Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-05
In A QCANDARX.

IN A QUANDARY.
We arc in a quandary, and have been
studying with some attention, the argu-
ments of our Democratic contemporaries,
to see whether it would be right to sup
port the Chicago nominees. We like
good society, and had been led into the
belief that the Republican party con-
tanned a fair proportion of the moral
orderly, and respectable class of citizens
In short SO far as our limited acquaint-
ances extended, we were not much
ashamed of the company in which we
wore placed by acting with the Republi-
can party. But in this, it seems We
have been totally mistaken.
We have number of these journals
before US, and according to their
testimony, the Republican party
is made up wholly of drmhards, pick
pockets, slebauchces, ibertiaes, and the Gerry
tfScourjngs Of the earth. The Crawford
County Forum, has an editorial ''to show
up the moral condition of the BLACK
Republican party" by statementof the
disgusting immortality of the delegates
to the Convention. After depicting the
fearful scenes of drunkenness, debauch-
cry, and pocket picking by the delega-
tions on the cars, where he says ''they
pukcd till the cars looked like hog pens,
he proceeds thus:
After they arrived in Chicago they
seemed to groeo acorse instead Of better
Their conduct tcas SO outrageous that the
Republican mayor Of the city ecas COM
pellcd to arrest and fine large nunsJcr of
them. Neorg forty ,oere arrested IN
houses of Ill fame. Drunkenness, liccn-
tiousness and pocket picking, seemed to be
common to most Of them. Judging from
rhat zee hare heard ,oe are forced to the
conclusion that 1t 1cGs the most disordcrly
contention erer held IN the United States
We do not wish to be understooda as say
ing that euery delegate to the contention
1cds drnh-of course there were some
honorable exceptions but they were ex-
ceptions-drunkenness ras the rule, and
soJrietg thecrception,"
There is plenty more Of the same sort
in this Democratic organ. But this will
do for the present. Now, ought not
every decent, sober citizen abandon this
drunken, licentious, beastly, BLACK Re-
publican party? But there are other
reasons, why everybody should go over
at once to the pure and immaculate party,
of which the Forum is the organ The
delegates are wholly given up to lying
and deception, as we'll as drunkenness
and debauchery. Asan evidence of this,
take the statement made by V. B. Hor-
ton at the Court House, in Pomeroy, on
the night of the ratification meeting.-
He had got tnlerah y seAer-hy that time
and his appearance did not show to the
audience, that he had just come out of
.'hog pen" In this way he doubtless
expected the better to deceive his aa-
diencc. Nowevery person in the crowded
courtroom, will remember that this
delegate-this drunken debauchee-this
ckpocket-this miserable BLACK Re
publican, V. B. Horton, had the brazen
effrontery to stand up in that audience
OF sober citizens, and declarein the most
deliberate manner, that ''the convention
was composed Of the very best, ablest and
purest men in the Union. Elk. Cover
nors, Senators, Representatives, and
Judges, with men Of high characters and,
abilities, in all other callings, from the
various States-that it was the most
orderly, calm, dcliberativc, body of men
it had ever been his fortune to see as
sembled together, that neither in the
large body of delegates, norm the thirty
thousand outsiders, did he see one in
stance of drunkenness or rowdyism dur
ing the whole time of its sitting-that
if there were any thing of the sort, hc
did not see ati
OUCH Was GAe StttCiHclG VI IulS HAL,
Horton. He undoubtedly expected his
audience to believe him. And they
probably would have believed his state
ment but for the timely publication Of
the facts, by the Democratic organs
Would it not be we'll to call an indigna-
ton meeting and denounce this man
Horton, as he deserves, and then go over
in body to the mild, temperate, chaste,
pure minded, truth-loving Democracy.
For, if the statements of Horton are all
false, and those of the Democratic papers
all true, then it is time to forsake this
God -forsake Black Republican party
and unite at once with the pure, virtuous,
sober, pious, united, harmonious, and
b.otherly White Democracy.
MORE CORRUPTION EXPOSED.
The Committee appointed by Con
gress to investigate the charges of cor
ruption against the Administration arc
making revelations which will startle
not only the honest men of this country
but of all countries where honesty is es,