Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-01


Day Of the Belmont County Fair, an
Great Democratic Mass Meeting.
Mr.. Doolittle, in Welday's Hall, afte
spending from half an hour to an hour il
tedious preliminary caricatureof radicals
closed hi exordium with peroration c
which The following are few specimens
he said: All radicals ask of rebels is t
vote the radical ticket" That "Goy
Brown, once a rebel, now a radical, said
he would not vote the Democratic ticket
because the Democrats came down Soutl
by hundreds of thousands and put down
the rebellion" He said " as many Dem
icrats went into the army as Republicans
if not more; as you in Belmont County
here, can bear witness. That there wert
a many Democratic widows as Repub
licans, &C." But he failed to tell us whl
were the refugees TO Canada, and wht
went bawling through our streets and
over the county not one dollar or man
for this d-n Lincoln abolition war;" oi
who in '64 declared, this war failure
and must be stopped
Then closed this part of the speech by
saying this has nothing to do with the
issues before us.p So closed some As
minutes by letting off Senatorial Demo
cratic steam, for the benefit of the faithful
who took the Udpor for solid sense.
Here the Senator, with all senatorial
dignity, and in all gravity stated the
questions at issue. First, Finance, yes,
finance, the first and great Democratic
issue. The Second, Reconstruction. In
regard to the first, he said, Democrats
want to pay the debt" but forget to tell
how the money could be had without
taxation or tariff, both of which he de-
nounced, and pounded against the table
with vehemence enough to break the
stand, if not the heads of radicals. He
said "the income tax is very little" that
+" the poor were enormously taxed for
what they eat, drink, wear, for shoes,
fiannels, cottons, even the winding sheets
of the dead, and all articles of necessity
for the poor laborer, who, as in England,
pays ALL"
Next, passing from generals to particu-
lars, senatorial defence of the blood
Fourth, Plank of the Democratic plat
form. Here we expected to hear a long
and full explanation of that inexplicable
I" Equal tdrdtion of every species of prop
erty according to its real value. But be-
fore we had time to adjust our writing
apparatus, the profound c0tch-pOU No. A
closed, without one pound upon the desk
by the ponderous, sensible fist senatori-
al; and with a cool and calm cadence
said lit just means justice-a just taxa
tionW
Then the second issue-Reconstruc
after promising to meet this fairly, he
said "the peace-making power is not in
Congress, but in the Executive And
here, after long muddle of words we
were left to conjecture whether peace
making and reconstruction of States were
synonyms, senatorially! But dropping
this, he said the President has the pow
er to restore the South to their rights
all this under the pardoning power-can
pardon even before conviction. Congress
usurped power in nullifying presidential
pardon, as Mr.. Lincoln and JOhnson's
proclamations--''Con disfranchised
hundreds OF thousands pardoned and en-
franchised by the President Omiting
co tell us the condition OF Mr.. Linooin's
proclamation, or that the rebels embraced
the condition by laying down their arms
in '63, or, that they fought on the rebel
lion till Grant wrested from them their
arms and parole them az prisoners of
war; these and like feats too vital to the
true issues were carefully ignored.
But we did not design to review the
senator's speech. The stormy and pound
ing part we 'efer to the fragile desk of
Welday's Hail to review. The Senator's
blows, hurt the table more than the
heads of the Radicals. The TRADE about
ignorant Negroes, Chinese and all the
rest of mankind except the Anglo-Saxon
-Celt and Norman, Teuton too, outside
the Democratic pale of superior race and
superior rights-smacked so much of the
law stumper within hearing almost
every night during our political cam
paign, may be safely left to answer itself.
So of Orleans, Memphis, Arkansas,
Texas, Georgia and other Democratic
massacres, past or to be.
Frank Huro-neXto on the stage. Pretty
noisy sick man. But he did not hurt
the desk Rather, he inadvertently
bruised the Senator, the war Democrat,
the fast friend and defender of Mr.. Lin
coin and the Lincoln War, the Demo-
cratic soldiers-he denounced that same
Lincoln war, for he did say" MerciJess
conscriptions The Senator is Sey-
naourite and Frank Hurd Btdirite-or
which? H,rd and Dootittle, aDar and
anti-tDar, make good pair, for Seymour
and Blair!
The public have right to expect, es-
@E l.s- a,l
Senators, candor and truth. Mr.. DoO-
little fails in both. His whole speech
was a tissue of instrumentation or de-
ception unbecoming his position and
responsibilities.
Now, a few specifications He
deceived when he harangued about the
war of races consequent upon negro suf-
frage. He knows the negroes are loyal,
law abiding, peaceful industrious and
earnestly seeking education and fitness
for a high degree of civil rights and
duties, and that to the enjoyment of their
civil and religious rights, suffrage is es-
sential under all circumstances. He
knows the whole danger of trouble is
from rebel democrats, most of whom, ny
mere grace, hold their franchise priv
ileges.
Second. He deceiyed-and like low,
common stumper appealing to ignorance,
prejudice and rebel hate-when he talked
about social equality. Perhaps this
whole thing may be too silly to deceive
any sensible person. He may presume
upon the ignorance of those who voted
for Dick johnson, and would still vote
for jeff. Davis of the same social party
and instincts. He deceived when he
failed to tell the truth that the design
of the Radicals and tendency of their
policy is to put stop to this Internal
social equality which has filled the South
with fruits of Democratic misrepresenta-
ton, and sent so much Democratic blood
coursing through veins covered by darky
skins. He knows that nine-tenths of
the mixed blood owe their pateT7sat
parentage to Democrats aud Democratic
policy.