Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-07-12
Speech CT Clifford Arick, delivered
at the 30th of June Convention
at Belmont, Ohio.

that would let my friends know at thi
Convention for whom would vote,-at tba
time the Democracy had not made theil
nominations for President and Vice Presi
dent, and was willing to wait.that ] nigh
see what assurances they could give OF theil
ability to maintain the integrity of our Ma
tional Government. have waiied-and |
submit to you my fellow citizens, have they
not failed to give us any assurance Of their
power in that respect Our advces are, .tha,
the convention st Baltimore as at Charleston
have failed to make q nomination" The
great national Democracy, to-day in their
division, have Illustrated their utter inability
unitedly ind harmonously to signify in
what manner they would perpetuate the
highest Office In the gift of the people. A
great National party who in its pride OF
power boasted of its universally, has gone
asunder, and to-day they present themselves
before the people without candidates without
unity, and have not proposed, in any national
| capacity, ever again to assemble on earth
They now propose with the Bell men, to re-
new this disgusting contest among the politi.
clans, at the Federal COpitol next winter,
as il the Democracy could. better agree, ir
union with minority Of Republicans and a
few South Americans, than they could
among themselves. say to you fellow-citi-
zens that according 10 my Philosophy there
cannot be harmony produced by the intro
ducton Of other and more antagonistic ele-
menis. Then would warn you,as | stand
warned myself, that you avoid this polite al
contest at the capitol, as you would avoid
the sounding yourselves Of the very death
khell Of your county. hold it to be the
duty Of. every lover Of his country now, so
to deport himself as to insure, that on the
4th Of next March, the National Executive
Of this great Republic shall assume his
functions under, and by virtue of the imme-
date sanction of the American people. Let
the talismanic power of the ballot box, nerve
his right arm, and render his position more
sacred by the very votes and voice OF the
people. In order then that the people mny
prevent these reasonable contests among
the political gladiators of the land, they
must unite their votes and voices at the bal
lot box Shall they take the candidate of
the Northern or Douglis Democracy! Aside
from the weighty doctrinal objections to
him and them-his friends & advocates admit
that the use of his name, can only secure
Northern division. without any possibility
OF his election. No reasonable man will
stand up before the people to-day and assert
that he has the least hope Of the election of
Douglas by the people. Shall we take the
Southern or Breckenridge Democracy, all
the objections in more aggravated form
which might be urged in the former case,
can be made in this " ith the concession OF
is few friends and advocates here, that this
ticket cannot receive an election at the
hands OF the people. We have Bell and
Everett to look upon, excellent men, the
best of men il you will have it so. For
the life OF me cannot see how it is, that
the Independent Republican. can illuminate
any one on this subject-the attempt fellow
citizens, 8 the sheerest impudence, the mos,
unmittigated ef'ronery,and the climax of the
matter is, that this shameless efirontery. is
only equalled by the transparent humbur.
cry of the thing. My fellow-citizens, in
the great ocean of political events this does
not constitute drop. If then we would
take the business of President making
out Of the hands of the politicians, we have
but one opportunity to do so, but one name
around which we must lily, and which up
on our ballots we must write, and that name,
is the name of Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois.
This name is admitted to be by all the fac
tions of the day, the only one, with which
the people have the least hope oe success
And who is this man Of the people!
My fellow. ctizens, in the day dreams of
my youth. in al my manhood. low down in
my very hear. of hearts, / have had one liv-
ing and never to be quenched sentiment aud
| political love. When the tempests that try
the great Ship Of State have subsided,and all
ia again calm; or il she is not to survive its
rage, but is to 20 down to the deep amid the
storm, or be stranded upon the rocks Of dis
solution, in my last moment Of political life
this sentiment and this love will be the last
to die. This sentiment was taught by the
great statesmen Of Kentucky Henry Clay,
and this love is the unfading love have fol
the fame and memory Of that great man
l. love alI men, who in his life, showed
their love for him by adherng 10 his fortunes
and his Philosophy. As one of the electors
for the State at large for the prairie
State In 1874, such was Abraham Lincoln
an ardent young Clay man. opposed TO al
the political herecies of modern Locofocoisu
then, as understood and know him to be
now. Lincoln can have no crocodile tear
TO shed over the memory of that great man
who was the very personiction of Whil
: politics. And my friends do assure you
that II there is one thing in modern locofoco.
ism above anotber,which utterly loa.he snt
hate. it is that arch hypocricy, which darei
to take upon its unholy lip, the name o
: Henry C1sy-that effrontery, which woult
use his name as vindication or sanction in
any way for mordern Locofocoism. But thil
: can do--as we love our country-and a,
we would pray forit in the name Of Clay-u.
we would call our wives and children arount
US and for their sake impore heaven to saw,
and preserve our happy land-as, we woul'
all kneel before the alter of our common
. country, and worship for its sake, will
the memory OF Clay fresh in all .ou
8 hearts-I am willing to be ledlin thes,
: solemn rites by this noble son of tn,
' great West, Abe Lincoln, and in doinI