Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-11-07
Rejoicing over viotor,e. Not won.

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WHEELING TOWNSHIP, Oct. %.
~ uie Editor Of Lhe Belmont Chronicle: +-
SIR-Now that the excitement Incl
dent to the late campaign and election
has passed away, and people can think
calmly, It would be well to consider the
conduct of the leaders and masses of the
Democratic party while rejoicing over
"the election of the entire Democratic
State ticket;" and to contrast 1t with
the conduct of the men of the other par
ty after an overwhelming triumph like
that of '63. Thethen disappointed DEM
ocrats of this Township, who rode home
from st. Clairsville in little groups after
the result of the election of that year had
| Union men made any effort to annoy
them by hoots and yells; or addressed
them in an insulting manner. Men of
the Union Party deemed IL unbecoming
intelligent American citizens to exult
over a beaten opponent. ...f
But how did Democrats act while re-
joicing over "the election of Thurman
and their ten thousand majority? For
two days after the election men who
assume to be prominent in the Demo-
| cratic party rode along the public high
ways in this part of the County hooting
and yelling i'm Border-Ruffian style at
to see, using the word "nigger" freely.
Among those who thus outraged every
sense of decency and propriety, we could
mention (by name, If desired two men
who are Trustees of this Township, and
the man whose chair stands on eeRd at
the thought of sich tyranny (the
tyranny which keeps his rebel friends
out of Congress.)
For a successful candidate for the
Legislature to go out and ride aloog the
public highways, and shout and exult
over his own election. is certainly some
thing new-something which we do not
suppose ever occurred before, even in the
darkest hoop-pole region of the State
lt Is, however, in perfect keeping with
the conduct Of n man who could come
before his neighbors to make public
speech ond inform them that "This ger
debt of the United States is five thou
sand millions of dollars" and that
'nothiR has been done to at rid of this
debt"-that 1--WE are jist HUi'r on under
| it, while it Is every day a-grOin bigger
! and bigger" and that "the tax on tea is
sixty cents per pound, and about the
same on coffee"
| 1t Is such conduct as might be expected
from man whose claim for public favor
! is founded upon the fact that during the
war he was malignant rebel sympa-
thizer, and WIS never known ito give
even so much as half dime, or q can of
fruit, to any one authorized to receive
donations for the support of the Sanitary
or Christian Commissions but was ac-
tive in getting ten cent contributions for
Vallandigham and in that he could not
abide the prayers and sermons of q loyal
man, who had sons i'm the Union army,
and who preached and prayed just as
any loyal man would under such circum-
stances-but left his church to assist in
organizing Nasby Church Mt Union
town, an dttacho of u disloyal church in
South Carolina.
A Rebel Chaplain now presides over
this uniontown church, and his (the
| Chaplain's) wifo expresses herself as
greatly pleased to find here in Ohio SO
many friends of the "Lost Cause"
This man can make speeches. In the
one which we heard him make he de-
| nounced Judge Cowen, ST., rs a liar
| Adjutnnt-GeneralC Cowen rs an embezzler
| of soldiers bounty mOney-his OppOn-
ent rs man corrupt and periured-Sher-
idan, Pope, and Sickles as senseless
tyrants-and Lincoln as "a villain with
the blackest record of any man who had
ever lived in this, or any other country
"A black hearted villain, whom the
vengeance of God pursued till 1t killed
him in the Hell-pen Of a theatre" He
eXhorted his hearers to vote for him,
shouting at the top Of his voice, "If you
don't want niger suffrage vote for me!
Vote for mel" Warming into fervor
of eloquence, he would rise on tip-tOc
and fling his arms aloft to the ceiling,
then sweep down till the seat of his
pantaloOns would come i'm close proXim-
ity to the floor. He lashed the desk with
his fists Till the glass jingled I'm the win
dows and the lights on the desk were
Jared out, and books sent sprawlinE to
the floor. We have seen dying inebri-
ates raving in n fit of delirium tremens;
we have seen madmen frOthing IN front
OF the iron grating; but we never saw
any human being rave as did this man
when closing his speech with threats of
an utter determination of the negro race.
Did not the Democratic party do well
to take one so gifted from the seclusion
of his isolated country home, and place
him where the world can reap the 6ene-
fit of his mighty intellect? 1t would be
sad Indeed to leave q flower so rare and
sweet
"ro bloom unseen,
ANA waste Its sweetness on the desert air."
May we not hope that something will
now be done ''to git rid of this ye,' pub
lie debit? and also hope that the hair
on the stop of the head" of this Demo-
cratic Demosthenes will not longer
rudely bristle up 'on eend," but smooth
down In Il manner becoming the cover
ing of one so great. And, by way of
apology for our Democratic neighbors In
thus giving way to such an exubsrance
of JOY In view Of "rhurnan's election"
we would say that they have had Of late !
much to mourn over and not much to
give them joy. They mourned over the |
fall Of Atlanta-of Richmond-the sur
render of Lee and Johnston-and have
had little TO give them real JOY since the
Bull Run disaster. 1t Is metz, therefore,
that they should now rejoice over the
election OF Thurman and the entire
Democratic State ticket by ten thousand