The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-11-03
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Mr., EnIroR:-

Mr., EDIroR:--
1t may be a little out of date, yet wish
TO say word about Platforms. And will |
commence by speaking of that most inimito-
bleiof all Platiorms-the Que adopted by the |
Democracy (D of this Congressional Dis |
rict. 1t is generally known that GEMS. |
NJ. Howey is the Architect of this Platform. |
Indeed it is his Platform, prima facia, for
certainly no other man could be found in the |
whole District SO lost to all sense OF North !
ern pride, SO shamefuly subservent to Sou
Il ern dictation as to construct such Plat
form.
One plank it will be recolected vaunting-
y predicts "a triumphant victory of the party
ever the "pie bald and umalgamated forces
Of efiete wbgsery, rampant Aboitionism and
irrational Know Nothing sm." Yet strong
and invincible as the District was considered
for that party, how signal was the overthrow.
! This Architect found himself all at once,
as he doubtless thought, the leader of great
party. He seemed to feel the "bushng ho-
| nors" clustering thick about him. But alasl
whilst reveling in this heigh; of new born
glory--before this greatness which had been
"thrust upon him'' had lost its novelty, he
was doomed to fall. And great was the fall
All at once from his proud erinence did he
find himself PROSTATE upon terra .frma, amid
the broken fragments of his shattered Plat
form, with the crashing noise still thunder
ing in his ears Then might he have been
heard to exclaim sic transit gloria. His glo-
ry was but for day. This platform, which
he had viewed as most acceptable offering
to his Southern masters and which he fanci-
ed would procure from them many car esses
lay in ruins about him. This triumphant
party, inspired with disgust for the rotten
loathesome Platform, upon which they had
been placed; disdaning to be led by such a
miserable tool Of the Negro drivers as its pro-
jector, alb andoned both. He felt the scep-
, ter about to pass from his hands and with
! Macbeth he might have been heard to ex.
claim,
Upon my head they placed fruitloss crown,
Andput barren sccptro in my grippe,
+ Thence to be wrcnched with an unlinea hand.
. And Mr. Editor if little mu tillation i
! allowabe
mo Platform of mine succeeding"
: But says Mr.. Ilowey, this is "tou ching mi
on sore place" "Sore" is it! No wonde
that it is "sore." Just think of it Mr.. How
ey. A Northern man, and craft Platform
which could not possibly be more discredta
, bic to his own section of the country if j
i had been concocted in the brain of the most
fanatical Southern "fre eater" All as
: apparently must have been to cnrry favo
e with these Southern Negro Drvers-yol
ought to know they despise you for it.
Platform of which the highm inded and intel
" ligcnt men Of your own party are HEARTH
ashamed. And then to have them repudiat,
it so signally--to have them break the shack
les OF party, and spurn it with such ute
l. contemplate find that all the dear expecta
IT Ii ems that were to spring from it, are Ut
u terly prostrated. Is it any wonder that iti
n "sore." and grievous ''sore."
: But then the people must not call in ques
't ton the principles of this Platform. The,
I must not even say it is "Anti-Democratic.
q Ii they do it is at the peril Of cowardly an
ruilianly assault. What! when a Platform
ID has been endor ed by large political party
= has lot u man right respectfully to dssen
from the soundness Of its doctrines, even t
1t its Author. beautiful Democracy! %
J. But no, it is "sere.' | am glad the pee
o pie have so regarded it. l am glad they hav
e determined to purge all such oathsome dis
y gus,ing "sores" from the body polite.
Is Personally, for reasons which must be oh
vlous to all who know the man, | have no
% held him responsible. Yet as public office
Is and as man who by accident or otherwise
" has gained some notorety inpolitics, unenv
l. able it is true, have thought this much du
l. from me. wish to be held personally re
p sponsible for this communication.
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