
nistic than those two which it is pro-
posed to combine One is enthusiastic
ally American, the other bitterly Anti
American; one, if we are to believe its
professions, sees cause for great alarm
in the encroachments Of political eccle-
siasticism as represented by the Roman
Catholic Church-the other embraces
the most intolerant and active supporters
of political ecclesiasticism One urges
an increase of the term of probation re-
quired to secure citizenship-the other
would dispense with the term of proba-
ton and make the foreigner citizen on
application.
"And although the category of issues
that have been presented and urged by
the Americans, these two elements are
and have been fercely opposed to each
other. It is now proposed that they
forget all the past, lay aside the princi-
pie they have advocated, and unite in
one common cause for what? To secure
the spoils of office!
"Whatever may be the pretense, that
is the real and only motive. A few
am bilious politicians propose to trade
away and barter the votes of thousands
of freemen as drovers sell the herds of
cattle congregated at the Bulls Head.
In one breath, they sweep away all de-
votion to principle, and declare them
selves purchasable politicians, always
open to the market.
'tWe have too much faith in the virtue
of the people, to suppose for a moment
that such movement can be successful,
even in New York The politicians may
bargain and trade, buy and sell each
other, but they may as well try to mix
oil and water, as to bring these two ele-
ments shoulder to shoulder, and engage
them in one hearty, common movement
| Not until the lion and the lamb shall lie
down together, can such scheme be
consummated.
"The proposition, it seems to us, will
work harm to the cause of both Bell and
Douglas. Intelligent foreigners, who
see. prescription in the policy of the