Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-31
LOVING WORDS AND BROTHE RI Y
ENnE AR HJENTS

LOVING WORDS AND BROTHERLY
ENDEARMENTS.
The Plain Dealer is the organ of one
branch of the Democracy of Northern
Ohio. The editor was Delegate to the
Baltimore Convention, and in one of his
letters speaks in. this kind and brotherly
style of his Democratic brethren who did
not worship Douglas. He says:
"The last desperate efforts of the cor
ruptioaists to beat Douglas were made
last night. The whole Cabinet is on
the ground-promises, Offices and pat
ronage-to defeat the peoples will
The Oregon War-debt script will be
generously offered, we have no doubt,
to many, but we hope the honesty of the
delegates will stand the seige, as it has
thus far done, right manfully. In Eng
land Cabinet which would interfere in
a popular election directly, would be dis
franchised; and they deserve it in this
country"
True enough! But then the Cabinet
in England are not Democrats. The
Plain Dealer ought to remember that
But how does it happen that all the men
the Plain Dealer works for and praises
before election, turn out "corruptionists"
and traitors so soon afterwards? It
seems wonderful that the Plain Dealer
should alecays mistake its man. But
the Plain Dealer adds:
"But the people are bound to win
o, what retribution awaits the seoun-
drels, aoho, for paltry pay, oppose Douglas
and has principles. Aad Of all mean,
miserly, lean, lousy, corrupt and contenop-
tible sons Of iniquity engaged IN ttis dirty
and densoralizing acorh, the political Hes
slams from Massachusetts, aoith one Ben
Butler, at their head, and one Mr.. Loring,
at their tail, are the loaoest and lousiest." f"
That is elegant-we might say classic.
But you said the same thing when Pierce
was nominated. Well, Pierce was elect
ed. But did the people win? You
called him hard names, and threw away
your hat when Buchanan was nomina-
ted over him You then had the great
'incorruptible'' Statesman-the man
who was to shed undying luster upon
the seat occupied by Washington. The
people you said would win. Well,
Buchanan was elected, and you, Mr..
Gray, did your full share in sugar-coat-
ing the fraud which elected him. But
did the people win, Mr.. Gray? You
now denounce Buchanan in language
not the most strefned as a "doubly d ID
traitor and villain, with all the other
epithets to be found either in or out of
the dictionary. There is something
queer in this, Mr., Gray. But have you
certainly used sufficient quantity of
continent" since you slept in the same
bed with these "zouY' rascals who have
been your life long chums? If you
have not, pray, go to the "apothecarys" 5"
before you mingle with people who never
"kennelled' with that ''paek"
But that will do as Democratic testi-
mony to the worth and cleanliness of one
wing of the Democracy. There happens
to be another Democratic organ pub
lished in the same city of Cleveland, by
one Mr.. Flood, formerly of the Ohio
Statesman. This organ is called ."The
National Democrat and supports Breck-
inridge Mr.. Flood comes upon the
stand and testifes as to the other wing
of the grand party, and says of Douglas:
'he carrying into National Conren-
ton Of the Democracy the loao arts Of the
political tlickster phicA acould be disgrace
ful IT erercised IN a aeard meeting for the
noneination Of Constable, the friends o.
Mr. Douglas haze carried ont that rule on
ruin doctrine aohich from the first ha'
actuated them, and aohich they so frequently
boasted aoould be Douglas or nobody.
The Democrat denounces the nomina-
ton of Douglas as "barefaced frand,
effected by dishonest and dishonorable
swindling, and Douglas himself a politi
cal trickster and demagogue, for which
no true, Democrat can, ought or will
vote. He don't say whether Douglas
and his party are "lousy'' or not. But
as they all slept in the same 'sbunk'' uI
to the 23d of last month we suppose he
did not think it necessary to specify OF
that point.
But seriously, is it not time for plain
honest men to leave party, the leaders
of whose hostile factions shame de
pravity itself by thus uncovering the
fostering rottenness of each other
What can any good citizen hope, by
lending his countenance and influence
to either wing. The contest is simpl,
cut-throat operation. Neither of th'
leaders, having any hope of an election
the fight has degenerated into mer'
ebullition of hate, with the determination
to utterly blast and ruin each other
But for it's demoralizing influence
might be we'll enough to let them ex
pose their mutual deformities. But i
it worth while for respectable citizens t.
take part in the row? To all such W
say, that although not specially neede'
in the Republican ranks, we will still
make room for few more.
Pennsylvania.
The fight goes bravely on in this oil
Keystone State, so long the strong