Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-06-24
pointing the officers of such Board, without
exercising can appoi nting power" which
is forbidden by the Constitution.
Barley, c. ]. dissented.
rourt adiournad ,yithout dav
Court adjourned without day.

Barley, u. J. oissenteo.
Court adjourned without day.
GFHere is glorious article taken from
the New York Daily Tribune, of the 18th
inst. 1t is NOT often that we come across
an article that we can read with such heart
felt satisfaction. 1t will do you good to
read it.
1.-Two years ago this day, the first Nation
al Convention of the Republican party as
sembled at Philadelphia to nominate can
didates for President and Vice-President.-
That Convention proceeded 10 frame ard
adopt truly Republican platform, and to
nominate JOHN C. FREMONT of California
for President and WILLIAM L. DAYTON of
New Jersey for Vice -President-men wide
ly known and favorably regarded by their
tellow-citizens generally as having deserved
well of their country. What deluge of
.alsehood and scurrilous defamstion that
nomination provoked-hsw Col Fremont
was held up to the country as of dishonor
able paren.age and foreign birth-how GER
tificates and affidavits were piled upon each
other, proclaiming him Roman Catholic,
in order to repel the "Americans" from his
support-how he was denounced as de-
fauller, peculator, swindler, &C., and once
actually advertised as having run ardg-
cannot SO soon have faded from the public
mind. And lHese attacks were as unpro-
voked as atroc;ous. The Republicans did
not assal the personal integrity or blacken
the private character Of either Mr.. Buchan-
an or Mr.. Fillmore. We opposed those
gentlemen and supported Col. Fremont be-
cause of the principles and public meas
ures with which they were respectively
identified, but we said nothing which should
have given pain to those nearest 20 them.
We let them worship God as they saw fit,
and left their mothers ashes undisturbed
in their grassy graves. We made our can
vass on bread and vital issues of the high
est National concern, and were answered
by the arguments of reputation, clothed in
the language of blackguards. Thus were
the minds of thousands predujiced and clo-
Sed against our appeals; thus were we, by
the aid of extraordinary expenditures of
money-our adversaries having all the Fed
eral Offices and great preponderance of
the wealth of the country in their interest
overpowered in the ballot though trium-
phant in the canvas. We were voted down
by those who could not read and would not
hear our own erguments-by the stolid re-
or, -
sylvania, by the votes, in good part illegal.
of the Railroad laborers temporarily en-
camped in Indiana and Illinois. While
"Americans" were steeled against US by
bold, persistent talsehoods making out Col.
Fremont Catholic, the Catholic vote was
cast against hi m with unanimity and in
numbers quite beyond parallel. We believe
the majority of Irish votes thrown by Bu-
chanan exceeded the whole number of
Irishmen legally entitled 10 vote in the
country.
We recall these facts to-day, in no spirit
of weak complaint or idle regret. They
point US to future full of hope and en-
couragement. Whether Col. Fremont or
another shall lead US in the contest of 1860
it is not possible that he. should be I'M
measurably, reckless:y, atrociously DETAINED
as was our standard bearer in 1856. Our
principles are better known; our purposes
cannot be made the bugbear that they then
were. We war not on the right of any
State TO establi sh or maintain Slavery If il
will, but on these assumptions which had
converted all the territory Of the Union in
to Slave Territory, and were fast convert
ing the Free States into virtual Slave
States. Our existence as party in an ac-
tive protest against the ceaseiess aggress-
ions and encrOachment of the Slave Power
against that naughty spirit which had
succeeded in making belief in the alien
able Rights of Man bar to any participa-
tiUn in Federal offices or honors-against
that spirit which has trebled, by purchase
and conquest, the s'ea Of S!1re Power un-
der our stars and stripes, ana was on lhe
high road to unchecked dominion when
checked by the osgaHzation and attitude
of the Republican party. Thousands who
ignore the connection of cause and effect
are quite aware that a great change has
been effected and is still il progress-that
the now certain organ ization of Kansas as
a Free State stops forever the advance of
Slavery toward the North and North west
that Texas is likely to YIELD more Free
than Slave States to our Union-that the
attempt to reopen the Slave Trade is one
of the most disastrous failures of this era of
general baDkruptcy-thatM Missouri is clear
ly preparing to swell the ranks of the Free
States, and that Delaware and others will
not long lag behind. Slavery, condemned
by the clear-sighted Political Economy no
less than by the enlightened Morality of
ou- age, is doomed to decline and vanish in
the full blaze of Humanity and Christianity
of our age; it needs only that it be con-
fronted by quiet, steady, determined, but
constitutional resistance, to insure and has.
ten that benigDant consummation. We
cherish joyful hopes that 1860 will make
this plain to many who now disbelieve it.
0TWhile we ure writing this, the At
lantic Telegraph cable is being let down
into The silent dephs of the ocean, there to
remain for ever The old and the new