Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-12
HOW TODOIT.

HOW TO DoIT.
General Pillow, of Tennessee, is out
in a long letter in favor of Douglas for
President He insists on it, that the
South shall take him as their candidate,
as he has the disposition and power to
do more fer the spread of slavery than
any other man living. This he proceeds
to prove in manner that ought to be
satisfactory to the EXTREMIST of the fire.
eaters Gen. Pillow is in favor of a
slave code for the Territories, enacted by
Congress, to force slavery upon the peo-
pie against their will, wherever it can
not lie fastened upon them by any other
means. He goes as far as the farthest
But he insists that Douglas is the only
instrument they can use to accomplish
their purpose. He is totally opposed
to the doctrine of "popularsuvereignty."
But he asserts, in the mostpositlve terms,
ami. by authority, that Douglas uses the
doctrine for the sole purpose of sustain
ing tbs party in the North, while he
will fall back upon the Dred Scott De-
cision us soon as he is elected
Gen. Pillow assures his fellow con-
spiratcrs, that with Republican House
of Representatives, slave code cannot
be passed. That the only hope is in
the Democracy-that the Democracy
cannot carry a single free State, without
they are permitted to use the argument
of Popular Sovereignty-but that as
soon as majority can be obtained in
this way, then slave code can, and will
be adopted-and that the nomination of
Douglas for President is the only posi-
BILE means of accomplishing this end
The whole letter is an open assurance,
as if made by the authority of the North
ern leaders, that the whole talk about
popular Sovereignty" is mere sham
to gull the rank and file of the party in
the free States, and that those who use
it are the best and truest friends of a
slave code, for the purpose of extending
human bondage throughout the almost
limitless region of the continent.
How the honest portion of the party
will take this revelation of the position
and purposes of their leaders, we cannot
say. Of course they will be kept in the
dark if possible. The dough faces will
rant of the power of the people, while
the real rulers of the party-the South
ern slave holders-know that they can
buy them up for less than the price of
Congo negroes. The whole scheme of
electioneering by the different factions
of the Democratic party, is carried on
upon the presumption that the people
are too ignorant to see, or too pref udiced
to inquire into, the motives and purposes
of the leaders. A home leader of the
party, said in our presence short time
ago, "that there was no use to try to
move the Democracy of Meigs County
that very few of them read the papers,
and those who did, read the Statesman
and Enquirer, which were the organs OF
the party, and that all that good Demo
| Gratis wanted was to be told the right
ticket to vote and they would 70 it -
| He evidently -ennfdant- thai -A.,Ah
was the fact, and that those who have
heretofore voted for the Democratic
ticket would continue to do so, without
reference to the policy or principles
adopted by the Southern propagandists
who control the organization.
We are happy to know that the esti-
mate this gentlemen puts upon bis par
tisans is not correct as to all of them
Some, at least, do read other papers
than those named, and, consequently,
have the means Of arriving at the truth.
And some of these, we believe, will be
honest and Independent enough to act
out their conviction.