Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-08-15

: y "APatly Will IeDellio
? was the motive for this unfortunate pa,
of his address. Indeed, We are not sur
fthat he, himself, may not have half be
{ Eileyed the statement 1t has been s
5 often repeated in the heat of partisa
/ contests, by mere partisans, tha
E charity might be excused, almost
5 for supposiug th't men of ordinary in
telligence, but who have never allowe,
their minds to range beyond the limit
5 Of their party, have brought themselve
to assent to its truth.
I, But, aside from the great wrong t,
the country which such a course is cal
eulated to produce, we submit to Mr.
Morris if it is good policy IN mer,
party sense. Mr. Morris said truly thai
but few years ago, what he called
"Aboitionism, was hated and hunted
through all the Free States. And he
further said, with equal truth, that it
/, had gone on increasing and spreading,
from year TO year, until it had at last
bswept the entire North, and was still
gathering intensity and force This is
true. But did it not occur to the
speaker that Democratic orators were
the missionaries who were doing the
work2 Itis but very few years since
lall the Free States were throughly
Democratic. Now they are what the
gentleman calls "Abolition.' How did
they become so? Only by the CONFER
sion Of Democrats But how could so
many hundreds of thousands of DEM
ocrats be converted into .sAbolitionists?
I his is question of serious import to
Democratic leaders. Have they not
employed to the utmost, the terms,
'"AbolItionist, ssBlack Republican, .
''Woolly Head" and ANigg ger Worship
ers, during all this time? And if they
failed to prevent Democrats by the
hundred thousand from Joining the
ranks of those so denounced, do you
think these same epithets will be more
potent now? We submit to Mr.. Nor
ris, whether good policy, as well as good
taste, would not dictate change in this |
respect. For while you may still hold /
a certain class of your party together by
such means. But you can make no
converts, and at every speech in which it
is apparent that the attempt is made by
falsifying history and perverting the
truth, to gain a PARTISAN advantage.
some honest men become disguised,
and are lost to your party. 1t is SO in
this instance, even in spite Of the evi-
lent patriotism of the speaker, Men
ike fair dealing. And when con-
sinced that the effort is being made to
use them as puppets, they nstinctively
,evolt
We intended to refer to some Of the I
'ther partisan features Of the speech, {
'ut we forbear. 1t was, upon the :
7hole, so much fairer than we expected; ,
o much Off was so truly patriotic and
incere, and the partisan portions SO t
distasteful to the speaker him |
elf, that we let it pass. And the more, E
specially, as we know that some, at +
east, of the Democrats who heard it,
egretted, as much as we did, the injus-
ice done in the manner referred to. v
There is one other point, however.
Inch We cannot let pass without no. s
ce, the unfairness of which is f.eely il
cknowiedged by at least some Demo t
rats. 1t was the effort to make his au n
lence believe that the Republican pa f
ers and the Republican party charged a
Il Democrats with secession sympathies I
his was unworthy of the speaker, and V
9uld not fail to damage his cause, in G
cad of promoting it. He assumed, p
lat whenever Republican spoke of a
traitors" or ''sympathisers," or "se- CO
'sh,' the Democratic party" was 81
cant, and that all Democrats were b.
lied traitors, sc. This might do to te
cate a hatred in the breasts of por- G
on of the audience, but could do no W
'od, even as partisan appeal. There in
e very few so utterly stupid as not to
e the only purpose for which such n,
atement could be made And, it not n,
ing true in fact, must damage the cause Tt
nich it was intended to build up. No re
'dy believes that all Democrats, or any NJ
rye portion OF them, are traitors at o,
art. That some bad men are, and that til
ey are attempting, and with apparent M
ccess in many places, to use the party B
for their purposes, IS q tact tn
lich cannot be denied. But it is not tb
nest, when these plotters are de- di
unced, or the M ore notorious of them W;
'ested, to say that the Democratic party an
rinaed at. And honest, patriotic Dem
rats, owe it to themselves, their coun- oa
:, and especially to their children; to L.
use to be used by these conspirators n,
shield to their crimes. For, by the or
levitable logic of events" if every IT
aght and uncaught traitor is permit or
to assume that his treason is "De- isi
'cracy;," and that he is imprisoned or oh
'pected simply because he IS a Demo- e.,