Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-08-14

deqree and half more slave territory
than you crer claimed. You asked only
up to 36 deg 80 min, and non, interven-
ton has given you up to 3S deg. -
This is his last speech in the Senate,
just before the Charleston Convention.
Look at it. He points the shareholders
to New Mexico, and assures them that
they are indebted to him, and his doc
trine, for the spread and establishment
of slavery into free territory .tfre times as
large as the State Of Ne,o Yorh-that but
for him, and his derotion to slare,y, 1t
aoould haze inevitably remained free terri
rtto,y, and finally become free States
that he had thus secured to SLAVERY q de-
gree and half more Of slaue territory
than any Shareholder had euer claineedl
Is it any wonder that such course of
double faced pandering to the sectional
interests and prejudices Of each section,
should thoroughly disgust the honest
men of both, and leave the ambitious as
pirant, tc learn III privacy, what he seems
never to have suspected, that "honesty
is the best policy" $50. .
And what contrast is presented to
the country, and what a lesson should
be taught to the young men of the
United States, by the positions of Doug
las and Lincoln. On the one side we
see Douglas, backed by powerful party
organization, bending all his powers for
years, without scruple, and using every
artifce to climb into the Presidency by
the most tortuous course, and reckless
means-playing upon the stupidity of
the ignorant, the passions of the reek-
less, the prejudices of the unreasoning,
the cupidity of the slave trader, and the
'sncgro- -phobia' of those who rejoice in
the Dred Scott Decision, as their claim
to superiority over "Cuffee filling the
land with strife and confusion, that in the
whirl of the storm he mightreap the prize.
While on the other hand is lincoln
plain, unassuming, upright and straight
forward-never lodging question, or
presenting double face in his life-the
integrity of his heart ultimating itself
in all his actions, winning for him the
title of 'sHonest Old Abe - pursuing the
even tenor of his way without an ambi-
tious aspiration, or an appeal to any in
terest' for place or promotion. Such is
the position of these two men, when the
country finds itself in the throes of a
coming crisis, and is looking out for the
wise statesman whose calm head, and pa
triotic heart, and steady hand, can guide
her safely through the threatening dan
ger At this hour of interest to the
people-of trial to their institutions,
Douglas steps forward and demands the
highest Office in the gift of the people
as reward for his partizan services, or
declares that he will scatter to the winds
the party which has supported hiln-will
rock the country to its foundation, and
confound, with greater confusion, the
dfscord already too mad1y raging. Re
lying upon the strength of party ties and
party prejudices to secure his election,
he forces lis nomination through split
Convention by such means as only such
as he can resort to, and now finds him
self discarded and spurned, without the
prospect of receiving the vote of single
State in the Union! Turn now, to the
other picture. A great Convention Of
the ablest men Of the nation meets at
Chicago, and, feeling the wants of the
country-the perils of the hour-their
attention is directed to the object of find
ing the statesman who is equal to the
task, and to whose guidance they can
safely trust the vast interests of great
people. Not intriguing for the Office,
but the Office seeking him, in his quiet
Western home, the news is brought to
Honest Old Abe that to him the peo-
pie have entrusted the Administration of
affairs throughout the perils of the next
four years!
p. How different must have been the
feelings of these two men on receiving
the news. of their nominations To the
one it come as mockery Of his .alnbi-
ton. He had secured it by the labor of
years, but by such means as must make
his election impossible, and send him
into obscurity, spurned, rejected, de-
graded, and contemned To the other it
comes as the unsolicited call of his coun-
try, to the discharge of great trusts,
which, if rightly executed, will hand
down his name with the patriot states
men of our earlier and better days
The one accepts the nomination, not
with the hope of serving his country,
but as means of punishment to those Of
his party who had no faith in, and could
not trust him. The other accepts the
nomination as trust reposed in him by
his countrymen, to be executed for his
country's good.
We need not recapitulate the lesson
thus taught. In the worlds onward
progress, even politicians will learn that
virtue, in the end, pays its votaries quite
as well as any other divinity at whose
shrine men worship. The people are