Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-10-19
The PennsyIvanIa EIection.

The Pennsylvania Election.
The Philadelphia Press, of the llth inst,
has the following article on the recent cleo.
ton in Pennsylvania:
The election of yesterday was made i'm
pottant by the attitude Of the so-called
Democratic party on the question of recon.
struction, and by their ostentatious effront-
cry in proffering their support to President
johnson, after years of unexampled insults
to his patriotism and unparalleled calumnies
upon his character. Their leaders, covered
with the odium Of notorious and unrecanted
sympathy with the rebellion, and withcruel
indifference to the sufferings OF and ingrati-
tude for the gallautry of the soldiers OF the
republic, boldly attempted to swindle a
popular majority for their candidates, and
to force forgetfulness Of their incapable
record Desperate under the consciousness
Of their. guilt, they fled for refuge to the
very policy they had so opposed under Lin
coin, and also under johnson until he be.
came President; forgetting that the people
had not lost their memories, and that how.
ever ready to forgive the repentant rebel,
they had no such feeling for the leaders in
the free States, who, after helping treason
with their safe and cheap professions, re-
fused to accept the fate so gladly obeyed by
the hope that by specializing upon the
| prejudi ces of some of the voters against the
colored race, they declaimed loudly against
negro suffrage; and when Connecticut deci-
ded against the reform, they confidently
believed that Pennsylvania would swing
from her mcorings and give Joy 10 the des-
perate partlsans who had labored for their
country's ruin. But both aspirations have
failed. The great deeds of the last yoar are
not forgotten. Our people remember how
much it cost to save the Government from
the hands of the rebels, and are resolved to
keep it in the care and custody of the men
who have been tried in the fires of civil war,
and have not been wanting.
/ The result of the election 10 the CITY is
gratifying beyond the most sanguine expec
tations. Mr. McNlchael is chosen Mayor
by majority that may reach six thousand
"a noble triumph to his dauntless patriot
ism, fine talents and long and honorable
public career and private conduct How
abashcd the poor partisans must feel as
they see the wrecks of their unworthy Sian.
ders upon this worthy and exemplary gen.
tleman. Defeat has left no solace behind
it Of canvass fairly and even decently con.
Quoted on their part. When will the Work
ingmcn and Trades Union learn to avoid
the. wretched arts of these small tricksters,
and Of their tools, the men who Joined
worthy associations only to plunder and to
use them ? The great body of these classes,
however, showed their contempt Of these
in great numbers for Mr. !McNfichael Mr..
Fox, who ran as his opponent, has found
the grapes hanging very high and sour. =
His has hpnp n Wa uon1I
advise him hereafter to avoid treating the
people as if they were children or idiots
How ineffaby beneath manly imitation are
his small tricks in the light of yesterday
majority! His tame, and timorous, and
tardy love Of the soldiers His affidavits
to establish his loyalty His mighty rage
over the direlul attempt to allow the poor
colored men the right of travelling in the
city cars All this trumpory bears dis
NAL similarity to the extinguished scenery
ofa third d-rate play house, when the farce
is over
Apart from the lessons taught by savins
our great State and city from the hands o
the spoilers, ars one or two Of chief signifi
canoe. Let us hope that our public men
of all former organizations, will accept the
admonition, From this day let the grca,
parties ascend to the highest planes o
principle. Above all, let not the Unior
party be afraid to take the responsibility. u
We counsel no impracticable, and no ex
treme course. All should be deliberate and
in order. But we must not fear or forge,
to march up to our work. On the question
OF reconstruction we have the wise counse
of the President to reflect upon, and with
him we should not make issues that may
work mischief to white and black alike. and
we should, as part of his policy and our
own duty, bear forever 10 mind that we
dare not give up the covenant we have
made not to allow the Union men of the
South to relapse into moral slavery even
worse than the physical serfdom from which
the war has delivered them Nor yet can
tho traitors be allowed to return to rule and
ruin the future as they spoiled and slaugh.
tered the past. Let us invite and welcome
the States to the old hearthstone IF they
were only "abroad," we should be glad to
see them ''at home" But mono who can
not take the oath of Congress, and none
who laugh at it when taking it should be
allowed hearing, or an appeal for the re-
vocation of that high condition precedent.
1t Is now, We take it, an established fact
that nothing but willful factiousness, or
stubborn adherence to individual crotchets.
or suspicion OF the motives of our public
teachers and servants, can throw the great
Union train from the track, at least for a
generation of time, or until it has so secured
and strengthened the Republic that it would
require double revolution even to arrest
its onward career. And this is text full
OF truth and worthy OF the profoundest
thought.
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