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


THE BRECKlNRIDGE STATE CON-
VENTION.
We have, in the Cincinnati Gazette
and other papers, a full report of the
proceedings of the Convention, held at
Columbus, on the 7th inst, by the
aNaGonaz Democrats" of Ohio. All
accounts represent it as one of the largest
and most enthusiastic Democratic Con-
ventions ever held in the State. Ger
tainly, if we judge from the character
and standing in the party of the men
who composed it, it must have been a
grand affair. Every District in the
State was represented. Ex-Governor
Wood was chairman, and such men as
Judges VIM. B. CALDWELL Mathew Bur-
chard, Thos. W. BARLEY, VIM. Kennon
Jr,, Emery D. Potter, VIM. D. Morgan,
Charles B. Flood, Charles Reemelin.
Judge Belden, Marshal johnson, Gen.
Mclaughlin, M. II. Medary, DR.. Fries,
Judge Hall, Lewis w Siford, John A.
Corwin, Samuel Starkweather, and a
host of other lifelong and honored
members of the party, were Vice Presi-
dents and leading actors in the move
ment. And when such men-the brains
and props Of the party-meet in council
and mark out the future course for the
Democracy to pursue, it is simply self
qualification in the leaders of the Doug
las faction to affect to despise them and
read them out of the party. This year,
the Douglas wing will undoubtedly out
vote them. But if the party survives at
all, these men will be the leaders of it's
future, as they have been in the past.
A set of resolutions were passed, meet
ing the issues of the day openly, hon
estly, manfully. They take the pro-
slavery ground, which the party, as SUCH
has ever occupied, but which has been
lodged by shams and false pretenses by
the Northern wing, heretofore. They
repudiate this double dealing, and
throw their true colors to the breeze
They plainly see that the hypocrisy and
fraud Of the past has not sustained the
party-has, in fact, been the cause of it's
utter overthrow. They see that the
people will have fair dealing, and can
not be permanently cheated-that a
temporary triumph, won, as was the
elections of Pierce and Buchanan, by
the most bare-faced swindling of the
honest voters, must, in the end, arouse
the Indignation of the people, and work
the overthrow of the dishonest leaders.
They see that these means have hope
lessly demoralized the party in the North,
and that present success is impossible.
But, with fifteen Slave States as basis
for the %construction of the party, they
think that by taking bold and fearless
stand with the South, in favor of slavery,
and its extension into the Territories,
they will be able to gather to their stand
ard in the Free States, all the proslavery
sentiment still lurking in the scattered
fragments of the old parties, and will
secure the votes of most of the Demo-
Gratis, thus building up a formidable
party which shall be unit in senti-
ment in favor of slavery, North and
South, as the Republicans are in favor
Of freedom.
That this is the only honest course to
pursue, will be admitted by every one,
and that it is the most polite, we have
no doubt. The rapid accessions to the
Republican ranks demonstrate the i'm
possibility of deceiving the people much
longer. The great questions in issue
mast be met. They can no longer be
lodged, Shutting dissimulation will
not be tolerated. Men must come out Of
their lurking places and face the music.
The people, we think, will promptly vote
down this slavery, Breckenridge
party. But there will be degree of re-
spect awarded them for their open
course, while unmixed contempt is the
only feeling possible in the minds of
honest men, for the double-faced hypoc-
risy of those who play the willy accom-
plice to the slave power under the false
and fraudulent pretense of being the
friends of freedom. Every day brings
with it some new movement of the par
ties and factions opposed to the Repub-
licans, and every movement has ten
dency to brush away some of the shams;
and bring the real issues more and more
directly before the people, We there
fore hail as instruments of progress, even
Dred Scott Decisions and every other in
tended obstruction thrown in the way by
the supporters of hoary error and party
wrong doing. And hence
we hail this Convention of "National
Democrats" as a lever, which, contrary
to the design of those composing it, will
be used to elevate the Elasses of North
ern minds into sill higher and purer
political atmosphere, where humanrights
will be more distinctly seen, and CORES
ponding duties more generally acknowl
edged, and more heartily performed.
More Help.
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