Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-12-01

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to make men desperate. The less
brains, character, and reputation they
have, the more readily they give way
under the pressure of disappointment
and failure, and the more fully they
give themselves over to the control Of
the baser passions of fallen human
nature.
The low, Shiny Copperhead of the
Gazette, whose political life is being
crushed out under the overwhelming
pressure of the enlightened loyal public
sentiment, that, on the sth day of No
vember, buried beneath its irresistible
weight the whole snakey tribe of trea-
son -mongers and disunionists, is no
exception to the rule. That paper, since
the result Of the Presidential election
was known, has been made the channel
through which this "lost spirit" has
ravsd and fumed against everything
and everybody having more rsspecta-
bility than himself, in the vain hope,
We presume, that by his desperate ef-
forts to destroy and pull down the rep
utation of others, he may succeed in
diverting attention from his own des-
perate character and condition.
After this whisky inspired moloch
had fully developed his capacity for
libel, slander, and abuse, by his attacks
upon the Government, the churches,
and the clergy, it was not strange that
he should turn his attention, in the
hour Of his defeat and desperation, to
the editor Of the CHRoNIcLE, who, dur
ing the past four years, has so frequent
ly exposed him and the clique whose
dirty work he 10 In the habit of doing.
and held them up in their political de-
formity to the gaze and contempt Of a
respectable community.
In last weeks issue, this very honest
Ex-Deputy Treasurer, under the start
ling heading of "The Third Attempt
OF PoonMAS to get up a Mob in St
Clairsville," treats his high-toned pa
irons with over column of attack
upon MS, from which we take the fol-
lowing extract; and, in order to give
our readers an opportunity to see what
the qualifications and capacity Of this
knight Of the Golden Circle" are for
crowding lies into q small compass,
without putting them TO the labor Of
counting them, we have numbered the
statements In the extract which are
without shadow Of foundation, but
are base, unmitigated lies:
On Thursday night. with the assistance
o. two Justices Of the Peace, the Clerk open.
cd the Poll Books from the srmy at the
desk In the Court room, in the presence OF
large audience. And sitter he had com
pletsd that branch, he announced that on
the next evening he would open the Poll
Books OF the county At the same place. He
was not then aware that any meeting had
II he hsd, however, il Wsuld have made no
announced to leading Republicans who called
upon him for that purpose, that he was 70.
ing 70 occupy the Court room TO transact
the legitimate business Of his oiios, and thai
no meeting could be held there BY any body.
Notwithstanding this snnoupeemen ent-tks
front door being closed rs Was usual when
the Court was pot Ia ssssien--the Republi.
cans, male and female, With Poorman a,
their head, la crowded into the Couri
reon. through the back doors and although
the clerk was Engaged In opening the Pol
R0sks, Poorman enssuncsd [3l that they
we're going TO take" the esprt House. n
Poormsn mounted the Judges stand bach
& ~ the CLERK, and began to make ssme falls.
statsmsnts. f5l when the Clerk--Cslsue
CharIsswerth- better known as the sdi.o
81 the Bell and pictorial kiogrAphsr Of j.
II HsszoaI thriss called him . liar, fol ans
psornsn was too cowardly 10 rsssst Il. RI
l'karlssvsrth making q him, Is
Poermas sstrsatsd from the Court Houss, [,
th1puGk ~ ssns shsnnsl he had entered
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