Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-06-26
Our Ticket.

We this day place at the head of our col
umns the names of JOHN CHARLES FIRE.
MONT, of New York, for President, and VIM
L. DAYTON, of New Jersey, for Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States. They were each
nominated on the first ballot by most over
whelming majority, Ohe latter unanimous
ly) of one of the best Conventions that ever
assembled. This is strong evidence to US
that they are the candidates whom the peo-
pie desire in this great crisis-the men who
will bear our banner aloft to victory. There
was no mistaking the will of the people, as
expressed there-it was plain to every one
that they had made up their mind as to their
candidates, and the Convention was merely
there to ratify it.
No citizen of this great Republic is COM
PEELED to ask-"Who is this JOHN c. FRE-
MONT" for to say that one knows him not,
is to argue oneself unknown. He has writ
ten his name indelibly in his country's his
tory as nan of mark He led the greatest ex-
ploring expedition that ever crossed the
bleak SUBMITS of the Rocky Mountains; he
found there foothold, and pathW ay which
will yet echo with the snort of the "iron
horse" on the Pacific Railroad. He it
was, more than any other man, that brought
about the admission of California as free
State But we refer our readers to an ar
ticle in relation to him from the New York
Tribune, and we leave him for the present
with the mere statement that he is, and ever
has been infexibly opposed 20 the further
extension of slavery, and his whole life
shows him to be man of the sternest in
tegrity of purpose. Of VIM. L. DAYTON
o. New Jersey, we can say he ''was born in
the county of Somerset, New Jersey, on the
18th February, 1907. His ancestors moved
20 New Jersey in 1925. On both the father
and the mothers side they bore honorable
parts in the revolutionary struggle. He
graduated at Nassau Hall IN the class Of
1925, and was admitted to the bar in 1880.
At the age of thirty he was elected to the
upper House of the New Jersey Legislature.
where he distinguished himself by the intro
duction of legal reforms which were of great
value At the close of the session ne was
elected to the Supreme Court OF the State,
and was by much the youngest, yet one of
the most eminent o. the Judges upon the
bench. He remained there for three years,
when he resigned, and returned 10 the prac
tice of the law.
''In 1912, Senator Southland died, when
Cove nor Pennington appointed Judge
Dayton to fill the vacancy. The following
winter he was elected by the Legislature 10
fl Il out the term. In 1916 he was reelected
for the full term Of six years. He was only
35 years of age when he entered the Senate
Chamber, and was the youngest Senator
He took rank among the ablest and sound.
est of that distinguished body.
"He was ever whig, and a sympathizer
with the North in its opposition to Slavery
extension. He often declared his belief
that Congress had the power to prohibit
Slavery in the TerritOrisa and his opinion
that it should be exercised. In 1851 he
was superseded by the success of the Loco
foco party in that State, and for the Inst five
years has been in private life.
"He is now 40 years of age. He has the
talents and experience necessary to make
him an accomplished presiding officer Of the
Senate of the United States. His location
is favorable, and we dJubt not that he is
destined to be the next Vice President of
the United States.
He proposed an amendment to the Fugi-
tive Slave Law which did away with many
os its Objectionable features, and advocated
its adoption with signal ability. but on ac-
count of the majority of doughfaces in the
Senate it was defeated. He is Just the man
to lead the Republican cohorts to a success
full contest.