Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-10-11
TO The UliaiStS Of Belmont Co
A Few Earnest Words.

A Few Earnest Words.
With the present issue The CAM
pAiGN CHRoNroLE stops, and we take
this occasion to address q few words
to the Union Party of the County, and
especially to our Campaign Subscrib-
ers.
Our circulation at the close of the
Campaign is above Thirteen Hundred,
but, if none of our Campaign Subscrib
ers renew, it will be reduced some two
or three hundred.
We presume there are few Union
Union men in Belmont County who do
not appreciate the Importance of a
good, live local paper, devoted to the
interests of the great Union Party; and
yet many of them act as though they
think it of no consequence whether
there is Union paper in the County
or not! If they can get a paper pub
lished abroad for fifty cents less they
give their own paper the go-by; or, if
the foreign paper has one or two col
umns more matter, for the same money,
it gets the preference. This course is
radically wrong, and not only the
County paper, but the Cause it upholds,
will suffer from it. The most stupid
man must see this. If the County pa
per is literally sustained and is in q
prosperous and flourishing condition,
as matter Of course the publisher
will be enabled to give his readers n
better paper than he will if the paper
Is eking out miserable existence,
barely able to sustain itsolf.
The County paper, both as party
organ and as a local newspaper, fills a
place that no foreign paper can occupy.
The papers of New York or Cincin
natl have no interest in our local af-
fairs-no more than they have in some
sand bank County in New Jersey or
Posey County, Indiana. Not bit
You might read those papers twenty
years and not learn from them that
half your County town had been burn
ed up! In all that relates to the in.
terests and glory of the good Cause,
and to the prosperity and improvement
Of our good old County, THE CHRoNI-
Gle will at all times take lively inter
est.
We ask our Campaign Subscribers to
stand by The CHRONICLE, and thus up
hold the Cause in our midst in q sub
stantial way. Send in your subscrip.
tions for year, or for six months, and
see if your family will do without it
at the end of that time!
We say to the great and growing
Union Party of Belmont Co. that THs
} CHRONICLE ought to have a much larger
circulation than it has had, and that il
must have it, if we would maintain our
ascendancy in Belmont County! The
Gazette has circulated many more pa
pers within the past year than we have
and we think the Democratic party OF
this County have always sustained
their local paper better than our party,
We have stated the case frankly
We have no objection whatever to our
people subscribing for and reading
foreign papers, bat We think it their
first duty to uphold the local organ Of
their party.
I This matter is worthy of serious con.
sideration at the hands of every Union
man in Belmont County. 1t is sol
emn duty they all owe to the Cause
There are over $500 men in Belmont
County who vote the Union ticket
Are we unreasonable when we say that
1900 or 1000 Of them should be per.
naansnt subscribers to The CHRoNIcLE
We ask our friends to move in this
T matter noW. The session of Congress
commencing in December will pro.
! badly be the most interesting and i'm
portant in our history. Besides this,
we will give variety of Miscellaneous
News, and Literary selections, the Mar
kets, Local News, &c.
Ron in the Subscribers!
CApr Copu thanks the IIn;on lad;as