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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30

lencies of the system of slavery and thi
the superior condition of the Southern slave
over the Northern white laborer."
What beautiful spec linen of this Buch.
anan Democracy does this orator present
The "laboring man. Of the North would be
happier if he had some one to "sell" him
when he is poor! What do you say, poor
men, to such Democratic doctrine,
Reynolds, the defeated Buchanan can
didate at st. Louis, in speech he made,
classed the laboring Irish and Germans with
the negroes, and lost his election for the re-
mark, the Germans Of thai city going against
him.
The Mechanics and Laberers can thus
readily understand that the support of Buch-
anan is the support of slavery extension
that slavery extension in our territories
wondering in its train all the above abom-
;nable doctrines--and that ssthe election OF
Buchanan would be to strengthen the posi-
tion assumed by his Southern supporters
that Labor IS Degrading and only to be per-
formed by slaves. Are our L4boring Men
ready for such result!
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30
Who are DisuniOnists?

The great orator and shining light OF thu
Buchanan party in South Carolina, Preston
S. Brooks, in his recent speech at Ninety
Six, said:
ave have the issue upon US now, ant
how are we to meet it! tell you, fellow
citizens, from the bottom OF my heart, that
the only mode which thing available fol
meeting it is lust to tear the Constitution OF
the United Stales, trample ii under foot, ana
Form Southern Confederacy, euery State Of
rhici uoiH be siaUeholding Ssate. Lrud
and proonging cheers.I | believe it, as
stand in the face OF my Maker-l believe it
on nv responsibility to you as your honOred
representative, that the only hope Of The South
is in the South. and that the only available
mems Of making that hope effective is 10 cut
aSunder the Gonds that tie US together, and
take our ssperate position in the family Of na-
tions. These are my opinions. They have
ait0ays been my my opinions. haze been
Dtsunionist from the time could think. !"
This is explicit; and so is what follows IN
almost immediate connection.
"Nuw, fellow-citizens, want the South
to come square up to NJ. Buchanan. Let
US do our whole duty. Let us test the ex-
pertinent of our friends, ard if it fails, than
we Can with the more grace ask them to
adopt our counsels for the future.'
Put that and that together. 1t is very
plain that Brooks thinks The Buchanan party
is the party OF disunion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30
Gboitt Mlistsllalng!!,
The Autumn Woods.

"The trees rose like mighty monarchs
clad in royal robes of blue and yellow, enc
raid and gold. and crimson; the forest king!
and little princelv alders, ashes and red dog
woods, all were in their glory. Chiefly the
emperor tulip-tree, however, shook to the
air its noble vestments, and lit up all the
hillside with it's beauty. The streams rar
merrily in the rich light-o oriole swayed
upon the gorgeous boughs and sang away
his soul-over all dropped the diaphanous
haze of October, like an enchanting dream.
"Would you have strength and rude might!
The oak is, yonder, battered by a thousand
storms, and covered with rings of forgotten
centuries. Spendor! The mountain BAN
ners of the crimson dogwood, red maple, yel-
low hickory and chestnut fout the sky-as
though all the nations of the world had met
in one great federation underneath the
azure dome not built with hands, and clash
ed together there the variegated banners
which once led them to war-now beckon-
ing on with waving s:lken folds the thous-
and years of peace! Would you have beauty,
and tender delcacy of outline and fine
coloring! Here is that, too; for over all
-nuer the splendid emparas-a~a- humble
prince, and the red, and blue, and gold, of
oak, and hickory, and maple, droops that
magical veil whereof We spoke-that deli
cate witchery, which lies upon the gorgeous
picture like spell, melting the headland
into distant figures, beckoning and smiling.
making the culors of the leaves more deli
cate and tender turning the autumn noun
tains into fairy land of unimagined splen-
dor and delight. ."-The Last Of the Foresters
by John E. Cooke.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30

True DEMoCRAcY-TEE ALBANY ATLAS
FOR FREEDoM.-We copy the following
from the Albany (N.Y.) Alas, Democrat
c paper. The Atlas we presume will very
soon abandon the bogus Democracy.
The question: whether an existing Freedom
shall be perm ted to remain in our newTer-
ritories, or whether a fOrce-eStablished Sia-
worry is to take is place, cannot be eyadeG.
The question is before the people now,
in its naked shape. There is no question
Of war, OF peace, of appropriation, of en-
barrasment to our government or its armies;
to complicate its character. 1t must be
settled, Aye or No, at once. On one side
stand the slave owners, in truth an almost
inconsiderable minority of the people Of the
South, calming the doubtful benefit of ex-
tending slavery over soil which the law Of
nature and of Nations has already made
free. On the o;her are arrayed the white
laborers Of the North and the South, the
millions who labor, the great mass whose
rights, present and i'm 2osterity, a Demo-
cratic government is sacredly bound to
watch over,
We stand where we have always stood;
on the platform of the constitution, of
which Liberty, Equality AMI the Rights of
Labor are the true supports, and where
once stood Washington, Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe and Jackson, who raising above
sectional fanaticism, won devotion of the
Democratic Freemen OF the North as well
as the South. Ii the statesman of the
South are tired of receiving the honors Of
the Republic, and the admiration of the
Republicans of the free State, they do well
to abondon that platform. IL the stunted
underground of Southern politicians. who
in the present day have taken the place of
those towering chiefs of the last generation,
cannot rise to the same eminence Of Hu-
marty and Liberty, so that b y can be seen
beyond the narrow confidence of section
ality, the misfortune is theirs. They, not We
have changed. We cling to the principles
which made Virginia the seat oil Repub lean
dominion, and its sons, in long and glori-
Gus line, the master-spirits and chiefs the
Union-and if they, abandoning the light Of
Freedom, follow the baleful fires of Slave
ry, through paths as disastrous as they are
we shall neither initiate their
nor share its consequences.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30
Stringfellow Banished from Missouri
The Tide Turning!

| We learn from a gentleman who arrived
in this city from Weston las, Saturday tina
an Indignation meeting of the citizens O
that place had been held at which the ban
ishment of Stringfellow from Weston anc
Platte county had been resolved upo1. The
circumstances which gave rise to this pro-
ceeding were these: A merchant of Wes-
ton by the name of Rockwell seme time
ago sold out his stock of goods to firm
known as that of Perry & Walker. These
gentlcmeH in the exercise of their CONNER
cial liberty had sold quantity Of flour to
certain parties in Kansas. This fact hap
pening TO become known to body of re-
guatOrs in Platte city, an armed expedition
of about one hundred men issued from that
place and proceeded to Weston, with the
avowed purpose of ur-esting md hanging
Perry, whom they accused of being an abo-
litionist. On reaching Weston, they at
once placed themselves under the command
of Stringfellow, and marched to the store of
the parties against whom they had sworn
summary vengeance. Mr.. Perry was arres-
ted, and assured that he should be hung
Upon this Mr.. P. applied to the people of
Weston for protection and justice. and the
result shows that he did not calculate in
vain upon their sense of right. AS soon as
these circumstances became known, pub
lie meeting was called. Mr.. Perry Was re-
leased, and the party from Platte city order
ed to leave within two hours, or abide by the
They then proceeded to dis
pose of the case of Gen. StringfelLw,
" hose course in the Kansas difficulties they
denounced most Indignantly, land concluded
BY passing a resolution requiring him to
leave the town and county forever, giving
MIN five days to settle up his affairs. Mis-
ouri Republican.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30
Testimony of a Shareholder.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 10, 1856.

Editors Chicago 1riJune:-I conversed
yesterday with gentleman who is one OF
the wealthiest Shareholders in Missouri,
and lives on the Kansas border--a man who
was born and raised in the South, and never
lived in the North--who said that he had
never known OF or read in history. accounts
ofsuch shameless, inhuman outrages as had
been perpetrated by some Pr,-Slavery men
in the Terrtory-Buford's company anu
others. The battle of OssawatOmie, he
said, was in reality no battle a: all. Three
hundred ruAans fell upon about thirty-tive
Free State men, and butchered many oi
them in col Id blood. Although Southern
man and wealthy STAKEHOLDER this gentle
man said he could not be brought to endorse
such outrage-he had rather see Slavery
utterly extirpated. myself am opposed to
the election Of Fremont, in the abstract
view of the case; but if nothing but his elec-
ton can check the Democracy in their ca
reer of outrage and crime, shall not object.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30
Not Reciprocal.

We cordially approve of and endorse the
nomination Of Andrew ]. Donelson, for Vice
President.-Whig Conrention at BGHiaors.
CORRUPTION issues Just as naturally
ont Of The organization of WHlGGERY as
rermin does from a dead bOdy undergoing de:
composition n.-Andrep j. Doaslsrn.
It will be seen from the above that the
Donelson Wings who met at Baltimore re-
Gently, have much better opinion of the
man who called for "nine cheers for the
man who charged and proved upon Henry
Clay bargain and corruption" than he has
of them and their organization.-Cleve!aaI
Hrald
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30

At the conclusion OF Mr. Banks great
speech in Independence Square, PhilaGel-
phia, on the afternoon of the 9th inst, some
twenty-five of the Democracy fingered on
the ground to discuss its merits, when gen.
tleman present said he could adduce an ar
gument to prove that the Fremont party
were the Union party,and that the Buchan-
an party were the sectional and the disunon
party which he defed any Democrat present
to answer. 1t was thus: No Fremont man
and no Fremont organ ever held that if Bu-
chanan were elected President they would
rebel at the popular vote. But the Buchan-
an men and the Buchanan press have threat
ened that if Mr.. Fremont is elected, they
would rebel at the choice of the people and
dissolve the Union. There was no response
to this argument, whereupon the gentleman
offered reward of 800 for a reply; but all
were NUN.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30

OUR DUTY.-It is a solemn duty to speak
plainly OF wrongs which good men,perpetr.-
te. 1t is very easy to cry out against crimes
which the laws puLish, and which popular
opinion has branded with infamy. What IS
especilly demanded Of the Christian, is a
faithful, honest, generous testimony against
enorInities which are sanctionsdb BY numbers,
and fashion, and wealth, and especially BY
great and honored names, and which thus
sustained, lift up their head to heaven, and
repay rebuke with menace and indignation.
Or. CLAIMING.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30
The Gonzales CTexas) Inquirer Ct the 9th

The Gonzales (Texas) Inquirer CT the 9th
inst, says:
The good citizens of Gonzales could not
have been more startled at thunderclap in
the garish light of day than they were at
hearing. a few days since, that the German
citizens of De Witt county had called
meeting OF their countrymen for the pur-
pose OF forming Fremont cub, and sp-
pointing Fremont electoral ticket. Tint
the report carries with it some truth is evil
dent from the fact that a note was received
In town Oh Tuesday, stating that about
twenty men had lett Concrete for the pur-
pose OF breaking up the meeting. We shall
know all about it in few days.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30

The Circleville Herald published the ex-
posure of Boiling and the letter of Wayne
Griswold, and adds, that "we have seen him
(Boling) here more than once in consulta-
tstion with Griswold." Griswold lives in
Circlevills.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30

ANOTHER Bis SLIpE!-Five hundred Fill
more men OF Ostegs county New York, have
signed an address, recommending the Fill
more men to vote for Fremont and Dayton.
The address, and the names attached, are
pu blished in the Coopsrstown IN. Y Her
slC
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30

The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
chronicles case in Shrewsbury, Massachu-
setts, where a child was borne without eyes
1t was healthy boy, well developed in every
other respect. There were syelids, but no
eyeballs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30
4oftrp.
At Home.
HY BAYARp TAYLOR.

The rain is sobbing on the void;
The house is dark, the hearth is cold;
And stretching drear and ashy grey
Beyond the ceGars, lies the bay.
The winds are moaning as they pass
Through tangled knots Of autumn grass
A weary, dreary sound Of woe,
As If all Joy were dead below.
sit alone, wait in vain
Some voice to lull this nameless pain;
But from my neighbor's cottage near
Come sounds of happy household cheer.
My neighbor at his window stands,
His youngest baby in his hands;
The others seek his tender kiss,
And one sweet woman crowns his bliss.
j look upon the rainy wild;
have no wife, 1 have no child;
There is no fire upon my hearth,
And none to love me on the earth.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30

"There is not in the wide world pleasure so sweet,
As to sit near a window and tilt up your feet,
Pull away at 'CuBA" whose flavor just suits
And gaze at the world twixt the Of your 5oots."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30

erThs Newark IN. j. Mercury is in
formed Oy private letter from B0rdentown
that Commodore Stewart, "Old Ironsides,"
who has been life long Democrat, has re-
Gently declared for Fremont GIN. Gag.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30

EPITAPH ON ScoLDING WIFE:
Here lies my wife; poor Molly let her lie;
She finds repose at last-and so dol.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30
A Scheme for Deposing Fremont in
Case Of his Election-The abso-
luton of the Church invoke ed.

The Charleston Courier contains a letter
from a gentleman who signs himself A. H
Brisbane, to Archbishop Hughes. 1t is moi
enough that NJ Masters has tbs bra andins
iron rsady TO clap on quick and SIRE, Here
comes another Catholic in a letter to the
leading man in the church in this country
who proposes to subvert the government
Now will our reuders mark some of the
monstrous sentiments therein expressed
He saws to Archbishop Hughes.
NV object is to learn from you whether,
as a Catholic, | shall be infracting any OF
laws which Almighty Gcd has imposed for
nv moral government; or, in other words.
,eiether The Church ,rouid abSolre me from my
aueciance to President Fremont, although
cous.itut,onaHy elected, and thus sanctity
the blow which would strike for the liber-
ties of my country aud the interests of man
kind.
Ii, in the case before us, President Fre-
mont heads a Government that processes
openly to make war upon my rights and
property, CtdtW " "'e I'"'|'' q" "c VIC"
from the allegiance that l o'rs him, ard thus
10 bear God's commission ir the rar / iUage
aoainst him. |, is a question OF conscience
alone. My Protestant contederates will
possess no such authority, and will contend,
no do ubt as formidabIy as | will, but this is
not enough for me; believe that Almighty
God has reserved to himself all moral ques-
tons, and that the Church is alone the
agent to determine.
The church is the only source from ,rhence
we can look for hCeauthority which sanctifes
the blop Of the strong arm, lifted against its
Government. 1t is for this reason that
submit the subject publicly for the conside-
ration of the Catholics of the United States.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30

CRUEL INHUMANIrY.-A railway clerk
asking a sea-sick passenger, if he is anxious
for return ticket,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30

?. ST. have just passed my 77th year
am confined entirely to my own room, and
can only write on a slate, having an aman-
uensis to copy, so that my correspondence
must be very limited. S. d. 1.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-10-25
III. northumberland.

The following a summary # the laws and
constitutional requirements in the election Of Il
President and Vice President:
!. Electors elected on the first Tuesday after
the fret Monday in November. ,
. Eleotor. meet on the frs, Wednesday in
December. and cast their soirs They then ign
three ccrifentes-send messenger with ON
copy To the President Of the Senate at Washing
ten before the first edne-day in January
another by mnil 10 The snar uerSpn. and the third
deliver 10 the United States District judge where
electors meet.
, Each State provides by law Tor filling any
vacancy in the Board Of Electors. orca-ionel by
absence, death, or resignation. such of the aiee
tore ~ are present generally authorized to
fiji any vacancy.
/ The Governor gives notice 10 electors Of
their s'oction before the first Wedne sday in De
eember.
,. On tho second Wednesday in February
Congress shall be in session and open the 70.
turns. The President Of the Senate shnlI. in the
presence Of the House II Representatives. open
tie certificates Of returns, and count the yotes.-
The person having The greatest number Of votes
for President, il sueh nnmber be majority Of
the whole number OF electors, shall be the Presi-
dent
&. If no person he's majority ar above. the
choice Is L. be made from the three highest re
turned. The members Of the Ionse. by States
finn themselves into Electoral Committees and
the majority determine which is 10 he the choice
Of the State-each State having only one vote
I. Ii neither Of the candidates get majority
Of the Ststes before the 18th Of March. then the
Vice President shull net President.
:. II the Peopl" do not elect through the Elec-
tors Vice President then The Senate of the Uni
ted States shnll make the election from the two
highest candidates returned to them by the Eleo-
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-10-25

Hom he Loues his Daughter.--A letter from
Moscow. publ shed in the London Globe snys:-
1ou perhaps know the pretty story about Tod
tlehen's wife aud father in-lnw. The latter, II
rich merchant. OF the mime of llanf. did not much
like his daughters marriage with the young en-
Diet Of engineers. During the siege Of Scbasto
pol, however. thick und fast came The things
which hlotted ont the Lieutenant, the captain the
colonel, aud gave IIunf general for son in
INV. Daughter, ! love Todteben for your
snltr," says the worthy merchant. Suddenly
llanf himself was creuted II baron by Nicholas
IN consideration uf The son. in aw'r services
'Thr new noble forthwith had an inscription ut
taehed Ia thy front Of his dwelling, from which
he removed his business (it had I'LL then been
carried on there0 the inscription ran tlus:-
q" House Il lie Baron LIANT" One day two oil
eeis called nj Iodlcben's and asked ''Was Mad
ninr at home p entering before the maid servant
knew what 10 reply. The wife happened 10 be
coming dowI stairs at tie moment: the officers
bowed low, anl our Of them sad g" Excuse our
visit it j. 10 be- you Ia tell your husband that
!, The Graud Duke Constantine, aud my brother.
here, the Grand Duke Nicholas conId not leave
TIE captol without Offering our RESPECTS aud
congratulations Io ht, wiz" They then with
arew. Whom the father in law heard this, sud
In, " Daughter, love you eth better for tn
sfhcut Iodtlebcu.H
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-10-25
Veteran. efIsi9 Convention.

The Norfolk Herald SAYS: The Soldiers Of
the War Of lsl2. agrceably II the articles of
their Association, held their annual meeting yes
terday. There were not more than about thirty
present; but it was interesting to see even that
number Of the remnan, Of a body Of men who
forty odd years ago numbered among th"
defenders Of their country. aud to hear them
talk over their "reminiscences Of that stirring pc
riod, Time had been busy among them in work
ing the change from vigorous youth and -talwart
manhood TO the furrawed check and frosty hair,
and failing energies Of declining years; but the
spirit unqnenehed. and the hearts Of tho We
,erans still beat responsive 10 the impulses Of II
generous and patriotic nrdor. OF those present
not more than half dozen numbered under three
sonra and ten years"
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-10-25

The Richmond Wig suggests that il ia most
remarkable fact TINT every man who has ever
been presented by the Abolitionists, as candi-
date for the Presidency Democfatt Biz
ney. Gerfiit Smith, John T. Hale Martin Van
Buren,. and John {. Fremont were all Democrats
ia good standing with the Democratic party aud
ing Lights And further, the principal leaders
of the Fremont and Black Republican party at
the present time are Democrats just from the De-
moeratie fold sumner. Wilson, Banks. Reed
81, 1.nne, Trumbull, lIamlin and Il host of other
Abolition orators. are all from the Democratic
rnnks. pretty good school the Democratic
party must be for trimming up frersol agitators
aud domestic traitors
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-10-25
Er"n, st.chnann y.,al,..

r. NJ. Reese, ID, Of Aururn. Ma n ,.,.a.
man OF popularity aad influence clio li,.r \vIs.,
who was induced 70 declare aud labor for Ba4',
anan by the notion .hat Mr.. Fillmore stood nm
chance aud was in favor Of restoring the Nj
souri, Compromise ine--has announced in nntb
lishcd letter tina, he has now abaBdaned Daebaos,
and goes heartily for Fillmore and noncls5n.
lie is satisfied now that buchanan : the lnll
who Islands ~ chance" that Flmon. is oppos
ed to a restoration Of the Missouri Comprom.a
and he d,truats B,lcaaEnn oa account II Ii.
leaning to Squa't"r -overoiputy. He also rel "a
dates BfcckiNrid4r .sf fai,hlessne>s to hi ,po
ton in arelarirg lh4i !le brmnged to no pa,
J that desired TO extend slnycrv."
Suchis the course that thousands of Southern
patriots will puf.ae. ta'w that Tie fremont bah
bic has exploded I'D now that Mr.. Fillmore sen.
timens on the restoration Of The Missouri Com.
promise are perfectly understood.