Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-02-14
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No. Is.


CoLuABus, jan. 81, 1860.
Dear 7stcgraph: Another change in
the, weather has brought US again the
Keen bleak blast of winter, and the rail-
reads have brought back the members of
the Legislature from their wanderings
during the vacation just closed. The de-
termination seems fixed to work hence
forth with energy SO as to bring the
business of tile session to an early close.
There is a perfect dearth of the usual
ainusenients 80 bountifully provided
heretofore for the supposed wants of the
Representatives, and others who spend
their winter, here. The Theater has
not, and will notbe opened this winter.
No shows or exhibitions have seaicited
the patronage Of the humble servants
OF the, people. y \ few lectures have
been delivered, and, being of high or
der of literary merit, have been we'll at
tended By 'aPprecistiye audiences, :
Among these, was one by ''Grace Green
wood Mrs. Lippeneott-of Philadel-
phia, on 'sThe heroic in common life"
We gave, last winter, in review of her
acctalres given then, cur appreciation of
this accomplished lady, We have only
to say now that'shc fully sustained, and
even addelto her fame as lecturer.
Douglas has maae the most abject bid
ever yet offered BY a Northern dough-
face for. Southern support, He has
played the game of demagogueism with
an audacitylnsver before approached by
the most unscrupulous politicians in this
or any other, country. After spouting
his popular sovereignty until the Dele
gates to the Charleston Convention have
been appointed in all the free States, and !
most of, them instructed to vote for him
in Convention, his next step was to Sc
curethe South. 1t is true that he owns
and works large gang of slaves, under
overseers in Mississippi, and is thus
bound in interest to the Slave Power.
1t is true that he, of all the men,in the
Us. Senate, either North or South, had
the vandal heart to lay ruthless hands
upon sacred compromises Of our fathers
for the purpose. of cursing the virgin
soil of our free Territories with the
blighting curse of human bondage. 1t
is true that he has done more than any
other man living orfdead to. excite the
sectional strife which now so unhappily
pervades the country. But tits equally /
true that for the purpose of quilting the
Northern wing, Of the party he invented
the swindling humbug which has caused
the South apparently to repudiate him.
But to reach the Presidency he must
have the unitedvotc of the South. With |
this, and two or three of the free States,
he could reach the goal Of his ambition.
But. is we'll known that to secure the
vote of the South he must be absolutely
,subseryient to the disunion faction. And
Douglas has demonstrated his subservi-
rncy as complete. ssr1as .l1 so sa5
We have heard much about slave
code for the Territories. Douglas
friends, have boasted loudly of their op-
position to such code. But what will
they say ao~ when they find that their
leader has gone far beyond the widest
of the d1snnion fanatics by proposing a
slave code for the, free States as well as
the Territories. He has, by that act,
We have no doubt, secured the Charles
ton nomination But whether it has
occurred his election is quite another
'f51E 4r = ; tsyEsfs{. n
matter.