Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-08-16
Let BN.GOnes be ny-gOneA.

There is nothing so soothing to the mind as
frequent settlements, in which the past is all
brought down in one grand item to the bot
tom OF the balance sheet and there cancelled
by corresponding debit or credit or passed
over to that mammoth tomb Of trade-prott
and loss. A good business man, once in each
year at least, squares up the old books and
starts the new with clean set.
In politics, above all the past ought not to
be too closely scanned, but the entire field
should be surveyed, and in the great partner
ship which is formed by those who espouse
the same cause, the largest liberality of sem
tment should be tolerated. and the utmost
sacrifice Of personal feeling, if needs he, en-
dured. Now, in the present campaign just
now opening in Ohio, the beauty of charity
can have an admirable field for display
With the majority of those who have attach
ed themselves to 9the Fusion or Republican
party, SALMON p. CHASE has been unpopular.
We shall not attempt IT, defend that gentle
mar in the means used to get into the u
nited States Senate-we thought those
means unhecoming an honorable man, and
we think so still. Moreover, we know of but
two questions upon which his views and ours
coincide, but those are great questions of the
day; one a National question, the other a
State question. Willing at this time to
merge every other issue in those two-one in.
volving the great wrong perpetrated by an al
most undivided South in its passage of that
unmtigated piece Of rascaty called the Kan
sas N Nebraska BILL and the other involving a
reform in the State government--we shut
and seal the political account books o. the past
and look only ahead.
Now, then, having wiped out 'old scores,'
we will give what to us seem the best kind o.
reasons for electing Mr.. CHASE Governor Of
Ohio. In the first place that gentlem n stood
side by side with our noble Senator WADE, in
that great battle in which thirty pieces Of sill
yer carrieo over to the Southern slavery pro-
pagandists enough Northern toadies to beat
down, for the time being, the cause OF free
dom, the rights of free labor, and manliness
of the North, In National point of view,
then, it is peculiarly appropriate, that one of
the distinguished champions fthe North in
that great struggle. should be the standard
bearer in a contest the result of whi-h we
mean shall speak rebuke for that great
wrong. And mole than this, the election of
Dir. CHASE will be the bitterest pill the South
can swallow, and having been spit upon b.
that South, the sold Adam" of our nature will
De gratided by giving the perpetrators of that
insult as unpalatable a dose as possible.
Secondly, when this question of extending
slavery into free territory was impeding,
the Locofoco Legislature ofthis great State
encouraged that damnng deed, by eectilg
f Mr.. PUGH to the Senate, in the pace of Mr..
CHASE. Mr.. PUGH's only merit was blind
subserviency to that party which is owned
and controlled by slavery propagandists, for
he breathes not e political breath untainted
by abject, groveling submission to party die
tation, and Southern party dictation at that.
Hence, no rebuke to the Locofoco party of
Ohio can be so Marked as to make him Cow
ernor, whose place was filled by man, who.
upon this question of slavery extension, was
at the time of his election known not to rep
resent the State Of Ohio.
Thirdly, in electing Mr.. CHASE we defeat
Locofocoism in Ohio, land oust that party which
has brought our State burdens upon US, ma
king us tenants at the will of he State tax
gatherer, and driving from our borders mil.
lions of pi,al.-Clereland Herald