Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-12-15

N mailClOuS dEliClt III MIC odHcIIS vi
the previous week, we took occasion to
show up in rather plain, old fashion
cd way, the editor of that paper, and
some of his co. workers in the cause of
Treason and Theft.
We showed that, in less than twenty
lines of his paper, he had crowded
eleven unmitigated lies; that in moral
character he was little better than a
dog; in honesty, he was far below hun
dreds who were inmates of the Peni-
tentiary, and in courage and manhood
was as deficient as the sneaking cur
that, unmatched, snaps at the heels Of
passers-by, and then runs for protec-
ton beneath his masters porch.
We were informed that we might
look, in his next paper, for such vim
dication as would give US some trouble,
perhaps, to sustain the charges we had
made. We, however, were not alarm
ell upon that subject, for we knew the
man, knsw- HE character, knsw his ante
eedents, and, ADORE all, we knep HIS HIS
TORY too well TO apprehend any vindi-
cation he should attempt from the
charges we had made against him
And the result has verified the cor
rectness Of our Judgment, for he does
not attempt the denial of single
charge. He does, however, attempt,
as he wriggles and twists and squirms
under our thrusts, TO create diversion;
but in this he is equally unfortunate.
Unable to find, in the fourteen years
we have lived in Belmont County
for years in the Auditors office and
four years as editor of the CHRONICLE
"a single public act that he could
charge to our discredit, he gets very
dignifed, and says of us:
He is of very low origin, and to be COM
PEELED TO handy words with such a creature
is very unpleasant and humiliating;"
and further, if it had not been for the
KAow Nothing party he (we) would
This day be living in his miserable hut,
and following his usual occupation of ped
ding. axe-handles and split brooms for q
subsistence +"
Awful! Crushing! Who could sus-
tain himself under such charge3--
To have been born poor, to have labor
aA fNr iv;n IN al xuit
ones hands to make living and add
to the general wealth by producing
something, is, in the opinion of this
brainless would-be nabob, a greater
crime than to have been guilty of rob-
bing an old man of his just dues, or
like leech to have stuck to the public
treasury, living off the hard earned
money Of others, without hesitating as
to the means used to secure 1t.
Whatever may have been the char
acter Of our origin, we have never been
so far ashamed of it as to refuse n
parent admission to our house, or de-
nounce one Of them as an impostor
when he paid us a friendly visit. Can
you say as much +?
Although We have never peddled
"axe-handles and split brooms for u
subsistence, we have ever since we
were thirteen years Of age labored with
opr hands and by hard toll earned the
bread we eat. In all that timsge have
never been ashamed TO acknowledge we
were laboring man, and we hepe we
never will be ashamed to acknowledge
IL.
There is class Of men, however, In
this country who believe that Labor is
degrading, and that Capital should
own Labor; that Slavery is the nor
maj condition of Labor, and that there
is and should be a governing class,
composed Of the aristocracy, and a
governed class, composed Of the poor,
working people This Is the theory OF
the Slave Drivers In tho slaveholding
States, and IL seems also TO be the the
Ory OF the editor Of the St. Clairsviilc
Gazette, who possesses more natural
qualifications for "nigger" " driver, a
plantation "boss," q regular ale.
gree, /" thaa any man in this section oi
country.
We have NO doubt this very pomp'
Gus, dignifed, selfimporAnt ninny.
hammer who edits the Gazette regret.
very much that we were not left tc
"psddis axe-hsndles, /" but we will just
inform him that we have on hand an
other business, and, though q les'
clearly and respectable one, Of full AZ
much importance to the people Of thi'