Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-11-14


Congress did not meet their xpectations
The results of its measures have not come
4 up to their promises. They have dis
turbed the country--not pacified it.
Public sentiment throughout this State
is prepared to demand equal rights before
the law for all men, without distinction
of race or color; but IL Is not prepared to
indorse these measures of extreme and
reckless fanaticism. The Republican
party halts when confronted with such
policy. -; .
simply lesson administered to the Re-
publican party. They are admonished
to be wiser, more discreet, less arbitrary
and extreme in their measures, less arro-
CANT and overbearing in their tone. If
the lesson is needed all these mistakes
can be corrected-all these losses can be
retrieved. Congress, at its coming ses-
sion, has the whole question in the hol-
low of its hand.
From the New York Herald.
The lesson to be learned from these
recent elections is easy and plain. 1t
means that the people condemn the mil
itary reconstruction laws, the Tenure of
Office bill, and all the violent coercive
measures of the last and present Con-
gress, and declare that all such legisla-
ton shall be swept away. 1t means the
reputation of both the Copperhead and
Jacobin factions, and a determination to
take new departure with new men and
a new line of policy. 1t means that
while the loyal men of the North de-
mand the full consummati0n of the free
dom of the negro race favor their en-
reimbursement under State laws, with u
property qualification as in the Northern
States, they also demand the instant
abolition of military governments in the
Southern Districts, the generous treat
ment of the white citizens of the South,
and their speedy restoration to their lost
rights. 1t means reform in our whole
financial system, and reduction of the
national expenditures and taxation. .
There is but one way to ensure that the
popular will shall be fully carried out,
and that is by the immediate nomination
of Gen. Grant for President of the Unit
ed States by grand popular movement,
Independent of all parties, cliques and
factions. Let the people of New York,
of all shades of politics, call great pub
lie meeting for this purpose. and thus
form in the commercial metropolis, whose
voice is loudest against radicalsm, the
nucleus of a Grant party which shall
, spread all over the country. Under such
q leader success is assured
From tho New York Tribune.
'"The king is dead: live the kingr'-
The Republican ascendancy having been
designedly, purposely broken down by
, professed Republicans, they are now busy
telling us how it may be restored. All
= we have to do, in their view, is to say no
more of Republican principles, but to go
l it blind for General Grant as next Pres
D ident. We have an abiding conviction
y that our ablest and most worthy states
= man is Chief Justice Salmon p. Chase.
( And we hold conceded ability, wide civil
i experience, and eminent private worth,
e qualities that the people appreciate and
0 take pride in. We deem no man entitled
: to the Presidency, and do not desire Mr..
4 Chase called to it for his own sake. He
: has great Office now--one in which he
n is eminently useful and henored. The
: same is true i'm equal measure of General
: Grant. If either of them shall be sum-
i moned from his present to the one higher
! station, it must be because the place
s needs him, and not he the place. Let il
n be forever understood, then, that ouI
j. preference Of Gov. Chase is based on nc
S dislike to Gen. Grant, nor oven on II low
s estimate of his abilities. We presume
he has no judiciouS friend who would
Il pronounce him eqt in capacity or ex-
l. perience, as a civilfah, to the Chief Jus
3, tice; we trust no friend of the latter will
: fail to render the General a hearty sup.
y port if he should be made the standard
l. bearer of Republican principles in ths
IL
e events, shall not hesitate, in that case
II to do our utmost for his election. Blu
d our interest in the success of any candi
l. date will be based upon and measured by
n his devotion to Impartial Liberty; ant
v here is where we think those who arr
l. now grooming Gen. G.. for the Presiden
v tial race are utterly mistaken. We cal
5. elect no Republican on the spontaneous
It combustion principle. The Republican
rt N gnlpnl
al obligations. The first is to the freedmen
le the second, to the national creditors.
Y. We cannot betray the blacks. To d,
Of so is to compact the entire South in solit
le phalanx against us. The moment w
l. assent to reconstruction on any basi
c. which recognizes the black man rs enti
al tied to fewer rights than the white, w
Ie consent that every State shall be locked
n and chained to the car of our adversarie
Y, as Kentucky and Maryland now are
rs And to say that we are for manhood sui
IN frage in the South, but not in the North
u Is to earn the loathing contempt and de
,e rision alike of friends and foes. We hav
/. thus, thank Gsd no choice but to STAN
10 fast by our principles our allies, and tn
or inaienable rights of man.
id We object to the Grant movement tina
Of il is of the nature of the ostrich's simpl
il strategy, that deceives ouly HIMSELF
a There are times in which personal pref
o. erence and personal popularity go fal
We but they are not these times.
A. If our principles do not sustain us W
n must go down. And If we shall attemr
Nv evasion or concealmont we shall deser
to go down. ANY candidate who repre-
sents our principles, and glories in avow
at ing them, we shall most heartily SUI
i'm port, whether he be Chase, or Grant, q
iv Colfax, or any other. If II were possibl
90 that the Republicans should discar
- their plain obligations, and start on a
of unprincipled race for victory, we shoul
av feel little interest in their success. Bl
st this they will never do.
a From the New York World, Democratic.
St 1t is of the first consequence that th
ny Democratic party, in the position of II
sir fiuence IL now assumes, should nelth'
"a misconceive the causes, nor miscalcula
We the consequences of these great successe
Dr. 1t will not do to assume that we ha'
ad won by a simple exertion of our ow
,er party strength. The fact Is true, whet
ire er we recognize 1t or not, that we are II
nut debted for this magnificent and manifo
nd triumph to citizens who have not, f
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