Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15

publicans in two or three States,so as. if
possible, to throw the election into the
House of Representatives, where each
State has but one vote, in the hope that
the fifteen slave States, with Oregon and
California, can elect, either the candi-
date of this Convention or the Demo-
cratic candidate. It is nice little plot,
but we don't think the promise of sue
cess is very bright.
Mr.. Bell is very respectable gentle
man Of the old Southern Wing School of
politicians, and ought to be asham, d to
let his name be used for the desperate
purposes of the men who are engineer
ing the movement. But having courted
a nomination for an ordinary lifetime
without success, and there being no
chance Of nomination by any party, he
will probably accept one at the hands of
this consiomerate of factions. For the
sake OF his posterity, if he has any, he
had better, however, decline the dubious
honor.
The nomination of Mr.. Everett is one
''eminently fit to be made by such a
Convention. Mr.. Everett is also a pre-
served "fossil' of the olden time. He
is finished scholar, so far as mere lit
erary culture can make him one. In
private life, like Mr.. Bell, he is, SO far as
we know or believe, model of conven-
tional ''respectability." We don't sup
pose he would do vulgar thing any
more thar he would permit an atom of
dust on his polished boots. He is, in
short, ue,y ''respectable.
He commenced life as a Minister of
the Gospel, but not liking the necessary
"vulgarity' of the duties belonging to
the otfice-such as administering the or
dinances to common people, and reading
service over deceased mechanics and la
borers-he quit that field of uncongenial
labor, and in process of time the Cotton
ocracy of Boston sent him to Congress.
Here he distinguished himself by deliv-
ering the first oration in favor of slavery,
ever heard upon the floor of the House.
1t was then that John Randolph, of Vir-
ginia, administered to him that terrible
rebuke, which sent Mr.. Everett into pri-
vate life, from which he is not likely to
be called by the people. With his long,
bony finger pointed at the Massachusetts
clergyman, and in his shrill, but never
forgotten tones, Randolph said ''Ae dis
trusted the heart, and despised the head OF
that man, and especially the Northern
man, soho could justify slare,y on princi;-
pie" Mr.. Everett subsidized.
For the last dozen or twenty years,
Mr.. Everett has. been engaged in repeat
ing an Grafton on Washington. 1t is
gotten up in the very BEST style Of the
rhetorician, and delivered in the smooth
est graces of the most polished and prac-
ticed declaimer. It is, in fact, very
pretty thing. The only wonder is, how
Mr.. Everett can, for $40 or $50, repeat,
for the fve-hundredth time, this splen-
did piece of pretty defamation. For
his expenses, and 800 for the exhibition,
Mr.. Everett will come by the way of
Pomeroy on his way to be inaugurated
Vice President, and "recite his piece !"
And we will guarantee he will do it we'll!
For these great services Mr.. Everett
ought to be elected. But an ungrateful
people will not probably reward the pat
riot by bestowing on him their votes
On reflection, however, Mr.. Everett
should not consent to run. Many of the
voters are not respectable as Mr.. Ev-
erett defines that word, and his immac-
ulate respectability might be sullied if
such should cast ballot for him. Our
advice to Mr.. Everett would be to con-
tinue the recitation of his we'll committed
defamation. Vive la humbug!