Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-03-22
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St. GIairsviIIe, Ohio, March "a.
GLAD TO SEE IT.

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sThe last issue of the st, Clairsvilie
Gazette announces that it has united
with The CHRoNIcLEi support of Presi-
dent Johnsons Administration. We
are glad to see this, and hope to see no
more endorsements in that paper of
the infamous, reasonable, and incen-.
diary utterances of yalandigham, and
the other small fry demagogues whom
the Gazette has SO lately declared were
entirely right, and the President, Con-
gress and three fourths of the People
wrong. May we not hope, too, that
the day has gone past when the Gazette
will declare that soldiers of the Re-
public are ''base hirelings," "paid Hes
SLAMS in a wild crusade for the nigger,"
"murderers," "thieves" every
thing else that his vile vocabulary Of
abuse and billingsgate could hurl
against their backs, while their faces
were turned toward those the editor
avowed were his friends? May we
not hope, too, that the day has gone
past when that editor will denounce
every call for "brave hearts and strong
arms" to save an imperilled country,
assailed on all sides by armed traitors,
and betrayed and wounded by no less
guilty traitors like himself; and that
he will not again counsel his fellow
democrats" to "touch not the accur-
sed, the unclean thing" to ''have moth
ing to do with this Abolition war;"
"the Abolitionists have begun the war
let them fight it out" DC. ? ..
But, let us look into this thing a
little, and see how far this editor-who
processes such wonderful conversion
really supports President Jehnson's
Administration.
President johnson says, as condi-
ton precedent, that every. one of the
late Rebel States must ratify the Con.
stitutional Amendment abolishing for
ever that foul system Of Slavery from
whence sprang all Our woes. Have
you ever seen anything in the st. Clairs-
vile Gazette in favor of that? Does
the editor unite with The CHRONICLE
in support of that? We pause for an
answer t.s.4.-15-t.s
President johnson says these States
must in good faith repudiate the Rebel
War Debt and secure the payment OF
their share of the Union War DEBIT
Representative Rogers, Of New Jersey,
who was one of the orators at the 22d
of February meeting at Growers Thea
ter, says this would be piece Of out
rageous tyranny. What does the Ga
zette say2
President Johnson says the nation is
under solemn obligation to make
good the freedom of the negroes, and
to protect them in their rights OF. per
son and property. Would mt the Ga
zett6 editor prefer they should be re
enslaved? w -e---1-.-
, President johnson says that non'
} but LOYAL men must be admitted tt
d seats in Congress from those States
Does the Gazette endorse that part o
his reconstruction scheme? 80,
We will be very much obliged t.
this late convert if he will give plai
answers to these questions.
& These are all recent expressions fror
President Johnson; and they are Wits
points in his plan of reconstruction.
We have not asked the Gazette t
:. endorse Mr.. Johnson's declaration
a; a. the negroes of Nashville, that "H
would be the Moses to lead them frol
: the land of bondage to the promise
4 land of liberty and peace; nor til
declaration to Major Stearns that "
he were in Tennessee he would fave
-, negro suffrage;'' nor that" only 10y
men-without regard to color--shou
= control the destinies of the South. "
What the Gazette means by su
j, port of President Johnson's plan OF r
1 construction is an instant aSd indi
= criminate admission of the editor
4, Rebel friends to seats in Congress
5, the hope that, uniting with their Go
h. perhead friends from the North, tn
may distract and divide the true frien
:, of the country, and thus secure powe
and, ultimately, repudiate the pub
Ss * debt and the pensions the Governme
: is paying to the widows and children
= those who died in defence Of its fla
~ And the People everywhere so und
stand it. Witness the New Hampsh
nish election, last week. In that State I
nH'' So called Democratic party claimed
r. ~. +ba fripnda aa2ar ercsIIsnes of 1