Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-09-27

Our candidate for RePressnIAVe, Silas Potts.
ESQ.,, is gentleman Of sound, practical talent,
and unainehhg integrity, against whom no
hired slanderer dare utter . word Of reproach,
for bis past life has been uneTceptiOnsbls.-
And il the occasion requires can give his Argu-
ments in favor Of his conclusions, suecintly
and nationally, and can write an intelligent let
ter, and in a. good businssslike manner as
any man in the county. Can our spurious
Democrats friends say as much Of their eandi-
date for Representative Elisha Is personally
clever fellow. but q most hostile LoeofocO,
dyed in the wool: real old bunker; one for
whom no liberal Republican ought to vole.-
And WhyS Because, We aver without the fear
Of successful contradiction, that Elisha Nc
Guirs never split his ticket, to vote for an op-
pOnent from him in politics, whilst Democrat
ic candidate was in the field. never, no never,
even for the most trivial town or township Of
fee, and yet he claims and expects votes from
some Of these very men against whom he not
only voted. but took an active part, as he al
ways does, even in the election Of school off,
GERS. Can such man get the votes Of Repub-
lcans? We answer that in this vicinity he
cannot. RecOlleCt, the true position of Elisha
Mcclure and g. W. 8elden upon the tax and
slavery extension questions.
They aver that the tax law is right and just
and needs no amendment, And that the re.
peal of the Missouri compromise is a just and
righteous act towards the south.
NV. Belden, the present Judge of the
Common Pleas Court is at last nominated by
his pro-slavery party friends for seat in the
State Senate. The Judge was elected to that
} Office ofJudge without opposition from his po-
litiCal opponents, and draws from the State
Treasury 81 800 dollars year for his services
The people of this district had supposed at the
time that such a seat with such a salary would
have for the term at least, have satiated the
inordinate ambition Of one small man, but 10
that assumption they have been sOrely disap-
pointed. For it will be distinctly recolected
that his seat upon the Common Pleas bench
had scarcely warmed, until his extreme mod
eSty desired seat upon the Supreme Bench
Of this State; in that, however he was foiled
BY party friends. And scarce had another
fifteen hundred dollars Of the peoples hard
earnings rolled into his pockets, till his extreme
modesty suggested tha: he wa, ft 10 fill seat
in the Senate of these United States; but in
this, too, after time, labor and money had been
avishly expended, he was doomed to disap-
pOintment; although his Sancho PanEa of this
county, used all the ingenuity he could COM
mand in secret midnight caucus, his master
the Judge ran against wind mill and was out
winded in bis modest game. Scarce had a
part OF year rolled away ntil this self same
modest Judge again said to his friends he
would take a seat in the lower House of Con.
gress and fought for it with an unusual effort,
and strained every nerve to be the candidate,
but was again discounted in his more than
laudable ambition to provide for himself new
office before the old one expires. Another rev.
olutlOn Of the earth upon its axis again finds
the Judge aspiring { or the FIFTH time within
-FOUR years; to obtain seat In the State SEN
ate to be nsed as a stepping stone into the U.
s. Senate. Do not these facts show that the
Judge has the bump of Office most inOrdinate
ly developed! And what is more, the Judge
now claims to be and doubtless is an admins.
tratiOn man to the hub, and therefore goes 70
Pierce prO'slavery territory and more Slave
States. Notwithstanding. we believe the Judge
did, in l848, vote for Martin Van Buren, up.
on the Buffalo platform, yet new light has
struck his vision with such power as to whirl
him right over into the ranks Of Atchison and
Douglas, slavery. and oppression, lie has
doubtless seen a streak Of the same light that
struck certain Democratic Central Committee
man Of our county,
Men made Of such stuff are not the men for
the crisis, they have not BACKBONE.