Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-06-01
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We believe the next Presidential
campaign win be the hottest within
the memory of this generation. At
the last, with the enormous odds of a
popular soldier as our candidate in the
| first election after the war he had tri-
um pnantIy closed, our contest was SO
close that the change ola few thous-
land votes In three States in the October
elections would have turned the scale
against Us. Such as the victory was,
our opponents may claim that they
| won it for Us themselves. The Demo
Gratis elected the Republican ticket, in
Tammany Hall, in July, 1868. If Mr.
Clement l.. Vallandigham did not per-
| form the work when he forced Horatio.
Seymour upon the astounded New
York delegation, Gen. Wade Hamp-
ton fairly finished it when he secured
a place on the ticket for the author of
the Broadhead letter. Mr.. Vallandig
hams late resolution and their indOrse-
ment by the Democracy of the leading
city in his State, are notice that they
don tintend to repeat the performance
From another quarter John Quincy
Adams takes up the word with his tre-
blenote and swells the new Democrat
ic cry for ''the Constitution as it's"
:. For that, if the incongru6us element
of the new Hs6Eement can have their
way, is tolSbe/the watchword of the
ItDemocracyin 1872. What Mr.. Val
Ilandighams means now is what Alex
afider Long, Hdeant Eand, The WOrEd
shamefaeedfy Struggled for in 186S-to
pput the war and aHits fatal memories
| behind him, to except its results, to
bow tothe XIVth-apd XVIII Amend
mentsto Che constitution, not as arti
Giles ofigHAlly to his liking,ebutas in
tegraI Rarts-now of the iidamRntal
lfaw ofHbs land heref9fe entifled. to
his nildaestioqing support! Mr. Val=
land dighmh does not intend again to in
tsdreliH ad dTaAee the Verse DECISION of
I ffe Reop1e4Kho put down eReEell-
ion and bold in perpetual detesSstNp
Its SHaies an{l supporters. He Riil
tayoid arousing alarm f0r the safety. of
| what we fought for; will 60. as far as the
Grand Army of the Republic or Mr..
/ Wendell Philips in maintaining the
fright ct the slave to his ballot, and af-
tirfnllg the perpetuity of the indivisi-
tble Republic. - e,i5;F 95er.s yg'7issi
=, 1t is not, indeed, clear that the DeI
moeracy can be brought to his patriot-
j ie platform, or that ifHit is the people
4 will care to except its too late repent4
ant authors in any other way than on
probation. The .CSsaciaauCtti ERQ,tiTes, the
great organs Of Mr., ,SNallandigham's Is
own State, regards him askance, and
the st. Louis Republican, the organ of
the farther West, openly aoutsf him. -
lGive the Democracy a few local tri-
4 uinphs Between now and their -nomi-
! mating Convention and they may lose
i their heads as completely as they did
latter the Oregon election in 1868, and
fall into the hands of the Reactionists
once more as completely as they did
three years ago in Tammany Hall. On
the. very heels of the TaX-Payers' Con.
I,ventien the other day, at Columbia
came the Ku-Klux Outburst and at
tempted murder at Newberry. All the
fine efforts of Vallandigham an6
Adams may lead to an exactly similar
end.
But we cannot coudt on it; and W.
tell our Republicans friends, wranglinl
over the publication of Treaiy Y q
I Washington, or dividing the spoils o
o flee in New York, or frittering away
their influence elsewhere in needles
contests and relentless petsonal feud
that the new movement means danger
To repeat our warning:-The next Pres
sidential campaign is to be the hotties
of a genetation. Rancorous ywrangle
and inexcusable tyranny inthe Senate
a crusade against the Press of the coun
try, aroused with obsolute unanimit.
: in defense of what it thinks its right
: persecution of prominent Republican
: because they favor this man for Senator
, or do not favor that man for the sue
cession to the Presidency; warfare upei
(, the Republican Adminiration in tn,
: hope of killing off Redublican candi
| date; interfesencein local politics in th'
hope of building up one-are alike un
wise means of preparing for the con
! test. Whose tadeth the sword shal
9 perishby the sword. The men wht