Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-03-28
Belmont Chronicle
sT. CLAIRsvILLE. OHIO:
THURSDAY MonNINo, MARCH 2s, 1857,


The Pure and Uundultornted Democracy
, or tl,e y Roads Receive THE Iptenigence
OF the Refusal OF the Ohio Legislature
TO strike the Word " Vhite' from their
I II tConstitution--TheR Rejcictnk of the said,
u Democracy, as Narrated by their PHI
losophcr, Guide, and Friend 1'sl
From ute Toiedo tOhio) Blade. ..f-
PosT OFFS, CoNFEDRITX < ROADS,
(Which is in the Stait NV KentuckyD |
March Is, 1867.
The glorious intelligence NV the, .ack- |
shen nv the Lt gislacheruv tue now trooly |
great State NV Ohio, in votin down the |
proposishen to strike the word white"
out NV her Constitooshn, reached us last |
a mite Mt precisely Y. NJ. | am pertikeler
~ to the cggsact date-the Importance
NV the event justities it. l need not
skasely remark that the sed news sent a
thriti-uv satisfackshen, nay, uv equisit
joy through the corners, q thrill, skasely
less exqusit than that experienced on
the receet NV the news NV Johnson's 4th
NV March speech, Ammo Domino 1865. l
shell be better understood, probably, ef /
state that our thrill NV JOY at this trooly
expected triumph NV the proud Cauca-
shun NV Ohio over the inferior sons NV
Ham, went Jest ez fur in the dreckshun
NV ecstacy ez did our pangS NV woe on
the heerin wv acknowledgements defect in
1858 I'm the dreckshun NV utter misery.
L In short, we thrill now percisely ez much
ez we panged then.
OF course meetin wtz called to rejoice
over this unexpected delivemnce NV our
brethren NV Ohio from the unendoOrable
disgrace NV nigger equality, NV wich ]
wuZ ut first made chairman; but this
wuz reconsidered, ez, bein the only one
in the Corners educated to the extent NV
wrtin, wuz forced TO act ez sekretary,
and Deekin Pog'ram wuZ made chair
t.,lr I,,ff tnlt tnalrt 10,
be chairman Nv u Democratic Conven-
shun, but talent is necessary at the SEX
retary's table.
The Deekin on takin the chair, re-
marked that this wuZ the prOdust mo-
n ment NV his life, 10y all odds. Ohio he
he'd given over to hardnis NV hart and
reprobacy NV mind long ago. BE he'd
made up his mind sorrowfully but GER
tainly, to the fact that Ohio wuz Abb
lishen, and believed that the fanatics in
chargeuv that State, wood fOllcr out their
avowed principles to their Legitimate
entlin and, as they he'd declared the
nigger man, wood give him the rites NV
man. He had bin happily disappointed
they he'd paused in their mad career,
and now, hevin taken one step in the
direchshun uu democrcy, is ther not, he
wanted to know, reason to hope that they
will continyOo in well-doii Ontil-he
dared to hope it--they wood pull down
the niger from the pinnacle onto wich
they he'd placed him, and make him agin
wat he reely ought to be, a servant unto
his brethren. lie hoped the brethren
wood spcck thcr minds, brectiy though,
ez him and Deel;in Gavitt heda game wv
seven-up to finish and time is wingin
herself away TO her eternal home ut q rate
friteful to contemplate.
Elder Gavitt blessed the Lord for this
day. lie felt like sounden the loud tim
brel DER Egypts dark sea. When he re-
membered that hi. niggers run away from
him and enlisted in the Federal army
and that sich Nv en- ez wuznt killed at
Fort Piller and Petersburg and Fort
Wagner and Port Hudson where their
cussid blood wuz split that the same
quantity NV pure white blood mite he
saved, settled in Ohio, and that, notwith-
standin all this, they meet there jist
about the same treatment they wood hev
experienced he'd they stayed ink nkentucky
his sole expandid and he Good only re-
leeve hisself by hollerin halleloogy! Its
more than he he'd hoped for. His cup
wuz sloppin over with bcssins, and Of he
shood be taken hen'z Tonight, he wood
ent complain.
. Resolooshcns bein in order, lri2, ez IL
the reglar thing here, and presented the
fOllerfn, to wit:
WAREAs, The Democracy NV Ohio,
with glorious company NV Ablishinists
follerin NV en-, hev, for the time Mt least,
squelched the eimplousproposition to give
the nigger, wlch amt fitted for it by ed
jucashen, the ballot, therefore be it
ResOLUed, BY the Dimocriey NV the
Confedrit X Roads, wich Is In the State
NV Kentucky, that we send greetin to our
brethren of Ohio, and extend to EN- our
hearty congratulations on the result, and
earnestly hope that ere long the few re-
mainin pints NV diilrence between us and
them may be softened down, and that we
may yet live and love together.
Rcsotved, Thatafter rthlsmanifestashen
NV returnin reason, we are satisfied that
there amt sich Il cussed site of diflrence,
after all, between modrit Ohio Repub-
likin and Y Roads Democrats not tenufl
to keep EN- from fraternlzin on almost
anythin.
Resoipeo, That e2 Ohio hez very pro-
perly refoozed to give her nlggeIs the
ballot, how kin her Representatives in
Congress insist on forcn us In Kentucky
TO do IL? We ask this in thunder tones.
ResolCed, That the thanks NV the DIM
ocrlcy Nv this seckshin uv.Kentucky be
extendid to the Republican members Nv
the Ohio Legislacher who so nobly come
TO the reskoo NV our more immciit friends
In that body, ez from this time out we
shel be able TO keep our niggers here, in
eZmuch ez the Niger who wood run from
Kentucky TO Ohio, after this nckshen
wood prove hisself to be most eggreJir
loonatic,
/ he'd sevral other resolooshens, hut
Bascom cut en- short BY movln the adop
shen NV sich e2 he'd bin read, and tn,
non-readin NV tho balance, wIch wa;
vociferously adopted. Bascom dom
like Democratic meetins-they okkep,
the attenshun Nv his customers ant
thereby interfere with his biznls. q
After the meeting adjourned, q trool,
affectin sceen transplred ut his grocery
announced to EN- my unalterable de
termlnashen TO change my habltashen
felt, remarkt, that Ohio oil1reda NOR
profitable feeld for my labors, and thu
sence the Legislacher NV that State het
spoken, he'd determined 10 lokate tn,
Institoot In Ohio, II bcin, in my homes
opinion, u better pint therefor m,
Dmocrisy nv Ohio are, II Is troo, In
minority, but how long will they be so
They are positive in tier beleefs, Will
thar enemies mint M nnU nIaIn1, I'm .N