Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-10-17
A Fact to Renlem ber.

Under this head the Enquirer of yes
terday published an article, ofwhich the
following is a paragraph:
"If Mr.. Buchanan was now President.
or any other Northern Democrat, the
country would be enjoying peace and
prosperity IF Mr.. Buchanan had been
defeated in 1856, and John G. Fremont
had been elected, tie rebellion rhicA
broke out IN 1861 mould hare happened
In 1857. The success Of the Democracy
arrested the blow for four years, and it
would have been Indefinitely postponed
if another Democratic triumph had
been realized in 1860"
The rebellion then, we understand
was solely the work of the Democratic
party which assum I'd to be the govern
| ing class, and the alternative before the
people was, to submit to this pretension
or take the consequences of civil war.
All opposition to the party was, there
fore, at the peril Of hostilities. The
elections were worse than a farce, the
people having really lost the right Of
self government SO we had 10 right
to object, and express at the ballot-bcx
our objections to the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise. So it was placing
the country in peril of civil war to refuse
to indorse the Lecompton swindle. 1t
was necessary, in order to maintain
peace, to permit the use of the General
Government in the extension of slavery
to promote the political ambition of the
managers of the slave interest. Then
we had already virtually lost our priv
ieges as free citizens of Republic, and
we are now fighting for our liberties
: It is not difficult, in the light of the En-
quirer's paragraph quoted above, to ap
preciate the meaning Of the phrase
1.-THE Uuion as it was" It means {
Union in which only members of the
I Democratic party can safely be permit
: ted to vote This is indeed GA fact tc
remcmb ber.'
The rebellion would have been indef
: nitely postponed, if there had been ;
Democratic triumph in 1860, the En-
g quirer says. We suppose it would hav'
I, been postponed until the Democrat,
q party met with defeat. Then, of course
> there would have been war, that is t.
n say, there would have been rebellion
We are to understand by the declaration
v that the Democratic party only ca
: govern the country, that its motto
at the ballot box, there must be a tria
OF on the battle field.
y As the Enquirer sees it, no party ca
le be national but the Democratic; and a
a. the South is iunanimous" for rebellion
'e the nationality Of the party can only b
y secured by its Endorsement of the do'
If trine and espousal Of the cause Of tn
OF rebels Therefore, instead Of the wi
NJ of the mai ority hereafter, we are
he have the will Of the minority. If IL
on few become factious and threaten dit
order. the many must submit for Il
to sake of peace The Government mu
ar be administered according to the reg
&c lations prescribed by the class that +
fused to be governed under the Const
20 tuition, and the result is despotism
'erl desperadoes, aad perpetual reign
'ia terror; and Democracy resolves itse
OF into the right Of the few to govern t
Ia many.-Cm. Commercial.
yes BGr The Union feeling in Easte
North Carolina appears to be dominar
,p- The Presidents emancipation procl
it nation has been received there WI
asst great enthusiasm by the non-sla7
holders. They are to hold gr'
ion Union mass meeting at Beaufort in he
the or of the event, in which all the cou
err ties in the two neighboring Congr
the sional districts are to be largely rep
aid sented. The people are to bring th
as camps with them and have three da
celebration. All the candidates
rue Congress in both districts are to be pr
e in ent and address the people on the oc'
ern sion. A series of Union war meeting!
der being held in these counties.