Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-07-10

can candidate and platform. DIR. Berry is a
gentleman Of polished manners and great
popularity. He is not so soft a Soft as to
seat dirt" as prescribed at Cincinnati DR..
B. deemed the dose nauseatiqg, declared it
9. s., and sought better company.
The ratification meeting in Detroit was a
grand affair Hyde presided. Messrs, Chan
dler. Hutchinson, Dufield. Jones, Walker,
Howard, and Little6eld addressed the peo-
pie. The Tribune says:
C. Dickinson, ESQ, lately prominent
old line Democrat of Hillsdale county, but
Just returned from Kansas, and who has
purified himself of slave driving Democracy,
made very happy speech. He reports the
greatest enthusiasm for the nominations in
the interior, and pledged Hillsdale-that
county which in 1852 gave Pierce 79 majori-
over Scott, and in 1854 gave Republi-
can majority of over a thousand-to give
Fremont and Dayton TWO THOUSAND MA
JoRITY, and that Southern Michigan will
give from 5000 to 10000 majority for our
ticket.
The Albany State Register, X. NJ, has
hoisted the fremont banner. The Buffalo
Republic, one of the ablest Democratic pa
pers. and the former organ of the Softs in
Western New York, has also accepted the
Repub blican platform and its candidates
with great enthusiasm.
The Mohawk Courier, which the Albany
Statesman says "has been for twenty-three
years the leading, and for the most of that
time, the only Democratic paper n the
county of Herkimer-the standard-bearer oil
the Tenth Legion'-the mouth-piece OF
Craine, Spinner, Mann, Beckwith and
Looms, among the living, and of Hoffman
count,''-now wheels into the ranks of Re-
publicanism.
The Daily Wisconsin OF Milwaukee, one
of the ablest Democratic papers in the West
and the most influential in Wisconsin, is
out for Fremont. 1t says:
ave trust that we shall not sever from
old friends, for there are tens of thousands
of Democrats who gave Franklin Pierce
who will now give their votes for John C.
Ere mont.as the best and truest Democrat
in life, character and principles, of all the
candidates presented for the suffrages of :he
American people,
Almost every body in the West has heard
of John Brough, the celebrated Democratic
orator and leader. He ha, been among the
foremost in his party, and was justly ad.
mired for his talents. He was the promi-
nent leader of the Democracy in Ohio, in
1914, and it was through his aid that the
party achieved its victory in that year. He
has now declared for Fremont; and although
he has been out of politics for twelve years,
his lion voice will be heard before the Cam
puign is over.
Judge G. B. Holt and P. P Lowe, Esq,
leading democrats of Montgom cry, Ohio,
have left the Buchanan party and pronounced
for Fremont.
Among the Vive- Presidents of the Repub
lican Ratification meeting. on Monday night
was the gentleman who presided over the
Pierce ratification meeting in this city, in
1852; and four of the gentlemen who spoke
in favor of Fremont and Dayton voted fol
President Pierce.-Cm Gaz.
MORE AND MoRE.-Jo Knox, one o. the
most distinguished lawyers of Illinois, &
Pierce Elector in 1852, and life long Demo
crat, has come out against Buchanan, and
for un ion of all the Anti-Slavery element:
of the North against the Pro-Slavery party
The Lansinburgh Democrat, like the
Mohawk Courier, refuses to support Buch-
anan.
The Hon. George Rathburn, formerly a
distinguishes member of Congress from
New York, and Democrat of the strictest
sect, made rousing Fremont speech at the
Auburn ratification meeting. Mr.. Vielle, a
prominent Democrat of Troy, has also de.
clare for Fremont and Dayton.
The Worcester Palladium, heretofore one
of the most influential Democratic papers il
Massachusetts. has repudiated the Cincn-
natl platform and run up the Fremont flag
Our friends in Putnam had glorious rati
fcation meeting last night. A very large
crowd was in attendance. Among the
speakers was Dr.. Ritchie of Indiana, brother
of Col. Ritchie of this city. He stated thai
he haG been Democrat tor 25 years. had
voted from Jackson down; but now the ac-
tion of his party had forced him from the
ranks, and his own convictions made him a
Repub lican. Hundreds of others were with
him. He was delegate to the Phladel-
phia Convention.-Zanesuille Courier.
Reemelin and Judge Hoadley Speakers
at the late Fremont ratification meeting in
this city, were, in 1852, violent Pierce men
and; without their giant abilities, supported
the Democratic platform.-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
The late Democratic ratification meeting
in Boston, Mass, was addressed by Col.
Wright, of Lexington, and E dward Riddle.
of Charlestown, both belonging to that class
of men whom the Black Republicans hate
"Old-line Whigs."--Eaqair;r.
Edward Riddle voted for franklin Pierce
in 1852, and has been an active member of
the Democratic party ever since. He never
was prominent as Wing. Col. Wright
never was anything but Democrat. He
formerly edited the Bay State Democrat,
in Boston, and ran two or three times as the
Democratic candidate for Congress against
John Quincy Adams. He voted for Polk
and received an office frtm him. He served
as colonel in a Massachusetts regiment in
Mexico, and on his return support Gen. Tay-
lor for President, and was by him appointed
Navy Agent in Boston. He voted for Pierce
in 1852, and was by him retained in office.
He was among the first in Masa chusetts
who advocated the Kansas Nebraska bill,
which he did at Democratic meeting in
Cambridge. He never was a Wing Gin.
Gazette.
The Madison county New York Reflector
heretofore Democrat paper, is out for FIRE.
mont.
The Bloom ngton Qndiana) NelOslstter, a
feroc ious Border Ruffian Democratic paper,
has been sold to Mr.. Cox, formerly of the