The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-07-21
DAMAGED poLIrIcrAss.
MR. EDfToR:--

"iiteI VII Tue OuzeIIe, over the signature
Of "Amicus," speaks of Gov. Shannon as too
high mark for the envenomed shafts of your
scribbling correspondents. As far as the wri-
ter Of this article is concerned, il is of the
least imaginable importance whether the
"Hon. Gent" is too high or too low. Neither
the exalted position TO which political for
tune has raised him, nor the depth of infamy
into which his course on the Nebraska quss-
ton may hereafter plunge him, can have any
possible bearing upon the question before US.
1t is Only because Mr. s. has become the
humble instrument Of the executive that he
is at all noticeable.
AS you have bestowed already sufficient
notice upon "Amicus," shall dismiss him
with this caution;-that if he does not per.
form his Office better, he will, soon hear the
unhappy victim of hs unfortunate panegyrics
ezclaim, "sdre me from my friends"
In discussing the effects likely to follow
from the repeal of the Missouri Comrromise
we cannot help referring to those gentlemen
from the North who have as it were. bonnd
us hand and foot, and cast us headlono be.
fore the altar Of Slavery. The internal eyi.
dence of bribery in such case is much stron.
ger than the most direct testimony can be.
If we should see four gentlemen elected as
Democrats, protesting to be governed by the
will of their constituents, and indicating Mt.
ter adherence for political corruption, voting
for bill so full of mischief and DECEPTION.
so wicked and malignant in its details, SO ad.
verse to the feelings and wishes of the peo
pie, that it was meeting everywhere with the
most strenuous opposition, and no where re.
ceivng anything beyond the coolest support,
would we not be very much surprised! IF
in addition TO all this we should be told that
the measure which those four gentlemen were
supporting, abrogated a solemn compact, one
which had existed for more than quarter of
a century, and had been productive oe the
greatest benefits to the States which fell un-
der its influence that it had forbidden the in
PRODUCTION of the direst evil into the several
territories, that it was all that remained on
the side of freedom, from the most angry and
heated contests that had ever ragged through
out the country-that those gentlemen rep
resented State which most signaliy proved
the benefits resulting from free institutions
we would begin to enquire, what could have
caused these men to act SOL Was the COM
pact unrighteous in itself that they thus voted
to rescind it. Ii then we told that the COM
pact was Of such binding character in the
eyes of all upright men, that over 5000 cler-
gymen of different denominations had remon-
strated against its repeal, as an act iniauitous
in itself and demoralizing in its tendency.
should we not suspect some more than ordi-
nary motive as the impeiing cause of their
paradoxcal action! And when we should
discover that there was no demand for the
measure, but great opposition to it, that while
remonst trance after remonstrance poured in
from the countless thousands of the North,
not one petition in its favor was received,
and that it was passed at the instance of a
small and tyranncal oligarchy, in direct op-
position to the interests Of the freemen of the
North: would not the conviction of bribery
force itself upon US, however unwilling we
might be 'to ,Urong such honorable men!"
it is humiliating in the extreme to think
that we have men with US in the North who
uphold the Nebraska outrage as a piece of
the most consummate craftsmanship. 1t 10
more humiliatIng to reflect that some allow
themselves to be imposed upon by such silly
nonsense. In politics some men lay aside
their honesty and others divest themselves Of
their common sense.
If father should say to his children
There is the Dram Shop, the Gambling House
and the Brothel, frequent them if you desire
it, choose for yourselves, shall not interfere
with your rights by demonstrating against the
evils, enjoy perfect liberty--he would be set
down as unfit to sustain the parental relation.
But the goslng politicians who futter about
the Office of the Gazette insist that Congress
shall abandon the virgin soil of our new ter
rt1ries to the foul pollution of slavery, under
the miserable pretence of allowing the in
habitants to choose for themselves. Sir, it
was not only the right but the duty OF Con-
gress to preserve Nebraska and Kansas from
its unhallowed blight.
Now when the people Of the North are RI
sing in the majesty OF their might, and de-
manding a strict account Of the trusts they
have con6ded to their servants, we hear those
who have made shrines for the goddess, cry
out "Great is Diana ef the Ephesians!"
"The Democratic party must be preserved
in its integrity" cries the incorruptible
Union. "The party must be preserved in its
integrity" echoes the undefiled S&Gtesn'an d
Democrat. While the Gasette and other
smaller raise their feeble notes to swell the
sounding chorus.
But begin to hope for better times. The
oigarchy is now doomed Institution. The
hand writing is on the wall-The eagle eye
of young America has fixed upon it its steady
gaze-corruption cannot stand its piercing
look-Savery mus. fall; and the whole train
of funkics, doughfaces, traitors, and office
hunters who have bowed their base necks
beneath its vile yoke may expect to be swept
together with it into the deep sea of political
oblivion, by that fierce, unterrhed democracy
Of the North, which spares neither age nor
influence, which respects no position, and 10
unbought by bribes, unintimidaied by threats
of dissolution, aud unseduced by the syren
songs Of hollow sycophants.
"OSE OF THE PEOPLE"