Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-11-21
Belmont Chronicle
PRESIDE NTIAL.
GRANTS POLITICAL OPINIONS.

Special Dispatch TO the baltimore American.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.-The leading
upholders of President johnson are con
stantly evincing their dread of General
Grant. They lose no opportunity of
putting forth inuendoes and even fiat
assertions intended to throw doubt upon
his position as an earnest supporter of
Congress and its plan of reconstruction.
Montgomery Blair is the most prominent
OF those who are laboring to misrepre-
sent his position, and he is probably the
most shrewd and inscriptions OF those
who are now working to restore the
Democratic party to full power. That
there should be any doubts entertained
upon the subject is matter OF the great
est surprise. He makes no secret Of the
fact that he Is an earnest Republican,
and his friends would as soon doubt the
devotion of Judge Chase, Speaker COlfax,
or Senators Wilson and Wade to all the
leading principles of the party. Con-
gress will meet in ten days, and within
three days after it's asscmblage there will
be no room left for any one to doubt the
position of Gen. Grant. His testimony,
given sir months ago, before the Judiciary
Committee of the House of Representa-
tives, will then be published 1t will
forever silence all cavil or suspicion on
the subject. 1t isa voluntary statement,
and was not drawn out by any cunningly
devised questioning on the part Of the
members of the Committee. 1t is
statement made long before there was
any serious talk Of bringing him out as q
candidate for the Presidency. Every
Republican member of the Judiciary
COMMITTEES indorscs him, and the whole
Republican party of the country will
enroll him IA among those entitled to
full membership. The publication of
this testimony will have more weight
than any declarations that might be now
made by Gen. Grant In reply to the sus-
picions and inuendoes thrown out 10y
Montgomery Blair, and he can afford to
await ten days longer.
WHAT TIE DAY BOOK THINKS.
The New York Day Book, q high au-
thority in the Democratic Sanhedrim,
thus sets forth its opinion:
We notice that some Of our Democratic
exchanges continue to quote the foolish
and lying telegram that Grant says he
will not accept the nomination from the
Mongrels for President" Anyman who
thinks that Grant il not i'm perfect ac-
cord with Congress is green enough to be
eaten up for grass.
LETTER FROM TIE HON. WIN. d. KELLY.
Ina note to VIM. NJ. Runkel, of Phil
adelphia, Mr.. Kelley, who fsvors the
nomination Of Gen. Grant, says:
1t is the earnestness with which he
PuIsues ~ Bteat purpose--lhe leuhclty
WIN Which ne advances 10 victory on
MS own liheLtnat lmpels tne american
peoPie 10 ihsist on presenting nm as
tneir representative man. Ills uutieS ~
General have made him generally and
minutely familiar with the questions at
issue. In his administration of his high
once ne mas had daiiy PROOF that the
Democratic party ~ positive ana vlgliaht
on one slde, thAt OF wrong, oppression,
anu lhequaIl'y, anu tha' the hepupiicah
party, Us rePresehteu IN congress py
nearly three-rourths OF the House OF he-
PresehtatiVes anu larger proportion OF
tie Sena.e, !s ns POSITIVE on the other'
'nTt M VI iiSn', 1s.i,e Sn "hn uluailty,
me ha',u vi nou ~ III inns oohles.i- T.,
ms peopie nfs again passing through tne
M IMSuu oe"; lnc 'cPu'iical parry uauel ,,
ms guidance, mas gone so lar tnat its
Thrss Stotss ara hon.Ies.Iv Da,,ocr"tic
In Delaware. Maryland, and Kentucky
the returned Rebel soldier votes, but the
dark complex xioned loyalist IL disfran-
chissd, though he fought for the flag on
score sf bloody fields, and these States
are irr.yocably Democratic. But the
dark Commissioned man, though he be
negro, votes in Maine. New Hamp-
shire, Vermont. Massachusetts, Rhode
Island. Wisconsin, Tennessee. and If the
later returns are correct, henceforth in
Minnesota, and they are all thoroughly
and reliably Republican States,
In the ten States now being recon-
structed under the laws of Congress and
the executive superyj.ion of Gen Grant
government is to be established for man,
and not for particular race of men, and
Congress has provided that no man shall
be denied the right to vote by reassn of
race or color. In three of these States,
SouthC Carolina, ouisiana'
citizens of African descent constitute the
majority, and in the other seven they
hold an indisputable balance of mower.
When, therefore. Won order the friends
OF manhood suffrage To step out of the
Grant ranks, YOU order eighteen certain
Republican States to quit the column,
you reduce your party 10 helpless MI
iori'y III "ii 'lie resV'
GENERAL GRANr.-Colonel Forney,
In his article urging the nomination of
General Grant for President, saws:
The American people. with the rare
inatinot x.,ltoh eI,.. % aa,,toa ,ho~.