Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-06
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AT the Republican Meeting
at the State House, Co. 4
/ 81 oIuEnbus, June 21st.

81 olumbus, June 21st.
The preliminary work is now com
) plete. The convention to-day has bee
distinguished for its numbers, abilit,
: and character. You have had NOR
than the usual diversity of opinion a
! to candidates. Some feeling of disap
pointment inevitable, but on the whel,
every delegate will feel that ne ha
; been fairly treated, and thathe can nov
support the ticket, the whole tick ct
not that it is just as he wishes, bur
that it has been fairly made by one O
the ablest conventions that ever as
sembled in Ohio. We all feel, too
J that organization is indispensable tt
success in every movement, great Of
small. y 57Is i,,r 9d5oI.ss tI1t
THE QUESTIONS INVOLVED IN THE
ELECTION.
The matters involved in this elec.
tion not only reach to every depart.
ment of our state government, but will
affect the apportionment of our state
and the revision of our constitution. II
will affect you in the national councils,
and will be a decisive sign to the great
presidential contest of 1872. It is,
therefore, a matter of pride and salts
faction to see the republican party OF
Ohio, with its glorious history and
proud record, enter into this canvass
with a ticket worthy its support, with
its principles sanctioned by great sue
cess, ready to enter upon new reforms
and able to carry them out.
And we enter upon our canvass with
one satisfaction that does not often fall
to the fate of a party. We have the in
dOrsement and approval Of our political
adversaries. We have administered
the government of the United States
and of this state, for now ten years.
| We have had many contests, in war
and peace-contests involving great
changes in our government-conte
political and administrative. We have
realized the original idea of the foun.
ders of our government, a central gov
ernment, supreme in its limited pow
ers, surrounded and supported by
thirty-seven local state governments,
and all now moving on in harmony.
We have emancipated four millions of
slaves. We have secured, by the
highest constitutional sanctions, the
liberty and equality of all citizens be-
fore the law. We have administered
our internal affairs so thai our credit is
untarnished, our industry is prosperous
our territories are forming into states,
new railroads are building, old dis
putes are dying away, and nothing is
needed on the part of the government
but the fair enforcement of the consti-
tuition and laws for the protection of
pesols and property. We have so
managed Our internal affairs, and have
so borne ourselves with foreign nations,
that we we have no dispute or contro-
versy with any nation of the world,
and our strength and power have been
so demonstrated that we need not fear
that any nation will desire a contest
with us. The theory and principle of
a republicantgOverlment is SO strength
ened by our example as to enlarge the
powers intrusted to the people. Even
the poor negfo-emancipated by our
laws, and clothed with political power
is recognized by our old democratic
adversaries as asnan and a brother. Il
THE PLATFORM OF OHIO REPURLI-
CANS. s.
I congratulate you that we have
now, in Ohio, at least, the formal .ap-
proval of the great distinguishing meas
ures OF republican policy by the recent
convention of democratic politicians
here in Columbus. They tell us that
they recognize as accomplished facts
the three amendments to the -constitu-
ton, and they pledge themselves to the
full and faithful enforcement of the
constitution as it. now is, SO as to Sc
cure equal rights to all persons under
it, without distinction of race, color or
So far well. It is q great
matter to secure even a formal acqIi-
escenee in coustit utional changes, es-
peciaIlF when they involve the rights
of milliG1s of people, and when they
have. been so steadily opposed in all
stages by the democratic party, north |
and south. They We're the issues of
the war. They were the issues since
the war. Tney were mainly the issues
of the last presidential campaign. Op-.
position to them was the starch, the !
uniting element of the democratic |
party. Where would they have been
the hate of the negro ?? What
bond holds the mass Of the people OF
the south in the democratic party but |
Where will Kentucky |
be without this tie? Her old afinities |
were not with the democratic party, !
Where will be that great mass of hon
est but mistaken men who feared the
effect upon our institutions of the citi-
ZenShip of emancipated slaves I? Where
will be that other class of democrats
whose only political idea was founded
upon prejudice against and hate of
negroes, and hate of negroes, and who,
in, the mobs of New York, and in or
ganized mobs of the south, hunted
down, whipped and murdered negroes
to prevent them from exercising either
civil or political rights, and who whip |
ped, Seourged and murdered white !
men, and women, too, for educating |
and being friends of the negro raee2 |
What Will JEFF. Davis say, who, though !
his life was fairly forfeited by his trea-
son, yet commands influence over more
votes in the south than we have demo-
Gratis in Ohio? What will the Large
minority of democrats say who pro-
tested in the convention against acqui-
escing in the amendments Still, in
spite Of all this uncertainty, it is gfOri-
GUS fact, of which every republican may
feel proud, that majority of the dem
ocrats OF Ohio acquiesce in the great
measures we have brought about
promise obedience to them and en-
forcement of them, and beg of us no
longer to consider them as political
issues before the country. r 800.
aiEe THE DEMOCRATIC POINTS. ID
We would have greater cause for re-
joicing if we did not see so many rea-
sons for regarding this new departure
as Trojan horse-a new device of the
enemy to steal into our camp, and be-
tray our cause. What do they mean
by denouncing the extraordinary
means by which the amendments were
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