Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-08-19
Democratic Consistency.
To the Editor of The Chronicle:

To the Editor of The Chronicle:
Sir: In these days, when the whole
civilized world stands in dumb amazement
at the almost incredible triumphs of science
which even in success they dou6t--when
the great idea of the revolutionary kite flyer
is made subseavrent to the will OF man in
oceans depths as well as upon terrd frma
attention seems for the time diverted from
ore great and threatening evil to the still
more absorbing and transceDdant triumph.
The Democratic party, (now only Demo
cratic in name presents doleful comment
the unbridled lust for. and the sctual
possession of power. From being the
avowed party of progress and equsl rights
to all men, we find it IN the last twelve.
month guilty os more wrongs upon our
people than were brought against George
I'll. by our revolutionary fathers; wrongs
which in themse!v ives are more than suf-
fcient to overthrow any government less
stable than our own.
Without attempting to detail these
wrongs, let US merely take passing glance
at few of them.
lst. The recent attempt to bribe the
entire people of Territory to vote the m
selves State with 8 Constitution too dis
graceful fer the judicial records OF an Alb.
| bysinian code, and that too almost at the
point of Government. bayonets. James
| Buchanan, in the person of his willing
tools, offers large grants of land and the
privilege Of AN entrance into the great
sisterhood of states with but 35 900 inhabit
ants, if the said territory will only come in
as slave State; recognizing the damnable
hereses of the Dred Scott decision as the
law of the land, and by their acts endors-
ing the hea,henish idea that slavery-"the
sum of all villainies"-is above the Con-
stitution itself. But not only ia this whole
sale bribe offered, but on the other hand is
an awful threat that unless the oribe is &C
cepted, then the territory must remain in q
state of vassalage until her population is
almost trebled Where in the annals OF
| history is there such an Internal outrage
emanating from The Monarch, Emperor, OF
even Autocrat of any people, much less the
Executive of a people claiming to be free.
Not only has the Executive done all this
but his minious ii over the land are busily
engaged in trying to justify this outrageous
swindle, and with apparent success, too, (or
it is eminently true as the Union says, that
sit is a difficult fling to disturb the hQrmona
of the Democratic party" Difficult! He
should have said impossible; since neither
breaches Of faith the most outrageous. nor
insults the most deadly have power tc
ALLEVIATE the members Of that party from
their connection.
Even those of their presses which rebelled
against the Lecompton Constitution at its
first appearance have been coaxed or driven
into the traces under cover of that specious
cheat the English Bill As an illustration
Of this last fact, you have only 10 turn You,
eye to the Democratic Era, of this county
which from a rampant and sviolent assailan'
of the LecomptJn villainy, now "roa rs
/ gently as sucking dove" when speaking
of the English Bill, which was equally ar
outrage. No more do his columns TEEN
with abuse of the Administration and it:
supporters but he seems quietly to acquiesce
in the idea that because the people of Kan
sas have rejected the English swindle, the 4
they must stay cut of the Union until they
have the 5000 inhabitants.
"0h consistency, truly thou art jewel
but not conspicuous one in the Democratic
crown.
We will nllude to the shortcomings of ;ht
Administration and its supporters again.
J. C.