Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20

patriotic speech from Chase, or Seward
or Wilson, or Wilmot, or any of their as
soeiates. Their positions never needed
defining. No body ever doubted OIL
which side they would be found. w
have not, therefore, made the useles
announcement that these men were tru
to the flag of their country. ~
i But with the Democrats the circum
stancesare entirely different. The lead
ing conspirators have been, for life
time, the leaders of the Democrat
/ party. They represented a peculiar
sectional, class interest, in which fe,
thousands had personal stake, in IRE
+ concilable antagonism to the interests o
the millions of free laborcrs of tn
country. So long as the party coulo
control the country; and they could con
troll the party, they could work, unde
the forms of the Constitution, and u.s.
the powers of.the Governmentitself, fo
the su5vertion of the Constitution, ant
the destruction of the liberties Of tn,
people under the Government Bu
when the people came to see the deep
laid conspiracy against their rights ant
liberties, they dismissed the plotter
from the positions Of power they had
abused and the trusts they had so basely
betrayed. These desperate men saw
clearly enough, that they would never
again be able to regain control Of the
EGoyernment, and could not use, it fol-
the completion of their schemes. Ane
here came into full play the evil pas
sions of disappointed ambition, of baf
fed intrigue, of deadly revenge. Wha
they could not accomplish through the
longer control of the Government, they
determined to reach, over its crushed
and broken fragments. The standard
of treason was erected, the tocsin of civi
war was sounded, and the passions ant
prejudices of the party was appealed te
to sustain the leaders in the destruction
of the Government. By a system O.
unparalleled Misrepresentation it wa:
believed the minds of the masses of tht
party had been fully prepared to strike
at the life of their country in the blind
ness of their partisan frenzy. Every
State in the Union which gave Demo
cratic majority fastened to sever th'
bonds of the Union. The leaders Of tn,
party in the heads of the departments
Governors Of States, Senators and Rep
resentatives, Supreme Court Judges
and foreign Ministers, high officers il
the Army and Navy, adding the lesse
crimes of robbery, treachery, fraud anc
perjury to the daming guilt of conspi
racy and treason, inaugurated the un
holy war that has spread disaster anc
ruin over these hitherto prosperou
! States. The eonspirators relied upol
the party to carry them through. Fo
time, it seemed as if that reliance wa
we'll placed The fate of the nation
hung upon the position to be taken b
the party. In this State Of things every
loyal citizen looked with intensest in
terest to the utterances of the prominen
Democrats. A sentiment which woul
have been the merest common place
coming from Ben. Wade, assumed vi
tai and untold Importance when uttere
by his neighbor, David Todd.
And SO it is throughout the Unior
The Democratic party, in half the States
make up the power of the rebellion. ]
those in the Free States had, as was ez
pected, Joined in the Disunion move
ment, the fate of the country woul
have been sealed That some Of th
Northern leaders sympathize with th
Secessionists. no one denies. That nc
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only those, but all who continue to sur
port the party, are to some extent, un
consciously, perhaps, giving encourage
mcnt to the Rebels, is equally true
Hence, every epeech against the Trait
ors, by Dickinson, and Holt, and Johl
son, or any other Democrat, which ha
tendency to break the ties Of party,
! worth, to the country, regiment
soldiers And hence, we have brough
all such into notice, as far as possibl
And hence, too, Republicans are willin
to confer all honors, and even ofice
upon Democrats for the sake of securin
their influence in the cause of the Unio
We hope our friend is satisfied.