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

1.-THE Copperhead cocks over the Kentucky
lelection.
The Hartford Post perpetrates the fol
lowing: Frank Blair's best hold"-t'
, hold his tongue.
: A religious paper asks: "Can Dem
ocrat get to Heaven ?" Perhaps if ht
goes backward.
The men who cursed our dying heroes
at Andersenville are now shouting fo
Seymour and Blair.
The hands which cut down the boys in
:. blue on the battlefield, will all deposit
Democratic ballots next November.
/ In 1860, the Southern fire-eater:
threatened rebellion if they failed, they
now threaten revolution if they succeed
i Those who filled the nation with wild.
ows and orphans, now seek to rule the
Republic by electing Seymour to the
Presidency. -----
/ The emaciated survivors of the Libby
and Andersonyille prisons are asked by
the Democrats to vote with the wretches
who secured and starved them.
Every boy in blue, who was manned
slaughtered or starved during the war
was MANNED, slaughtered or starved by
those who support Seymour and Blair.
The editor of New York World says
Vallandigham is "pretender" and a
scallawag, ,'Vallandighams says the editor
of the World is donkeyi''and villain.
The Charleston (Va.) Chronicle, says
| Gen. Blair was an AboIitionist and was
man; put those are dead issues, and, if he
was sincere in his recent letter. he will
answer our purpOSe.n -...
The Democratic papers have tried all
sorts of means to ruin Grants reputation,
and how they are trying to make people
believe that he took breakfast with Frank
Blair the other day at Leavenworth.
Every Union soldiers grave is an elo-
quent speech against the Democratic
ticket, which was nominated by the
men who initiated and carried on the
war in which our boys in blue were
slaughtered.
Two Iowa papers offer to let all res
pOnsibie Democrats have copies regularly
until November 8, the subscription to be
paid in full if Grant and ColfaX are elec-
ted; but nothing at all to be charged if
they are defeated.
Just got up bust of Gen. Grant.
Buy it, Sir?--two dollars" A voice
thunders out, mo; have you a bust of
SEYMOUR" Reply-"No none up of him
yet. There will be new bust up of
him in November
Bath, Me-, has organized a Grant and
Colfax Club. The call for the meeting
was signed by eight hundred and seventy
seven gentlemen, number one hundred
and seventy-seven larger than the whole
Republican vote last year.
One of General Hancock's principal
staff officers, when asked, after the
Democratic National Convention, how
he liked the ticket, responded: "What
uniform do you suppose wear? Do you
think | have begun to wear gray?"
Philadelphians have contributed near
ly Sc, 900 to aid the sufferers by the recent
foood at Baltimore.
Senator Doolitle will be the Democrat
ic candidate for Congress in the first dis
trict of Wisconsin.
The Wales family will spend the shoot
ing season in Scotland and go to Dem
mark just afterwards.
Anna Dickinson is in New York.
Seymour has been politician for 2Ol
years, and all along by indirect means,
has been seeking the office of President
In his case the Presidedcy is but mat
ter of personal ambition.
When Grant was receiving the sub
mission of Pemberton, Seymour was ad-
dressing rebel sympathizers in New
York.
The Charleston Mercury assumes, ifI
Seymour is elected that he will coerce |
the Senate, and use the army to de-
stroy the Southern State Governments.
General Tom Ewing says; "Should
Congress sustain the blacks, ashes will |
cover the ruin of the whole Republic.
Ofthe recent Democratic Convention /
in Tallahassee, Florida, a Democratic |
journal remarks that it is a noteworthy |
fact that nearly every speaker had been |
an officer in the Rebel army, '-5H
The Republican gain in the New AL
bany lind municipal election on Tues
day, was 700 votes. .,.e-~-.-
The difference between Grant and
Blair is the difference between mum"
man and a erumn man. -,
The Blair family have wonderful
thick hides. They will make excellent |
subjects for our tanners.
Who boasted that they would not vote
a man nor a dollar to put down the Re
bellion? The Democratic party. ~.
The Boston Post says Mr.. Seymour is
an irresistible besom." Why not call
him parallogram and done with it?
Frank Blair says the Radicals have
made Copperheadism respectable" IL
Blair keeps talking. he wiilat least undo
all that.
Gov. Seymour says he has been itcaught
by the whirling tide" That was what
allied Early when Sheridan got after hiin
and sent him whirling through Win
chester" I.ifl. s,1
The Boston Post says Mr.. Seymour's
the only man who grasps the whole sit
lation. He is pretty good grasper.-
Gen. Hancock says so, and adds the
Choctow word q" Dammim."
The Democratic papers have tried all
sorts of means to ruin Grants reputation
md now they are trying to make people
believe that he took breakfast with
Frank Blair the other day at Leaven-
worth.
A veteran of an Albany battery, who
ought all through the war, remarked
recently: 1.-The soldiers got no encour-
lging words from Horatio Seymour
when they were in the field, and they
will give him none now"
Two Iowa papers offer to let all respon-
ible Democrats have copies regularly
Until November Sd, the subscription to l
De paid in full if Grant and Colfax ore I
elected; but nothing at all to be charged c
they are defeated. r.,
A Democratic paper says, that in or:
Ter to secure Seymour,s election they
must get out every Democratic voter
Can't do it, for some of them are in for a
number of years.
''THE BLoATED BoNDHoLDERs.n -
rhe democracy of Indian are running q
or Lieutenant Governor A. P. Edger- 9
on, owner ofS16s, 600 in 5-20s. Captain
Hays, Democratic candidate in the
Tenth Ohio District, is also large hold
II of Government bonds, and the De- a
are reported as going. for him.