Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-02-11


Republican party, whose watchword Is
constantly enlarging liberty as the com
dition of increasing intelligence, moves
with the fraterDal spirit. of the age, and
will, not have accomplished its work
until it has placed the governments Ofthe
United States in, the hands of all the
people. ssgt.s5 gsd,F Iho14 rt4taia q
= Democratic Courtesy to soldier
From the Columbus Journal. Feb. 9Th.
+ On Wednesday of this week, the Ohio
Senate adopted, by vote of l9 to Il q
joint resolution inviting Major General
Oliver o. Howard, soon expected in the
city, to visit the General Assembly
On Thursday, the day of General How
ards arrival, the resolution reached the
House, and was there discussed at length
on its merits, the motion of Hill, of
Defiance, to refer 70 the standing COM
mittee on Military Affairs, being simply
q less courageous and less manly way
than q Straightforward negative vote; to
kill the resolution outright. Pending
the motion to refer, by strict party vote
Mr.. Buell., a loyal Democrat repre-
senting Washington county, being the
only honorable exception the House
adjourned at the hour of half-past five.
Thus, by a majority OF four, the most
disreputable Branch of the. most dis
reputable Legislature hitherto assembled
in Ohio, succeeded in insulting an arm
less hero-one ofthe brayest and noblest
of Americas great soldiers-Who, at the
slanderous attacks OF. Democratic Legis-
latsrs upon him, was, almost within
sound of their voices, sharing the hospi-
ta]ities of the Governor of Ohio.
Nothing has occurred during this ses-
sion, or during last session, that has so
Enthusiastically developed the latent dis
loyalty and hidden hatred of the soldier
in th!s Legislative Body, as the discus
sim upon and the action on the resolu-
ton to which we referred. speeches
or rather TRADES, of Messrs. Hill, of
Defiance, WaIling and Leete, were un-
respectfully frank and unbecomingly
open confessions of q .deep-seated, hos
tility to all gallant soldiers of the class
to which General Howard belongs, and
furnished unmistakable evidences of a
desire to prevent any legislative action
looking towards honOrina them, or ex:
tending courtesies to them of any kind
tor description. 1t cannot be possible
that these shameless men who are thus
engaged in bounding down manned
and mutilated soldier, are ignorant of
the history of the ''Havelock of the
War.n Surely they must, remember
that from the first battle under Mcdowell
at Manassas to the-enemy's last shot at
Sherman by the sea, this brave young
| soldier at the head of brigades, divisions
and corps, barred his breast to the storm
of almost hundred battles. Fair
Oaks, where his two horses; were killed
under him, and he@gaye, up his right
arm that treason might not triumph !, at
Antietam, where he fsobly led,to victory
the divisions of the gallant Sedgwick,
when he fell; ;at Fredricksburg, where
| he charged with patriotic determination
upon the enemy's riflepits under a mur-
derous fire; at Charlottesville where he
displayed -unMonted- bravery, and al
Gettysburg when commanding theI1th
Corps, he won the highest encomium
from General Meade, and for the une-
qualled skill and steadiness with which
he repulsed ell rebel assaults upon Gem
ct iry Hill-the key OF Mead's position
he received in an autograph letter, the
greateful thanks of the President of the
United States ! in all these great battles
his personal historyfs one ofthe brightest
page in the counties annals. The fight.
ing had ne sooner closed OH the Potomac
than General Howard was orderedsto the
u
land, and well does the country remenl.
ber, if these Democratic detractors dc
not, his CONSPICUOUS gallantry at Look.
out Valley, at Chattanooga, at Mission
Ridge, at Riuggold, and many othel
actions, when by him laurels and all
loyal hearts were won. Coming here by
invitation of an association of promi
nent citizens, neither his great service
nor his exalted character anu pure life
nor his immortal honors nor his ''emp
I ty sleeve''T can pGutcot him from the
Ljackals who prey 'nH mems regulations
and who shun, as If it were fatal to theil
J existence, the pure, patriotic atmosphere
of soldiers presence. ss sd = boo 2
j The cheap .civility of being invited
upon the floor of the Halls of the Lezis
ative Assembly, a civility already ex
tended this christian soldier by one
fourth the Legislature OF the different
States and by the National Congress
is refused by. the Representatives, so
/ called, of the State that gave birth II
/, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and McPher
, son And this refusal is accompanies
| by attacks upon the character. the in
| tegrity and the patriotism of the maj
|, who has given stronger and more con
, vincing proofs of his patriotism-hi.
QeNOllOIl tOcOuutly y---ludu dlltfle DeulO
/ cratic members of the General Assem-
. bly,, combined. s.f i.,.! g. J.. a-G'
1t was a by no means uncommon
! thing, during the struggle with treason
to see and hear soldiers insulted becaus
they lovedqtheir country so well tha
. they were willing tssurrender their live
! for it, but we had hoped that when thes
battle-scarred heroes, these defenders O
of our homes, these saviors of the Re
, public came among us, when war'sstrife
and passions were embed, that ever,
, man with spark of patriotism, graft
: tudej or manliness in his heart, wou1
= rush with readiest alacrity to dc hone
:. to those whose lives were offered will
= ing sacrifice, for our safety, and VIII
! counted nothing lost if the Republic
/ was saved. If any baser methods ther
are of exhibiting oingratitude for bless
4 ings brought US and services bestowed
/ we feel safe to say that they will not es
! cape the skulking scrutiny of the Hill
a and the Wallings. .7sa 1fs alfs :.
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! A session of the Forty-first Congress q