Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-08-02

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nominated Tor all the offices, without re.
gard to past party differences.
We know Democrats in this County
who are good Union men, and for hon
we could cordially vote, if the effort is
made in good faith to ignore party, and
present an united front to the enemy
We know, too, as every one will see if
the contest gees on, that in the very ma
ture of things it must result in giving
encouragement to the insurrectonists.
The only question is. 'shall the Gov
ernment be sustained in the effort to
save the Union?" For the next four
years the direction of the Government
is, by the Constitution, devolved upon
the present Administration. 1t can do
nothing unless sustained by the people
If jeff. Davis and his army on the one
side, battering at the heart of the nation
with bullets, are aided by an army of
soulless lcmagogues on the other side,
poisoning the minds of the people by in
cessant falsehood against the Govern
ment and those who support it, it may be
doubted which army is the more deadly
foe.
I, But partisan contest cannot be car
red on i'll any other way. The only
possible hope of the Enquirer and its CO.
laborers is in appeals to the lowest pos
ssible human prejudices. 1t cannot hope
to succeed by any other means. Hence
it is repeating the old slang and refuted
falsehoods of other campaigns. 1t rep
resents the Administration and all who
support it as "Abolitionists. 1t every
dry procl.ims that 1.-The only object of
these 'Abolitionists' is to debase and
degrade tn free white man and exalt the
negro" That ''thc war was Irought on
by the Administration for the purpose
of dividing the Union, and setting the
negroes FREE &C.. And all such misera-
BILE incen liarism is thrown out in food,
evidently with the expectation that the
passions of the unthinking portion of
the community may be aroused into that
state in which they can be used for the
ulterior purposes of the conspirators.-
We appeal to all honest Democrats to
say whether they believe party contest
can | C conducted on such principles in
the present state of the popular mind
without resulting in civil war in our
midst?
Read the pictures which these papers
draw of the sufferings Of men out of
employ ment-''that thousands of fami
lies are arvirg for bread, and that mil
lions must starve before the war is ended
that the war was got up, and is waged
by the 'Abo,itionists for the purpose
of freeing the negroes and placing them
above white men-that the whole war is
i war upon the rights of the people, and
every act of the President usurpation,
aiming at military despotism,' &c, &c.
Such charges as these, repeated day by
day, in every insulting form, and de-
signed to infamc to madness the pas
sions of the ignorant, can hardly be
continued without leading those who
believe them into open acts of violence
And it is for the purpose of disarming
these dangerous and designing men that
we advocate the formation Of Uaton
ticket. in which all honest Democrats
can enter without any seeming surrender
of their party doctrines.
If all the honest part Of the Democ-
racy in Ohio should take part in such
movement, those who sympathize with
jeff. Davis would be left in so miserable
a minority that their influence could do
no damage to the State. Let US, then:
have o union, for the sake of the " Union.