Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-10-16
What the Wheeling Intelligencer has
to say about the Butternut Gather
ing ut st. Clairsville.

" hu1 tiic w WhccIuS lHbcllfRencor mas
to say about the Butternut Gather.
ing ut st. Clairsville.
lfroln the Inieligencer OF Friday morning.
THE BgTERSUT MEETING AT ST. GLARS
WILLIE.
In company with several Of our ci.izcn
we went over the river on Wednesday last
to 81. Clairsville, to see and hear the pro
ceedings of what is Union among Unior
people as Butternut meeting, or, as sucl
meetings call themselves, a Democrat,
meeting. The Hon. john s. Garlic wa
among the invited speakers, but was not OF
hand, being reluctantly detained a, tn,
chairman announced, at his home. Seated
on the speakers stand was the editor of tn,
Wheeling Press and several other distin
guished gentlemen. VIM. Kcnnon wa.
made Chairman of the meeting He in
troduced the two speakers ofthe occasion. -
He first introduced the candidate for Con
gress, Mr.. White, lawyer of Cambridge
Guernsey county. His intro luctou was
short, but as Butternutish as Buttcrnnt
could well desire. He alluded to the Pres.
ident of the United States contenptuously
as Lincoln, and the war as an Abolition war
and sat down without saying single worC
in the slightest degree derogatory to Jeffer-
son Davis or his Confederacy.
Mr.. White, the candidate, was led for
ward at the close OF the introduction and put
in position before the crowd, which NUN.
bered as near as we could calculate about
two hundred and fifty people. men women
and children. Mr. White got himself un
der way by making the remarks upon Tho
OF n nf fba trv 10 Ill
these times. He observed that the counir,
was in trouble-that war was raging
that prosperity had given way to adver
sity-which was all true enough .aad all
well enough known. He then Proceeded to
say that he was candidate for Congres.
rersns, John n. Bingham, and that h.
should tell the people his principles anc
noxt compare them with those of his oppo
nent. His principles he said were those o.
the good 6id Democratic party'--the par.
ty of Jofferson--thc party that had 80 long
and so advantageouSly administered thl
government. They were conservative prin-
ciples and opposed to all tanaticism and
radicalism. He went in for "the C0,stitu-
tion as it is and the Union as il was.''
If the reader understands from this what
were the principles of Mr.. White, he en-
joys an advantage over the writer of this ar.
ticle. We could not hut think ofthe mans
creed who, when asked what he believed in
the matter of religion, said he believed
what his church believed. "And what
does your church believer" asked his inter.
rogator. ''The church believes what do, ~
answered the man. "And what do and the
church both believe, them" still asked the
questioner. 1--WE both believe alike"
Just so it was with Mr.. Willie. The
principles Of the Democratic party were his
principles, and his were the party's and
both of them were the principl S Of Jeffer
son. Both he and the party were opposed
to abolitionists, and believed in "the Con
stituion as it is and the Union as it was. y
After this confession of faith, Mr.. White
went into Mr.. Bingham. Bingham was an
Aholitiouist--not a Republican. For Re
publicans who were conservative, Mr..
White had charity. He meant to spare
them, but it was such fellows as Bingham
he was after. And so he spoke on the sub
ject of Bingham for, we should say, about
two hours. In this time much was said
about negro equality, with here and there
at great intervals a sentence about the war.
We noted the fnct. that twice in the course
OF his speech Mc White used the word in.
famous in speaking OF the rebellion, but it
sounded strangely in connection with the
drift of his speech. His argument was that
the Abolitionists-such men as Bingham
brought on the war; that it was not the
Southern people. He gave what he called
a history of the rise and progress of aboli
tiOnism. The progress of it was what had
done the work. At its door the sin of the
war lay. And the abolitionists were now at
work trying to level down the white man to
the grade Of the negro.
This was the burden and refrain of Mr..
White speech. And this was what made
his allusion to the rebels as Infamous
sound strange. The animus of the speech
was all favorable to the rebels. They hadn't
brought on the war: Abolitionists had. :
The abolitionists were infamous fordoing so,
and the rebels were infamous for protecting
their rights. We couldn't see it. .,r
We noticed this additional fact during
the speech, that not a single alluson at all
derogatory to the rebels in the whole course
of it was applauded by the audience. Ii
was his denunciations Of Bingham and the
Abolitionists that were applauded. How
could the audience applaud anything said
against the rebels when the rebels had been
forced into the war for their rights? In not
applauding we thought the audience show
ed both taste and sincerity that ought to
have rebuked the speaker.
After Mr. White was through, the Chair
man introduced Mr.. Stambaugh, of Tusca-
rawas county.h He was introduced as ''re.
formed sinner'-as one who had loft the
Aboliuonists aud come out on tho right
side. Mr.. Stambaugh was lately Secretary
of the Union State Convention, as we un-
derstood the announcement of the Chair,
but had become disguised with the party al
the Convention which nominated Mr.. Bing-
ham, because, especially, they nominated
Mr.. Bingham. ..o,
Union men in st. Cairsville told us that
the secret of his disgust was that he had
bocn hyipg to get nominated for somo Of.
flea bimsolf but had been passed persist