Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-07-26
"SnALL We HAVE PARTY CON.
TEST THIS EALL!"


been desirous Of avoiding a partisan con-
test in the coming elections, lest it
should be the means of dividing the SEN
tments Of tho people, AMI thus weaken
in. the hands of the Government in
this hour Of the country's peril.
Every man who has mind enough to
think, must know that the struggle in
which We are now engaged is the most
.mementuous in the annals of the hu-
man race Never before was there
people SO fayorably situated for the es-
tsblishment and maintenance of Free
Institutions as those of these United
States. Never was intelligence SO uni
,crsally diffusel among the people
Never had so perfect system, Of govern
ment been instituted, and never had
such unbounded prosperity and happi
ness ensued.
Ambitious men, for the qualification
OF their selfish and unholly purposes,
had, in all other countries and in all
other times. managed, either by force or
fraud, to usurp the Government, and
with the iron heel Of despotism, crush
out the spirit of the people, together
with their liberty. But here. for more
than three quarters Of century, the
people have maintained their freedom
in a good degree, against the craft of
the demagogues; and the hopes of the
world were centered in our experiment.
Thousands of the worshipers at the
shrine Of liberty in other lands, seeing
no hope of deposipg the olisarchies
which trampled them in the dust,
sought an asylum under our Constitu-
ton. As our progress became fact
confirmed, and our Free Institutions
and their results found their place in
the worlds history, thrones trembled,
and petty lords paled before the dignity
of untitled manhood Evidently such
an example must lead to the overturning
Of the worn-out, artificial. unnatural,
and despotic Governments built upon
the idea of the right of haue hty aristoc.
racies TO revel upon the substance Of
the toiling millions. If our Constitu
ton can be preserved-our liberties
maintained-t diabolcal rebellion
suppressed-this demon Matched con
tpiracy crushed out, the hopes Of the
pi.ilanthropist the patriot, and the
christian will be assured, and mankind
viii over leap centuries at bound, in the
hitherto slow and painful march of pro-
eress. On the other hand, let this infer
nal deep-laid conspiracy against the liber-
ties of mankind be successful-let our
Union be dividcd-let our Constitution
be subverted-let IL be established that,
eyen here, in this noon of the nineteenth
century, demagogues can summon their
dupes to appeal from ballots to bullets
that the desperate leaders Of an un-
successful faction may devastate with
pillage and carnage, the land whose
people would not consent to their rule,
and the hopes of the world will go out
in starless night.
But this is the issue now to be tried,
aud it's decision depends much upon the
unity with which the people of Ohio and
ether loyal States support the Admins
tration in this life and death conflict
for the maintenance Of the very exist
ence of the Government.
The rebel leaders in the South never
would have taken the desperate step
they have taken but for the belief that
the contest would be a partisan one.
They believed that the leaders ofthc party
in the North with whom they had so
long acted would aid them, and could
carry with them the masses Of the party.
In this they were mistaken as the al
most universal uprising of the people on
the first shot upon Fort Sumter proved.
With the great mass of our people, pa
triotism was so strong that they had
bnt to see their duty to their country
to impel them to its performance. And,
hence, at the call of the President Dem
ocrats and Republicans, like band of
brothers, with bounding hearts and
strong arms, flew to the defense of their
common country. Democrats and Re-
publicans alike, in every neighborhood,
have their sons and brothers in the pa
triot ranks. In those ranks, and in the
ordeal through which they are passing,
partisanship is forgotten. It should be
SO with those who are left behind. We
believe it is, so to very great extent.
Under these circumstances, the Gin
cinnati Gazette, Cleveland Herald, and
every other Republican paper we have
seen, proposed that there should be no
party nomination this fall that Union
Convention of all parties should be
called, and State ticket selected of
true Union men, regardless of their past
party associations. This was certainly
very liberal. Fer the purpose ofsecuring
the moral effect of united people, they
were willing to make the concession.-
The Plain Dealer, Fremont Democrat,
and some others of the Democratic
papers, cordially seconded the move
ment Hon. David Todd, and DR.. Dor
sey, who had been named extensively as