Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-08-14
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
BELMONT, Ohio, July 2s' 1856.

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part or lot in the administration of this Gov
ernment! Such, Mr.. Editor, is the fact Is
it not time that we had clothed ourselves in
sackcloth and ashes, and humbled ourselves
for the rest of our lives, that we have so
deeply offended the party who hold the des
TIMES of this Nation in their grasp, that we
are to be forever marked and excluded from
the enjoyment of these tat offices, bott
county and State, that are so anxiously
sought after.
But perhaps. Mr.. Editor, you and youl
readers are anxious to know who it is thai
has issued this "Bull' OF prescription. Now
it was not the Pope OF Rome, neither was it
one of his minions, but a real genuine live
Know No.hing, and an office-holder of the
county OF Belmont and State of Ohio.
Ia it not surprising that one who processes
to be an American, and that "Americans
should rule America" should issue an edct
of this kind, and fix the period at fifty years,
as being the time for which we shall dc pen
ance for our political sins-which consists
in preferring Freedom and Fremont to Fill
more and Slavery. Now, Mr.. Editor, l
think this whole matter has arisen from the
fact that the People of Belmont county have
determined that they will have some say in
who shall fill ou county Offices, and not in
future take jIst such as msy be selected by
small faction, be they ''bng or a worm +"
But enough Of this; the second Tuesday of
October next will decide who shall fill our
county Offices for the next two years, and if
there is not some changes, it will not be for
the want of Efforts on the part of some OF us
prescribed Republicans. To leave this SUBJ
ject and turn to another.
You were not at the Fillmore meeting at
Louisville, on Saturday! WE'LL l was FOR
few moments, (and small affair it was.)
Well, when arrived Peter (you know Pete,
he resides in your place, and says he was
once preacher, which may be an honor TO
him, but doubt its being any to the pro-
fession,j was holding forth in eloquent
terms, depicting the time that was to follow
dissolution of this Union. And the object
of the Republican party being to abolish
Slavery everywhere when they get in:o
power, the South would withdraw and we
could not force them back. Now, Mr.. Editor
it seems to me that the Republican party:
is tue only one that does not intend to Dis
solve the Union, or let any other party do it.
The Locofoco party prate loudly about the
South withdrawing, and Mr.. Fillmore him.
self says the South will not submit if the
People elect ]. C. Fremont and VIM. L.
Dayton. Both these parties, then, seem to
hold the Union as being bound together by
very slender ties. Not so with us,we think it
will take more than the election of Buch-
anan or a Fillmore to disrupt Urion that
has been cemented BY the blood of our fore
fathers.
Peters next proposition was that Slavery
is right. Why, Because it has always ex-
listed from the earliest history of the world;
it existed when our Savior was on Earth,
and he did not condemn it, but on y attempt
ed to soften its asperities on the one part,
and exhort servants to be obedient to their
masters on the other. Now, that was com.
ing out under true colors. Some of US have
| all the time contended that the leaders in
this Fillmore party were actually in favor Of
Slavery; but many of them have heretofore
denied it, and think some of them will not
thank Peter for that part of his speech.
wonder what some members of the Society
of Friends that saw present will thinkof it!
They, at least, have always professed to
believe that Slavery was condemned by the
Christian religion; but, perhaps change
has come over the spirit of their dreams, and
they may take i. as gospel because it came
from Peter, and he says he "used to preach"
consequently he ought to know what is Cos
pei and what is not.
But the most labored part Of his argument
was to prove that Fremont is Catholic
| The evidence of this was that be V as mar
ried by Priest, and that a Catholic Priest
would no, marry couple unless one of them
was member, and they must promise to
raise their children in the faith. Now this
seems strange; Catholic Priests, on the one
hand, are charged with being so corrupt that
they will do anything for the money, and in
the next that they will. net violate the rules
of their church in performing the marriage
ceremony. Now, for Peters benefit, | would
tell him we have an old Fillmore gentleman
in our town who says he was married by a
| Catholic Priest, and that there was no ques-
ton asked, and know his children were
not raised in that faith. He also read from
the Organ at Washington, proving that he
was Catholic, and statement from an
Alderman to the same effect; but | would
remind him that, unfortunately for the verac-
ity of this fat Alderman, Col. Fremont was
in Europe at the time that he should have
seen him cross himself with holy water. As
regards the publication in the Organ would
say that DR.. Bailey, the Editor of the Ma
tional Era man who has resided number
of years in Washington City, and a man of
unblemisbed character and undoubted ver-
acity, as to Fremont's Catholicism, says as
follows:
"He is not and never was. We do not
6 discuss the question whether the fact taat