Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-01-10

and vigorous party, honorable 5for energy,
noble achievements, and s,ll more for no.
BILE enterprises. In 1852, it was united g.
cons ,ldoted ana moved by panic and fears
to emulate the Democratic party in Its
practiced subserviency tc the privileged
class, and it yielded in the spite of your
remonstrances end mine. Tie privileged
class, who debauched it, abandoned il, be-
cause they knew that it could not vie with
its rival in the hunlialing service it prot
fered thom and now there is neither Wing
party nor Wing south of the Potomac.
! How is it in the unprivileged Staiesl--
| Out of New York, the lovers Of Freedom,
disgusted with its prostitution, forsook it,
and marched into any and every other or
ganization. We have maintained il here
and in its purity,untl the siders and Obct-
tors Ut the privileged classes, in retaliation
have wounded it on all sides, aud il is new
manifes;ly no longer able to maintain and
carry forward alone and unaided, the great
revolution that it insugurated. He is unfi
for a statesman, although he may be a
] patriot, who will cling even to an honoreI
and faithful association, when it is reduced
50 low in strength and numbers as 10 be
entirely Intellectual iamid the contest, OF
groat parties by which republics are saved.
Any party, when reduced SO low, must ul-
timateIy dwindle and dwarf into u mere
faction. Let, then, the Wing party pass.
1t committed u grievou5 !ault and gfieV-
ously hath it answered it. Let it marcrout
| of the field, therefore, with all h0hors..
The principles Of true Democrats and the
principles OF true Whigs remain throughout
all changes of parties and Of men, and, SO
far as they are sound, they are necessarily
the same. Such true Democrats sand true
Wings are now ready to unite on those
sound principles common to both. Neither
OF these Two classes can or ought to insis
On forcing defective organization, with I
stained banner, upon the ether Th5 Re-
publican organization has sagaciOusly seer
this. and magnarimously hid II new, soun,
and liberal platform, broad enough for botl
classes to stand upon. Its principles ar,
equal and exact justice; it's speech open
decided, and frank. It's banner ia untOri
in former battles, and unsulied by past er
rors. That is the party for us. do no
know that it will always, OF even long
preserve its courage, it's moderation, an
its consistency. II it shall do so, it vii
rescue and save the country, Ii it, too
shall become unfaithful, as all precedin:
parties have done, it will, without sorrow
or regret on my part, iperish, as they ar
perishng, and will give place to anothel
truer and better one.
50 long as the Republican party shall b.
1 firm aud faithful 10 the Constitution, tn
Union, and the Rights of Man, shnl
serve it, with the reservation OF that per
sonal inde ependencs which is my birthright
but at the same time with the yea. ant
devotion that patriotism allows and enjoins
do not know, and personally ] do no
greatly care, that it shall work out it.
great ends this year, or the next, or il
my iietims; because know that those end
arc ultimately sure aud that time and tria
are the clements which make all great re
formations sure and lasting, | have no
thus far lived for personal ends or temporary
fame, and shall not begin So late to liv,
or labor for them. have hoped that
might leave my country somewhat wor'
,hicr OF n lofty destiny. and the rights OF
human nature somewhat safer. A reasonable
ambition must always he satisfied will
sincere and practical endeayors. II, anon,
tho.e Who shall coae after us, there shal
be any curious inquirer who shall fall up
OF. a nams 80 obscure as mine, he shall b.
obliged to confess that, however unsutcess
fully | labored !ot generous ends, yet thu
| nevertheless was ever faithful, ever hope
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