Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-02
To the Republicans Of Ohio.
REPUBLICAN, STATE CENT. Con-. Rooms,
CnIINRI-s O. Oct IL 1860. [

REPUBLICAN STATE CENT. Con-. Rooms, I
CoLuMBUs, o., Oct. 13, 1860. !
The October elections in Pennsylva-
mia, Ohio and Indiana, are over, and the
result has become significant fact in
political history of this Republic. Each
of these three great Central States has
given most decided and emphatic ex-
preston in favor of Republican princi-
Piles. In each of them, all of the ele
ments of opposition to us united to de-
feat our ticket, but the free laboring
masses came to our rescue. LIN Ohio,
the struggle was desperate, but our tri-
umph is complete We have elected our
State ticket by at least t,oenty thousand
majority We have again proclaimed to
the world that we are true to the princi-
Piles of our Fathers, and that we do not
cease to proclaim our allegiance to the
doctrines of the Jeffersonian Oordinance
of 1857, and our reprobation of the trait
ors that would, in this hour Of trial, de-
sert the cause of free labor, and its at
tendant free institutions. In Pennsyl
vania, our victory has been still more
decided and important. With maj Or
ity of 155, 900 against us in that State in
1856, we now have the election of Mr..
Curtin, our candidate for Governor, by
at least $4,000 majority. The fact be-
comes still more significant when we
know that all the factions Of the opposi-
ton Douglas, Breckinridge and Bell,
united upon Mr.. Foster, his opponent.
We have triumphed over the combined
foe. We have elected twenty-one Of the
twenty five members of Congress. We
have elected Legislature strongly Re-
publican in both branches, which Sc
cures us the gain of United States Sen
ator, in the place of Mr.. Bigler. In In
diana our triumph has been equally de-
cisive and important In 1856, the ma
jority against us in that State was
A, 600. Now, we have swept it in an
open, fair issue between the Republicans,
and all their opponents united upon one
State ticket, by at least 10000 majority.
We have elected eight Of the eleven
members of Congress. We have elected
a Legislature decidedly Republican in
both branches, which secures the gain Of
a United States Senator in place of DIR.
Fitch. This victory is scarcely withouta
parallel in our history. Added to these
splendid triumphs we have the recollec-
tion of the recent elections in Maine and
Vermont to cheer US on to certain vic
tory In Maine, the most persistent ef-
forts were made to break our column,
but to no avail. The Republican State
ticket was elected by about twenty thou
sand maj jority, and every one of her six
members of Congress are Republican
In Vermont, the Republican State ticket
was elected by twenty one thousand ma
iority, and her members of Congress are
all Republicans.
The Presidential election is substan-
TALLY decided by these magnificent re-
suits. Each OF these States will cast
their Electoral vote for Lincoln and Ham
lin by many thousands of increased ma
iority in November. The gains of the
States of Pennsylvania and Indiana,
added 10 the States that cast their votes
for Fremont in 1856, will give Lincoln
more than enough votes to elect him
President. We shall lose none that
were with us in 1856, and we shall also
have with us New Jersey and Illinois,
which were then against US, and we shall
have Minnesota, which has since come
into the Union. We have rapidly
growing Republican Party in each of
the border Slave States of Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and
Missouri; and we shall have open, as we
now have secret friends in every South
ern State, as soon as we can dispel the
illusions of prejudice and fanaticism,
and established free speech, and a free
press on the basis of Constitutional
rights. 49, ........ -.-..
In this hour of our triumph, both
State and national, while we congratu,
late our friends on the prospects for the
future, we desire to remind them that
there are corresponding obligations rest
ing upon them which they must not fail
to meet Ohio must struggle to main
tain her pre-eminence in the great Re
publican column of States or she will be
outstripped, on the 9th of November, by
Pennsylvania and Indiana. Our enc
mics are divided, distracted and en-
bittered against each other. They COM
bined against US not for principle, but
for the spoils, and they are badly beaten.
They may attempt another last despe
rate rally. But they must be met and
conquered. Our majority for Lincoln
in Ohio must be at least 10000. 1t
may be more, if we work. Let there be
no disbanding of our forces. Let every
county committee continue the vigilance
that has already accomplished so much.
Let meetings be held in every township
and school district Let documents be
distributed, and facts be presented to
the people. Let the grand Republican
army of Ohio continue its onward march
to still more splendid victory. And
when the 9th of November is past, and
Abraham Lincoln is elected President
of the United States, let the shouts of
our victorious hosts mingle with those
which will go up from Pennsylvania and
Indiana, in proclaiming to the world
that our cause is triumphant, and our
nation redeemed By order.
GEO. NJ. PARSONS, Chm.
w. T. BAsooM, Sec.