Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-06-13

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"OUR brave young Democrats and Bell
men constitute three fourths of tho voun-
teers who have responded to the call to pro-
tect the banner of their fathers"
"We are glad the Monroe boys and ours
are in the same regiment; Like ours, they
are nearly all Democrats.
''The one hundred and eleven men COM
posing it, (Capt. Cbarlesworth' 8 Company
are all Democrats and Bell men, with per-
haps less than half dozen exceptions.
The above we clip from the last numbers
Of the Gazette and Citizen. If the state
ments therein made were true, the publca-
ton Of them at this time would be an act
Of contemplate partyism worthy of the
Editor Of the Gazette; but as they are not
true, as we shall prove, the publication Of
them, tending as it does to keep up party
feeling and divide the friends of the Union,
is the act of poor, miserably contemptible
partisan bigot, and political mountebank,
who would lie his country into ruin, and sell
her peace, to gain the success Of his party,
and for it the spoils Of office.
We are glad that we can say there arc
thousands of Democrats and Bell men all
over the country volunteering to serve their
country, and we honor and respect them
First because we believe they are patriots !;
and, next because their doing so indicates
that they have an utter contempt for the
Editor Of the Gazette and his advice to
them to 'have nothing to do with 'this
damnable war, and to touch not this nc
cursed, this unclem, thing" And, lastly,
because it demonstrates that although the
would-be leaders Of parties may become cor
rupt and willing to sell their country for Il
mess Of pottage, the people, the rank and
6le,. have deeply rooted within love OF
country and of liberty that in the trying
hour will triumph over the feelings of the
partisan, and secure to US the blessings Of
free Government.
But every one who has taken the pains to
inform himself knows that there are also
thousands of Republicans just as patriotic
and brave as the Others among the volun-
teers and We refer to this matter now sim
ply to vindicate them from the ISLANDERS Of
this lying cat s-paw of the secession clique,
that infests this community, and to place in
the hands Of those who are not posted or
this subject the facts as they exist. W.
have taken some trouble to got the informa
ton, and we know it is correct, as we have
carefully prepared lists of names, &C., from
prominent persons in the first two companies
and from reliable persons in different part
of the county; and now for the facts:
Thore were seventy-two Republicans il
Capt Wallace's Company when sworn int,
service There were fifty in Capt, Tallman
Company, making one hundred and twenty
two, or more than IL majority ove, al
Others in the two companies OF the men
who joined Capt. Morrow's Company along
the Railroad, the same is true, as We hav,
been reliably informed by n Bell man from
Barnesville. Three Republicans loft Flush
ing TO join one of the Woodsfeld Companies
and several have Joined COL Kelley Regi
ment, of Virginia, from the river side of the
county. We now come to Capt. Charles
worth's Company, and we are free to say
that we know very little about it as we have
not even been furnished with a list of its
members. At the beginning this Company
was taken charge Of by few ultra party
men in this town, who have, by the way,
since backed out of it-and u continued
abuse Of the Republicans kept up by them
and we are sorry to say by the Captain, also,
in his paper, virtually excluding them from
the Company until after it was accepted by
the State, when these mon backed out, and
few leading Republicans interested them
selves in getting recruits when. the Com.
pany was filed UP in very short time Blu,
we do know enough about it to know that
the Gazette has lied as to the number OF
Republicans in it, for of the ten persons
who joined it from tho town of Belmont,
seven are Republicans; Of the fifteen
from Hendrysburgh, six are Republi-
cans; and we have no doubt, if We had til,
facts In tho case, they would show that there
is quite number Of Republicans in til,
Company, Notwithstanding tho efforts of {
Few persons to make it one-sided affair.
About the Monroe County Companies w
know perhaps as much rs the Editor Of tn,
Gazette. We know that Of the three Com
panies formed, two Of them have been form
ed aud are commanded by Republicans will
Capts. Washburn and Hollister at thei
heads, and are informed by a gentleman
from Monroe County, that many Of the bes
Republicans in the county arc in these Com
panies.
We have taken up this matter with re
Iuct.ace. We have gone through with 1t
simply because we believed IL necessary Il
correct the misrepresentation made by tn