Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-16
THE pROGRE Ess OF REPUBLICAN y
PRHSEsPLES.

I&hSS1PLESs
If any true friend of the country had
been led to doubt the final triumph Of
free principles, that doubt must be dis
pclied by the election of abraham Lin
coin on the 9th inst. In 1859, only
eight years ago, Franklin Pierce re-
ceiled the vote of every Free State in
the Union, except Vermont and Massa-
chusctts. He was nominated at the die
tatiou of the slave interest of the coun-
try, and was the most perfect tool of the
leaders of that interest. Backed by a
powerful party which controlled then,
as now, nearly all the Slave States,
and all but the two small Free States
showed named, the Pierce EAdulinistra-
ton seemed to lie almost omnipotent.-
AS the mere instrument of the slave
power, aud welding the patronage O.
the Government against the interests of
free labor and free speech, many good
men began to despair of the experiment
OF free Institutions.
But, during his Administration, the
Republican party was organized with
the avowed design of bringing back the
action of the Government to the policy
Of The fathers Men from all other par
ties united in this new organization with
this central idea as a bond of Union
Never, since the existence Of parties in
this or any other country, was such
desperate means resorted to, to crush out
movement, as were employed to bring
odium upon the Republican party in its
infancy. From the hour of it's organi-
zation it was traduced with an audacity
Of Misrepresentation and falsehood with
out previous precedent. Every pas
sion was infamed and every prejudice
excited that promised to be available for
It's defeat. But through all this storm
the leaders and presses Of the movement
pressed onward with steady purpose,
relyingupon the intelligence and honesty
Of the people, and firm in the faith that
SO long as the freedom of speech and the
press remained in considerable portion
ofthe country, the rightwould finally tri-
umph. The party steadily increased in
all the Free States, until in the election
of 1856 the Republican party carried
eleven States
1t now became manifest that the cor
ruptionists and Slavery propagandists
who controlled the Government were in
sanger of being displaced. This stim-
ulated them to still greater efforts to re-
tain their power, and in addition to the
usual falsehoods and fanatical appeals to
the passions and prejudices of the un-
thinking, the bolder experiment Of in
sulting threats were resorted to. And
hence, from one end of the Union to the
other, men in high places-Cabinet Off
zoers-Senators- Congressmen--Gover
ors of States Presidential candidates
stump orators and editors, proclaimed
that they would disrupt the Union if
they were not permitted to rule it. The
fears of the people, as well as their pas
sious, were appealed to. And as all ar
gument and reason was abandoned, and
relying solely upon these means to sus-
tain their power, all factions, however
discordant, agreeing only in the common
sentiment Of hatred to the Republicans,
united in an unnatural and dishonorable
"fusion' to defeat the will Of the people
by throwing the election of President
at the recent contest into the House of
Representatives, to be gambled for there,
as the prize of fraud and bribery.
In this scene of confusion, fanaticism
and threatened treason, the Republican
forces, uudismayed and unfalteringly,
marched straight forward The de-
cisiye day-the 9Th of November-at
length arrived, and Abraham Lincoln is
elected President by such majorities, in
nearly every Free State, as no candidate
ever received before. Here is lesson
which ought to teach politicians that,
however strong party ties may be, the
force of truth upon the understandings of
the people, if fairly and honestly pre-
sented, is still stronger, and that even in
politics, honesty is the best policy.
Another encouraging phase of the
election is the fact that in spite of all
the Misrepresentation of the aims and
purposes of the Republicans spite of
the fact that their papers were pro-
scribed and their lives endangered in the
South yet in all the border Slave States,
respectable Republican vote was cast;
and in Delaware, which is only entitled
to one member, Republican was eiec-
ted to Congress. This shows state Of
progress which gives assurance that be-
before the expiration Of the first term
of Lincoln's Administration, Delaware,
Maryladd, Virginia, Kentucky and Mis-
souri, may be counted upon as Republi-
can States Let every friend of freedom
and right take fresh courage, and labor
on for the elevation and advancement of
mankind.
Good for Little De1eware.
1t is with the highest pleasure that
We announce the fact that Delaware, a
Slave State, will be represented in the
next Congress by true Republican,