Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-08-26
New Series-Vol. 9, NO 81

conduct was concerned, it was entirely wrong
If Mr.. Pendleton represents anything, II he Is q
representative man in any respect, II Is IN rep
resenting the State right, secession feature ol
why. nv friends. how was IL in 1864? The
Democratic party went TO Chicago 70 nominate
candidates for President and Vice President
They would nominate General and wal
man for President, and thereby get the soldiers
vote or part OF IT, and they would n9mina.e @ RSde
President. and thus get all the anti-8ar Demo
cratic votes.
cratic ticket tor Vice President? This same
George II. Pendleton that you are now called
upon to vote for as Governor Of the state oi
Ohio. You did not vote for him then. You
could not consistently. Youcannot consistent,
ly vote for him now; and no man who voted
against Mr.. Pendleton in 1884 can vote for him
without stultifying his record.
What was the platform Mr.. Pendleton stood
on in 1854? 1t was resolution declaring that
cessation OF hostilities for the purpose of COM
promising with the rebellion, for the purpose
of letting the rebel States go. He stood upon
and II soldiers could not vote for him in 1854,
they cannot vote for him now,
In one respect we ought to be gratihed that
Mr. Pendleton has been placed in nomination.
Nobody can be deceived IN regard to him. He
represents the true spirit and purpose OF the
the war was wrong upon our part, that we were
the aggressors and wrong-doers, thai the rebels
were right. any such Democrat can vote fer Mr.
Pendleton consistently. But any man who be-
neyes that the war was right upon our part,
that the rebels were wrong, that the Union
that the blood that was shed in its defense was
shed in q holy cause, any such man cannot vote
for Mr.. Pendleton consistently. Now, take
your stand upon one side or the other. The is
sue is plain one. You are either on the side OF
the Union, or you are on the other side.
to LET south Carolina and North Caroline. and
all the rebel States go, and go in peace and that
we had no right 10 preventit. And IL the DEM
ocratic party should again come in power, and
Mr. Pendleton should be President of the Uni
ted States, he would hold, in 1873 or 1876, that
South Carolina had the same right to secede
that she had in 1881. Phe same issue over again.
They have not abandoned hatdoctrine. Place
the Democratic party in power tomorrow, and
advocated III the spring OF 1851. Enthusiastic
cheering.
REPUBLIcANIsA AND DEMOCRACY coNTRAsTED D
Praise the bridge that carries you safely
over" Praise the party that carried the coun-
try through the war. Praise the party that
preserved the Government and the Union for
the benefit of our posterity and all mankind
The members of the Republican party have
right 20 be proud of its glorious record and its
vast achievements, greater than those ever per-
formed by any political organization in thehi
tory OF the world. Think Of ft-that we have a
common country, bound together by stronger
ties than ever, growing more rapidly than ever,
with brighter hopes and prospects than ever
tion, hopes and wishes of the oppressed millions
of other lands, and that all this We owe to the
Republican party; and but for that party, the
Union would have been broken into fragments,
slavery would have triumphed, and the sun Of
liberty set in blood, and where now we have
bright and glorious prospects, and beautiful Wis
tas of the future, would be darkness despair
and death.
To triumph over the rebellion the Republican
party had TO triumph over the Democratic pIrty
of the North and over slavery; and it was q
triple triumph. 1t makes the heart of the true
Republican rejoice when he reflects that there
is not now slave in all our borders; and that
the foul blot which SO long disgraced our
national escutcheon has been wiped out forever:
and that this is the work of the Republican
party; and that now there is not only no sla-
very, but there are equal civil rights tor all
be universal suffrage and equal politician rights
for all, and t.. at our Republic will then realize
the grand vision of perfection and greatness
which presented itself TO the eyes Of our fathers
And the work of the Republican party is not
ended; its mission is not yet finished. The
work of reconstruction is not completed. and al
though 1t is progressing well, with every assur-
ance ofthe most favorable results, yet IL would
be absurd to turn IL over in its unfinished state
at the last moment, If they had the power.
destroy all that has been done, and throw the
country back into the bloody chaos from which
accomplished, imperfections to be removed, and
improvements 70 be made in our grand polttl-
cal system, and 1t is proper that the Republican
party, which has so gloriously begun the work,
should go on to its completion The Republican
party has done one thing at a time, and has
will still progress in the same way. II ft had
undertaken to accomplish everything at once,
as was desired by some II would, perhaps, nave nav,
failed In ALL but like the good mechanic VINO
gives his undivided labor and attention to one
thing until 1t is accomplished, and when that is
done, and well done, takes up another and so goes
on until his whole task is hnished-such is the
mission and history ofthe Republican party
And here call attention of all reformers TO the
unQuestionable fact that there best chances for
success is in the bosomOf the Republican party,
which will in due time take up one reform after
and proper will be pushed forward to final sue
cess The Republican party is mphatically the
great reform party of the nation.
But what on the other hand has the Demo-
cratic party to offer in contrast with all this 3
1t presents a beggardly dish of Virginia abstrac-
ttons, blood-stained and spotted with the iep-
opposition TO all the glorious things that have
mentioned-a record of negations, diSsatisfac-
tiOn-Ihave almost said, OF imbecility, in which
you discover not one thing that gratifes the eye.
warns the heart or meets the approval of the
jud yment. History is full of instances where
nations have been stricken with poverty OF
intellect and resources. and have for genera
tiOns failed to produce any great good thing.
but have continued to decline until they have
gone down TO the point where there must be
dissolution to produce regeneration.
And SO it is with parties The Democratic
with poverty of resources, feebleness, of pur-
pose, submission to bad principles, and has
been Incapable OF producing or proposing any
That the Republican party has made some
mistakes Is not to be denied, for to err Is hui
man" and neither men nor parties are infalli,
when discovered and ndcomprehended were recti-
ned.
lican party, after having preserved the Repub-
lie, should be required to turn over the care and
custody of 1t TO the Democracy? When the
flames of your burning house have been eXtin-
guished, would you employ the incendiary as
waichman to protect IL from fire in the future.
or when your child has been rescued from the
waves would you deliver it lover for tender
nursing and resuscitstion to the monster, who
threw 1t in. And yet you mightdo these things
with as much propriety as to now turn over the
control of the Government to the Democratic
party. When the Republican party shall have
cracy and become incapable of any vigorous
policy or generous action, IL will then be time
enough to hunt up some new organization
certainly not the Democratic-fnto to whose hands
the power of the Government should be COM
mitted. That such Is not now Its condition,
and that it is but in Its prime, we all know, and
that 1t is capable of great things in the future
as in the past, We believe. Whether 1t has yet
been stricken by the palsy Of corruption and
i'm becility, we may judge by the progress which
has been madein reform during the short period
which General Grants administration has been
in power. The last three years of Mr.. Johnson's
administration were under the influence and
control Of the Democratic party, and Were sub
ject to all the evils and misfortunes incident to
tion of General Grant thus far has been a giori-
Gus success, and If in the future 1t shall carry
out the promises which IL has already given,
Will realize all and more than Its most sanguine
friends have anticipated.
DOMESTIC QUESTION OF THE DAY.
The great question of interest in our domestic
affairs, to which the attention of the people Is
chiefly directed, is in connection with the man.
agement and ayment of the national debt, and
OF the currency, and the diminu- |
tiOn of the financial burdens which rest upon
the people, Whatever might have been the |
policy OF Congress or the wisdom of its enact |
Tnents, they were incapable ofexecution while |
the Executive Department of the Government
was controlled nthe interest of the Democratic |
party, and hence no mportant financial policy |
could be successfully inaugurated until the con-
troll of that department was changed, and Il |
should be brought TO harmonic with the policy |
and purposes of Congress. During the three |
wears referred to, corruption and demoraliza- |
grew to an unprecedented extent.