Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-12-11
Or WHEELING CREEK, ONO Co., Val
Nov. 29th., 1865

Mr.. EDIToR.-The Election is over and
the Slave power has again succeeded in
electing majority of the electors. The
Democrats say the Republican party is
dead. Is it so! think they will find it is
only defeated. not conquered, although sent
to the head waters of Salt River, they will
return in 1860, better drilled, and more
numerous, with a firm determination, like
the lovers of Liberty in l776, to finally sue
ceed with their glorious principles. We
are only beaten by the Slave representa-
ton. and when we consider that We had
the Slavery oligarchy and Catholicism both
to oppose, and they were well drilled back
ed BY government patronage or Influence. it
is no wonder that we were defeated. But,
Mr.. Edtor,is this free Country, Sir,
begin to think it is not so very free, at last
over here i'll Virginia. At our voting place,
(TridelphisO man offered his vote, put
his name on the back of his ticket, Gas is the
rule here,) toe Conductor on opening it
found it a Fremont ticket. Ohe Conductors
read the tickets as they are handed in,)
handed it back telling him that they did not
receive Fremont tickets, he must vote for
Buchanan or Fillmore. They would not re-
ceive any Fremont votes. Thus it went
till several of the Fremont men vo:ed for
Fillmore. This the judges (they all but one
being Loco's) thought would not co. So,
after eleven o'clock one of the Judges came
out, mounted store box for rostrum, and
said, Fellow Citizens, we have concluded
q open poll book for Fremont votes.'--
4 Il that wish 20 vote for Fremont and Day
ton can now have that privileged! This was
at the late Presidential Election.
There were eight votes here for Fremont
and Dayton and no doubt there would have
been several more if they had had the privi
lege to vote as they pleased in the forenoon
Voters have not the privilege or liberty to
vote as they please until they get the privi-
lege from the judges Of the Election. What
kind o f Liberty is that! Is that the kind
of Liberty our Fathers fought for! If this
is Liberty what is Arstocracy! Siryou know
not the feelings here against Freemen es-
pecialIy those from Ohio. | will give an
extract from letter from one that has left
here; he says "Mungo Park met with a
more Christian reception in the interior oi
Africa than person from Ohio would find
in Va. True there are exceptions in neigh
borhoods. there are GASES even in the great
Sahara. | hope you have heart large
enough to stay in Virginia and teach school;
if you can, you deserve monument dom
be discouraged, thank Heaven there are
States not ruled by tie black wand OF Sla.
very, that withers every thing it touches
breathe freezer now that l am back again
in free Ohio-I wonder if this air, these
rocks and hills are :reer than those o.
sold Virginia that land where Ignorance
is bliss! GLORIOUS Old Virginia there she
stands m .nument of lgnolan in this
last halt Of the 18th century. Give me
while | live Country, and that free
Country Ii this freedom, and these sem
timents do not offend your F. F. V. dignity
! hope to hear from you, but tell you the
truth, | have an eternal hatred Of Old Fogy-
ism and Old Virginians" must Say, Mr..
Editor; there is more truth in this than in
poetry. l often hear sneers and jests with
There goes Black Republican, but what
care for sneers, / am not ashamed of being
q Republican even in Virginia. Near the
shore of Lake Erie is cemetary, ia this
you will fihd rpon. a tomb stone, beneath
the inscription "A soldier of 76.' This is
the grave of one OF my ancestors. Many
times have listened to stories ofthe Rsvo
luton, told only as be could tell them. As
often as | visit nv mothers home, | visited
this sacred spot. He loved liberty SO wei
that he was not ash famed 20 follow Washing
ton at Trenton, that eventful night, to stand
firm for liberty, when lis feet could have
been traced BY blood over the snow CLAD
hills, he fought for freedom. And is there
anything strange that should be Repub
Iican! glory in the name. What if ole
Fogies do sEeer, no difference, our glorious
principles will finally succeed. Our Ebc
Governor with his threatening letters. and
his one hundred thusaOd, can not check
the spread o. our principles. The better
they are understood the more they will be
believed and predicted, for they are as broad
as the Constitutions; and as wide as the
Union. U. Wilson.