Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-08-06
POLITICAL.
Now, bows. mark time :

Firm firm. steady! where our chieftain towers
Let seymour bear the STARS and Bars
The "Stars andStripes' are ours.
The he, same old fight we fought of yore,
When Grant our victories Won:
! We tight at North and South once more
Till freedoms work is done.
FOR seymours friends > whom once he taugh
In eighteen siXty-thTee,
Once more unto the ballot brought,
To break down liberty.
Firmi firm! steady, &c.
J While Grant and Colfax lead our line.
/ : Let Blair and Seymour shout
Though Rebels North and South combine.
! Their forces we will rout
{ u cannot be your candidate
Said Seymour-what he meant
| WaS-what he did not state:
cannot be President
Firm firm steady &c.
THE Tammany ticket has had ON the
old rebel leaders the effect of a spring
sun ON snakes just emerging from the
torpid intiuenceOf winter. Forinstance,
the following bs the great rebel cavalry
leader, Wade Hampton:
Iyietd to none IN deUotion to that" Lost
Cause for aCIich lOe fought. Necer shall
L admit that the cause Itself failed, and
that the principles which gave it life acre
therefore t0rO'sg. NeUer shall I brand the
men aCh0 upheld it so nObky as rebels ~
or" trdtors.' Never shall | ignomini-
ously seek safety or base promotion by a
dastardiy GENIAL or treacherous betrayal
of it.
The question is just this: is it time vet
to deliver over the Cove 'nment to those
who speak thus and would act worse?
THr New York Commercial SAYS =
" Its rumored that 1.-TWO of the most
prominent Major Generals who took
part in the Soldiers and Sailors gather
ing during the Democratic Convention.
are kicking the traces and are only
held back by very powerful influences
from declaring for Grant and Colfax.-
The gallant soldiers who led the armies
of the Republic to victory for the Union
do not feel at home in the Seymour ranks.
There are other weak spots in the enemy's
lines that will show themselves soon.n
Says the Boston Journal; 1t is inti-
mated that the reason the ''unterrified
have not yet ratified" is that some of
the old subantisial members of the party
utterly refuse to support Messrs.
Seymour and Blair, or toput their hands
in theirpockets to pay the expenses
of ratifying unpopular nominations
"By the election ofSeymour anb Blair,n
says Governor Vance, of North Caroli-
nas.' the Souh will Sc cure all they foatqtt
for.
"If we are successful in the approach
ing contest, says the Mobile Tribune,
1--WE shall s0e shall regain oil that a0e lost
in the Lost Cause. y"
At the preliminary meeting of the
Tanners Club" at Rock Island, Ill, a
large flag was suspended across the rear
of the Hall, and over it fine OK hide,
xvit hn ~
it in large letters. Underneath was the
imprint, ''U. S. Grant, Tanner"
Among the innumerable puns on the
name ofthe Democratic candidate, which
may be classed as passable, bad and in
different, is the following, embodied in a
toast for Democrat barbecue: Here's
to the old Democratic hulk ; she needs
but one sea more to sink her {"
The New York Commercial says ::
Said a well known Democrat to US
yesterday, 81 have about made up my
mind to vote for Grant. / can't stand
the rebel crew which Seymour is gather
ing about him." Such observations are
very common just now.
1t is said that Seymour has caused a
committee to follow up Blair and stop
him from making more speeches or
writing more letters. Seymour is said to-
have given way to the suspicion that
letters and speeches.
A Mississippi daily has at the head of
one'of its columns cut of a Rebel flag,
with cannon underneath, had the words.
The guns that will kill Radiclism are, for
President. Horatie. Seymour; VicePresI-
dent, Frank P. Blair"
Seymour and Blair Copperheads are
visiting Washington to induce the Presi-
dent to give them full possession of the
office to help carry the election, but
Andrew don't quite see it. Much con-
fusion is the consequence.
Wade Hampton says the working men
of the South must vote the Democratic
ticket or starve. There's the crack of
the old slavedrivers whip for you. Dol
you hear it, working men of the South -?
The speech ex-senator Hall, of Georgia,
tor Grant and ColfaX, at Atlanta, on the
31st, is followed by his declaration that
he will at once take the stump for the
Union ticket and nominees.
The Willimantic Journal says Sey-
mour and Blair are supposed to be en-
gagged in the temperance cause-Sey-I
mour giving the lecturers and Blair fur
the frightful example.
Nebraska will cast her virgin vote as |
State in November. The campaign for
Grant and ColfaX has been iauspicously |
opened and an overwhelming triumph |
will certainly follow. .
The very Democratic ST. Joseph (NIO u
Vindi Gator pronounces Mr.. Seymour |
''the most magnificent of all humbugs,' y
and this since ;he nomination.
Pendleton's iather-in-iaw wrote the I
"Star Spangled Hannrr Prn,iletonl
did his lest to rtilpce he number of
STAIRS. bee.
Tie New York Times and Commercial /
Advertiser i,ath claim that Secretary !
Seward will support Grant and Colfax.
Seymaur's Conventional remark, II |
can not accept, " is evidently Il misprint
for II can not, except"
The duty ofto-day is to do what Grant
ordered Sheridan to do at Five Forks, /
Push things.
Frank Blair declares revolutions never
go backward. That is more than can be |
said of him. i-
Semmes has taken the stump in Ala
bama in favor ofthe election of Seymour
and Blair.
Horatio Seymour once had a good
name. 1t was Nelson but he lost it.
A scrub -race-the Blair family.
NEWS AND PERSONAL ITEMS
The imports of American flour into
Montreal continue to increase.
Receipts of Customs from July 20th to
the 2Sth inclusive, were 81, ,967, 154.
The deaths in New York last week
were 730 being 90 less than the preced-
ing week.
The Southern rice crop this year will
amount to 10000 barrels against $4,000
last year.
Hon T. NJ Binklev late Assistant