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

The PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. The fol-
loving is summary of the election of a
Presidential and Vice President:
!. Electors elected on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in Nuvembe-.
2. Electors meet Or the first Wednesday
in December and cast their votes. They
then sign three certificates, send a messen-
ger with one copy TO the Presiden, of the
sSenate at W Washington before. the first We'd
nesdsy in January. another BY mail to the
same person, and the third De rver- 10 ths
Unied States District Judge where elee-
tors met.
3. Each State prvides by law for. filing
any vacancy IN the Board o. Electors oc-
,asoned by absenc,, death, or resignation.
Sucn oi the electors as are PRESENT are gen.
crazy auth Irrzed to fill any vacancy.
/. The G,vernor gives notice to electors
Of their election be efure the irsl Wednesday
IN December.
o. On the second Wednesday in Febru-
dry Congress shall be in session and open
the returns. The President of The Senate
shall, in the presence Uf the House of Rep
f1senatives, open the certificates Of returns
and count the votes: The person having
the greatest number oil votes for President,
if such number be majority of the whole
number of electors, shall be the President.
s. Ii no person has majority as above,
the choice is to be made from the three
highest returned. The members OF ths
House, by State, form themse ives into slec-
tora committees, and the majority determine
which is to be the choice OF the State, each
State having only one vote.
T. lfreither of the Candidates get ma
jorIty OF the State before the 4th OF March,
then the Vice Pres ident shall act as Pres
ident.
3. If the people do not elect through the
electors Vice President, then the Senate
OF the United States shall make the slec-
tiOn from the two highest candidates return
ed to them by the electors.
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Republicans of Ohio, aa faithful u,,.h.

Republicans of Ohio! as faithful watch.
men we call upon you to rally, and again go
forth to battle, and to victory. Our gallant
leader, JOHN C. FREMONT, is worthy
our best and noblest efforts. But the cause,
of which he is the exponent, and which,
through him,we hope to reinaugurate as the
settled policy of the Republic is far great
er. nobler. and moe WORTHY of our labors
than any or all the men that are now aspir-
ing for The Presidency. Each freeman
owes to it his labor and his means II free
dom is better than slavery; if free soil is
better than S lave soil; if free schools, free
| speech, a free press are better than ie-
norance, serviiity, and barbarism, than is
our cause worthy your arden: and continued
eff orts from this time till the day of cleo
ton.
To our County Committee we would say,
keep up your organization; hold township
and schools district meetings.; see that
electoral. ticke: are procured and pro-
periy distributed. You now know your
weak places; strengthen your lines, perfect
the details of ,ur system Of operations;
see that every voter is at the polls, and is
supplied with Republican electoral ticket;
remit n ' reasonable effort to increase the
vote of your counties. and add your mite to
the swelling tide which. with proper effort.
is to give the electoral vote OF Ohio to Fre-
mont and Dayton by forty thousand ma
jority.
Republicans: friends of the Constitution: :
of the Union; OF fee territory and free la
Dor; the millions of free men from Main to
Iowa are now shouting over your recent VIC
tory. Ohio is yet the banner Republican
State: SO act as to retain that proud title,
so vote as to win the psudits of the hosts
who are now marsbaling, and who, in
November next, will elect JOHN c. FIRE.
MONT President o! he United States.
WIN. DENNTSON, Jr., Chairman,
w. T. BASCOM, Secretary.
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Fillmore and the South.

The Mobile Advertiser, speaking of Mr.
FILLaoaE's devotion to the South, says:
"Les il he remembered, That Mr.. Fillmore
is opposed to the restoration of the Misscur
Compromise, and has SO pledged himsell
expressly and uncord itionally.
"And let the Fcct be Proclaimed to tn
Word, Thst on all questions involving the
rights end peculiar institutions of the
South. Mr.. Fillmore Is all that the Souti
desires; sound in every particuIar-witho hou
guile and without reproach."
To which the Wheeling Gaaette amen
as follows:
"These are all FACTS. and being facts
Mr.. Fillmore should receive the vote O
EVERY MAN in the South"
So mote it be.
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Fremont responsible for conduct calculate ed
to infringe upon the freedom Of debate in
the United States Senate. However op.
posed as I yet am to the measure advocated
by him for the settlement of the land titles
in California, and however much am cp-
posed to his election to the Presidential Of
fce, I feel in justice bound to declare that
have never been disposed to complain seri-
ously of his conduct in the affair referred to;
and that there is nothing in it that should
in the least degree lessen his claims to the
respect ane confidence Of his political friends
and supporters. What is said in the arti-
Gle cited above about nv age, my gray hairs.
&C., is simply ridiculous, as was, in 1850,
only fortv-six years years of age, and am
yet sufficiently hale and vigorous to defend
my person and maiDla my rights and hon.
or against any assailant.
H. s. FOOTE.
September 9th, 1856.
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To the Republicans of Ohio.

REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE RooM.
COLUMBUS Ohio. October ls, 1856.
We have Just passed through an exciting
Contest, and after the smoke of tine battle
has passed away, we are again proud to
announce to you that our glorious flag OF
freedom stll waves in victory over Ohio we
ave achieved a splendid triumph We
have carried the State by twenty-five thou
sand mn iuritv. We have demonstrated that
we have more Republicans than the combin-
ed forces of our opponents. We have ex-
pressed our condemnation Of the policy Of
the Slave Democracy in terms which
cannot be Misunderstood. The grea,
central State of the Confederacv has nobIv
responded to the East and the West-to
Me in and to Iowa. Her Two millions OF
freemen have virdca,ed the policy Of JEFF
ferson and the Fathers of the Republic
aud have again, in thunder-tones. pronoun-
ced against the policy of slave extension,
and the brutal, murderous conduct, which
has chr racterized the present National Ad-
ministralion in the Territory of Kansas.
But the contest through which we have
1uSt pdSSeu, 10 Uut q PieiuuC " tIle gTed-
struggle for freedom and the right which is
to be decided by the American people on
Tuesday the fourth o. November rext. We
:hen elect President-the chief Executive
of this great nation.
We are then to determine WHIP shall ru
over us, and our destiny fo- four years to
come. 1t is not our purpose here. to dis
cuss the great vital questions that are nvol-
we'd in this election. We simply desire to
say to the Republicans of Ohio, that we
have carried the State and elected our ticket
by large majority. and that it is duty to
prepare for the final struggle without a mo-
ment's delay. DO not imagine that our op-
ponents will cease their efforts. They hope
we will rest upon our laurels and relax our
efforts, and thus enable them to triumph in
November.
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Mr.. Fillmore ON Slavery,

To those who contend that Mr.. Fillmore
is an anti-slavery man and that il elected
he would oppose the extension of sls. cry,
we commend the following remarks pub
lished in the Mobile Adrertiser of the 10th
inst, with a view to prove him q more safe
man for the South than Mr.. Buchanan:
Mr. FILLMORE ON SLAvERY-Tne Char
leStons C5urier of the 2SIh ult. contains a
long argumentative and calm letter from
"Southern." now at the North, in which
the South is urged to suppose Mr.. Fillmore.
only candidate that can be elected by the
people, regarding Fremont's election 40 an
impossibilty, considers Mr.. Fillmore's pros
poets with the people and in the House bet
ter than that OF Mr.. Buchanan. After be-
slowing the highest eulogium on his Admin
istration whilst President. the writer enfor-
ces his Claims not only as a national man,
but with those constitutional sentiments
which render him especially acceptable to
the South The writer having lately had 4
free intercourse with Mr. Fillmore, says:
have it from his own lips, and that at
time when he had passed from successful
administration of the National Government
to the retirement and privacy Of priva!e life,
and when he was without prospect or even
a wish for denomination or restoration to
the Presidency, tina, his opinions had been
revolutionized and his prejudices dissiPa;ed
on the subject of Slavery in the Southern
and Southwestern States; that he believed
the so-called frc edom OF the black and color
ed population in the non-slaveholding States
to be a mockery and a cheat, and that Sla-
very was the best condition of the African
race in this country, best both for the black
race and the white race, and that the Union
could only be perpetuated by faithful OBJ
servance of the constitutional rights of the
South, and by non-interfereDce with Slavery
on the part of the non-slayeholCing States,
and of the General Government; and his
convictions were greatly strengthened by
his Southern tour, which brought him in
contact with and made HIM an eye witness
of the working of our domestic institution.
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Ette for Fremont
From the Closet to the BaIlo.- Box

From the Closet to the Ballo.- .-BoX.
|; was well and truthfully said by Gen.
WILSON, in a recent speech, "nany men
in the coming contest will 60 from the
closet to the ballot-box, trembling under the
mighty responsibility Of their action
How true, yet hew impressive the remark
1t is not often that voters can feel the res
pom sitiiity of their action as they can al
present. Chris ;ian voters, will You 60 from
yolr closet to the ballot boxi 1t is a Sc
rious matter, and seriously should you meet
il,
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FELLOW CITIZENS! we have just emerged
from fierce contest ith an INSCRIPTIONS
opposition, and the din OF the conf1ict being
bushed. and the smoke of battle lifted from
the field of combat and driftcd away, let
Us take brief survey Of the result
On the l4th inst. electiuns were held in
three States, containing over FIVE millions
inhabitants, upwards Of one-Eit of cur en-
tire population. The result, although not
what we desired, nor indeed what we ex-
pected, is certainly not discoaraging, but
on the contrary stfficien, to nerve every arm
and inspire every heart with redoubled spirit
and energy to go into the great contest next
Tuesday, determined to use every honorable
means to compass the triumph of our noble
principles.
In ONO we have everything TO encourage
us, and nothing 10 discourage. The result
shows an increase over CnAsE's majority
Of last year, and decrease Of the TRIssLE
or FILLMORE strength. This makes it
fixed fact that Ohio is for Freedom all orer
and clear through.
In PENNSYLVANIA the result is different,
but from recent expositions it appears that
the most outrageous frauds were perpetrated
upon the baiiut-box. We have not the
slightest doubt that The number of illegal
votes cast in Philadelphia alone was equal
To The majority for the. Democra''c ticket
IN ia. sis,e. .s774) h:!I 10 this the fact
that iacIssads ~, Fslsnii~, so ':;'s retiring
teor!e aeyer ,isi e. .the p..s, ti!; ~ far
as t;.s Frer1, ate oncc-"r! RI " will tie
o. iGad !; al I.-sS.ay. - Il - 2rrt oi
their religion So embrace every c?ptrtunity
- oca: tesurory ogains' ;ilr si' "i Slavery
vh.cn they W.: 10, mot efyvc:u l'y, by
vo,ir- tcr ExEa-.r
IN IEEIAFA, ihl ReP%I.;;on S:a'r ii'ket
Iar ., ttc Temperance rli"riric. witch ar
ance men in the State on lie site Of The
Democracy Thus it went ~ tkc Dem
ccracy by very small n.aioJi'y. Ii:is Is
sue is not in the ncxt contest, and will
therefore exert but little inicence.
I; is true NC have been defeated in Penn
sylRania and Indiana, but 10 aen who are
nctuated ard impelled by immortal princi-
ples 10 be defea;ed Is nol to be cast down.
They wiring from de:.at itself victory,
and push on aui"taiJated. IND determined
for The contest. Were we possessed of no
prime; pies, our purity would now be disband-
iEg, but SO far from il, they have confidence
in the immulabil,y Of correct principles
and sre willing 10 await their slow but cer-
tain triumph.
Voters of Belmont!
Hare SOU made up your minds in reference
to the cenaestl 1.-The day for argument has
gone BY. the time for action is at hand" -
wbyystand ye idle. battling in your decision
There are but two sides to every great
ma,ai or political question. il is absolutely
impossibss to copjure up thres sides. The
issue 10
The Extension Of Slavery;
on which side will you be found? Every
vote for FREMONT is blow, rife bullet.
.,rsight at the great heart of Slavery Ex-
,sns:Jn, while every vote against bin is Q
ro.e of encouragement TO Slavery ProDa-
pandists, bidding them speed the work o!
.,,h;,r,.i,c the entire North,
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Next Tuesday

Will decide the great question which has
been on trial before the American peo3!s
for the last five months. Let every friend
OF Freedom vote early, and then see that
each Of his Republican neighbors is at the
polls. Let there be no staying at home
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30

o. A Repubi lean mass meeting has
been held at Harrisburgh, which indorsed
the Union electoral ticket. Governor Pol
lock made a speech, as did also the Hon.
Lemuel Todd, and Charles B. Penrase, Esq.
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REPRESENTATIVES, ELECTORS.

Dist.
Ja-DHN B. STALLO, Of Hsriitsn.
sed-RlCHARD NJ. CORWlNE, of Hamilton
3d-PETER ODLIN, Of Montgomery
Itb-JACOB :. CoNKLIN, Of Shelby.
stb-WILLIAM Taylor, Of Hansock.
Sth-E. p. EVANS, Of Adams
7th-WILLIAM II. P. DENNY, ei Warren
Stk-L. &. II, BBELL. Of Delaware
stb-RoBERT G. PENNlNGTON.pI Seneca
,0th-FRaNCIS CLEVELAND, Of Sciota.
iIth--JOHN WEIGH, Of Athens
f9th-DANIEL HUMPHREY, OF Licking.
ta,b-HENgY ID. COOKE, of Erie.
lath-EuGENE PARDEE, Of Wayne.
I5th-JoHN ". HODGES, OF TuscaraWss.
Yeth-DAvlS GREEN, Of washington;
I7th-MILLER PENNINGTON, OF Belmont
Isth-JOHN 5. HERRICK, Of Portage.
Istb-AARON WILCOX, Of Lake.
90tb-JAMES DUMARS, OF Mahonins.
QIs,-AMOS E. BuoS, Of Carroll.
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A. C. DODGE,
w ". NJ. GWlN,
HENRY w. SiBLEY,
RODMAN M. PRICE

AsSN ~ W. 1elO1
| have been requested by several gentle
men friendly 10 the election of Col. Fre-
mont to the Presidency of the Union, to
state how far The account given in that ar
tice of the unfortunate difficulty between
Col. Fremont and myself is true.
| do, therefore, dec Iarc, that SO far as the
cause OF our Misunderstanding is concerned
the difficulty referred to is sufficiently accu.
rate; but it is not true that Col. Fre mont
pronounced. ION the floor of the Senate.
anything which had fallen from me- in the
course OF the debate, 10 be false. And. al
though it is true that he was dissatisfied
with what had said in opposti 10 his
b II for the seltement OF land titles in Cali
forB;a, and requested a sp.cia personal 10
teryIew with me on The sub biecr. IN the prog
ress ct which he Used language which |
deemed it my dut, to resent, anu d.! resent,
yet it is not true thai Col. Fremont inflicted
on that occasion the least perSonal indiu nj
~ on me. The only blow struck was one
Tor which am alone responsible; Tor before
he had time TO return the blow received by
himself, Senators A"nglm and Clarke in
tervened and separated Us.
Fremont's noe to HE afterwards was of
rather an equiVocal Character. His lrieLG,
the present Governor OF New jersey, who
was the bearer OF it, assured me that il was
not designed as cha lienge to the field OF
honor; but supposing that it was at least
possible that Mr.. Price was in error on his
part, wrote to Fremont, that if my note of
exp lahatinn did not prove satisfactory, |
should go without delay 10 the city of Bal
iimore, and send him my acceptance from
thence. AT this st"ge of the affair friends
interpused' and the difficulty was settled, as
| have always considered, in manner cred
table to both parties.
| cannot close Aithou; the expression OF
my regret that any attempt should be made,
in connection with this transaction, to hold
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TIE People OF the North have it in their
power TO crush cut the present corrupt Ad-
Vote for Fremont
and the Border -RufiAn carnon in Kansas
will be mos, eHec'asDy spiked.
. Vote for Fremont
and the Bloody Code of Kansas will 3e
wiped out, and the Missouri murderers viii
be brought 70 condign punishment.
Vote for Fremont
and the Missouri Compromise will be viz
;ualIy restored by admitting Kansas as j
Free STATE
Vote for Fremont
and me pr spec nf war Of cnHiuss; &c
acquire Cuba, which Mr.. BUCHANAN re-
commended. thus extending Slavery over
,hc gem Of the Antilles will be avoided,
Vote for Fremont
anu the emhr,o scheme o: PiERcE, Wal
Ees & Co, 10 spread Slavery over Nicar-
augua viii e nipped in the bud. and al
protection by the Government, of horde
Of bsndilti will cease.
Vote for Fremont
nd that mob lost scheme Of the nineteenth
century, The Pac ifc Railroad, will be COM
menced, aud pushed forward TO speedy
completion.
Vote for Fremont
anc some protection will be afforded to lie
and property on our rivers ard inland seas.
by instituting system of river and harbor
Vote for Fremont
and Utah, that seething, ranking, disgust
ing cess-pool Of moral degradation, will be
wiped out, and our fair fame cease to be
blsckened fy such corrup,ing ulcer upon
the country.
Vote for Fremont
and thus meet effectually wipe out that cor
rupt party which is gully OF prosti'nting
the entire influence OF our Government to
the Extension oe Slavery and the sc1ni>i j.
tion of more Slave Territory.
Vote for Fremont
and thus punish, SO far as lies IN your power,
those officials who, in their zeal for the SER
vice of Slavery, scruple not to sacrifice pro-
perty and even life, TO advance tho ends of
their MASTERS Finally,
Vtte for Fremont
and thus aid in the restoration OF the era OF
good feeling, when Freedom shall be the
rule and bondage the exception-~hen our
virgin Terriiories shall be vocal with the
anthems of Liberty, and not dissonant with
the rafting Of chains and the shrek OF the
slave
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MAJuR SArP.-We have arsport that this
gentlemen is elected to Congress over hls
Buchanan opp InenG "a mistake OF hundred
votes having been found in one of the town
shios.-U. s. J0Sraal.
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PESysYLvASIA lit Is now s,ld, that the
Senate vi PensyVdn,a, viii have Rspob-
Iican msiorlIy OF three, and that the Hou.s
tis,--6ity to fifty.
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6FHoRAcE GREELY has been indicted
by the Harrison county (Va.) Grand Jury
for circulating the Tribune in that county.
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foGrs respecul ulully, &c.

" Z. LIGON.
N person " ho is suffering from Fits, or
Spa,ns, should neglect sendlng to Dr..
hance, after this, TOR u supply vi his in
Is, Unable medicine. HIS prices are as fol-
lows: one box SO; two 50; twelve S24-
sent by mail fee, ON the receipt of a re-
inrtlance Address Seth s. Hance, los
Balumore street, Baltimore, Md.
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religion BY Mr.. Tasi.tro, save in this way.
We know him to be Protestant, and thou
sands of the best men in the country know
that he is. We know that he always al
tended the Episcopal Church when in Wash
ington--that he was never Catholic-that
he never worshipped in Catholic Church;
and YET here comes forth a Catholic Irish
man from Washington, who says he and
Fremont have often partaken of the sscra-
merit together in the Catholic Church in
Washington!
There Is but two ways to account for
| Tasistros statement. One is that he does
not know Col. Fremont, and has taken some
other person for him, or that he has been
delegated by the Jesui,ical body. of which
there are many members in Washington, to
do this work for them; they guaranteeing
him ap indulgence according to the ritual
Of the Sorieiy of Jesus. that for whatever
false statements he may make in regard to
Fremont, he shall receive absolution from
them on his return.
There can be ne other hypothesis upon
which to explain his statements For that
Col. Fremont is a Protestant, and not a
Catholic, is a fact which the record of his
whole life proves-,hat his own statement
sffirms, and to which thousands Of his friends
who know him intimately are ready TO make
oath.
Never h9s Jesui:ism showed its front so
boldly in this country as it has in this par
ticular case of Fremont's religion. Here
tofore it has worked secretly, like mole
underground. Now it openly proclaims as
fact. thing which is known of all men &C
quainted with Col. Fremont, to be lie
We think it cannot fail to arouse the whole
people 20 sense of their danger, and place
them upon their guard against the wies of
secret and corrupt society of fanatical
priests. and the overshadowing and imperi-
GUS influence of church whose head is
chief of Italian despots and whose arms
stretch to the ends of the earth to oppress
mankind