Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-08-23
MENDACITY RERIlKED.


Jesultism we ever saw, and does honor (D to
the mind of Sam. Medary who conceived il. t
1t was published in the Statesman Of the 7th {
inst, and on Saturday the llth inst, the u
Journal promptly gave it IFS quietus. Yet :
notwithstanding all this, on Thursday, Aug, .
10th here comes the Gazette d. Citizen with ,
this same charge, beaded in bold characters,
just the day before Mr. Chase was to speak
here. We give below the rcutation of the
charge, and hope the Ga.ette may have the
manliness to publish it, We hereby call
upon him ito reract the unmitigated false
hood"
! From the Ohio State Journal
More Political History--Mr. Chase-The
statesman in Tight Place.
On Tuesday last the Statesman preferred
bold charge of higher-law Abotionism a.
ganst Mr.. Chase, defined the aim and object |
of abotionism to be, "to destroy the Govern
ment Of the United States, in order to release
the slaves Of the Southern States" In PROOF
of this high charge, the Statesman said. "We
have a resolution at hand, dra,rn by Nr.
Chdse'S otcn hand, and presented by him to
State Convention of his old pecpiiar party, in
which he applies the term uboitionist to him.
self and his party" Thereupon the follow
ing resolution was submitted
"ReSoiUsd That we hereby give it 20 be
distinctly aaderStood (mar< the emphatic and
, deliberate arguage,) by this nation and the
world, that AS ABoLIrloSfsTs considering that
the strength of our cause lies in its righteous
{ ness, and our hopes for it in our conformity to
u the laws ofGod, and our support for the rights
Of men, we owe to the sovereign Ruler OF the
o Universe, as proof ofour allegiance 10 Him,
in all our civil relations and Q6ceS, whether
- as friends, citizens, or public .functionaries,
srcorn to support the Constitution of the
: United States to regard and treat the third
f. clause of The instrument, whenever applied
- in the case of fugitive slave, as Mlerly null
and uond and consequently as forming no part
" Of The Constitution Of the United States, ,chea-
e erer ,ce are called upon or sworn 10 support
is It,"
We read the resolution at .he time with
some concernj but there j. was, italics and all,
boldly set forth as drapn by Mr.. ChaSe's oon
hanP and this latter particularly so worded
? as to leave the impression that the original
-, was in the possession Of the editor. We set
about ascertainng the fl cts in the casc.-
le But the Cincinnati papers OF the Sth s(the
n Gazette and Commercially gave us to under
70 stand that they were better posted in the Ore-
miser than we were. The GazetteS said in
reply 20 this Charge. "that lIr. Chase never
is wrote such resotution--never presented
- such a resolution ut Convention, State
~ County or national-never favored such q
" resolution-never advocated such a resolution
and he has been and is now opposed to the
A. sentiments expressed in such a resolution
$ These statements we make on authority oil
one who knows. We ask the Statesman
T. either to rctract or provo its assertions -
The Commercial was more pointed and ella.
lie borate in its arraignment, and Gated for the
7 proof which the editor clsimed to have "a,
maud" NesyD
;" True, the statesman said in its oricina
L. averment that the resolution above quoted had
70 been published in the Journal, brt referred
I'd to Il time when we were not connected with
~ the paper in any form, to wit, in 1919, anc
could therefore feel no responsibility about
1t. Our only interest lay in ascertaining the
T. truth o! 80 serious an accusation. now brought
n forward on the responsibility of the States
g., man nnder very peculiar circumstances an,
for sinister purpose. 1t so happens that tn,
present editor in lief ofthe Cincinnati Com
al mercial, was, ut the period mentioned, one
=. the editors of the Ohio State Journal, and IN
y response to the call from the Commercial 70
proof, the source of its information.
IT, says.
"Mr. Henry Reed was, it will be seen, al
editor of the Ohio State JourRal on the 6tl
n March, lS49,. Mr. Reed is, then, the MAJ
10 who, as such editor, first put into circulation
re- the charge that Mr.. Chase introduced thi
=, resolution at a Convention of Abultionist,
holded in ls43.' It the charge be false, Mr.
Is Reed says now, that, ut should condemn t,
4 everlasting infamy the scoundrels who put i
re into circu!ation.' We do not believe it TO b,
lalse," &t. "This charge has been on 're-
cord ever since its first uttcrance BY IN,
~ Journal in the spring of 40. That is certain
re ly record evidence enongh to have called pub
II lie attention TO it some time before this il
., the course of the six years since elapsed
% The reply to Il attempt to hold Mr.. Rec,
personally respo lsible; and the re:utatio,
" OF the main charge against Mr.. Chase, will
be found in another column, to which w
would call attention.
r. But we do not propose to lot the matte
pd rest here We proceed to make the States
man witness against itself, 1t says abov,
" -"This charge has beer on record ever sine,
lie It's first utterance," long enough it thinks "t,
re have called publa attention to i, son,o tim,
cd before this" The deducation is fair.
90 Now let us go back few years and Sc,
how the case stands We turn to the Obi,
u" Statesman of January 2sth, 1850. then a
= now published and edited by s. Medary, anc
w there md full and complete RECITATION of III
i, 'rho'e charge embodied in an editorial article il
that paper .oI that date.
Let us be little more particular. On tn,
Gath of January, 1850, resolution had beer
M introduced by Mr. Clay in the Senate of the
y United States for the purchase Of Washing.
tons Farewell Adress in the original man.
= uscrlpt' After this reso ution had been dis
er posed of, Mr.. Butler, OF South Carolina, name