Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-13
c HoICE DEMOCRATIC LIrRRATURE,

By Bat Pomeroy, ofthe st. Clairsvllle Gazette.
We copy from the last Gazette, a fe,
extracts to show our readers what kin
of nourishment the readers of that pape
are furnished:
! The character of the usurpation Of tn
! dccursed RuD,p in the reinstatement O
! the heartLess and bloody scoundret Stan
! ton, cannot fail to impress the lover o
! his country with fears for its peace an,
future.
That is exceeding chaste and higl
toned (?) and the following is about a
bombastic a thing, as one might expect
coming from the very valiaat man VIII,
pronounced the war against the slav'
drivers Rebellion "a damnable war;"
Democrats, organize this winter; fol
the buds and flowers may not come agair
to gladden. the hearts of people at peace
Permanent usurpation cannot be borne
Tyranny must be stricken down! tn,
time for action has come ! Andrew John
son is still President of the United States
under The Constitution, the Supreme
Court is still our court of last peaceful
resort-they must be sustained! Usur
pers and conspirators must be met, ifnol
successfully with the ballots, then aOiti
bullets! Organize, organize! Organize
for the great battle--it will be bloodless
or it will be bloody. Organize for eithe'
emergency! Democrats must be men, as
well as Democrats, and save their coun'
try from anarchy, ruin, decay and death
We presume Col. Charlesworth is or.
ganizing "tle White Boys in Blue,'
"for either emergency" We nominate
JOHNNY Heaton as Colonel of the first regi-
ment, OF these Democratic men, muster.
cd in, and select Montreal, in Canada, as
the place of rendezvous.
TIE CHRONICLE asks us the following
crushing questions:
Are you, aud is the Democratic party
in favor of restoring the Union with sla-
very re-established, as 1t was before the
Rebellion?
Are you, and IL the Democratic party
in favor of restoring the Union us it was
with Breckenridge as Vice President, and
JEFF. Davis in the Senate of the United
States?
And says it wants categorical answer
Yes or No!
Neighbor, do you believe the moon is
made ofgreen cheese, and If so would you
like to have a slice.
That method Of answering questions
may satisfy the readers of the Gazette
and its editor may think he is very
smart, but if a Republican editor should
answer in that way, his subscribers would
very soon inform him that he did nj
have brains enough to edit Republican
paper.
We do MT believe that the moon is
made of green cheese, but we do think
the Gazette has very green editor.
III answer to our declaration that TuI
CHRONICLE will continue i'll support Of
Liberty and Union, the editor saws:
That is we suppose liberty to destroy
the mentofour Fathers and Uni m
with negro wenches.
Every Democratic State in the Union,
in 1860 undertook to secede from it, and
for four years, with the Encouragement
and support OF the ST. Clairsvlle Gazette,
wagod war to destroy the Government
-four Fathers.n While THECuRoNICLE,
and the party it adhered to, did all in
their power to prevent them from accom-
pllshing their purpose.
, On the acench question we profess no
claims that could in any way compete
with the well known reputation of the
Gazette man.
"THE CHRONICLE did what it could
TO uphold the hands of tho Government" i"
AS Its Government has no hands to hold
up now having "gone GU" i'm Theatre
box ut the hands of an assassin, had MT
it better go round with MRS. Government
and assist her in "holding upu her old
clothes before the public, rs she is now
d DING.
This is about on par, in point ofinfa-
my, with the article published in the
same paper, some time ago, headed "The
Late Lamented," which so shocked the
moral sense ofthe community, and dis
gusted the better class of Democrats with
the conduct of this organ.
We have given enough, and more than
enough, of this low pettifogging indecen-
cy, to satisfy the most perverted taste ofthe
lowest reader of TIE CHRoNIcLE, and
as we invariably exclude all indecent ad-
we owe an apology for this
deviation from our general rule, as we
desire to give our readers this sample of
Modern Democratic Literature, Morals,
Decency, and Courtesy.