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


Meiss County held a convention in th
place. Al o'clock p. NJ, we repaire
to the grove Gu Sugar Run, back of tn
Catholic Church, where the speeche
were TO be delivered An audience, nc
large, but respectable in numbers an
appearance, had collected, and Just a
a VIC arrived on the ground, Hon. NJ,
Morris, member of Congress from til
Monroe District, was introduced to th
audience as the speaker of the day.
Mr. Norris is a rather young man, O
pleasant but not very striking appear
'uce, and vas in feeble health A goo,
IS portion of his speech was delivere,
whils sitting he being tco feeble to stan,
during It's delivery 1t would, hardl,
be fair, therefore, to Judge the capaeit,
of the speaker from the effort of tina
day.
3. 1t gives us uufeigned Pleasure to say
that much of the speech was EN-.
: lnently patriotic aud evidently sincere.
Without going into discussion of the
causes Of the war, he said the war was
(, upon US, and the Government in ini-
nenf peril. That our fathers brothers,
ssons and neighbors, were now in an
enemy's country, surrounded by rebels,
and unlcss we came to the rescue freely
and cheerfally they would be crushed
to death. Hecalled, therefore, earnestly
upon all men, of all parties, to fill up
the ranks. In this way, and in this
way only, could the Government be sus-
tanned and the Union restored. We
heard this part of the gentleman's ad-
dress with unaIloyed satisfaction, and
the more so, from the fact that his
Whole manner showed that it was no
cunning use of glittering generalities he
y was uttering, but the honest convictions
of a heart beating true to the music of
the union. In the name of all true
patriots, We thank Mr., Morris for the
true words uttered on the occasion.
s We would gladly stop here, for it is
infinitely more pleasant to approve than
to dissent, and especially in time like
the present. But fidelity to truth and
our country, requires at our hands
brief notice of other portions of his
speech, which We desire to do in per-
feetly Kind and truthful manner, be-
ievinS that nothing but the exigency
of party could have made the speaker
mar the good feeling of patriotic citi-
zens, by the unseeminely use of Ian
guage, wlieh, on reflection, we are sure
sl,e cannot fad to admit, was out of place
10 this hour of peril, which he so feel
/ inely portrayed, and which could only
tend to mislead and prejudice the minds
of many of his hearers.
For instance, he quoted or professel
TO quote, a sentence from speech of
Wendell Phillips, in which he is re-
ported to have said, that for nineteen .
years, he, Phillips, had labored for
dissolution of the Union, &c. To this
quoting of Phillip speech we have no
objection, of course; but we submit to
Mr.. Morris sense of right, if his use of
1T can be justified in the court of an /,
honest mans conscience That Wen /.
dell Phillips is one of the most brillian. .
orators OF this country, is not to be de- .
med That he has adopted the con- !
struction given to the Constitution by ;
the extreme Southern Shareholders is :,
equally true. He has uniformly main =
7taincd that the Dred Scott Decision was >
atrue exposition Of the Constitution, :
and that by virtue of that instrument =
slavery was established wherever the {.
flag of the Union extended. In short, =
Wendell Phillips, in his construction of n
the Constitution, has always maintained q
the EXTREMIST pro-slavery, Democratic q
theory. But he has been, at the same +
time, Intensely anti slavery. And, o
hence, his deuunciations of the Consti- a
tuition, and his efforts to dissolve the :,
Union, because. on this theory, the $,
Union was maintained by the Constitu- b
tion, and the Constitution was made to "
perpetuate slavery. b
Such.has been the position of Wen la
dell Phillips and the small circle of his h
disciples. And this position made him, tt
and them, of necessity, the bitter and ST
unrelenting enemies of the Republican OF
party. Mr.. Morris, as a public man, W
has no moral right to be ignorant of hi
these facts:and if not ignorant, he has ne
stiH less right to use the name and SEN ar
timents1ef Phillips to convey totally is
wrong impression to those who do not oc
know the facts. But, Mr.. Morris tr
quoted Wendell Phillips in such way re
as to leave the impression on the minds as
Of his audience, that he was fair rep 81
of the Republican party!- ca
And We venture to say that his hearers tie
could not well fail to draw the infer m
ence, that he meant to be so understood. su
We give this as sample, merely or
And, as we intend to send marked Gil
,opy of this paper to Mr. Morris, we tel
lesire earnestly to call his attention to d.