Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-08-27
Union County Ticket.

In st. Clairsville School District, the
Republican party is at least fifteen votes
stronger than it was last fall. We know
of several other localities in this county
where the same encouraging state of af-
fairs exist.-[Chronicle.
Stronger how w?-by the death of Dem
ocrats! We are aware that death of has
been unsparing in his visits to this COM
munity within the past few months
quite number of Democrats, perhaps a
dozenSor more, have been summond to
their long homes by Him who gives and
takes away, but we were not aware be-
fore that there was any one in this COM
munity so base as to exult in their death.
The families who have been called upon
to mourn the loss of near and dear ones,
who have been plucked from their fami-
ly circle can read in the above para
graph, that there is one man among US
who is exulting in their sad griefs. We
can't think that the Editor of THE
CHRONICLE wrote that paragraph.
Be it remembered that THE BELMONT
CHRONICLE in this enlightened age
exults over the death of Democrats be-
cause of the political advantage his party
derives from their death. And it has
: the audacity to say that it knows of other
localities where the "same encouraging
SbaI6 Ol dlldlTS 6AlSJS.
In its next issue it can exult over the
death of another young democrat, MIR.
Henry Mitchell, Druggist of this place,
after very shert illness of Dysentery,
died at the residence of his father DIR.
Mitchell, on Monday afternoon last. He
wa, in excellent good health up to a
Wa * ago, and was one of our most active
bu uess men. Peace to his ashes. We
de aeply sympathize with the bereaved
faml.y in their sudden and unexpected
loss.-[ Gazette .a
The above is a strange compound of
fiendish venom apd mock sympathy, of
political diaboiism and hypocriticai
coincidence.
If any man, friend or foe, ether than
the author of the above contemptibly
mean article can find anything in the
paragraph quoted that indicates dispos-
ition to '' exult over the death of Demo-
crats," he can find what never was
thought of when it was written. We
admire an open, manly foe, but we de-
test miserable sneak-thief, so constitu-
tionally mean that he seeks to question
the motives of every other man with
whom he comessin contact because he
himself never speaks nor acts from an
honorable motive. The article above
bears the ear-marks of the owner of the
six4and-three-eights hat and we may
say that of all the Democrats who have
recently died in this school district land
we don't know that more Democrats
havedied than Republicans there were
few who did not have as much respect
for the editor of this paper as they did
for him, and who were not as well treat
ed by the editor of this paper as they
were by him. About the death of one,
at least, of these recent dead John Dun
ham) the mouth of the Gazette and its
Know-Nothing clique, should be forever
silent. They slaughtered him in their
so-called Democratic convention and
hunted him to his grave because he was
young man of too much intelliC ence
and integrity to become the tool of such
a corrupt, imbecile junto.
If you intend, Mr.. Gazette, to fight
this campaign through under the advice
of the small hat fraternity, on the prin-
ciple above indicated, we would like to
know it. However it may be against
the grain to get down to the standard
you indicate, we will try and accommo-
date. you You can have high minded,
honorable fight, or. you can have just
such as you desire to make it. In per-
sonalities we shall not make the first at
tack, but as we do not belong to the
class of people known as nen-resistants,
you may calculate that when attacked
we Will defend with the weapons best
calculated to produce results.