Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-20
Something More About Our
Ticket,

EDITOR CHRONICLE: The importance of
elcctiug to Office good men is now beginning
to elicit the earnest attention OF religious
and moral citizens without reference TO
sectaranism, or absolute slavery to party or
political opinions. This is consistent with
the spirit and the progress Of the age. The
times urge to the consideration of reform.
Our country has suffered too much and too
long from the influence and example Of
wicked and unprinciplod men, bearing high
Offices of trust aud honor, and ministering
to party rather than to country and to right.
High, time party shackles should fall from
the minds and limbs of freemen.
We hailed with great pleasure the recent
nominations Of the loyal Union party of
Belmont County. This is certainly an i'm
portaut step in tho right direction. We
have too recently felt tho effects of the rule
Of men bankrupt to moral character. Had
every Southern Senator and Representative
| in Congress, and sympathizer with the rebel
cause, been man 0t good morals, respect
ing conscientiousIy tho moral sanctions Of
an oath, we should not have had u secession
or civil war OF four years. We should never
have witnessed that most shocking and
diabolical display of political gambling and
perjury which was insultAgly played off by
| Cabinet and Congress from November, 1860,
to March, 1861. GovernorsofS mem
bers of State Legislatures, Congress and
| Cabinet, Southern secessionists and their
| Northern allies reveling in treason and per-
al 10 he xuo.ll', II
| high crlmes-all the legitimate fruit of ele-
waiting to Office bad men without moral
principle And here we may ask-Does
any intelligent voter fear the perjury, the
dishonesty, or the moral or mental inca.
pacity OF any one of the candidates on the
Union nomination. Loyal men may chal
lenPe scrutiny.
Mr.. Davenport, second time in nomi.
nation for State Representative, after once
well filing his office, is now again before the
people He is in little need of commenda.
| ton from US or any one in this way, But we
here tuke liberty to say, to all conscientious
voters, that Mr. Davenport has been train
cd from infancy by religious and moral par
ents 10 regard the sanctions Of religion and
morality. From youth to matured age he
has ever honored those sacred sanctions
and to-day he stands before the people the
very character the Divine and human laws
require to rule over man, or, as We here
say, in this representative democraey,to to rep
resent a Christian and intelligent people.
Mr.. Patton is young man Of religious
and strictly moral habits. Has received
from moral and religious parents religion,
and moral training. He has received q
solid classical education. He has served, Ions
aud woll his country in the Union army. =
He has passed through many a hard tough
battle from the bloody field of Perryville t
tho battle Of Bentonville, the last Of th,
war in which secession finally Collapsed =
All this process of mental and moral train
ing has prepared and developed in him
mind naturally endowed with solid capaci
tics.
Lieut.. Col, Mitchell the candidate 70
County Clerk, has claims to the office in
feror to no man in the county: aud hi
friends may proudly challenge a rival 81
perior. He once served in tho labor of thi
ofiice-was the real Clerk Of the Court. N
man, in old Belmont County, ever filled tn
office, or did the work better. The Office i
only too far unequal to the claims Of s
capable q man and so brave and deserving
soldier. Of his fitness and claims to tn
Office none but the ungrateful aud detracI
ing will even hesitate, And as TO the il
tegrity and the moral character Of the brav