Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-09-20
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

The editor of the Dayton Journal
who has been spending a few days in
Cincinnati, says:
The feeling against Mr.. Chase is
more general than we had supposed
You find it eyerywhere-among politi-
clans and among those who give no at
tention to politics. Among business
men, the manifestation of hostility is
most decided. Chase is regarded as
unsound and unreliable on the currency
question, besides being a mere selfish
and ambitious demagogue, an agita-
tor and an Acknowledgment to the
restoration of the Missouri Compromise
and to all else that may stand in the
way Of his own personal aggrandise-
ment.
The American Citizen published at
Hillsboro', says:
General Trimble's prospects for cleo
ton continue to grow brighter every
day. Spirited meetings of his friends
are reported from all quarters, and the
popular current hourly manifesting it.
self in the cause of the "0ld Highland
Farmer" as the people delight to desig-
nate him all over the State. The old
men know him topossess in an eminent
degree Jeferson's requirement for Office
-"honest, capable-faithful to the con-
stitution." They have no faith in Me-
dill, the head of corrupt cohort of
demagogues, who have been pilferiRg
the people for the last six years, and
Chase and his abolition, disunion crew
of reckless bargain and sale aspirants,
they are afraid of-positively fear that
power in the hands of such unprinci-
pied swindlers, will speedily cause the
overthrow of all that their fathers fought
and bled for.
tits easy to decide in such case,
and from all quarters we hear of the
growing volume Of the Trimble army.
A letter from Cleveland says be will
get heavy vote in the Reserve, the
same from Urbana, Portsmouth, Zanes-
vile, Newark, &c. The true Americans
move on quietly, but they will be heard
and felt at the ballot box. The noisy
men are the fusionists. Their storm of
words, dust and filth has pretty well
past, however, and we may now look
for order, common sense and duty to
reign.
Colonel Miller, of the Twin Valley
Locomotive, thus properly rebukes the
time-serving, trickstering Press that
sees no good in any man who differs
from them in their estimation of the Fu-
sion candidate, CHASE, and will not
speak respectfully of any who refuse
to fuse:
LITTLE.-About the smallest piece of
littleness which we have lately witness
ed, is the language of certain papers in
regard to Ex- Governor Trimble. I'm
mediately upon his nomination, and be
fore it was known whether he would
accept, he papers in question went off
into irreverent TRADES against "Old Fa-
ther Trimble, I" as they sneeringly called
him, which his age, if nothing else,
should have spared him from. They
remarked that he was an old man, as
far back as they could remember; hoped
he was not fossiliferous; doubted not
that he had backbone, though it might
be little bent; could not speak of his
antecedents, because they were not ac-
quainted with the pre-Adamite age; and
other similar expressions.
And what was his sin, that they
thus spoke of him? 1t was because a
body of independent men saw fit to
nominate him for Governor, in opposi-
ton to the favorite candidate of the edi
tors alluded to. Until then, we never
knew that sound old age was disgrace,
} or subject Of ridicule, or that it rem
dered one unfit for a high public trust.
Among the ancients who are supposed
to have been far behind us in progress
and learning, age was looked up to with
veneration; it was depended upon for
wise council; and it was one of the
highest aims of the people to honor it.
Even in our day of right and liberty,
the councils of age should not be des-
pissed; and it might be to our benefit,
to look to its experience for advice and
example.
MoRRov CouETY.-The Chase pa
pers have been telling how strong Chase
would run in Morrow county. We
make the following extract from letter
in the Cincinnati Times. written by an
old farmer of Morrow county:
MISTER EDIToR:-We are almost ru-
ined by taxes, and we go in now for
retrenchment and reduction, and for old
Gov. Trimble. We are farmers up here
| in Bennington. and we've been for
years crying out let us have farmers for
candidates. and now we intend to vote
for farmer Trimblc, and will give vote
that will astonish the natives, notwith
standing the lies the Office hunting men
NAV saw about If.