Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-09-20

the GalIia delegates with being Of she
same kidney Of those who composed the
former convention. { .. IN the language
Of that able Cd official paper shove re-
lferred to, they charged them with being
anti-republicans having 80 other design
but to perpetrate a wilful "fraud" upon
the people of this county by perverting
"the republican movement from rs le-
gitimate objects to subserve the person
al and political aspirations Of q very
small set of politicians about Gallipolis'
they felt that this all-important question
ought to be settled by the delegates
from the other counties, which being
aRy thing else but fair and the only anti-
republican movement of the day was
cheerfully assented TO by the Gsllia
delegates. Then, they thought he had
carried the day. But when the vote
was taken what do you think was the
decision? Just exactly what was ex-
pected of impartial, high minded, hon.
orable men. They decided principles
not men to be the only true test of what
man was and the only safe rule by
which to determine to what party he
belonged. Therefore the pledged dele
gates were rejected by decided vote
and the true republicans admitted to
seats. Here the action of the county
convention upon this question was glo-
riously sustained and ratified as correct
and purely republican. Still in the face
of such action we find the General and
his associate retaining seats in the SEN
atorial convention simply because the
other delegates from Huntington town
ship were not present to occupy them.
The other delegates under the decision
were entitled to their seats, and had the
General been a modest man of rehned
feeling, he would have vacated his place.
But since the Bertholf case before the
Hon. Judge Peck it has been regarded
as fixed fact that modesty and profess
sional integrity to him are strangers.
What other attorney could have stood
the sharp, piercing, soul-seathing rep
rimand that he received from that dis
tinguished Judge for professional cor
ruption without sinking in his tracks.
That is an interesting case and well de-
serves the attention and investigation of
the people of this county, for no where
in legal lore can its parallel be found
for downright conspiracy and fraud
l have heard several say that no man
can coolly examine it without coming to
the rational conclusion that the judicia-
ry ought to hang him up professionally,
as the people have laid him up political
ly.
Now sir, what deductions are to be
drawn from that which is before us.
What is the reasonable conclusion Of
every thinking mind. Is it. not this?
That Anselm T. Holcomb through per-
sonal motives hoping to getsome official
position and in case of a failure strive
to defeat the party. has agitated the sup
posed conflicting elements of our coun-
ty, and arrayed one class against an
other, knowing very well that without
such eommotion he had no possible hope
of success. For in point Of fact there
was but one prevailing sentiment as to
the platform upon which Republicans
men who love their country and the
freedom of her institutions, could stand.
And if the right kind of men were per-
mitted to direct the campaign, it would
work charmmgly and harmOniously yet
quietly and passively to about the same
round numbers thatit did last fall, and he
be left General of the enviable State Of
betweenity. Abundant evidence can
be cited to establish the proposition. The
history of created intelligence teachesus
that some are designed to lead and others
to follow, which is equally true, in the
political as in the religious and social de-
partments of life. Allow me to
mention one political case here, which
has been conceded by every emf
nent statesman in Congress at the
time. If Chase when the question
of the repeal of the Missouri comprO-
mise came up, had taken the advice and
yielded TO the earnest solicitation of the
Whig senators from other States, to
stand in the back ground and let those
against whom certain portions of our
country had never been in1amed
and enraged, take the lead and shape /
and direct the movement, the Admins |
tration could never have succeeded
One more item in this connection worthy
Of notice, in conversation with the
Hon. Louis d. Campbell, speaking Of
The present difficulties in this county, he
remarked that in several
counties which he had visited, CHASE
would lose a large number Of votes for
he Gubernatorial Chair on account Of
he peculiar conduct of his own friends,
md if defeated, in the absence of any
,ther known cause he would have to at
.ribute it to the indiscreet and impolitic
course his old party friends were pursu-
ng in the local elections.
But to return. As the whig party had
given Anselm a certificate Of political
some years since, it be-
looved him to pick his flint, and ignite
omething hamable. He knew the
tate of politics in this county sufficient
Y to foresee, especially since the large
majority given last fall to Judge Swan I
pom similar platform, that this COM S
notion could only be produced by draw a