Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-06-11

Most Of the Democratic pipers attem ut
to eulogize the late President Buchanan:
but the Dayton Ledger, of which Mr..
vallandighsm Is supposed to be editor
in chief speaks more candidly. Itsays:
His administration was marked at
every step, by complication Of errors
and misfortupes. He inherited the
Kansas question, but failed to adjust IL
with success. A sarcastic and i'll advised
letter Of ten lines, srrayed Douglas
against him on the i'll fated Lecompton
controversy. Extricated in part, at last,
from the difficulty, through the extra
ordinary skillof Alexandria,. Stephens.
by the passage of the "EngIish Bill %
and thus defeating the Little Giant"
of the West, instead Of conciliating his
bafIled but still powerfulfoe, he resolved
| In spite of the entreaties Of many Of his
best friends, to carry the war into Illi-
nois, and to drive Judge. Douglas out Of
the Senate, even though Lincoln should
be his successor. In this, he signally
failed Douglas was reelected; became
| O candidate before the Charleston Con-
vention, where he was bitterly opposed
| by Mr.. Buehanan's friends. The fierce
contention shivered the Convention
the Democratic party was divided Lin.
coin was elected; civil war came, and
the end Is not yet.
Both by temperament and by age Mr..
Buchanan was wholly untitled for the
revolutionary tempest which beat upon
him during the last months of his ad-
ministration. His patriotic purposes
and impulses no man has any right to
| question but he fliled utterly to meet
| the crisis. Demonstrating with logical
exactitude, the unconstitutionality of
coercion, he yet denied the right of Sc
cession, and ignoring the fact of seces-
sion, did nothing; but lying upon the
| waters of revolution, huge but power
less hulk, he drifted with the current
till the fourth of March and disappeared.
His successor drifted on, too, crying out
at every surge of the waves, that mo
body was hurt !" but he drifted speedily
and straightway into civil war.
What Mr.. Buchanan should have done;
what he could have done, it is now a
mere matter of speculation TO inquire.
But William the Silent, William the
Third, Lord Chatham, or an Andrew
Jackson-any one worthy of a place in
the grand array Of Gods eternal man"
would have done something, and dene
it with commanding promptitude and
efficiency. But all this, and all else
which pertains to the great American
Revolution of 1861, We commit 10 the
high and impartial tribunal of history,
Tor solemn and diligent inquest, and q
judgment from which there is no appeal.
Grant the P1.nn.r:of sA.rpa.n's March.
In an address to the Philadelphia
Union League the other night, Governor
Geary related the following important
fact:
On certain occasion, when dining with
Grant at Chattanooga, after the cloth
had been removed, he called for some
maps, which he spread before me, and
said: "Sir. you aud your division have
been instrumental in obtaining the vic
tories around this city. The plan for the
next campaign is already formed, and it
is proper that you should know it. l
intend to concentrate my troops around
this place, and pour them on Atlanta,
while strong attack il made on Rich
mond. After Atlanta falls, q line will
be taken for the sea shore, ending either
at Charleston or Savannah; and having
thus made our point, We will enter the
Carolinas and attack Richmond" This
was in 1858, nine months before the city
of Atlanta was taken. Justice should be
done, and I tell you so that you will
know who it was that planned the march
to the sea, and bisected the Con nfederacy
and and brought the N TsRbsI,ien cRsnsn to termina,
A USTIN c. WARREN, is hereby notified thatt
n on the 9th day eff May, 1865, Charity j. War
rem, flied in the Court of Common Pleas Of Bel5
mont County. Ohio a petition setting forth that
the said Charity is the wife of said Austin or
Warren, and charging him with having abanb
doned his wife and children, and with gross
neglect of duty, and praying the Court for af
order for alimony against defendant. The petif
tion will be for hearing at the next term of said
Court or after the expiration of six weeks from,
this day. CHARITY j. WARREN. [
May l4-6w.