Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-12-18
The Gazette on Fusion.

IlC OdZCIUC Oll Il uSlOll.
To the Editor of The Belmont Chronicle:
SIR-The unexpected and piimentary
manner which the Gazette has noticed my
last article. has covered me with modes,
bushes. In very truth, had not half SO
good an opinion of myself before. shall
grow exceedingly in my own estimation
He has no doubt of my being clever fel-
low. Why, my dear sir, all the members
of the Republican party are clever fellows.
John C. Fremont, our late candidate for
President, was one of the cleverest fellows
imaginable, and the principles of the party
are so honest, so pure, and so noble. that
am very much surprised that it has not en-
listed the sympathies of all the clever feI-
lows of the country.
Our friend Of the Gazette pronounces me
ga brick" All! friend, would were ten
thousand bricks, falling at once upon the
Cincinnati Platform and it's supporters; it
would give me un eigned pleasure to come
down that way on them. But the Gazette
while thus plastering me up with one hand,
takes occasion to give me few hard thrusts
v ith the other He would set me and the
Editor of the Independent Republican to-
gether by the ears. Nov, Captain, is that
fair! You begin to "smell rat, you snuff
danger in the distance, and, with the most
consumnate cruelty, you set to work to des-
troy a union which would be productive of
the most happy results. How cruel, how
unrelenting is the Gasette, after having sent
the Repub iicans and Americans up Salt
River, he wishes to keep them there
Better submit to your impending fate, and,
like Caesar, wrapping yourself up in your
manlle, receive the deadly stroke.
q, | really tyFmy part can't see why our
Democratic friends have such holy horror
of fusion. Why do they condemn so much
that of which we have so manv illustrious
exam2lesl Take, tor instance, the union
of the Il ards and Softs in New York. Was
that not fair, square, honorable uniuni--
Did not both sections of the party unite
against the common enemy! and did not the
CARTE rejoice thereat with exceeding great
iov, and did not our anti-Fusion friend, no
longer ago than last summer call upon the
Old Line Wings TO come out and unite
with them in electiag one OF the hittcresi
opponents of Henry Clay! and was not that
q fair and honorable thing in the Gazette?
and, lastly, was not the union of the harmo-
nious Democracy of this District upon the
Hon. VIM. Lawrence one Of the most hon.
orabe transactions upon record, and did moi
the Gazette SECRETLY rejoice at his nomi-
nation!
Since these things are so, with what sort
of face can the Gazette object to uni ion of
the two sections of the opposition, especially
when. as | said before, it will lead TO such
happy resnltsl 1t would hurl from power
the present corrupt pseudo Democratic
party; Danish the whole tribe of devouriug
cormorants, who have been feeding upon the
treasury and destroy forever the triple al
lance of Ireland, Germany and Democracy;
an alliance fraught with more baneful re-
suits than any that ever took place in our
country.
And, IN sober truth, what else can the
Gazette look for bu. an organization against
the present party in power, Of all the ele-
ments of opposition! When Sir Robert
Walpnle introduced the policy (slnce so
successfully followed by the Administra-
tion) of maintaing power by corru2ting the
politicians, he carried all be fnre him for a
time, aud for while opposition seemed to dy
before him; but when the m Serable sham ot
his government became appai ent, the who lie
opposition centered against the corrupt min
is:er and drove him from power with ma
iority that was perfectly overwhelming So
now the party in power, having dem nstra-
ted to the country its perfect inability To
carry ou, the true interests of the nation,
we NAV soon look for complete union oil
all who are really and heartily tired of the
follies and inconsistencies Of tfe present
SO called Democratic party.
The fact is a majority of the American
People are opposed to the party in power
and many who supported Buchanan at the
late election would have been far from do
ing so had they only been fully awake to
the importance of questions at issue, and
had not un ortunateiy been deceived by
those who should bave known better.
But this state of things will not last al
ways. The people are gradually opening
tbei, ewes The tricks of the Gazette party
are becoming discovered, and the immense
fraud played off upon the people by the
election of Buchanan will soon become evil
dent. Then we shall see different state
of affairs; the old quarreis OF other year:
will be forgotten, and like the Allied Pow
ers marching against Bonararte in 1915
the different sections of the opposition shal
vet be seen pressing forward, animated with
the single sentiment, "The Tyrant ant I'm
poster must be overthrowh.
Although nei her the subscriber nor The
Editor of the 1 dependent Republican have
been app ointed Plenipoien'iaries in behai
of their respective parties, l Can say tina
the signs OF the times do foretell the speed!
arrival OF the day when the wrath Of Achilt
shall be appeased, the spirit of harmony re
turn 10 our distracted leaders. and tn
naughty city of Frey be levelled with tn
dust.
To which end, frienGs, one and all, e
us labor increasingly, stil bearing in mind
That hateyer else We may desire, Locoto
coiSm must be Destroyed.
Yours, &c, One IF THE 1850 OF 81.
EVANSVILLE, Dec Sth, 1856.
The CAMELs SroLEN.--The Mobile TLi
b,,,s lcsrns from a gentleman from TeXa