Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-11-10


in behalf OF their leaders, denying any
completely in the matter; but it won't do.
The Eastern papers come TO US filled with
documents found at Old Browns in which
a great number of them have already been
implicated, viz: Chase. Giddings, Seward.
BALE, Lawrence, Forbes. Sanborn, Greeley,
How, s'umher, Fletcher and Others
Now we have only to say that this an in
excus.ble lie. an unscruPleous falsehood
without the leas: shadow of fact 10 sustain
il. We go further than this, and charge
tina, If the Gazette does not produce the
documents" alluded to, proving the guilt
of these men then the Editor is responsible
for the lowest character of lying. We
would be sorry 10 prefer such charge, but
desperate vlllainy desiryes desperate
remedy, and he can either be ar it or get
from unde-. We defy him to produce the
documents" What are we coming to,
when what should be the channel of truth
and knowledge to the people, con-
Organ 10 mislead the people. We are sur
prisrd to think that the Editor would risk
his :luims to sanity--he must have no re-
spect for his character for veracity-by
soberly, and as though he had the slightest
idea that he would be believed, telling his
readers that the great Republican party
had expected to overthrow the Government
by the employment of Old Brown and his
,wenty-one men. He must have reckoned
little ON the courage of the Democratic
powers that be- If he would presume to
charge that Brown and his army of twenty
one men could take possession Of st. Ciairs-
ville,--to say nothing of nation of free
men numbering over go, 900, ,O00-he ought
to be driven from our town as fit compan-
ion for the people of Harper's Ferry, who
Gov. Wise said "acted like sheep" Why
sir, If such ar attack was made upon our
town our chi,elric little Captain with his
regimentals o., all running over with patri-
otism would rally the fearless Gurds and
rid the town of insurgents in less tune than
we have been writing.
But to be serious if these men as charged
by the Gazette really are guilty, why are
they mot punished Are they not amenable
to the laws of the land! Are we to believe
the Democratic Administration cares no:
to'guard The safety OF the Union, allowing
oper treason to run riot in the land without
the least effort to PUNISH the offender!
Will the Gazette answer this question!
Will it dare bring the proof to sustain a
single charge preferred! 1t is true he has
published notice stating that Horace
Greeley had paid one of these insurgents
money for letters furnished the Tribune in
years gone by. therefor Greeley is guilty
of treason. Here is parallel case. A few
years ago the Editor of the Gazette baught
his beef from man who proved to De a
horse-thieft, therefore the Editor is horse
thief. This is all the kind of evidence that
can be adduced to prove any charge of the
kind, and no honest man advocating an
honest cause would decend to such means
to accomplish his purpose.
II the Editor of the Gazette has any de-
sire to find where the responsibility of this
lnsurrection rests we have only to refer him
to- that party who repealed the Missouri
Compromise, who reveled in the blood of
Kansas freeman.snd thereby, y,,dTove Brown to
mad desperation. You have his revenge.