Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-11-14
Gown aud County 1ytws.


for two or three weeks past, has called
upon the so-called Democracy to come t.
ST. Clairsville on Thursday night, Nov
Z, and present the banner to Washington
Township, and get some supper. Ac
cordingly about two Numbered people as
sembled at the Court House at the ring
ing of the bell. -.....~.....
The. first business was to make Mr.. r
E. Chambers chairman. After this wa,
disposed of, Col. James NJ. Smith, Judg,
Barton, Mr.. Samuel ID. Talbot, and gen
tleman from Jefferson County (whos,
name we do not remember) were nance
for Presidents, and Mr.. McWil
liams and Mr.. Ross J. Alexander Secre
taries. II lH |ttiH .tft J
Mr.. Chambers then proceeded to max,
aspeech. He first told the anecdote re
lated by Mr.. Barnum, in his lecture a
the M. E. Church, about Ami Hubbell
Ami was drunk, and wandering about in
search of his home, looked at some three
or four door-plates, but was unable tt
find Ami Hubbells. Finally he solilo
.quized thus: "Am / Ami or am, not
Ami? And If am not Ami who in the
ID am II" The speaker felt SO good
over the elections that he was not certain
of his identity. He said the Union Party
had frequently affirmed that the old time.
honored Democracy was dead. If so, il
had pretty lively old corpse. He pre-
sumed these Democrats moving about
him were ghosts. TIf the. Aim could be
removed from the eyes of the speaker,
perhaps he would see the ghosts of Joe
Hewetson, STACY Craft, and the thousands
of other martyrs who fell by bullets
aimed by Democrats during the late war. ]
He then passed glowing eulogy on Col.
Smith, and congratulated him on his
return to the old time-honored Demo-
cracy, and We believe the new convert
from Washington Township (Mr. Tai
bott) also came in for share in the con-
gratulations. After predicting great
future for the old time-honored Demo-
cracy, the speaker took his seat. .rs~
Mr.. Chambers speech was temperate,
and had evidently been carefully pre-
pared, and if he had MT repeated the
stereotyped phrase, "old time-honored
Democracy" quite so often, would have
been pretty good speech for such an
occasion.
DIR. John Campbell, of Uniontown,
then took the stand, for the purpose of
presenting the banner. The Dr. s speech
was designed for a crusher. He was very
severe on the Abolitionists, and partic-
ularly savage toward Senator Wade
We hope Wade won't hear of it. 1t
might hurt his feelings. Among other
things, the DIR. said if the Democratic
Legislature elect failed to canvass the
votes for Governor in such. manner as to
give the Executive chair to Judge Thur
man, they had better not return to their
constituents. He quoted LatiE pretty
freely, and his hearers, thinking he was
a "big Injun, "and was talking Choctaw,
applauded uproariously. We presume
the DR.. had not been talked to. Hence
the character of his speech. .. ..
"THE NEXT HANNIMAL," 90.
While the DIR. was talking, the gentle
man from Washington, who was to re-
ceive the banner, eyed the piece of bunt-
ing very intently, evidently thinking he
was to take it home with him, for horse
blanket. Rising he grabbed it from the
DIR. and thrust it down on the bench
with vim, and then proceeded to de-
liver himself of his speech. Mr.. T. ex-
hibited surprising oratory. His style is
like the preacher of Hepze-
dam, only little more SO! We are only
able to give single specimen of his
chaste and elaborate speech. He said
the ladies (there were, perhaps. fifty of
them in the house,) exercise great in
fuence in the elections; that, if hus-
band was Union man, his Democratic
wife should kick him out of bed and
keep him out until he promised to vote
the Democratic ticket. This would bring
him to terms. v .,.'een.a
Mr.. r. 8. Clark and others followed.
At the close of the meeting, and after
the audience had rose to leave the house,
Mr.. Chambers said he had another mat
Ter to present, and requested them to re-
'ume their seats. He then said he had
sentiment to read, which had been hand
I'd him by lady. 1t was:
The Republican Pdrty-It has been
weighed ben Wade) in the balance and
ound wanting" E = 'E.--, = -
The audience did n'tsee the point--were
rs iga,eEant OF the pun asa wild batfaloon
he plains of Nebraska. For moment
II two the silence was painful, during
which the "time-honored" Democrats
tared vacantly at one another, wi,ile the
,hairman fumbled his pockets at a fear
ll rate and rolled his eyes over. the
ouse, In the vain hepe that some DEM
crat would see the point and relieve his {
Embarrassment. But none did, aud the,
'hairman had to dismiss them, deprived
the joke, when they
Folded their tents, like Arabs, [
And silently cut and run. |" ID
On an average, we judge that about
ne out of every half dozen present "felt
Is oats" too much, and had a violent r
the next day. Whisky is en-
rely too high for indulgence to such an
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