Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-08-23

float victorious, but the conservative
principles of the old Wing party are i'm
perishabIe, and in coming time. when
darkness oyerspreads the land. wild IA
naticism runs riot, vice laughs innocence
to scorn, and trsmples upon virtue
when the last spark upon our country's
altar shall be growing dim, they will
form nucleus around which the just
and upright shall rally to rouse anew a
nations sons to save from death ma.
TONS freedom.
But the deed was done, the humiliat.
ing spectacle was presented to the peo.
pie of Ohio. that party, heretofore
boasting of its integrity and hatred oi
intriguers, had been sold for "mess ol
pottage, and Salmon P. Chase was its
Most Glorious Champion. Shame ting
ed the cheeks of many at the announce
ment, and they bore it as if it were a
necessary evil. while others gloried. as
though this traducer of our best patri-
OTIS were the worthiest of them ALL
The ticket is prepared for you, and
those that can give the lie to all their
thoughts and sayings about its head,
can vote for him. Team not. While l
have SC me regard for many old associ-
ates, l shall also have some for myself.
The proceedings and product of the
Convention reminds me of an event. if
you will allow me to pass from the NOR
tifying to the ridiculous. A loafer in
Missouri had been on probation for sew
en- months to join the Methodist church,
and getting restless he went to the
preacher and told him he wanted to be
taken in forthwith, that he was bent on
joining something, and if they did not
take him in the Church he would join a
horse company. "Now sir, (" said he,
''what are your objections to me. =
The preacher said, "the greatest objec-
ton was his inveterate habit of lying"
"Well, says the fellow, 'just lay your
hand on any lie I have told, the very
first" Said the preacher, "that story
you tell about man in Arkansas hav-
ing all his bowels cut out with Bowie
knife and then chopped up, and bear
having been killed and its insides taken
out and put into the man and he lived,
is too ridiculous for any man TO believe"
Now" said the fellow, "you may be-
lieve il OF not, but tell Jou ito true.
saw it myself, was there when the man
was cut open, l helped to kill the bear,
it was an old she one, and we took out
her insides and put them in the man,
and he did not only live, but for months
after that, he gaze birth to a Cab. 1t
didn't live because the fellow was
ashamed oft, and he let on his nipples
were sore and he couldn't nurse it, and
IL died." The Bowie knife of locofoco-
ism has ripped open the once stately
form Of the old Wing party, and the en-
trails of demagogues have been put
therein, and Chase is the product. In
deed they ought to call it the Bear Wo-
man ticket 1t has human feet, human
legs, human breast, human arms, but
Oh! Jemima, what head; wool all over
the forehead, wool all around the chin,
eyes askew. lips that could "suck in"
any body, and down the backbone runs
a ridge of hair with tuft at the base
seven or eight inches long, and right
about that they want to stick the old
Wing party. 1t is all matter of taste,
but | prefer some other location.
And l would advise all who vote the
ticket to do so as snake swallows cat
fish. Begin at the tail and go it until
you get to the horns, and then stop,
and the head will slough of.
But to proceed further in the estab-
ment Of the character Of this dema-
gogue,, I will read the opinions of the
New York Tribune end the Ohio State
Journal, edited then by Judge Thrall
and Henry Reed now of the Cincinnati
Commercial. Their opinion of the man
is unchanged. You will all remember
the circumstances which gave birth to
these editorials. Under a law of the I
State, Spencer and Runyan had been
elected Representative to our Legisla-
ture from Hamilton. The law was reg
ularly passed, and upon our Statute /
was alid--the only authority to set it
aside was the Supreme Court. 1t d. |
vided Hamilton county into election
districts. George E. Pugh and --t
Pierce came here and claimed the seats +.
to which Spencer and Runyan had been .
legally chosen-"'the balance of power"
was in the hands of the Pirates of Ohio,
and, as was usual, they wanted to know
not the right Of the question, but which
side wouldpay best. Among the crowd
Of their tricksters was this pure patriot
Salmon, { his very name is Jfshy) and he
was especially open for dicker. As a
lawyer, he knew that Spencer and Run
yan were entitled TO their places; as a
good citizen he could see no path of
duty but that which gave them their
seats; but law and duty were with him
small influences when the prospect for
his own success lay in his trampling
them under foot. 70
As his stock in trade he had his two
Dinps, Townshend and Morse, who with
The democratic vote, made a majority
in the Iosoer house. But i need not de-
lain you in further explanations-you
al know that the outrage was perpetrat-
Cd, the bargain made by which the le-
gal representatives were rejected and
Pierce and Pugh made members.