Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-03-01
THE BELMONT CHRONICLE.
"Etern,si hostility to every form of tyr.
amy over the mind Of Man."
Thursday Morning, March /, 1866.
Are any OF the Democracy Know Moth

Are any or the Democracy Know Noth-
ingsi
Our neighbor IL laboring hard to prove
that the so-callcd Know Nothing party is
made up Of the "ldts whig party" Now this
idea shows its fallncy on its face. If none
are members but the members Of the VIII
party where did sll the votes come from at
the late elections! IF il is true that only
wings find entrance into its meetings why
the overwhelming majority in opposition to
the Democracy! Only one ear before and
IVm. !'isiM was e,ecied Governor by a very
large majority. The only way to reconcile
this is TO suppose that many thousa nds Of
Democrats belong to the order.
Let US take this county for exa mple, anil
we can prove with mathematical precision
that there are hosts Of Democrats, as well as
wings, members Of the Order.
In 1852 Gov. Shannon was a candidate
for Congress and received, in Belmont coun
ty, 244l votes One month later Gen Pierce
received 1904 votes for President. This,we
presume, may be regarded as the Democrat
ic force at that time. Well, in 1874, when
this great bugbear, Know Nothing SIN first
sprang into being, the vote for Daniel H..
Wire, the mon intended by tie Democracy
for Shannon's succe ssor, received 1909 votes.
A falling IF from Pierce's vote of two years
betore of lS5 votes. But he leaders of the
Democracy claim that their late defeat was
brought about by the Know NothiLgs. Gran
ting this to be true, we find that these same
knoW nothings drew away from the ranks of
( the Democracy no less than one thousand one
hundred and eighty five men. ioes that
make Know NothiEgism SAVIOR of Whiggery
purely! If it IS whiggery it must have been
very tenptingly displayed, and highly favor
ed to render il palstable to 1855 Of the unter'
riiied Democracy.
But again; ever since last fall, some five OF
six weeks be! !ore the election, our nei.hboI
has been firing his volleys Of denunciation
and anu,hetna into the Know Nothiugs-
calling them everv thing but honest ne n,
aud evidently thinking he had an especa
mission to aDnihlate them. IN the Ga,ettt
d Citizen of last week there are no less thar
tourteen articles, aiming direc tly at the Or
der, and in every one there is some inslnu
uton, or direct charge of corruption, or sin
istcr motives. Some attempt a: crippling
thing which the editor cannot possibly know
anything about unless he has joined and lher
violated his oath, Or is in league wi th trai
tor. We wish it borne in mind that in th
County alone there were over cieu,n hIndr e.
demucru,c members Of this Order last fail
:. While engaged in bitterly denouncing tn
order he is at the same time hurling the bit
terest Gnathemas against at least eleuea hun
dred and eighty Gue men, who no longer ag
: than 1852 ncte in concert with him, and la
bored shoulder to shoulder in the same pJ
5 liica har ness, for the same candidates.
i; gentleman ly-is it consistent to act so to
wards our friends! Are not these 1875 me-
, as capable of distinguishing right from wron
: as the editor Of the Gazette! Is it not natu
raj to suppose that a. thousand men will b
as apt to act light as one man.
So Ear as we are concern ed about the Anne
rcan Reform sts, we are true believer il
0 the power of the people of the States t
govern selves--and so long as our fol
low citizens, and not set OF designing pc
litcsl hacks, are ut the helm we fear not 70
our country.