Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-11-27
lfea.on's Shanghai Again.
To The Editor of the Belmont Chronicle:

Heaton's Shanghai Again.
To hs Editor Of the Belmont Chronicle:
! perceive by late number OF the Gazette
tG Cit,seu Iha, the Editor of tina, delectable
sheet has DONE my poor article the honor o.
insert!ns it in his paper. For this distin
guiohed mark OF fsvor please present hin
my sinceres. acknowledgements, aRd inform
hi N that my Chief regret is that my advice
was moi listened to; and that We did not
succeed in cutting not kehly his Shangha
10 fight. but the whole party also. How
ever, have something to console me-"'ti:
all i'll wind that blows nobody good" ant
the annihilation of Cass, and the demolition
of Richardson, make me bear with much
greater comp pleisance one defeat. than i
those tTo i.luStrious political regues hsc
met " i'h the approval of the people.
For the rest let the the Ga-ette crow. Ii
is good TO rejoice, when man feels in the
humor for it, and if our respectable and sa'
pieIt Editor can derive comfort from the re.
fieetion that he has assisted in elevating the
Cincinnati Platform to the Presidency; il
rivetinG the chains of The slave; in bea; ing
Gown the spirit of freedom in the North, in
retarding g the spirit of improvement. in hin,
dering the progress of civilization. |ans in
rctarding the spread of Christianity, why
let him derive it. II he is foolish enough
10 believe that the Union was made any
more secure from Southern null iers, or sny
more safe from the fillibu.tering Efforts q
Slavery Extension fre-eeters; we must ex-
cuse him for making such a sorry exhibition
Of his folly Bat if he really believes in
neither Of these things. and was willing to
bow his neck to the Southern yoke, If he
was satisfied 10 cringe under the lash Of the
slave driver, if he was willing to ''bend the
plant hinges Of the knee, where thrift might
fellow fawning," if. in short, he was willing
TO do what he knew 10 be wrong, that his
party and his friends might enjoy the spoiis
of office, why then no apology can be made
sufficient for his great wrong, and nothing
that he can ctrer in excuse Of himself, can
be regarded as paliation for the eaorm ity
OF his oflense il is unjustiia5le, outrageous
and criminal. Il, indeed, as John c. Cal
houn said, the PARTY is only held together by
the Cohesive power Of public plunder, tben
assuredly the best method of dissolving ard
destroying The party is by removing from
them the public plunder. There is only
one feasible method Of doing this. To unite
against the common enemy! Can this be
done! What say our friendsl Shall we
permit the GGsetie and its small clique OF
pensioncd tributaries TO dispose Of our in
teres,s as they see fit! Shull they consti-
tue a sort of rotating sr:stocracy, by which
every wire shall be pulled, and every rope
laid! If this state OF .bings is not desirable,
and d. not very clearly See why it should
be, there is nothing easier than to remedy
it.
Our friend OF the Independent Republican
having tasted some of the saline waters OF
the stream upon which cur craft was lately
set afoGt, has very naiyely come to the con-
clusion that said waters are brackish to the
taste; and he evidently longs to get back TO
the old moorH HgS, where he NAV have an
other Pull at the dropp ings Of the Treasury,
those dropp jngs which OF yore he rolled as
u sweet mo:sel under the tongue. But, my
Gear Re! ailicGE, you must notrepiue atyour
lot; many have troddcp the Jordan road be-
fore ycu, and if it is hard road to trave!
you know well you have goodly company
with you.
Dear Organ, it IS an awful place, tina,
same Salt River, is it not! How much
more satisfactory it is to see the Democracy
going up than TO see them coming down.
What an unpleasant sensation, that o! hav-
ing the boot OIL T. other leg! How one Won
ters hat fools laugh SO much at! and how
sensibly one is struck by the expression ci
malignant and naughty triumph in our
opponents ,visages, and how one is reminded
that
Mans inhumsni:y 70 man
Makes countless millions mourn.
You and | see all this, and feel it. alas,
also! But how 60 you propose to remedy
i! In your last paper you said We must
mite, and we must come to you. All!
riend, il you can't do better than that, we
lad as wei! make up our minds to take up
leases on the banks of Salt Riyes.
ind make ever deed in fee simple to the
Democracy of all rig ht, title and intcrest
n the affairs OF Government. You must
how a little more of the Turkey, and not
10 much Of the Buzzard, or no good will
ome oi' Ill your editorials, expostuIat ions
nd entreGt;cs.
Heaton enjoys our fight confoundedly
veil, but he would tremble like an aspen III
he thought Of our union. The late vocif-
rous Shanghai, and his equally calumnia-
CRY keeper, who have been SO particular