Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-02
THE WAR OF THE FAcTIoNs.


Since the overwhelming victory of the
Republicans in the State elections on the
9th ult, the war among the factions
has become intensely amusing, The
Breckenridge organs swear that their
Douglas and Bells"allies' played false,
and aided in the election. of the Repub-
lican candidates. To this charge the
Bell and Douglas papers send up most
fierce and defiant denial, and inform the
whole world that they were true to the
terms of the "fusion," but that it was the
'straitorous" Breckinridger who spoiled
the game, and that the Breckenridge
party voted en- masse for the Republican.
tickets. But when the official vote was
received, and numbering as it did nnex-
pected thousands, these astonished Bell
and Douglas ssorgans," in the intense
modification ofso crushing defeat, loose
all self-control and fall upon each other
The Enquirer (Douglas) has, from day
to day for the last week, charged upon
the Times (BelD the awful crime of aid
ing the Republicans, and secretly rejoic-
ing in their success. The Times hurls
back this islander" in terms of terrific
indignation, and alleges that the Doug
las party are the allies of the Republi-
licans and rejoice in their success! The
tsconfict'' seems, indeed, to be 'sirrepres-
sible," and the scene of the ''Kellkenny
Cats appears to be re-enacting on a
most magnificent scale.
Now we suppose the truth to be about
this In all the various factions were
many honest, truth loving men-men
who love the country and it's institutions,
but who heretofore have been carried
along by old party attachments and had
never fully investigated the positions of
the various parties, Or the issues pre-
sented by them to the people. But,
finding the leaders of all the factions at
tempting to unite the most discordant
elements against the Republicans, with
| the avowed design of defeating the will
of the people, they began to think
Thinking led to investigation. Investi
CATION brought them to the truth, and
their honest impulses led them into the
Republican party. And hence the un-
heard-of majorities in all the States
whose elections have been held. The
leaders of these factions, utterly ignor-
ing honesty in politics relying wholly
upon trickery, deception, misrepresenta
ton and fraud for success, can only ac-
count for the defeat by supposing that
some Of the parties to their "fusion"
bargain, had played them false. But
they ought to remember that the people
had no part in the t'bargain and sale" by
which the leaders undertook to sell and
dispose of their votes. No doubt, the
leaders of all the factions did what they
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therefore but adding insult to the NOR
tifcation of baffled ambition to charge
each other with Etreachery to the league. y
They all did what they could. The mis-
take was in the estimate they placed
upon the intelligence and manhood of
the people If the voters had been as
stupid or as servile as these leaders sup
posed them to be, their "fusion" would
have succeeded, and demagogues would
have revelad in the spoils.
We believe there are still honest men
in these several factions who will be led
to reflection by the rawlings Of their or
gans in time to swell the majorities for
Lincoln on next Tuesday to a magnitude
that will teach unscrupulous tricksters
that the day for traficking in the votes
Of free men has passed forever away-at
least in those States where freedom of
speech and action is tolerated.
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