Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-09-21

the personal property OF tbe County in r.
creased to over IS, ,000, 900, showing an in n
crease during the three years of about $l,- v
100000.
These bonds are made the basis of the
National Banking system of the country,
and the greater part of them, not held by ,,
foreign holders ale represented in the cap
ital stock rf the National Banks, and are
taxed as ihns represented Those in the
hands of individuals, not used in business
or made the basis Of commercial transac-
tions, are not subject to taxation, and we
ask Mr. CLARK and the speakers of the
Democratic" party to say whether they
are in favor of taxing them in violation of
the plighted faith of the Government and
the repeated decisions of the Supreme
Court that they should not and cannot be
taxed?
We have time and space only to say
few words on his -four dollar" argument,
in which he was just about as unfair in his
statements as he was on the above PROPOSE
, tions. He said the law under which the
four dollar tax is levied was not war
measure and had never given a single sol
der to the General Government during the
war. Now he will readily admit, no doubt,
that under that law the National Guard
was organized, and that Gov. BRoUGH fur
nshed about $4,000 of those National
Guards to the Government, for 100 day;
and also that if that Guard had not been
organized those nen could not have been
given, as they were; and admitting this he
admits the error of his own statement.
He also admits that the Union candi.
) dates were in favor of its repeal, and in do
ing so agreed that there was no contest be
, tween the two parties upon that question.
We have lcvoted the time and space oc
!, cupcd by Ibis review, not because Of any
, special merit or force in the speech of Mr..
CLARK, for We think it was the weakest eff,
fort we ever heard him make. But we un
derstanl his arguments and statements are
4 the same os are used hy all the speakers Of
e the party, and we wish to show the des-
: perate sraights to which they are reduced
: in this campaign for want of reasonable ar
4 gumcnts or tangible propositions.
II OUR former townsman, ID. PECK
! ESQ., used to say there is no use II
!, being fellow, unless you are h
" of fellow and we presume it Is
p upon this theory the editor of the Ga
IL zette acts in his misrepresentation o
III the candidates, principles and purpose
a. of the Union Party. He thinks, m
of doubt, there is no use in his being
rs liar unless he is HI of a liar, and o.
ut this theory he publishes a column Q
al comment upon the Union meeting hel
IS, here on the 7th inst. and the speec
" made by Gen. Cox, that for "concer
"a tratcd lie " is ahead of anything in tia
e. line ever offered in this community.
ch AS the untruths and misrepresent:
n, tions contained in the article are S
lat transparent that every intelligent readt
OF will ut once see them, we shnll M
by waste time or space in reviewing then
OF but will simply refer to one of them,
IN order to show the character of I'll
nd whole, and, at the same time. show
he what desperate means these negr'
o. phobists are compelled to resort
ny sustain their false charge that the Unic
la- Party is in favor of Negro equality.
100 In the article to which we refer, Il
Die editor says: '.1..
m son the subject of the right Of suffra
,se he was very explicit; stating that whencv
it became the interest of the black man
IN, have vote he would be in favor of it"
on' Now, every man woman and chi
lie present on that occasion, including Il
'os editor of the Gazette, knows that &c
OIL Cox said no such thing-and that it
oor base, malicious misrepresentation
Ill what he did say-made wilfully, wi
ere the view of deceiving the people W
csc were not present to hear for themselv'
ing What Gen. Cox did say, after Q
uh. proving what Judge CowEN had s'
'eo relative to his position as laid down
his letter to the Oberlin Committ
lere and showing that women, minors
Bel. tween the ages Of IS and 81, and |
roi groes were not permitted to vote, W
'""' "That whenever it became the int
;.'''' w. est of the country for women to vo
Tbe they would be permitted to vote; VIII
. Of ever it became the interest of the co,
orh try for minors to vote, they would
base permitted to vote, and whenever it
hese came the interest of the country
v of negroes to vote, they would be p
n os mitted to vote
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