The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-05-20
land House manifesto has been launched.--.
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THOMAS CORWIN.

hOmhS COhWlN.
If the political enemies of the late Admin.
istration Of the National Government. knew
how little this gentleman cares for their q.
buse, they would not take so much Mains %
WORK themselves into passion and saw hard
but ridiculous things of him. Except on the
one point oil personal honor, he is as deaf as
an adder and as blind as beetle to all the
charges that political opponents NAV make
against him.-Alwsys meaning to do -igb,
and ever striving TO carry out his lust inten,s
careful in the formation of his opinions. and
conscientious in the discharge of his duty
wisely patrlouc as statesman, and eminent
ly honest as a man, he pursues the calm and
even tenor of his way. Indifferent to the abuse
OF enemies, unsolicitous of, and shrinkino
I from, the praise of friends Void of ambit;on
almost to fault, he neglects the means that
men ordinarily resort to to "keep themselves
before the people," Fond of society. of home.
and OF his library, he regards place as not
worth seeking, and power as responsibility
to be summed. He has been forced into eve
ry office that he has held since he reached
middle life, and was happier man on the 4th
oi March, when he felt his limbs freed from
the harness of the Treasury apartment than
ne had been before in the course of many
years of conspicuous and honorable public
service.
The harpies OF the press NAV stump and
oenounce such man as an ssabolitionist - as
"politica' asprant,' as an "enemy TO non.
uIar progress" they may misrepresent him
VITA pertinacious and intentional falsehood.
as 'denouncing his gallant countrymen in
arms hoping and praying that they might be
greeted with bloody hands to hospitable
graves" they may shoot their red and forked
tongues at him from every stump in the land
and spit their venom through every column ce
newspaper they can control or influence,
but the whole of it will not disturb his sleep
or rufiie the serenity of his temper. On the
point OF honor Mr. Corwin is sensitive: but
ms whole private and public life NAV be ram
sacked, by the bitterest and most reckless en-.
emy ne has, and nothing be found to mpeacb
his rectitude. The baseness, therefore, that
Tor the hundredth time charges him with hay-
ing received large portion OF the money a.
warded to DR.. Gardner by the Mexican com.
mission, when not one dollar of that money
has ever touched his hands, must recol on
the caumnia'or who is guilty of it.
Two things have induced US much aoainst
what we know would have been the pleasure
OF Ar. Corwln mad he been where we could
have consulted with him, to make this refer.
ence TO him: first, some recent attacks unon
him, in reckless Locofoco papers in this State
grossly libellous in their nature: and. secondlv.
numerous reports, some of which have found
their way into the newspapers, to the effect
that he intends soon to leave Ohio and re,ur,
TO the State OF his nativity, Kentucky. No
man could remove from another State into
this, We are well satisfied, who would be vel.
coined with so much enthusiasm as Thomas
Corwn; but on the other hand no man would
be suffered to leave Ohio with more regret.
ana we doubt very much whether the personal
aad political friends of Mr.. Corvin will per-
NIT any such step witAou, interposiug obsta.
cles which he would hesitate to remove.
we Know nothing as to what may be the
present Intentions of Mr.. Corwiu, but we feel
safe IN pronouncing as premature each and
all ol the several reports in the newspapers
to the effect that he has become possessed
OF the old family homestead in Bourbon coun-
ty, and intends to remove to it-lhat he has
purchased property near Lexington, and will
soon occupy it--that he has recently invested
money in real estate in Frankfort, and intends
to become a resident Of that town this spring,
ana that he has bought an estate near Louis
vile, with the intention OF spending the rest
Of his days in this city. The prime of Mr.
Cor"in's lie (about thirty years) has been
given to the service of his country. A par. of
that time, he was in situations in which for
tunes are made every year; another part of it,
he was where much money passed through
his hands; but nothing has stuck to his palm
which did not belong there, and at this day
he is not rich man. Ii he had the desire
ior such investments as are attributed to him,
he has not the means: but he has no such de
sire-never has had, and never will have. If
he does come to Kentucky, it will not be for
pecuniary speculation, or political place, but
to get himself comfortable home, in which
nc may spend the remnant Of his life as
christian and gentleman.
That he may finally determine TO remove
to this city, we join hundreds and thousands
OF wsrmhearted men and women here, in ho-
ping. On their behalf as well as our own,
we promise that he snail not be troubled with
politics. He will have to put up with little
enthusiasm, however; FOR the man who stood by
Henry Clay as he did, in an eventful period
of that statesman's life-the man who has al
ways been a MAN, much more than SUITES
man, or an orator, great as he is in both these
capacities-the man who has dared to take
the unpopular side, because he believed it to
be the right side-the man of transcendent
qualities OF head and heart, such as he has.
can never be other than an object of warm.
enthusiastic regard to the people of Ken
, ,ucky.-Louispille Courier.
. From he Ohio State journal.