Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-04-05
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n rev dnys DefOre Tue eiectioh iu No"-
necticut, the N. Y. Tribune addressed the
following words to the people Of that State:
Theirs is an om1ibus.load Of antique poll
ticians in Connecticut who having ridden to
death the parties wherewith they were
formerly connected, attached themselves to
the Republicans organisation precisely as q
man overheard clutches the first plank that
be can reach. He had no particular liking
for that plank bit be had very particular
dislike 10 being without one. 30 these men,
hating or hated BY the Sham Democracy,
went whero they we're most likely to be
welcomed aud provided for; and they vim.
dicated their ssgacity by so doing. They
were not at heart anti Slavery but they
toere auti-nothing-to.est aud they went
where they shrewdly calculated that they
would be likely to fare, best. ,..
Some Of these are aoW hesitating, and
doubling, and considering whether it is or
is not best tor them to conquer their pre-
judices and 90 square over, to the Sham
Democracy; and, as they will naturally like
to know our opinion in the premises, We
advise them frankly to 10. Ii you do not
profoundly loathe the onslavement. the op-
preston. the degradation Of man BY. his
fellow msn--if you do not mean to perse-
we're in the great struggle for Equal Human
Rights against whatever debases or detorms
the image Of God-if you do not profcund-
ly realize that
.Freedem's battle, once begun,
Bequeai aihed from bleeding site TO son, $50,
Though bafied OF, is ever won,"
you will be apt to find more congenial So
ciety in the ranks of the Toucey and Toni
Seymour Democracy than in those of the
party at whose table you have hitherto fed
As to all talk of third parties and middle
courses, you are too old birds to be
caught with such chaff. There is and will
be one great party which looks for siccess
and ascendancy to the Rebels for an ally
and the Negroes as subject and victim
| which builds its hopes on Prejudice and
Caste, and the vile instinct which makes
every bad man the natural ally and cham
pion Of every gigantic wrong. every wicked
oppression that does not threaten to make
him it's victim; and that party naturally
controls about 48 per cent of the legal vote
Of your State If, now. you can carry to it
three per cent. more, thus enabling it to
triumph in the State aad elect Toucey, OF
Seymour, or Eaton, to the seat of Senator
Foster, you will be fairly entitled to a fair
share OF consideration and spoils, and,
judging by past experience, you may be
safely trusted to get at least your own. II
you are ever going over, there is not likely
to be in twenty years better chance fol
doing it to soUe purpose and being paid ac
cor1ingly, than just now.
The party of Liberty and Progress, how
ever named, is always sloughiDg off effet,
matter. 1t is sign Of health and growth
that it does so. In the Autumn of 1862
the Sham Democracy boasted that it carried
Connecticut in the Town Elections, ant
probably did so. It could have carried tn!
State the next Spring with any one but I
n. Seymour. Toucey or Eaton. as it's can
didate tor Governor. And-all fear of tn
draft being dispelled-it lie now naturaliziu
Iriskmen by Wholesale and receiving bacl
some voters who fled to evade conseription
Now, then. is the time for all that is false
and hollow. and venal. to combine to tbroy
the State into the hands of the party whicl
was at heart with the Rebellion throughou
lone of whose editors fed into Dixie 500
after Bull Run, In order to share the couu
sells and fortunes of the Shareholders Con
federacy. All of like principle. but les
devotion to it. whom he left behind are no,
doing their very utmost to elect the Demo
cratic ticket; and. if there be any left j
, the Republican Union party who delight !
such company, we exhort them to 90 straigh
over at once. There will he enough lef
f we trnst, to elect Gen. Hawley and the er
i. tire Union ticket by moderate but decisiv
majority. But, through whatever fortuu
may befall it, that party, ahating no jot {
: heart or hone, will move right on. for Un
t versal Justice and Universal Freedom. p.