Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-01-25

are not satisfied with this decision, and
are determined to repeat the experiment,
BE it so! The same causes which have
operated to drive the better part of the
Democrats into theranks Of the Repub-
licans, winscontinue to operate with still
greater force in the future.
The Democratic party has been in
power for many years in the General
'Government. They have controlled all
its departments. 1t has been notori-
ously under the sway of the slave power
of, the South. Every energy of the
party has been exerted to extend and
make that sectional interest predomi-
nant. With that view, Texas was an
nexed.ss With that purpose, the war
with Mexico was forced upon the coun-
try. In pursuance of the same end, a
persistent effort has been made, and con-
tinued. for years, to acquire Cuba, that
the slave interest might become domi
nant in the councils of the nation. The
purpose has been as open as the sun
light, to give over the interests of the
millions of free laborers into the merci-
less grasp of this sectional class. And
to this end the Democratic organization
has been used as an instrument To en-
able it to accomplish the purposes of the
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slaveholders, it has been the policy of
its Northern leaders to nisrepresent. the
principles, the purposes and the designs
of the Republican party. And the
stranger spectacle is now exhibited to
the world, Of most of the Democratic
States in the Union in open rebellion
against the Democratic Administration
of their own choice, and plotting treason
against the Governmentwhile yet in the
hands, Of. their friends, because the. peo-
pie have said, through the ballot box,
that they will not permit the Constitu-
tion, bequeathed to them by their Faith
-ers, to be perverted into an instrument
of their utter degradation.
And yet, with all this transpiring, be-
fore the eyes of the people, with the
property of the country struck down by
their policy-with half the party ac-
knowledged traitors, with arms in their
hands in the overt act of overthrowing
the Government-with the leading men
of the party in the Senate and in Con
gress, as we'll asin the Southern States, in
open conspiracy against the Constitu-
tion and the peace and order of society,
such seems to be the force of habit or
of party frenzy, that men in Ohio, and
the other Free States, still cling to the
fragments Of the organization which has
brought about all this chaos and ruin!
And, stranger still, they seem to think
that the passions Of the people may yet
be inaamed by these appeals, and thus
be made to place in power the very men
who have wrought this mischief
To us, this seems like infatuation.-
But there is no mistaking the indica-
tions here Another campaign is being
planned, and will be conducted in Ohio
upon the same stale old charges, and
the whole current history Of the times
will be perverted, to break down, if poss-
ible, the Republican party, and subject
the STATE to the control of those who
have already discovered the uation. We
know well, and take pleasure in the
thought, that the great mass of the
Democrats in Ohio are as honest in in
tentions, and as patriotic in purpose, as
the Republicans are That they would
no more injure the country, designedly,
than we would. But there is no use to
disguise the fact that there are bad men
leaders, whose ambition his been, dis
appointed-who would, like their former
associates in Sonth Carolina and other
Southern States, rather see discord, an
archy, and civil war desolate the land,
than to see their country prosperous,
peaceful and happy under the Admins
tration of the men elected Sby the free
voice of the people.
These men are, perhaps, few in num-
ber as yet, but intend to make use of the
party organization to accomplish their
designs. Many of our Democratic read
ers will doubt this-perhaps be offended
at US for making the assertion. But let
such persons reflect moment before
they close their minds to the conviction
of its truth Would you not have felt
just as indignant one year ago, if the
charge had been then made that such
was the purpose of the leaders of your
party in the Democratic States of the
South? Yet one short year has made
that prediction in history. And the
future will make history out of What We
now write. Let this be rememberedl
The only thing which has made the
treason of these Southern leaders a pos
sibility, is their reliance upon the coun-
tenance and support of their Northern
allies. But for this reliance. our be-
loved country would not be, to-day, la
boring in the death throes of a treason
able dissolution. tits for the honest and
patriotic masses of the party to deter
mine whether these men shall succeed,
as their Southern colleagues have done.
Especial Dispatches TO the Cincinnati Gaze,te]