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

The Re bel Democratic ePlatform-A Miin
Democrat Repudiatss 1T.
The Hon. George NJ. Weston, of Bar
: gor, Ne, and two years ago Democrat
candidate for Congress from the Fourt
District of that State, though still oppo;
ed to the reconstruction palicy of Con
gress, is not ready to follow Frank Blail
In a letter to friend in North Carolin
] he says:
! This reconstruction policy of Congress
strenuously as l resisted it and obnoxi
Gus az it is TO you,1 is an accomplishe
fact The effects of it may be modifie,
by events, and the policy itself may b
softened, with the gradual subsidence O
! the passions connected with the lat
struggle, but overthrown it cannot be
Except by revolution and another civi
war, and the issues Of the pending Pres
idential canvass are SO made up as t,
present the question, necessarily over
shadowing all others, whether the coun
try is ceady for so desperate remedy a
that, for the grievances which exist.
Mr.. Weston then quotes from Blair
Broadhead letter ana Wade Hampton
explanations; of the manner in which
the resolutions at New York were mad,
to declare the reconstruction acts "revo
lutionary," unconstitutional, naoH dno
uoid, and adds:
The assumption of the Democratic
platform, that the reconstruction acts
are null and Uoid," has no shadow OF
fact or law to rest upon.
Congress may not have exercised pow
er wisely, but their rightful authority in
the premises is clear and un4uestionable,
and those who denounce their acts as
null and void" and counsel revolution
ary resistance to them, are either thought.
less persons who know not what they
do, or bold and bad men, fatally bent on
mischief. 1t is not in this second civil
war, into which Mr.. Blair and the Dem
ocratic platform seek to entiee them,
that the Southern States will find a
remedy for the evils which. they suffer.
White immigration from Europe and
the North which peace and quiet will
invite, the higher rate of natural increase
of whites as compared with blacks, the
diminution of the number of the diff
franchised resulting slowly but surely
from deaths, and the early removal OF
"
movements as we have just had report
ed from the Legislature of Georgia, will
before long change the whole face of
affairs. The antagonism of races will
itself cease, when political contests cease
to turn upon issues connected with the
relative rights of races. The policy OF
Mr.. Blair, on the other hand, tends di-
rectly and inevitably to band and con-
solidate the blacks into phalanx i'm
penetrable upon every front. l see un-
redeemed mischief in it, in all its aspects.
The flag with which he marches at the
head of the Democratic column is the
black flag of discord and civil war for
the country and of a war of races for the
South. The mass of his misguided fol-
lowers are honest and well-intentioned,
but it is none the less true that he is
leading them in broad and straight
road to ruin.
My hope is that the sober and discreet
men of the South, whose counsels, like
yours, would have saved it from the late
war, will now avail to save it from this
infinitely worse war, at once internal
and external, portended by new revo-
luton, not SO much originating in your
section where the justifying grievances
are alleged to exist, as instigated by po-
litical calculation elsewhere-a strange
revolution, indeed, in behalf of South
ern rights, in which ''the warmest men
are the men of the North" who are
seeking, not the redress of wrongs, but
the qualification of their lust of power,
at the hazard of the ruin of the country
Political Revolution in Maryland.
. A very important political movement
was begun in Baltimore last week
Leading spirits of the Republicans who
followed Governor Swami over to the
Democracy met and announced their de-
to go for Grant and ColfaX.
Of these there were present VIM. ThOmp-
son, Secretary to Mr.. Swami, while he
was Mayor of Baltimore, and recently
Sheriff of this city. Thomas III. Moles,
late Senator; John Thompson, late
member of the House Of delegates
Young Tall, Jr., one of Mr.. Swann's
most tliberalregisters; VIM, Thomas Val
liant, ex-Conservative Police Commits
siOners, who took an active part in the
ousting of Police Commissioners Woods
and Hindes, Jacob Waltemeyer, ex-
of the House of delegates; Adam
Jos. Hawes, ex-member of the
VIM. III. Pearce and John
II. Pearce. There was number of par
der the Federal or State Governments.
Commissioner Valiant pre-
sided. Sheriff ThompsOn's remarks
were indicative of the tone of all the
speakers. He said here in Maryland we
have witnessed the arrogance of the
modern Democracy. They have neglect
ed the Union men who led them into
power l have determined not to be |
frightened by the hobgoblin of negro
equality, but shall vote for Grant. Wei
have not to be afraid of these people
whom we have lifted up and tried to
make men Of Our object is to initiate a
movement for Grant. Mr.. |
Valiant said that in consulting with |
prominent Conservatives in Washing
ton, he had found them to. be unani- |
mously in favor of Grant. A resolution
to prepare an address to the country was
adopted. 5ma .-.'aaf.1 )
s'True Democratic Doctrine"
The following precious morsel of true
democracy we clip fro m the La Crosse |
Democrat, edited by that great and dis
light and leader ofthe DEM
ocratic party, Brick Pomeroy. 1t is in
with the Pendleton and New !
York Convention plan of paying the Ma |
5ional debt. The La Crosse Democrat,
from the first, has favored out right re-
Dudiation, and swears it is the real policy |
Of the party. Read: --.f
The idea of calling i'll the bonds and
greenbacks is repddiation,
out sugar-coated to relieve the bitterness,
1t is fire to the tinder-or the tender.
Call in the bonds. 4
Issue interest bearing greenbacks for
hem dollar for dollar.
AS interest accrues, issue scrip, and