Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-01
MARYLAND STATE REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION BROKEN UP BY A

ne hepuDllcan CVate CONVENTION VI
Maryland for the appointment of Dele
gates to the Chicago Convention, met in
Baltimore last week (26th inst. ,and or
ganized with Hon. M. Blair as chairman.
Before they had succeeded in electing
the Delegates, the Hall was surrounded
and assailed by mob, and the Conven-
ton broken up by the ruffans, at the
risk of the lives of the members. But
the Convention afterwards succeeded in
meeting in a private manner and COM
pleted their business before the mob dis
covered their place of assembly. A full
Delegation was appointed to represent
the Republicans of Maryland in the Ma
tional Convention, which meets on the
10th of May, at Chicago.
What howl would be set up if the
Democratic State Convention in Massa
chusetts or Vermont, or any of the Re
publican States, should be dispersed by
mobs, and the lives Of the members
threatened by Republicans! Yet such
is the state of things in nearly every
Democratic State in the Union. In ev-
cry State in which the Democrats have a
majority, except perhaps three or four,
they would murder the best citizens Of
their State in cold blood and in open
daylight if they should attempt to ex
ercise in the quietest manner, their con-
stitutional right to meet together in
State Convention to nominate candidates
to be voted for by the people.
This may seem like hard charge, but
it is strictly true, and no Democrat will
dare to deny it. Take North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Ar
kansas, all Democratic States, and there
is not man of intelligence in the Union
who will deny the proposition that, if a
Republican Convention were appointed
in either of those States, and one hun
dred of her best and most peaceable cit
izens were chosen as delegates for the
simple purpose of nominating Repub-
lican candidate for Governor, or other of
fcer to be voted for by those who de-
sired to do so, such convention would be
foreibly dispersed by brutal violence and
outrage, and the delegates murdered if
they persisted in the attempt to exercise
the dearest right of freemen, and a
right solemnly guaranteed by the Fed
eral and State Constitutions! Revolving
as this picture may seem, it is simply the
truth. aG ->n -
The party is sustained by just such
means, and advocating its present doc
trines, and carrying out its present pur-
poses, it could not be sustained by any
other. This is evident from the fact that
in nearly all the States where the Dem
ocrats had not the physical power to pre-
vent by force, the freedom Of speech and
the organization of the Republican party,
they have been repudiated by the people,
and the Republicans are triumphant. We
do not believe that the individual mem
bers of the Democratic party in Ohio,
and other free States, prefer this state of
things. And yet, seeing, as they must
see, that it is only by this ruthless des-
potism, that the party can be sustained,
it is inexplicable thatthey still give their
influence and their votes to sustain and
countenance the perpetrators Of these
wrongs. - ... .9ssf' .... Il
Now, what would our Democratic
friends think, if during the next week,
every Democratic paper, without excep-
ton, in Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and
half dozen other Republican States
! should be destroyed by the Republicans
, their editors and publishers mobbed
, and driven from their native States, OF
| murdered expression of a Demo
cratic opinion answered with bludgeor
or Bowie knife-eyery Convention
called to nominate Democratic officers
broken up by violence and the delegates
2 NAL l-treated or killed-the simple ofel
to vote Democratic ticket to be pun
ished with instant death, and then the
insulting slang added, that the Demo
| cratic party was sectional party, becaus
1t could not run q candidate IN any Of tn
Ne,o England States? We ask our Dem
= ocratic friends what they would think
, of such treatment? But such would b.
!. but simple parallel to the practice O
their party in nearly one half of the States
! in the Union-in all, except very few
> of the States in which the party has ever
bare majority
: We are sometimes charged with say
e ing hard things Of the Democratic party
But we appeal to every Democratic reade
e of this article, and ask him to rehec
. calmly for one moment, and then ask hi
own honest conscience if the facts are no
Z lust as we have stated them. And thel
e let him ask the further question, wha
he would think and say of US if the Re
:, publicans of Maine, and the States W
y have named should treat the Democrat
k as above suggested, and ace should stil
n affiliate aoith them, and do all IN on
Il poaoer to give them the control eve'yphere
= Let any honest, fair minded Democra
of Meigs County, look the facts right i
=, the face-let him, SO far as he can, imagin
= himself in our place, and if he does nc
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