Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-01-25
No. Iz.


Oedr 1eteyFdph'-- One week OF the
session has closed, and although it has
been very busy one, no laws of mo-
ment have yet been passed But the
Committees are at work, and will soon
have the material measures of the session
before the House In the meantime,
the labor of gentlemen who are ainbi-
tious to appear before the world as
great statesmen, is going Oh. We mean
the labor of speech making. It is truly
amazing to witness the incxhaustible re-
sources Of oratory with which nature
has endowed them. No matter what the
subject, or how many subjects, are
brought forward in day, the inevitable
speeches have to be made But of all
subjects, the poor negro has been the
most omnipresent. We verify believe it
would be impossible to frame PROPOSE
ton, upon any conceivable subject, that
would not elicit at least sic speeches ON
the negro -Abolitionism- -fanaticism, and
the aggressions of the North upon our
Southern brethren. y
On Saturday, we wrote that a political
millennium seemed to have arrived. A
set Of resolutions agreed upon by the
Republicans in caucus, as we then stated,
passed the Senate unanimously, and the
House nearly so.s We were somewhat
astonished atsthisa at the time, but hoped
the ''era of good feeling" had come, in
deed, and that it would continue during
the remainder Of the session It seems,
however, that our Democratic friends
were rather taken in. The resolutions
were introduced by Mr.. Harrison, who is
claimed by the Democracy as being so
very "conservative" as to be almost with
them. This fact, together with their
ignorance that the resolutions had been
adopted in Republican caucus, and the
further fact, that they were, in them
selves, SO purely patriotic as to COM
mend themselves to all the friends of
their country, betrayed the Democracy
into their support. These resolutions
were transmitted to the President, and
universal approval of their spirit and
temper went out over the land. e.
But, by some means, the fact leaked
out, that the resolutions were the result
of unanimous agreement of the Repub-
licans of both Houses This was intol-
erable. The. patriotism of gentlemen
evaporated. The millennium which was
supposed to have come, was indefinitely
postponed And to make amends for
noble act of patriotic impulse, the pur-
pose seems to be to embitter the partisan
feelings of the balance of the session by
the most rabid ultraism. So the people
of the State will probably have to endure
the consumption of most of the time
hereafter in the making of bnneombe
speeches, for political ammunition gin
the next election IA
Gentlemen seem determined not to
believe that the people are tired of the
party slang that has been the staple of
our annual campaigns for years past
There was time when the cry of "Abo-
litienismr" "fanaticism"' BLACK Repub-
licanI' &C., had its effect. For many
years gentlemen made it pay But we,
should think later experience ought to
satisfy them that these terms have lost
their potency. But some men never
learn. This style of argument has been
used with increasing pertiaaeity for
years, and with what resultS The peo-
pie fevery Free State in the Union have