Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-07-31
Fremont in Pennsylvania.
FLUSHING, Ohio, July 9th, 1856

FLUSHING. Ohio, July 9th, 1856.
To the Editor of The Belmont Chronicle:
In the last number of the Republican,
have noticed an extract from the Philadel--
phia Ne,cs, protesting to set forth the num-
Der of papers in Pennsylvania advocating
the election of FILLMORE and FREMONT
Knowing the article referred to to be grossly
unfair and untrue, | have taken pains to
learn as exactly as the nature of the case
would admit, the truth, which is substantial
ly as follows:
In the Daily Neus, thirty five papers are
quoted as sustaining FILLMORE. OF these
only one has a respectable circulation out
of the State; one has since been suspended;
one has changed to FREMONT; three propose
to do so soon; several others will unite with
any move ment that will ensure the defeat
of BUCHANAN.
Sirty-fre are already decidedly committed
to Fremont and DAYTON; three supper
FREMONT that are uncommitted as to the
Vice-Presidency; three support Fremont
but have not yet put up the ticket finally;
so that there are at least eighty-seven pa
pers in Pennsylvania battling for Fremont,
including nearly all the American, Old Line
Wing, and German papers formerly Demo-
cratic,) of the largest circulation in and OUT
of the State.
There are doubtless others which have not
come under our notice, so that we may claim
without exaggeration ninety papers, about
three times the number allowed by the Daily
Ne,rs. This whole matter is set forth in a
form that admits of no cavil, in the Pitts
burgh Gazette of the Oath inst, and its po-
sitions are sustained by the corroborating
testimony of number Of other papers con-
suited.
Pennsylvania is said to be the State whose
vote will decide the election. That FIRE.
MONT will get the electoral vote of the State
is evident, First, From the number of pa
pers in his interest; Secondly, The large
defections from BUCHANAN in Western and
Northern Pennsylvania, and the dissensiOns
among his professed friends in all parts OF
State; Thirdly, The influence of REEDER,
ROBERTS and LOWRY, all Of which will be
exerted against him with terrible force aRd
effect; and lastly, in the deep determine
ton and excitement of all classes VINO have
hitherto taken no very active part in politi-
cal agitation. The working of this last
cause will be most manifest in Eastern
Pennsylvania.
We expect nothing better from the oppo-
sition press than the continual public lion
in the face of facts and probabilities, Of such
one sided statements as that Of the NeVs, on
which we have commented, or of such in
famous "Roorbacks" as are nailed daily by
the most irrefutable evidence, as s"falsehoods
out of the whole CLOTH" and yet reiterated
time after time, Is though "a lie adhered to
has all the force Of truth" 1t is the clear
est evidence we could desire of the extrem-
ity 10 which they reduced for material to
conduct the campaign on their part, and
their consciousness of the inherent and des-
perate weakness of their cause, but we must
protest in the name Of truth and justice, of
right and honor, against their so shameless
ly misleading their honest RAIDERS, many o.
whom consult no other journals, and hence
are being wofully mislead and blinded. as
they will find 10 their surprise, and many of
them to their cost, by the 5th or Oh of No
yember.
"OTHELLo's occupations gore" will
be written alike of those who are trying TO
prop up and perpetuate the present corrupt
dynasty which is so Enthusiastically tottering
to its fall, and of much smaller faction
which is trying vainly to inaugurate another
which would be as far from answering the
demands, and embodying the spirit and needs
of the time.
Yours truly, OBSERVER