Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-24
THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY

Livery Democratic paper we take up,
no matter which faction it supports, or
which section it represents, is filled to
repletion with claims of nationality, :"
and the vaunting of the most cheering
prospects of the success of the National
Democratic party" This claim is suf-
fciently absurd in the Breckenridge jour-
mails, who have some chance for carrying
a few of the Slave States. Fut for the
organs of Douglas to talk about the pros
peet of his election, is simply an insult
to their duped and eredulous readers.
There is not an editor in the Union
SO utterly stupid as to belicre that Doug
las has any possible chance of an elec-
ton. They may possibly deceive their
readers and induce them to vote for their
candidate, but the reaction will be terri
BILE after the election. There is not a
Douglas Democrat in Ohio who did not
know, and who would not admit, that
with united party, with the aid of all
the leading and influential men in the
organization, his election would have
been. at least, doubtful None of them
but would have admitted that Lincoln
would have run him very close, with a
possibility of success.
F;.Nows with this simple statement ad-
mitted, and no one will deny its truth,
we would ask, in all candor, any intelli-
gent Douglas. man, what possible chance
has his candidate in the divided state of
the party? With united party you ex-
pected, and with reason, too, to carry for
him4 every Slave State: You did not,
and could not expect to carry more than
two OF three of the Free States-just
enough to elect him with the aid of the
entire South. But since the division it
is clear that Douglas can carry none of
the Southern States. The utmost he can
accomplish there will be to so divide the
Democratic vote with Breckinridge as to
throw all efthem in which he gets any
considerable support, into the hands of
the Bell party. And where is his pros
pect in the Free States We do the in
tellect Of the leaders the justice to say
that they are not SO hopelessly demented
as to be1iepe he can carry any one of the
Free States. Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Indiana and Illinois were the only Free
States in which. he had the slightest
chance of majority with a united party,
and these are precisely the States in
which the friends of -Breckinridge are
the most numerous, and the most deter
mined. We believe that Lincoln would
have carried all of these States against
the united party. We believe he will
carry all Of them by a clear majority over
both factions. And that he will have a
large plurality over either Of them is, to
eur mind, reduced to a moral certainty,
In this state ef the case we do not see
that Douglas has any prospect Of recelv--
ing single electoral vote in the Union.
n There is most significant fact in this
eeutest which our Douglas friends seem
to overlook. And that is, that those who
have heretofore controlled the party, an
have been it's trusted leaders, are almost
unanimously opposed to Douglas. 1t is
the theory of our Government, at least,
and the, parties have claimed to carry #
o,,t rt5Taa n anractice. that the ablest and most
ipanentiai ,psp il. any party were selected