Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-07-18

We present the following sayings of
the Baltimore nominee for the perusal
Fof the convertible stock of the Demo-
cratic party in Belmont County. Who
has changed? Liberal Republicans say
it isn't Horace. Si'z a'sA.tE
Every one who chooses to live by
|pugilism, or gambling, or harlotry,
with nearly every keeper of a tippling
house, is politically Democrat.-Hor-
ace Greeley, january Z, 1868.
Point wherever you please to an elec-
ton district which you will pronounce
morally rotten, given up in great part
to debauchery and vice, whose voters
subsist mainly by keeping policy Off
GERS, gambling houses, grog shops, and
darker dens of infamy, and that district
I will be found at nearly or quite, every
election giving majority for that
which styles itSelf4he Democratic par
\ ty.'. Take all the haunts of debauchery
| in the land, and you will find nine
1 ltenths of their naster-spirits active
lDartisansi Of that same Democracy
What is the instinct, the sympathetic
chord. which attaches them so uniform
llvto this party? VIII you consider p
Horace Greeley. - = 80 ti li
dsn Every youth who is learning to siI
and soak in the grog-shops lis being
fashioned to the use of sham Democra
lev. His virtuous parents may think
skOther wise-mav be iguoranti of hi!
Ihaunts and habits; but if he. is learning
i to love liquor and lose company he i
: being fashioned to the ends of the ad
4 1versary. Hence the Democratic mana
gers and oracles almost uniformly fla1
\ and reyile the ytemperaneeHreferni, ever
when personally -temperate., The,
lknow that It's. triumph is their damage
land probably defeat. There is not !
Estate i'm the Union. whereof the Demo
4 lcratic party is not conspieuoHslyshos
!! title to whatever legislation tends t,
{ ftdininish the number or the power O
4 'ffti1e grog shops Horace Greeley.
! 4fzI there were not 8 newsSiper nor /;
.teomInon school in the country, thl
Democratic party would be far stronge
than it is.-Horace Greeley.
! 4 VI The brain, the.heart, the soul of thi
! tIpresent Democratic party is the rebe
: element atthe South, withits Northern
!. Iallies, and sympathizerS. 1t is rebel a
t the core to-day. 1t would come int.
DO Wer with the hate, the chagrin, tn
wrath, the mortIfcafioH of ten bite
: ,Eyears toimpeI and, guide its steps, |
would devote itself to taking, off o
reducing tax after tax until the Treasu
IL ry was deprived of the means of payin,
! ttintefestio on International debt, and woulI
: hail the tidings of natioualG bankruptc,
with unalloyed gladness and gnconceal
i ed exultation. Whatever chastiseInen
y tn1ay be deserved by our national sins
we must hope that this disgrace AM
Humiliation will be spared us.--Horac
db Greeley, Eebf1aTys 1871. IS; sg5i.s9
j saw the other day suggestion tina
! I would probably be the best Democrat
.fic Candidate to run against Gen. Gran
stf0f, PHesident. Ithoughk that aboutth
! most absurd thiDgsI ever heard oiTead
lIf. the Democratic party were callei
-lupon to decide between Grant and my
lself. [ know that their regard for wha
j they must call principle would induc
} lnine-tenths Of them t0vOte against me
y Why?, am q decided enemy y Of tina
ltparty, even in its most respectable as
/ peets ''iifir 'iSs .7i5'ei ~ DIE
NJ 1aannn a4-zs...--s.ss...4..s.s- Df9I q
lil .Soniebody writes to, the New dYorI
|. Times the assurance that Texas is saf
! for Giant and Wilson. The Democrat
: ic pa Tty of that State refuses to 'ssadopt'
: ftifee4ey. Says the correspondent: 18Th
D very men wfIolbuttonholedh him through
slthe State last year, are now his. bitter
Test enemies, If Greeley is nOminate'
at Baltimore, Texas will give the Phil
-Fadeipfiia ticket the largest Dlaiorit'