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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1860-05-19

sY Up to the time of going to press
we have received no news from the
Chicago Convention. By this even
ins's mail we shall probably know who
is to be our next President Of the Uni
ted States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1860-05-19

FIGHTING EDIroR.-John G. Heen-
ans name appears in the Madison Ar-
gus d Democrat as the fighting editor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1860-05-19

EB Court sets at Stanton next week,
tMonday).
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1860-05-19
CHIEF Justice-Omeisl Canvass.

The following is the official canvass
of the vote for Chief Justice, at the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1860-05-19
RELL's LIFE IN LONDON, }
Amil 18th. 1860.

The decision Of the editor OF Bells
life in Londcn, who acted as referee
III the match between Hecnan and Say
crs yesterday, the 18th, was that the
men should not fight again this week,
on the ground Of humanity. All bets
are, Of course, off.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1860-05-19

THE GREAT FIGHT-In a letter to
Wilkes Spirit Of the Times, the editor
says:
| have only to say that, however I'M
willing EngIishmen may be to see the
belt Of the British Champion claspcd
around the victorious loins OF an Amer
lean, they must unless their boast of
''iair play'' is "a delusion and a snare"
reconcile themselves to the spectacle,
for the Benicia Boy has come for it,
can win it, and will have it.
G. W.
OFFICIAL DECISION OF THE REFEREE.
BELLS LIFE IN LONDON.
IL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1860-05-19
The Z. S. cruisers in the Gulf c

Mexico have at last succeeded in cap,
turing genuine lice SLAYER! The fri.
gate -Iohasck having arrived at New
Orleans, on Saturday, with the bark
Wsl9tfrs i'll charge, having some five
hundred slaves on board, which she
had captured of the coast of Cuba.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
Good Lord--GoOd Devil.

Our cotemporary Of the Union, an ar
dent Democratic organ, published in
Steubenville, in this State, not knowing
into whose hands he may finally fall,
and wishing to be in favor with which
ever beats, hoists the names Of Dougl las
and Breckenridge both! And with un-
paralleled lucidity, defines his position in
this style:
"The nomination by the members of
the Democratic National Convention of
two sets Of Presidential candidates is
likely to create wide, but we most fer
vently hope, not a permanent, breach in
the Democratic ranks. Douglas and
Fitzpatrick, and Breckenridge and Lane,
have each their supporters; even the old
est and most shreWd men of the Demo
cratic organization are unable to deter
mine satisfactorily what they ought to
do. Ratification meetings are spoken of
by the friends of both sets Of candidates.
The friends Of Breckenridge and Lane
propose to meet and ratify the selection
Of their favorite candidates, and are
making preparations for a grand ratifi-
cation Of their nominees, of which due
notice will be given by handbills and
through the paper. The Douglas men
will hold theirs ON Thursday evening
next"
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
For Member of Congress,
v. B. HORTON.
REPUBL1cAN COUNTY coNvENT1oN

W ~ YIN ENI1ON.
Alta meeting of the Republican Cen
sral Committee of Meigs County, Ohio,
held on the 22d day of June, 1860, for
the purpose of fixing the time of hold
ing,the Annual Republican Convention
OF Melgs County, for the nomination of
their, county ticket, the following resolu-
tions were adopted.
Resolucd, 1st. That the Republican
County Convention for the nomination
sfcouuty officers be held at the Court
Hause in Pomeroy, on Saturday, the 29th
day of duly next, at eleven O. clock A. NJ
Resaaved, End. That the Central Com
nittee request the Republicans of the va
rious7 townships and election precincts
toEmeetsat their usual places of holding
elections, on Saturday, the 21st day ot
duly next, at two o'clock p NJ, to nomi-
nate their respective number of delegates
to the County Convention.
Resolred, 3rd. That each township
and election precinct shall be entitled to
one delegate for every twenty five votes,
and one for every fraction above the
number of twelve votes given for Gov
ernor Dennison in 1859, and that upon
this basis Bedford is entitled to three
delegates, Chester six, Columbia three,
Lebenon three, Letart .one, Middleport
Precinct eleven, Pomeroy Precinct thir-
teen, Olive four, Orange three, Rutland
nine, Salem six, Scipio six, and Sutton
nine.
By order of.the Central Committee.
'a'e ARTHUR MERRILL, Chm.
". II. LAsLEY, Sec'y.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
SECTIONALISnI.

Douglas received twenty-eight votes
in the Rump Convention from the South
ern States, and fifteen of them-nine
from Alabama and six from Louisiana
were clearly bogus. Lincoln received
forty-seven legitimate Southern votes in
the Chicago Convention which nomina-
ted him. Yet Lincoln is 'sscctional, y
and Douglas a ''nationap' candidate! -
so say the Douglas organs.
But what makes sectionalisn? We
freely admit that we do not expect a
large vote for Lincoln in the Southern
States, in Novembe ber. With the present
state of feeling there, it would be sub
ject of deep regret, if he should. 1t
would show the same dishonest game OF
hypocritical double dealing and fraud
which we have SO long opposed in the
Democratic party. There is not even a
pretense that there is any unity of sens
timent or feeling between the Northern
and Southern Democrats; yet they have
been in the most unholy alliance fol
years for the sake Of the spoils merely
The case is wholly different with the
Republicans. The few citizens of the
South who act with US are earnest, hon
est men, who give the Republican prin-
ciples cordial and conscientious sup
port. They are even more intensely
anti-slavery than those of the North, be-
cause they feel more Immediately the
grinding oppression of the SYSTEM
Whatever support, then, the Republican
ticket may receive in the South will be
an honest support. There is no conflict
between Northern and Southern Repub-
licans as is the case with the Democrats
And this unity of sentiment gives gen
uine nationality to the party, and will
give it strength and power. Every ac,
cession of numbers in the South adds
to its unity and strength, while the
Southern majority, given to the Demo
cratic party, holding sentiments opposed
to those in the North, necessarily tended
to the sectionalizing, and final disrup-
ton of that party.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
NO op1souss1oN ALLowED.

During the tendency of Jeff. Davis
Slave Code resolution in the U. S. Sen
ate, Mr.. Harlan, of Iowa, offered the fol-
lowing proviso, viz:
"But the free discussion Of the morality
and enrediency Of slarcry should mecer
be intcrtered acith by the laaos of any State,
or the United States, and the freedom OF
speech and The press, on this and euery
other subject Of domestic and national pol
icy, should be maintained inriolate IN all
the ,States.''
This amendment was deliberately
voted down by thirty six Democrats, in
Guiding Pugh of Ohio, the twenty Re
publican Senators present, of course
voting for it. just look at the PROPOSE
ton. The resolutions which were
passed-every Democrat in the Senate
but two voting for them-lay down the
doctrine that if the people in the Terrific
ries will not sanction slavery among them
and the President and Supreme Court
cannot force it upon them, then it is the
duty Of Congress, by the enactment of a
Slave Code, to compel them, against
their viii, to submit to the presence and
working of the system in their midst
And this doctrine was carried through
the United States Senate, by the votes
of every Democratic Senator except two.
And it was while these resolutions
were before the body that the above
amendment was offered and rejected.
Look at it. 1t simply says that "the
free discussion Of the morality or enpedi-
ency of slavery should never be inter-
fered with by law, &C." This did notsuit
Democracy. IF the enpediency and NOR
aAy of human bondage was permitted to
be discussed it was clearl y seen that
there was no hope of it's establishment
No STAKEHOLDER, of course, would will
lingly consent to have the matter dis
cussed. And Northern dough faces voted
with them. 1t is true, Pugh was one
of the two Democrats who finally voted
against the naked Slave Code PROPOSE
tion. But he voted with them on all
preliminary questions, and against the
right of the people to discuss even its
eupeciency. This, however, was a few
days before the split of the party. Now.
since the South has refused to support
Douglas, Pugh will, no doubt, attempt
to win votes for his faction by de-
nouncing the South in style which nc
Republican ever did.
Surely the people will see through
the maneuver.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
INFATUATION.

There is noproposition so incontrover-
tably proved by the whole current of
human history, as this, "that the wrongs
committed by individuals or communities,
inevitably work out, in one form or
another, retributive punishment upon
the perpetrators. Men in their mad
ness may impiously deny an over-ruling
Providence, and, making falsehood
their defense, hope to prosper in iniquity
But such a hope is pure infatuation.-
They may deny revelation as they please
may vote the Bible book of fables,
anl ia their hearts say ''there is 40 God'
Inlay defy might, and worship craft,
and trust in deception, but the world s
history still remains, and teaches on
every page, the great truth which reve-
fation has condensed into the sentence
''7'ho 'eicked shall not go uapunished."
The Democratic party are testing this
great truth, in the consequences of their
treatment of the people of Kansas
Still, in their blind infatuation, they do
not seem to learn wisdom, and still hope
to prosper by the preparation of further
wrong. Any one not hopelessly blind
must see, that for the persistent efforts
Of that party to oppress the people of
Kansas, and through them, to outrage
the rights of the great mass of the peo-
pie, the party itself has not only lost the
confidence of all honest men, but is
suffering the tortures of internal war
fare, which has broke out among the
conspirators themselves.
But the most wonderful scene in all
this drama, is the insanity which hopes
to succeed by continuing the iniquity
Knowing that if Kansas were admitted
into the Union, her three electoral votes
would be cast for Lincoln, the Demo
cratic Senate has contemptuously re-
fused her admission into the Union
They have vainly hoped by thus dis
ffanchising state, they can defeat the
will Of the people Of the Union, and re
tain the power which they have SO much
abused. They have apparently over
looked the fact, that, in perpetratine
this great wrong to prevent the three
votes of Kansas being given to Lincoln
they have so outraged the sense of JUS
tice in thousands of their own party as
to secure to him the electoral votes Of
all the Free States in which there was
any doubt Good will thus be brought
out of their premeditated evil, but the
moral crime Of their purpose remains
the same as if they had succeeded, and
the punishment as sure. In fact, the
penalty will ibe doubly intense. For, to the
upbraiding of conscience for an intended
wrong, will be added the wounded pride
and mortified ambition, which must
follow in the wake of so dishonorable a
defeat.
The retribution is just, and all men
and especially all politicians, should
ponder the lesson it teaches.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
WHAT THE DISUNIONISTS MAY EX-
PECT OF LINCOLN.


While the Democratic Senators and
members of Congress were threatening
to dissolve the Union, in their infamma-
tory speeches last winter, Lincoln was in
Leavenworth Kansas, where he, too, made
a speech. He then had no expectation
of being the Republican candidate for
President, but he we'll understood that
some good man would be, and he very
clearly stated what would be done in
case the threat was attempted to be put
in execution. Now that he is himself
the candidate, with a moral certainty of
being elected, it may be of interest to
our Democratic friends to know what
they have to expect at his hands in case
they undertake the dissolving contract.
Here is what he says Republican Ad-
ministration would do, and as he is to
be the head of that Administration, the
thing will be done, and done we'll too.
We commend the declaration to the
"prayerful consideration of our Dis
union friends. He says:
"You Democrats greatly fear the sue
cess of the Republicans would destroy
the Union. Why? Do the Republi-
cans declare against the Union? Moth
ing like it. Your own statement of it is,
that if the Black Republicans elect a
President, you won't stand, it! You
will break up the Union. That will be
your act, not ours To justify it, you
must show that our policy gives you
just cause for such desperate action
Can you do that2 When yoa attempt
it you will find our policy is exactly the
policy of the men who made tie Union.
nothing more or nothing less. Do you
think you are Justified to break up the
Government rather than have il admin
istered as it was administered by Wash
ington, and other good and great men
who made it, and first administered it!
If you do, you are very unreasonable
and more reasonable men cannot and
will not submit to you. While you
elect Presidents, we submit, neither
breaking nor attempting to break up the
Union. If we shall constitutionally
elect a President, it will be our duty to
see that you submit. Old John Brown
has just been hung for treason against g
State. We cannot object, even though
he thought slavery wrong. That canno
excuse violence, bloodshed, and treason
It could avail him nothing that he nigh
think himself right. So, if constitu
tionally we elect President, and there
fore you undertake to destroy the Union
IT WILL BE OUR DUTY TO DEAL
WITH YOU AS OLD JOHN BROWN
HAS BEEN DEALT WITH. W.
shall try to do our duty. We hope ane
believe that in no section will majority
so act as to render such extreme meas
ures necessary"
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRACY

THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRACY.
In Pennsylvania, confusion reigns su-
preme among the scattered debris of the
late Democratic party. 1t was designed
to have a great demonstration in Phila-
delphia on Saturday last, for which
purpose meeting of the Executive Com
mittee was called. But alas! the discov-
cry was at once made that in the Com
mittee, as we'll as the Convention, the
''irrepressible conflict was ready to
break out Some wanted to ratify
Douglas and some Breckinridge. After
a desperate WranSle the Committee split
in two, fourteen siding with Breckinridge
and only ten with Douglas. Thereupon
the Douglas men issued call for mass
meeting to ratify the nomination of their
candidate, or, as they designate the thing,
'the ticket of the great national Demo-
cratic party. "
And thereupon the chairman of the
Committee publishes manifesto, de-
nouncing the movement of the Douglas
ties as irregular, and calling ratification
meeting in the name Of Breckinridge and
Lane-"thc ticket of the great national
Democratic party.'"
This looks rather queer. Is the
Union already dissolved? How can
there be t,co ''great national Democratic
parties" with ''national Democratic can
didates,' unless there are two nations?
Have these Demecracies quietly divided
the Union into two nations and ar
ranged their government between them?
The organization ia the State at large
is in the same unhappy dilemma. I'm
fortunately, the Democracy of Pennsyl-
vania had not the wisdom to postpone
their State nominations, like their breth-
ren of Ohio, until it could be ascertained
which Democracy was the true one. A
ticket for Governor and other State Off
GERS, as we'll as an electoral ticket, had
been nominated before the split. 1t is
now ascertained that majority of the
candidates on the State, as well as Elec-
toral ticket, are in favor of Breckinridge.
The State Executive Committee is also
divided. The confusion is supreme, and
the profanity awful.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
Unmercifu1 Satire.


It will be remembered that the Gin
imitable' Davy Todd of Ohio, was called
to preside over the fragment of the
Baltimore Convention, which nominated
Douglas, after Crushing, the President
of the Convention, had abandoned it.
After the nomination Of Douglas, Todd
made speech in the following words:
"With heartfelt satisfaction, as pre-
siding officer of this Convention, I de-
clare Stephen A. Douglas, by unanimous
vote, the candidate of the Democratic
party Of the Union, for President of
these United States, and may God, IN
his infinite mercy, protect him and the
Union he represents!'
A cotemporary says the closing lines
"read awfully like hanging" 1t is the
language universally used by judge in
passing sentence of death upon a con-
vict. The judgment of the Court is so
and so, "apd mag the Lord hare mercy
on your souz." The language Of Todd
is-Douglas is nominated, and "may the
Lord have mercy upon his SOUL
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
The way the Democracy satify up i'm old
Ashtabula.

The Ashtabula Sentinel gives glow
ing account Of Democratic ratification
at Jefferson, in that County. The Sen
tine1 says, there were formerly few
Douglas men in that place, but since the
nominations none have been discovered.
But the Breckenridge party is enthusias-
tic, as will be seen from the account of
the great ratification got up by 1t, on the
announcement of the nomination. Here
is the report of the meeting as given by
the Sentinel:
"When the mail came in on Monday
afternoon, our Postmaster, who is taking
the census as Deputy U. S. Marshal,
called himself together, made collection
of money and bought some powder
He then organized, by taking off his
coat and putting on leather apron, and
proceeded, solitary and alone, to load
"Uncle Rubes little cannon" which he
loaded, and then went to Talcott's, got a
nail rod, and built a fire to heat it. He
then primed it and told boy he might
touch it off when the iron was hot,
which he did, blowing the fire all to
pieces This was in front of the post
office; and as there was some horses
hitched along the street. it was deemed
best to go to vacant lot near by. He
then got his Deputy to help him draw it
to the proper ground, where he fired five
more shots. Thus ended the ceremony,
which was conducted with great decorum,
and gravity worthy Of a U. S. Official
The six shots were all fired within an
hour We have not heard Of any Doug
las demonstrations % come off, as vet.
lIhc wi1dcst cnth~saiso' rre"aileR
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
The Constitution.

The Constitution.
The central Democratic organ at
Washington repudiates Douglas, and
goes for Breckenridge and Lane with a
will. Douglas is said to be in state of
desperation. His spirits are only kept
up by stimulants, which it is feared will
get such a control over him as to send
him the way of many other men of mark,
to an unhonored grave. Much as we
dislike the political course of the Hi
nois Senator, we should regret to have
his name added to the long list of dis
tinguished men who have fallen victims
to the insidious advances Of an uncon-
trolable appetite for strong drink. We
don't believe he is yet past recovery.
Sam Houston, who was for years hope
less slave to his appetite, burst the spell,
and has long been an example Of tenn
perance, whatever else he may be. We
sincerely hope Douglas may follow his
example in this respect.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
in New Hampshire.

Four of the leading Democratic papers
in New Hampshire have hoisted the
Breckenridge flag, viz: The Portsmouth
Gazette, the Dover Sentinel, the Concord
Standard, and the Manchester Democrat
How many support Douglas we do not
know. But either of the Democracies
stand about as much chance of carrying
that State as Lincoln has of receiving
the vote of the nullifers and disunion-
lists of the South.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
.sEcT1oNsIIsMR RAMPANr,

1t is curious to see the effect of the
split in the Democratic party upon the
tactics of politicians. The utter fatuity
OF tEle professional ofice-seekers is as
amazing as it is ludicrous. They have
been SO long accustomed to bow in SER
Witty to the, Southern fre-eaters, rely
ing upon party prejudice at the North
to go ''the ticket" without questioning,
that they have totally overlooked the
changed state ofpopular sentiment in the
Free States.
With an immense maj ority of thevoters
in the Free States, with the power to
elect President without single South
.ern State, the politicians, from habit, or
judicial blindness, wholly ignore that
great fact, and in their desperation, ap-
peal with more frantic energy than
usual to the fanaticism of the slave in
terest. To calm on-looker, the scene
is absurdly &dierous.
The Breekinridge organs appeal to
this fanaticism against Douglas in style
we'll calculated to excite their followers
to utter frenzy While the few Douglas
oracles in that region, feeling the pres
sure of suspicion upon them, in their
desperate efforts to throw it off, and Sc
cure the support of the slave trade inter-
est, seem to have lost all discretion and
common sense, in their wild extravaganza
in underbidding the Breckinridge faction
for the votes of the extremists. Both
these factions charge each other with
being uRsound on the anigger,' And
this offers temptation to the Bell party,
wdlich seems too strong to resist, to pitch
into them both; and accordingly the or
gaHs of that conservative organization,
taking up the charges of ''unsoundness,
made by the Douglas and Breckenridge
champions against each other use them
with powerful effect against both, and
seem in fair way to appropriate the
virtues of 'sCufee" to their own use and
benefit. The probabilities are, that the
Bell party will, by stealing the "Sambo"
thunder of the ''grand Democracy carry
most of the Slave States. The triangu-
lar contest for the championship of the
dash and slave mart is spectacle which,
but for the unutterable disgrace it brings
upon our country, would afford food for
infinite amusement.
But what less than utter infatuation
can induce these three parties thus to
contend, in the face of the civilized world,
for the bad eminence of being the pecu-
liar supporters of the vilest system of
oppression which yet fingers on earth to
ebstruct the progress of the nations to
freedom and peace? If either party
should sscceed in underbidding both the
Others, and should thereby carry the en-
tire South, it still leaves them far in the
minority and without the hope of reach
ing the goal of their ambition. And
with such spectacle before them, 1t
would be an insult to the Intelligence and
virtue of the citizens of the Free States
to suppose that they can be used as the
self-abased dupes Of either of these fac
tons They will not be so used. But
the calm majority of free men will
place the Government in the hands of
men who can listen to other music than
the clanking of chains and the sound of
the auctioneer's voice and hammer in the
Aumon .hanbles.