Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-10-26
state Election.

The election Of 1864, taught lesson to
both the parties which contendcd for the prize
at the late Presidential election The con-
test was fierce and bitter, and The issue
direct and positive: the one, the Union party
acting on the defensive, and the other the
Democratic party, so called, belyinS all its
cncccdcnts, assuming the offensive, & making
war on every principle advocated by the 10y
al Union party, through which issues they
hoped to ride into power.
The result Of that memorable contest will
live long in the recollection Of the people,
and has taught lesson to the living which
should not and probably will not ever be for
gotten, and among the "reminiscences of the
age will descend to posterity where it is des-
tined to live in oll future time as n warn
ing and admonition as to the principles they
should advocate as we'll as avoid. Wheth-
er or not the loyal people shall take warning
from the memorable political contest of last
year. it is quite certain that the unprincipled
leaders of the Democratic party, (though apt
scholars) have learned much from that con-
test, and in the nmost recesses of the heart
dcplore the issues they made before the coun-
try, not SO much because they see cause to
change their opinions as to the disloyal
and destructive issues they then made,
but simply because they failed to win
the goal which would have given them power
and Office, decent suit and clean shirt, to
give decent appearance in the cstima-
ton Of the world.
We have said the leaders of the Dcmocra-
cy are apt scholars, believing which VIC ven
ture the assertion, that no class of men have
proven more so. The year 1865 does not
witness repetition of single error commit
ted by them in 1864. There is. no warning
on the Administration! Mr. johnson just now
is very good kind of President they like
his policy of reconstruction in rebel states
they applaud his extension of pardons to the
vsriess rebel who would have destroyed our
social relations; there is no repetition of with
holding tile first man and the first dollar Or
to the draft to fill the ranks of the
enemy; no longer have they grave issues with
the soldier whom they would dsfrcnchisc from
the exercise of his inalicnnble rights even
the negro whom us soldier to fill the nation
al ranks they opposed with tenacity, they pro-
fess to have become reconciled; and slavery,
the right for which they contendcd both in
moral as well as political sense, they let
pass as fact accomplished: all of which in
stead of condemning to the bitter end as in
1864 they abandon and seemingly give up
all old issues that they may succeed to power
and TO office: and lamentable it is, that after
all these concessions they have nevertheless
failed to attain the great end in view-o6fce
both state and nationaN
In the contest the present year, not only in
Ohio, but every state in the north and the
west, where the elections have already taken
place or are yet depending, this is the mild,
gentle and conciliating course pursued by the
party,-their thoughts their feelings and their
fife, 'tlons appear to have been revolutionized,
What thew hated and detested one year since
.bev now like an, nd strive to steal the thunder
from their opponents W., ,ieh rightly belong to
md to parade it before he people as
, ~. "'Dles, as though thew aad ad-
heir opn primo. e..., '-,y
ocated them from the : h.asa., 90 oppo
ents were the advocates of the p',n-
iples they themselves have so unsucces.. 'y
dvocated the last five years. =,
But how has oil this sudden change ia pol. /
y, this chameleon strategy benefited them It