Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-10-25

nation turned TO vengeance and, IN voice
which will be heard far as our national
shame was seen and felt, you rebuked on
Tuesday this immense national disgrace.
But the relations Of the Presidents tour
TO the results Of Tuesdays elections go be.
yond The rebuke of the mere indecencies
and bad tastes of his official life. There
dealt with bv the people on Tuesday. That,
the Chief Magistrate of the nation should
assume the calling of mere partison har-
raupuer was only shame. That he should
do that under n simulated devotion to the
memory of dead statesman was only bad
taste. That he should drag into 1t the
ghonored defenders of the RepnhIic. whom
he could mmand was only had taste. That
he should do this at the expense of the ma
ton was perhaps only fraud. That in this
tour he should exhibit the qualities Of an
ipebriate and bully was only shame. That
as he went around he should discourse in
bad English, in incoberent and uniatelli
gible rant, in undisguised falsehood. in
clownish vulgarity and shocking blasphemy,
was only shame and wiokedness. That
he should handy billinpsgate with the rab.
ble was only dishonor. That he should
nrrogate to himself honors bestowed upon
those whose presence with him he had com,
PEELED was only bad taste. That he should
denominnte all those who elected him, and
who had just saved the country, traitors,
and should demand that some of them be
put to death, was perhaps only an insult to
the natioa. .|. ..r..
That he should denoupcs against a co.or-
dnate department Of the Government the
authorship of his own murders IN the New
Orleans massacre was possibly only dis'
graceful fal.ifeation. That he should pledge
himself to kick from Office all who should
refuse to do his bidding in the business OF
the c,untry's bntrayal are perhaps only out
raecs AGAINST the nltion's. virtue and henor'
All ofthese. possibly, this great and mag
nanimous people may afford to pass by With
| only their rebnke as indecrncies, and need
not dispose OF as "high crimes against the
| State. " But then there were other phe-
nomena forced upon the attention OF the
nation in that tour, which annot be passed
nver or rehuked as indecencies merely
When in that strange exhibition OF mon
strous things which the President, in his
"crcle y forced upon the attention OF the
nation. he indicates to them that there are
to be no more approvals by him of any acts
of the Congress. aud that The Government
Of the United States should he treated By
him as overthrown and incapable OF making
laws. then he comes to us not in shapes o
mere nbscrnity cr OF bad breeding, but Of
a criminal And let it be understood Sc By
all whom it may concern" that Tuesday
election meant that whilst this nation has
mantle for fault OF inauguration-d and I
Lcthe for him who merely outrages all thu
prophecies OF official station and OF private
life, vet for him who presumes to. touch thu
:, sacred life of the Government, this natie'
has an AXE And let me in all calmees
and charity saw 10 tie President that Tues
days elections signify that should one ste
he taken by him to put into execution tina
threat that the Congress is to be ignored
then speedily and recntlrssly, on his offi
) cia neck that axe will fall. And then
bad President will be remembered as eml
nent only as national dshonor
Mr.. s, also alluded to the probable result
Of the election in making she constitutions
{ amendment part Of the organic law. ii
described the high ard vast import of th
action of Tuesday in making these amend
+. ments certain of adoption. TSese ament
ments nut all the nations children alik
=, under the great shield Of the nation. The
made the States and the electors theret
r eouals in the proportions of the numbers
their electors. They rendered the author
, Of rebellion outlaws and marked treaso
y with inlamy. They consccrated the natiot
= al faith to perpetual inviolabilitv. Who. }
= inquired, can take in a coucept'an of all t'
:, yastness of these results or measure the
. consequences to the neople and to tt
! nation. Well may you lieht these bonfire
= we'll NAV these shouts of joy go along wit
!, this circle of light stretching night. aero
:. y vour continent; well may ycu exchhang
. State with State, and citizen with citize'
= these congratulations. For truly the natic
:, hath triumphed cloriously. .IH