Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-03-13

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Dayton. He is a German of sterling
worth and intelligence, and will fairly
and ably represent that element of the
Republican party in the Convention
Upon the whole, we think no better men
could have been selected. The Conven-
ton, although noisy, as such bodies nee
essarily are, was perfectly harmonious,
and the very best of feeling prevailed
throughout.
The Convention Indicated by vote
of 383 to SO their preference for Gov.
Chase as the Republican candidate for
President; but, in spirit of liberality,
unusual on such occasions, refrained
from offering, or attempting to bind the
delegates by, instructions.
The Statesman is greatly outraged be-
cause the Convention declined to accom-
modate it by row or conflict of any
kind, among themselves. 1t pours out
column of the lowest and most vulgar
billingsgate which it has been our lot
to see in print. The occasion of the
outpouring is the failure of the Conven-
tion to do what it clearly had no right
to do, that is to construct platform. !"
That work was done at the last State
Convention for the nomination of State
officers, which will answer for Ohio until
the next Convention called for the same
purpose. What business a Convention
called for the specific purpose ofappoint-
ing four delegates to National Conven-
tion had with platform making could
hardly be seen by any one but the States
man. But, as nothing which the Con-
vention did do afforded pretext for the
wrath of the Statesman, it had necessarily
to fall back. upon what it did not do
We give few specimens: After heading
the article as "the proceedings of the
ABOLITION Convention" it says that
the feeling of all solid men is that of
DISGUST and CONTEMPT for its TRUCK
LING DISHONESTY AND lcowARDICE. -
A half dozen lines follow in which the
party is said to have been ruled by Gov
Chase, and then comes in this other
classic sentence in which it says the
Convention, "now present the DISGUST
ING, DISHONEST andcowARDLY spectacle
OF suppressia,g erery sentiment IN oPPosI-
TIoN TO SLAVERY. This suppression, !"
as tcalls omission to introduce platform,
it says is "shameful,' political DUpLIc-
ITY," "6adge Of FRAUD It then
complains that because the ministers of
the gospel are Republicans, and the
masses of the people believing them to
be pious and conscientious, and acting
from honest convictions of duty, have
drawn the people into the party, but it
declares that 'sit4a all their professions they
haze been the BAsEsT .HYPoCRITEs. y
DECEIT aud FRAUD it says, is the
foundation of their action, and they have
employed nothing but "FALsEHooD to
accomplish their ends. Such is the
beginning of the article, and it grows
more vulgar to the end. And what, our
readers will ask, did the Convention do
to stir up all this venom? Well, we will
tell them. 1t selected, in very pleas
ant humor and in great harmony, V.
B. Horton, and three other gentlemen Of
like character, to represent them in the
Convention at Chicago! This is the
whole ofense; and for which the States
man, after belching out such slang as we
have quoted above, through nearly a
column, closes in these very refined
terms: ",oe haze no cause to regret the ac-
ton Of this DEGRADED and DIsGRAcED
assemblage, bat as an eren,p1ifcation Of
DECEIT, DISHONESTY, FRAUD and COR
RUPTIoN, 1t Is, to all good citizens, mat
ter OF MULTIPLICATION thdt any 00dy OF
men could be assembled IN Ohio aoho
uould, BY THEIR ACTIONS, UNBLUsH-
1NGLY illustrate the perfect and complete
preponderamce Of such DEPRAv1TY."
Such is the opening of the campaign
by the central organ of the Democracy.
But orr letter is two long already,
and we must close.