Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-10-04
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The contest is about to close Be
fore the next issue Of The CHRONICLE
the People of Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Iowa and Ohio will have passed upon
the issues Of the political contest of
1865.
There have been seasons during the
great struggle of the past five years
when our faith in the People and their
determination to sustain and stand by
the right has been severely shaken;
but the hour of doubt has given place
to faith and hope, that are the "sub-
stance of things not seem" and we
are able to say to the men who,
amid the four years conflict of arms,
stood by the country and her flag, that
the triumph of the Union Party in the
coming election will be more over
whelming than any heretofore.
When the President of the United
States and those high in authority un-
der him, sought to divide the party that
elevated them to power, and thus secure
the triumph of the Confederate Dem
ocracy, we feared the People would
not fully comprehend their purposes
and be prepared to frustrate them But
the experience of the treachery of the
noct Gya op1 fha 1f,
to avert the evils lit entails upon us,
have sharpened the political vision Of
the masses, and they are not only quick
to discern but swift to Illustrate every
effort, no matter by whom made, that
endangers the peace and security Of
the country. The Philadelphia move
ment, inaugurated by the President in
the interest of the Copperhead party,
has been met 10y the rank and file Of
the great Union Party as they met the
movement n of certain politicians in
1864, who attempted to prevent the re-
nomination Of Mr.. Lincoln; and so
fully convinced are the getters up of
that Convention of it's complete failure
that the very men who inaugurated it
are now abandoning it and returning
to the Union Party. The New York
Post and the New York Times-the
latter edited by Raymond--have both
abandoned the mongrel concern, and
Bennett, of the Herald, has pronounced
it u complete failure, and is now ad.
vising the President to endorse and
sustain the Congressional plan Of re-
construction.
The Union Party. stimulated by this
diversion, has everywhere fought the
campaign with unusual vigor and de-
termination, and the result, as manifest
in the cheering and encouraging indi-
cations from every State in the North,
will be grand victory for the +" Boys
in Blue" and those who stood by them
during the war. Pennsylvania, with o
largely increased Union majority, will
add at least two (and probably three
to her present list of Union Congress
men. Iowa and Indiana will return
their present Union delegations, and
Ohio will increase her majority of last
Fall at least 10000, and will carry
every District in the State now repre-.
sented by Union man, by an increas
ed majority. ..s.
In Belmont County we have the nu-
merical force to carry the County and
elect our entire ticket; and if the
Union men will see that every Unior
vote is out on the day Of election, We
pledge them that the Copperhead
Johnsonites will he completely routed
and the "last of the Aztecs" removed
from the positions they never shoulc
have been permitted TO fiji.
: Union Men Of Old Belmont! to III
Polls on Tuesday merit!
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