Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-11-16

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stranger hands, away from the serene quiet,
and the shelter and protection Of home
The roll was called. "Shall the bill pass p
Shall the loan be enforced? Shall the Ma
tons credit be pledged to maintain the
army in the field, and the wounded soldier
in the hospital? And euery democrat, toith-
out a ssI;tary erception-l mean Of those
fellows that followed the miserable old tat.
tered flag of democracy" 10 hroo
o,oav the f,ded uniform ofporty and put on
the true blue" uniform Of the Countryi-
Without single exception, they voted,
mol
Need stand here to argue with full
grown men that if that bill had been lost,
your country had been lost You could
not command, to save the nation, ever
thirty millions of dollars Of the current
money of the United States, without that
loan, and it would not have supported your
army in the field for longer period than
ten days.
THE TRUE FRIENDS op THE REPUBLIC.
Asd yot this party attempts. after such
record rs this to come before the American
people and ask~them for their suffrages,
and TO allow then again to be entrusted
with the keeping of this great natien l
tell you plain and simple truth when L
say that THE SAFETY or THE REPUBLIC rs
ALONE IN THE HANDS OF IT'S FRIENDS.
do not care with what party man may
have mustered before the war began. All
/ want to know is that through the four
years of trial he was with the great party
that was for the country. If all his life be-
fore he was known as democrat" am
for him. But if he comes up one OF these
miserable creatures who have crept about
through the grass and dirt when his coun-
try was on trial.for its life, bowling it was
unconstitutional to coerce these traitors
and vote supplies of men and money and
arms to carry on the war for the Union
then in the name of common sense and JUS
tice, away with that fellow then l say
what Cromwell once said to q miserable,
contemplate parliament: "Begone the
Lord has no further use for you" Great
laughter and applause
DEMOCRATIC CoNspIRACIEs.
Yes, you will reorgauize the democratic
party, that organized treason !--the Demo
cratic party that withheld supplies from
eur armies the democratic party that or
0anized immense conspiracies al. over this
land, in every State Of the Union, in aid OF
this rebellion, into which they mustered IN
some States at least. more than half the
Inttl WuV HIVE NUtcu tUO uCtuOOi atiO tiShSS
since this rebellion began. And yet these
fellows are about amongst the people to.
dav, telling them the democratic party is the
only party that can save the Government
God help the Nation if it can be. saved only
by q party that swears it is unconstitutional
to defend it'll [Applause
DEMOCRATIC IMPUDENCE.
do not know exactly why this party
should be ''reerganized' just now. L do
not know what virtue belongs to this Or
ganization that it should command the sup
port of an honest man of any former politi
cal association: party that could not stand
BY its country or its country's defenders, or
vote a man or dollar to carry on the most
glorious war ever prosecuted since nations
began on earth, ought not to have the face
after the war j, ended, this sublime sacrifice
made, unequaled in the history Of all men
after the nation has been saved, to come
before the people that they thus betrayed
and ask them for their suffrage. Such i'm
pudence has never been matched. How
these creatures can muster the courage to
! look honest men in the face and dare to
ask them for their votes, in the face of the
record of the old democratic party. much
less to supplcate and pray them to reorgan-
| ize the miserable concern. [ cannet imagine
| fAprlanse. ] trust you have lunatic asy-
um in West Virginia. in which you will take
care Of some OF these imbeciles. Laughter
and Yes; we have.
| CHICAGO PLATFORM.
Another feature of this party ask your
attention to. and that is that these partsans
right in the midst Of this terrible convulsion'
when every man held his breath awaiting
the result of the great battles: to knew
whether the armies of the Union were
victorious; whether the Union itself sur
vived whether we still had country we
might call orr own and constitution under
which we might find shelter, when they
stood in battle array from the banks OF tht
Potomac to the banks Of the Mississippi
that grand column Of heroes who bore VIC
tory on the points of their bavonets, thi
organization calling itself Democratic,
that the war for the Union was Failure;
that the heroes who had gone down in th'
siege of Vicksburg had died in vain tha
the men who carried your colors in triumpl
over the field of Stone River had triumphe
in vain: the men who stood in the "deadl.
beach" on the nights Of Gettysburg, AM
rolled back the lcpions of treason, had she,
their blood in vain. And vet this devilisi
party. after such resolve as that, attempt
, ing to unnerve, on the very eve of ou1
great and final victory, the armies OF tn
republic, dsres to come before the people
standing above the graves Of those demigod
and heroes, and asks this people thus be
: trayed and insulted to reore anize this part
,, and elevate it again to power. ask again
in the name of God and common sense an
, iustice. what for? To "reorganize" this n
. bellion again and drench this land agai
;, with the blood of its children, and max
all men who love their country and its ia
. = and constitution surrender everything, th
! idols Of their love-everything but the
!, trust in God and the hope of life to conn
y that their country may not perish. Is
J for this that this party is to be reorgauizet
IS THE PARTY OF THE COUNTRY.
This is no time to reorRanise q party
n treason and traitors. We must have graz
q party. now that the war for the Union b.
"a been fought by the wager of battle, and
is to be fought over by the omnipotent b,
e LOT from the rock bound coast of New En-
ol land to the golden gates Of the Pacific-tl
10 party of the country--the party of the CO
~ stitution-the party OF the entire repub
~ the marty that intends to honor by ths
" grand illusirious history in the future, d
10 memory of their heroic dead and herr
ss living defenders. Great applause.
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