Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-03
THE DIsUNION IIOBBY,

i. Inc eternal harplng upon the dlsso-
luton of the Union has become nausea
ting. The programme Of the campaign,
by three Of the contending factions,
seems to be, to frighten the people, by
threats of disunion in case of their de-
feat. a:
First, the Bell and Everett ticket was
gotten up especially to save the Union
The whole tenor Of their letters of accept
ance, and the arguments Of the papers
which support them, is, that unless the
people consent to give up all their cher
ished principles, and elect these respect
able gentleman without any platform at
all, the Union will be dissolved instantly.
And they seem verify to think that the
people, with fear and trembling, will vote
this ticket into Office, simply to save
somebody the trouble and expense of
overthrowing the Government, s
Next. we have Stephen. A. Douglas
in his speech in Baltimore, accepting
the nomination Of faction of the dis
rupted, convention. declaring in the
most ludicrous mock earnestness, that un-
less he is elected, the Union will be in
evitably dissolved. His whole speech
hinges upon this single idea. -. He does
not say who is to dissolve it. But GER
tainly it will not be the successful party
No man is stupid enough to venture the
assertion that any party, SO long as it
can rule the whole country, would be in
sane enough to divide it for the possible
chance Of governing a part. IF the
whole Of this Douglas gas about dissolv-
ing the Union, is not the most arrant
hypocrisy, then it must mean that un-
less the people elect Mr.. Douglas, he
and his defeated faction will dissolve the
Union. It must mean this, or it means
nothing, The Cincinnati Gaaete well
says that for "Stephen. A. Douglass to
talk of dissolving the Union in case Of
defeat is simply beneath contempt"
Next, we have Breokinridge, who ac-
cepts the nomination Of the other wing o
the convention, solely with view of
saving the Union. He, and his hackers
are quite sure that unless he is elected
the union will be shivered into atoms in
an instant.
Now what does all this mean? Do
these desperate men intend to re-enact
the scenes of civil war and intestine car
mage which has made Mexico a blot
upon the map of civilized nations p
For many years in that unhappy coun-
try, unprincipled demagogues have
headed contending factions, and as soon
as an election is over, the defeated aspi-
rant calls around him an army of his rab-
BILE followers, and plunder, devastation,
and massacre follow until all the money
that can be raised by forced loans, and
military robbery is expended. No one
thinks fora moment that the man elected
to Office in Mexico can take his seat, un-
less he can raise larger army than his
opponent. And no defeated candidate
is expected to submit to the vote of the
people if he can raise a sufficient army
to kill or displace his rival. And thus,
for quarter of century, has Mexico
been torn by her contending factions un-
til all progress, all Improvement, has
been extinguished, and barbarism has
spread its gloomy pail over people
SINK into the lowest depths of degrada-
ton.
With such an example before us, will
the people tolerate the Inauguration of
the same reign Of terror and anarchy
here? The spirit manifested by our
demagogues is exactly the same as in
Mexico. With unshamed faces the
leaders proclaim that they aoW not sub
nit to the voice of the people-that they
ocjH have power-1ciW control the Gov
ernment-acW rule the people, BY their