Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-08-20
The Democratic stampede.


The democratic line seems to be in
much the same condition as the Rebel
line in front of Petersburg was just after
Sheridan's victory at Five Forks. All
along the line the Democratic Generals
evinced painful consciousness of being
outflanked, aud the run for AppomattoX
has begun. Judge Lindsey of Kokomo
Iowa, nominated for Presidential Elec.
tor by the Democrats of the With Dis.
trict, bolts Seymour and takes the stump
for Grant. The Hon. Dennis Mccarthy
and Gen. David S. Wilson of Iowa, both
lifelong Democrats, bolt Seymour and
take the stump for Grant. Major Gen.
Gordon of Indiana, a Democrat till Sey-
mOur was nominated, takes the stump
for Grant. The Hon. George NJ. Weston
of Bangor, a wheel horse of the Demo
cratic party, takes the Stump for Grant.
Speaking of Blair, he says:
1.-The flag with which he marches 2.
the lead of the Democratic column is the
black flag of discord and civil war fol
the country and war of races for the
South"
"a strange revolution indeed,
in behalf of Southern rights, in which
the warmest men are the men of the
X
of wrongs, but the qualification of their
lust of power, at the hazard of the ruin
of their country"
The Hon. Thomas N. Stillwell, United
States Minister to Venezuela, and Gen.
J. L. Swift, both johnson Democrats,
have returned to the Republican fold,
and are stumping for Grant and Colfax.
Rumor has it that Collector Smythe, fol-
lowing in the footsteps of the ilustrious
Thurlow Weed, repudiates Democracy,
and will declare for Grant as soon as he
can read his title clear. Gen. Steedman,
who would have supported johnson, or
Hancock, or Mcclellan, repudiates Sey-
mour. Senator Doolittle is downcast,
and has ne faith in the Seymour ticket.
Gen. Ewing's feathers are all wet, and
he has stopped Growing. Gen. L. d.
Campbell is reported to be disgusted.-
Chief Justice Pearson of North Carolina,
is out for Grant. The Maryland Con-
servatives, who have heretofore sustain
ed Swami, have held a meeting and de-
clared for Gen. Grant. Caleb Cushing
regards the Seymour ticket with con-
tempt. Not q single member of the
Cabinet, or prominent officer of the Gov
eminent, has given the least intimation
of intention to support Seymour. Mr..
Evarts, Mr.. Seward, Mr.. McCulloch,
and, so far as known, the other members
of the Cabinet, will support Grant and
Colfax. Late indications seem to be
that Andrew Johnson himself will either
remain neutral, which would be a new
attitude for him, or come out in support
of Grant. OF course chief Justice Chase,
whom Seymour pretended to support in
the Convention as a cover to secure his
own nomination, will not respond with
any like hypoeritical pretense of sup
porting Seymour. He is incapable of it.
Should the President support Grant,
as he probably will, Mr.. Seymour
will probably not be honored by the
support of more than a corporal's
guard among the 41,00O office-hol-
ders of the Government. We have
already mentioned several Democratic
journals which haverepudiated Seymour.
Altogether, seeing that the campaign has
only been running one month, and that
we have still nearly three. months before
US, it looked very much as though the
Democrats would reach AppomattoX
Court House about the 1st of November.
We have no doubt that Gen. Grant will
treat themwith that magnanimity which
has always distinguished his course
toward Rebels, and will allow officers to
retaintheir side-arms and privates to go
home on parole. But the sooner they
lower the Rebel flag the better.