Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-01-04
THE COMING sToR n.

The Mexican style of politicsseeIns to
be in fair way Of successful inaagura-
ton by the defeated and disappointed
factious of the country There, the de-
foated candidate calls around him his
maddeped followers, and with barBaric
and merciless carnage, attempts to place
himself at the head of affairs Such has
been the game of the demagogues of
that unhappy country for more than
twenty years: The consequence is, that
utter aud hopeless ruin aud dcmoraliza-
tion has ovcrspread the land.
~ 1t would seem that her example
should teach lesson to the people of
thelUnitcd States which would forever
mike it impossible for desperate parti-
san leaders to reduce us to the same
rpndition. But, sadly, the truth must
be admitted, that we have among us
many men who, in insane ambition and
Reasonable hatred of the law and order
OF society which would elevate better
Ineni to positions of trust, are ready to
Piay the petty Mexican chieftain here,
- Unable TO reconcile their own discor-
daat claims, these leaders, each with a
clan of followers, demanded of the peo-
sds 80 be placed in trust Of the destinics
bfioar great country, under the threat of
disaster and dissolution if they we're un-
sueSessful, The people lad no conf
fieade in either, and it was perfectly
plain that the same ambition which led
theSehiefs to rend the Democratic party
tosspicces before the election, would, for
hid 4 submission of either faction to the
rule of the other, after election, if suc-
fessful. What sane man believes that
the Brcckinridge wing of the party
wowie- have submitted to the Ceastitu--
ton aud the laws, if Douglas had been
eleeted2 Surely. if there was not ,patri-
otism and love of order enough in the
party to induce the leaders to take their
tprns in the party Conventions to save
the,existenccsofth the organizations iten,ast
tesma anifest that they did not mean. to
Submit to the will Of the people as ex
pressed through the forms of the eonsti-
tuition. If, therefore, Douglas had beep
elected his Inauguration would have
Eeen resisted with ten fold i5itterncss.,4-3ae5, Z,
arFl would the Dppglas. winS9 Of the
Hafty have submitted to, the rule. of
Breekinridge, after he aud his followers
had disrupted the party and planted
themselves upon ground whohyaebnoxa
ious to the principles o5ff the Constitu-
tion and the past! professions aud usages
If the Government Certainly they,
would not. lf,there hadsbeen any pur-f
pose to.submit, that purpose would have
been shown at The Convention and the.
unity Of thtesal party would have been
pfcserved. But the simple truth is,
neither faction intended to submit tet the
dtllerssbut were resolved to carry the.
fgbtto the bittor end. p, - ID
= And the leaders of another .organiza-
tions calling itself e.eminently the
''Eaioni party, salso' demanded that the
reiRs. of 5GGovernment should be placed
iadheiirs- hands True ,sthey spoke loudly
in fsor fsor Of THE aITnion, and the great
mass those Who COM posed th party
were no doubt lnion,lovins men, But
it is. nov manifest Ito all the world, as it
might harc been from the first, that the
leaders ofs.thata party Emeaut, by their
unien aprefsyYionsss . simply 81 that they
were in favor ofthe Uniqn # 4Aey could
control IL With these discordant@ and
hostile factions vaffing against each
other.aand each aiming at political
power andesseltrel, the Presidential
campaign opeped
But. the great mass Of the business
men aud true friends Of the Union, with
deep:intsrest n the peace and good
order Of sdsiety as weIl as an larden&,de-
votiont to tie Eenstitution ana the laws
of thss land distressing these parties,
and especially sbeir leaders, elected by
unheard of majorities ip the Free States,
Abraham m Lincoln and. Hannibal Ham
lin to the Offices of President and Vice
President Of the United States These
,a, oro Enaaxynn tx ako oonsar.y.a Vi in.s no
triotic citizens, who would administer
the Goyerhihent with view to. the com
mon benefit Of afE %the peoples pheon-
trolled by cfiques or class interests =:
This, however. would not, suit those
whose ambition was greater thar their
love of eonntly, and hence the treason
and strife which new, eonvulse the States. !
Not satisfied with seeding from: che
. Union themselves, they now propose to
raise 1saBsiy !, md aa6yi force ffsesat the n
aagurqttqq y lthel lrfsident eject South |
Carolina has already declared the Uirien
disselyed ,. and that she viii no longer
submit to, the .Ceustitution-r Several
other Ssates, have called Conventions for
a issspprpusesa and will follow her Lead,
And-whiifc this ppen treason is prose-
cqted ir tle faee Of day; Bnchaasn whol
was elected and swefa- to defend the
Conssifa5inns Is 1a.st ting tiie, ,asak aseom
T,Iine d tbe eenspira ators.,s aseot ~ Al Il