Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-05
A striking Contrast.

A striking Contrast.
Readers of daily papers will not need
any labored exposition Of the great con-
trast between the proceedings of the Chi
cago and those of the Baltimore Corven-
ton, to appreciate fully the different ele-
ments of which the Republican and Dem
ocratic parties are composed as well as the
different ends and aims which they pro-
pose to attain. Just for one moment con-
template the two spectacles AT Chicago
from thirty to fifty thousand people-the
staid, sober, liberty-loving people of the
free States, assembled to counsel and ad-
wise as to the nomination of two honest,
upright patriotic citizens as our standard
bearers in the coming campaign. In a
house built by the united contributions Of
the Republicans of one city, full delega-
tions from twenty-three States and terri
tory that ought to have been State four
wears ago assembled. One day was
spent in organization another and the
second in the adoption of a declaration Of
principles; third in the nomination OF
candidates. No pickering, no elimination,
no back biting, no heart burnings, but an
irrepressibIe enthusiasm which the very
telegraphic wire seemed to feel as it bore
TO the corners of the Republic tie story
of that wonderful and harmonious Con.
vention. In the brotherly regard and the
warm and sympathetic feeling of the
great occasion, men forgot that they were
strangers to each other, representing some,
States washed by the waves of the
Pacific and others, States bordering on 8
foreign dominion on the Atlantic coast
For the time every heart beat in unison and
when the result of their labor was before
them, hand in hand they pledged theil
vows to see men carried honorably and tri
umphantly through the contest before. u;
and placed in the Presidential chair
This Republic never before saw such a
meeting, so harmonized so determined
We would gladly drop the veil of char
ity over the Baltimore mob, which, while
we write, is stillpow-wow-ing at Balti
more. 1t is sad to behold the picture which
has been held up before our eyes for the
past week; sad, because it presses upor
us the conviction that the government is al
present in the hands of semi barbarous
horde, and that the party, whose represen
tatives fight and curse in that Conven
tion, is made up of men who if not avow
ed, are yet virtually traitors 20 the Union
and the Constitution; men who under the
reign of justice will have to be dealt will
vigorously, and made to respect the law;
they assume to contemn and trample un
der foot. Need we further particularize
the acts of this factious masss Men reek
ing with debauch, hiss, out the shibboleth:
of the bully and cutthroat at each other
braggarts with black eyes and bloody no
ses howl and hoot to drown the voice o
an opponent, handy the lie, roll in the miro
in drunken street fights and are borne tt
the nearest police station by the painting
officers; Representative in Congress
from Arkansa-Hindman by name-whc
is also delegate TO the Convention, strike:
Hooper, fellow delegate, in the face, and
instantly drawing pistol places it to the
head of his victim and holds it there unit
he discovers him to be unarmed; in drum
ken riotous gangs these men of our ',chiv-
airy" parade the streets on the Sabbath
day, throng on that day the vile resorts Of
debachees and worse, and terrify the peace
able citizens who tremble for their homes
and long for the hour that shall see this
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Out of such mob can any good come
And yet these are the men, this is the
party that "has in its care and keeping the
Union and the Constitution these the
men who proclaim the Republican party
traitors and sectionalists! Look on the
two pictures and say who are the traitors
who are the sectionalists!