Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-09-25
HENDRYsBUGH .. Sept. IL, 1856.

To The Editor OF tile Belmont Chronicle:
On Yesterday another demons traliun OF
Ifhe Democracy OF Kirkwood come oii-A
Grand Rally was advertised, and from the
time il was announced, until the speakers
stepped upon the siage,the tieetest from their
corps were on trail OF their breihern win
their sharpest arguments, to bring them to
the rescue. Yet with their utmost enGra-
vofS it proved failure, there being but
sixty one persons present one-third OF them
were Fremont and Fillmore men. A meager
assemolage-a chop. len set at this pre-
cursor of demolition to their pie-baid forces,
although Bacchus was there-exutant toJ-
and dea out generally his spirited argument
10 the lurtherance opevil. a number oil
speakers were expected, and among the
number Gen Jimmy Wear now wea ing the
coat Of "Joseph OF old,' bat those present
were Messrs. Lawrence and CASTOR.
MIR. Lawrence, theft candidate for Con-
gress, took the stand and ma;ie lengthy
and able Loco-foco speech, The first volley
was fired al the Black Republicans, and SO
long as the battery was capable OF action
the muZzles was turned thereon. For a
whil the Wooiy-horSe ''trembled in his
buots - but after the first shock had subsid-
ed, he shook his ine, and with the same
indumilabie courage that be mas ever met
opposition, and surmvunted barriers, he
brased it out OFF he goes, with the Wsclly
headed Republicans befvfe him, he calls his
side arms into use, and uu, upon the Hot
spurs of the South and Fanatics of the
North" He "barked his pups at the Mas
sachuseits aid Societies, bithed his steel in
the blood of the Topeka Constitution, and
swung by the neck The assassins Lane and
Reeder as "terror 10 evil doers." Tear
ing his hair he abandons Massachusetts,, the
hot. bed of "Border- -Ruf6anism and all other
sisms and cisns save Patriotism 10 a m st
pitiable fate-and in sentiment claps Preston
Brooks on the shoulder with the exclama-
ton brave telioUs. In tones of thunder,
:sno fellow Democrats, the South has never
aggresseG, the Emigrant aid Societies of the
North have "procured by subscription men
and means, and have forwarded them there
armed 10 the teeth" with death and devasta-
ton rigidly impressed upon their Woollv
headed faces, to drive your southern brethern
from their homes and lay waste the ir fertile
praries, and our fellows, as it, becomes the
Sons of the South" and "Bue LODGE
with our heart rushed to the rescue.
This is the construction. On he goes,
sAll Democrats conceive the repeal of The
Missouri Compromise to be right in prin
ciple, and there is not Black Republican
but W rat will and does oppose its re-estab-
lishment. The Union HIS been bound to-
gelher by the Democracy in opposing the
unwhslesone acts of Northern fanatics, the
Union cannot exist without the Democracy.
such bloody assassins as would concOct and
establish Topeka Constitu ion would SUBJ
merge the country beyond hope of redeop-
ton. This geograp aphically sectional party
with their unwarranted, uncOnstituti nal
conduct, hopelessly prostrate our country
anc her estimable institutions. o, horror.
He wou Id not speak of Dough-faces," and
this was consistent; he too well knows the |
con >lruclion of the term. and better knew
that 1t comprised the pith of his party
Consistency is jewel, and, alth ugh seldom
done, may be used in locoioco speech
This doughty PARTISAN has too severely telt
the effect of crying out against his party,
and will never be likely to again doif his
coat, which has become bunglesome in his
denuncations of their pro-Slavery move
ments. With one mighty effort he clasped
the Pierce administration TO the bosom of
his loco- -foco friends, and tells them therein
is embodied, all that is desirable. The evils
of Kansas are harped upon, to be sure the
Abul,tionists (n other words the Black Re.
pubticans,) have originated this deplorab!e
state Of affairt-which the speaker well
knew to be false, but which remedy does he
propose! None; except would be to elect
James Buchanan upon the identical plat
form" says Frank Pierce, that l now occupy,'
and both North and South have been heard
to de2r ecate this position. Efectnally Mr.
Editor, have they Pierced Us since '5a to
which the lands of Kansas, absorbing the
blood OF our murdered countryman loudly
admits; and say, shall they Buck US in '56!
Let every American who possesses spark
Of patriotism iu his breast, or who is lover
of his country, her rights and institutions,
as we'll a. his own, respond to this with hi.
ballot in unmistakeable language on tho