Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-08-01
A CARD FIR OMMR. AMOS GLOVER

were requested to meet in mass convention
on the 4th Of July, at Belmont. As par
tizan clique so managed affairs as to keep
most of you away from that convention, and
to overrule those of you who did go, thus
getting such possession of the convention as
enabled them tssonvcrt it into an intensely
partizan, csiqceing, and Secession sympa-
thizing institation, l owe it to my friends
and my own consistency to make the follow
ing explanation:
Soon after the call of the 22d February
consented to become candidate for County
Treasurer. In the course of time it became
apparent that this clique, whose position l
could not endorse, were striving for the mas
terry of that convention, -aud | concluded
not to be candidate. On consulting some
friends, who thought it was only the, last
spasmodic, dying struggle of the old clique
carcass, and that the people would yet rule
the convention agreed to be announced.
But lest they should be mistaken, | dieta-
ted an announcement, defining my position
| in such n way as was thought would place
me under no obligation to go before or be in
\
yention as that Of the 4th proved to be- -
which q friend sent, with a request to pub
lish, and signed as follows:
po1HArrAN o, June IA. 1851.
| ED REruBIcASi Picnsc insert IN your issue the
| following annoui cslnfat
aTordSy fRs os9Sy d i.
mainained. All pa1tarY dierences shuuId be buried
and forJo;ien. With this understanding, AMOS GLOVER
Of York To'ynship, viii be presented IN the Union men
Of Belmont comiTyNin convention assembled as a cnudi
date lor County lEeosifer. MANY VOTERS
This announcement was suppressed, and
another unauthorized one published as fol-
lows:
awe are authorized to announce the iiame Of Auo
Treasurer subject IN tie decision Of The 4l Of July Con
| veniion"
This was so different, and. under tho cir
cumstances, 50 Objectionable, that | went II
st. Clairsvile on the next Monday to hav,
it corrected, or withdrawn. An excuse wa,
made, u promise given that the correction
should be made in the nextissue The mex
issue came but with it no change. 1t wa.
then too late to make the correction befor
convention. On the morning of convention
inquired why it was not made, and wa
given an excuse which then believed to b.
the real reason why it did not appear. Th
editor, Mr.. Tallman,) for reasons, refuse
to make this explanation, hence the neces
sity of this card from me.
This is .as far as it is necessary to go t.
place my friends and myself right on tn
record; but having been obliged to appea
in card, shall speak further.
repudiate the 4th of July convention
because | believe it was not such conven
ton as the call of 22d February called, an
to which the unpublished announcement
committed me: lst, in that it was intensel
partisan, and was not "U'nion Of all Unio
men ;, who are now willing and detormir
ed to overeap all personal consideration
and party bounds, and rally to the Union,
and did not say that "all past party differ
cnces should be buried and forgotten;" q
in that it was packed, governed, and cot
trolled by an unprincpled clique; 3d,in tha
it was Secession sympathizug, and did nc
aay "thc Union must be preserved, " O
that 'the Government ought to be main
tanned. BY cliqueing all the candidate
were chosen from the North side Of tn
county. The claims of the Southern an
larger portion Of the county, South of tn
@. o, r. R.,tNere rejected. You of tn
Southern portion Of the county, especially
are asked to become the easy dupes" t
dispense favors to the pets Of the St. Clair
I,
poor privilege Of having your wishes cor
suited or gra'iIicd IN asingle instance. Th
clique choose candidates, and bid you pla
one dare demur to anything in their pre-
rramme, they set up howl of "wooll
head, " "AbolitioniSt, &c. Will you
fellow Union men, be browbeatcn and black
guarded into sanctioning the doings an
practices of this clique? Shall a clique driv
us into partizan squabblc, to fritter ava
our strength in dsputing about the trinket
aud other small furnishings of the house
while the house itself falls, crushing no
{ only those things about which We so fooishl
quarrel, but us also in its ruins? Should W
not rather first establish the house? then,
. we will, we may dispute as to It's furnishings
And, especially shall those of Us who mad
4 "The Union, the Constitution, and the En-
5 forcement of the Laws " our only issue, no,
+ say that we meant to maintain the Unio
only in case we could rule it? that we in
tended to support the Constitution onl
5 when we could have il interpreted to sui
5 us? that we demanded only the enforce
ment of tho Fugitive Slave Law? merely l.
keep this clique from calling us hard names
and to get them to call us good and great
! Shall we not rather declare, as we alway
I have done, that we meant to maintain tn
. Union Internationally and at every hazard
I that We intended to support the Constitu
ton, with or without our Interpretation
: that We demanded an enforcement, not o
l the Fugitive Slave Law only, but of al
; laws, the clique. to the contrary notwith
I standing. Can this clique declare our Uniol
myth, our Constitution fiction, and ou
| laws empty sounding words to scare veal
women and sick men, and so bind us by fea
of their terrible auathemas as that we dar,
not object? 1t i'll becomes freemen to be S,
bound AMOS GLOVER.
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