Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-12-06
9eimunt Chronicle.
ST. CLAfRsvILLE, O.:
Thursday, Deg e, 1855. .
The'Lsoherd Chanslns his
Irdm Hsrpst,. weeklr.l

tFdtn Ysrper'. weekly.l
The ChicagS Times is uotorious ss the |
Journal which wassuspended by Gen. Burn |
side for'disloyalty. Its one of the most |
reckless and unscrupulo,is papers 10 the
country, aud q few mouths since suggested !
to the President that be should sweep Con-
etess out Of the Capitol with the army. II |
appears from recent signs that il is the loyal |
people Of the country who must be swept
out, IL such advice were followed and it
really looks new as If, instead Of being
ing. This, at least, is the view taken by the
Chicago Times, and it beats an alarm. 1t
rives advice to the Democratic party, and
If profound obsequiousness to the only aris-
tocratic element in the country does not au
thorize it to speak for that party, we should
like to know what does? This advice. the
Times is aware, and plainly says, may imply
"a more advanced view" than Democrats,
and especially Southern Democrats, are in
the habit Of taking, for it is nothing else
than the adoption Of impartial suffrage as
the Democratic pelicy
1t asks. us not negro suffrage newt
ableW 1t declares that when qualified i'm.
partial suffrage is once yielded by "the
South" tho Republican Radical party will
be extinct. And it exhorts its fellow par
tisans every where in the country to renem-
Der that it Is always wise to accept the in
evitable when it comes. That one OF the
most malignant opponents of equal rights
should read correctly the writing upon the
wall which procams justice is one Of the
most agreeable incidents Of the time. -
Horatio Seymour, also, is reputed to have
taken the same ground with the Chicago
Times. 1t was during recent visit to the
West, where the air seems favorable to clear
perceptions. But, on the other hand, the
patriotic Vallandigham is understood, with
his usual sagacity, to be engaged in reor-
ganizing his party. Does he propose to
plant upon the proposition which he made
in Congress, that the Union should be
quartered2 A Union divided into halves
or quarters is the Vallandigham idoa Of o
Nationsl party.
The suggestion Of tho Chicago Times
merely reveals the utter dissolution Of the
Democratic party--a party which dies
amidst the contempt ofall intelligent Ameri
cans. because it has steadily and inhumanly
withstood every lawful effort ever made to
relieve this country of the incubus of slavery
IF il had taken ten years ago O position
which so much as looked in the direction il
which the Times now urges it to run, the
Democratic party might have retained its
ascendency. If it had had one leader who
truly understood his countrymen and his
time, our late history would not have been
written in blood.
But the Chicago Times does not seem tc
be aware that parties are net made toorder
1t thinks that the master.key of the stua
ton is that the Democratic party shall su
perscde the Union party. So the intelligent
spectator thought that the little boy had
nothing to do but to go in and win. But
tho big boy hit the hardest. If the eccu
patton of the Union party will be gone wheI
the Democracy urges equal suffrage, wha
becames Of the occupation Of the Demo
cratic party? In the pleasing game of Pus
in the Corner, if one player comes out from
his corner to take that Of another, and tn
other quietly remains where he is tho frs
player finds himself left out. Does tn
Chicago Times think the country is so en-
amoreh of the party which first melted re
belljon and then urged surrender to j. tina
it is anxious to intrust the Government to it
care at the earliest moment? The work O
the Union party will be done by the Unioi
party. and the national existence beinI
peacefully secured upon its principles, par
ties will divide again upon questions o
policy.