Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-07-04
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mercenary minions at Philadelphia, In
which the representatives of once
proud and free people abjectly register
ed the edict of the gloomy tyrant Of the
White House for his own nomination,
the base penny-a-liners of subsidized
press have filled their venal sheets with
reports of an enthusiasm and unanimi-
ty which are sickening to sincere lovers
of their kind and apostles of political
purity like certain Cincinnati patriots
who shall be modestly anonymous =
These wretched scribblers know full
well that, in the sweet words Of the
good old sage of Chsppaqua, Ithey lie,
the villains; they lie, and they know
that they lie. The enthusiasm was
ghasdy pretense. The unanimity was
bought-and at a price which the
apostles of purity would despise. The
Philadelphia delegates went as slaves
seourged to their dungeons, and sullenly
did their masters bidding. s
What is more notorious in the State
Of New York, for instance, than that
Gerrit Smith is the mere flexible tool
of that political fiend incarnate, ''Tem
Murphy% What child does not know
that Martin I. Townsend is the henchT
man of Surveyor Cornell ? There We're
William E. Dodge, also, and John A.
King, and, Augustus Weissman, and
Salem III! Wales, and Carter Wilder,
and how many more Do the wretch
ed, !, scribblers call them independent
men ? Do they not know they are all
postInasters and tide-waiters !? that
they are all, as it we're, strung upon a
string9 that the remorseless monster
who shall be otherwise nameless carries
them in his dstestable pocket? Q,sana-
di,I, Domino ssas l'
How many Of these phrase-makers,
who have attempted to manufacture
enthusiasm for this Custom.house
squad that call themselves the Repub-
lican party-Whieh party, as every body
knows, is going to be truly represented
at Baltimore and nominate the honest
old MISUNDERSTANDING Of them,
we ask in the name Of an indignantand
oppressed country, have been promised
places in that same Custom-house? o.
nepotism where is thy blush ? Let
the country, however, becalm. zArvir-
tuous press has its terrible eye, upon
these fellows-the same remarkable
eye which detected in the triumph of
"bummers" at Cincinnatia a great moral
revolution.
To speak still more seriously, how
ever: Although the Philadelphia tailors
of Tooley Street have, according to Gen.
Grants order Of the day, and the im-
perial ukase countersigned by the mil
itary ring, suggested that he has been
Of some service to the nation, and al
though Gerrit Smith, at sign from his
master, Murphy, spoke of the victor Of
Appomattox as a savior Of the country,
every well-informed person knows that
while Grant was fiddle -faddling at
Vieksburg and Chattanooga and before
Richmond, Honest Old Horace" was
really saving the country at Niagsra
Falls; and when his efforts were crown
ed with success, and the war ended,
while Grant was idling away his time
in battling the efforts of Andrew John
ron to restore the lest cause, .Old Uncle
Horace was busily bailing Jefferson
Davis. Is it, therefore, surprising that
Frederick Douglass and the colored
Southern leaders, who do not know
their own interests, support the gloomy
tyratit, while General Beauregard and
other proved friends Of liberty and the
Union declare for the modest Niagara
negotiator !? ,st5ia3Hese
The young gentlemen :of the sub
sidized press who forge enthusiasm at
SO much per line may write their pens
to metallic stumps in asserting that the
great Republican heart Of the country
demands the election of Grant. The
Tribune distinctly says that we all
know better. They know, and we all
know, that the continued prosperity of
Republican institutions, and especially
that a reformed civil service and spot
less purity of government, demand the
election OF "Old Honesty" by those
whom he has shimself compendiously
described ss 'siovers of rum and haters
of niggers," ablacklegs," '.pugiiists,"
ekeepers Of dens of ill-fame," ''crim-
inals, "roughs, ""dog-fanciers, r'cock-
fighters" .'shoulder-hitters," s.gam-
blers," ''rowdies,n ''burglars,"
'sthieves, sa'the lewd, ruffianly, crimin-
al, and dangerous classes.n The party
which tour honest old unclen says is
composed of these patriotic, intelligent
and conservative elements holds q
Convention in Baltimore in July; and
his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES hope
thatit will nominate him for the Presi-
dency. That would be as honest as the
late melancholy farce in Philadelphia
was dishonest. 1t would be the earn
est of fine .sbenehcent" revolution
in politics. If "Old Honesty's" esti-
mate of the party whose support his
friends solicit for him be correct, the
country would then advance to moral
regeneration under the inspiring cries
of, ,sOur Honest Old .Uncle and Gam
bling" "Chappaqua's Sage and Cock
fighting foreverp' "Old Temperance
and Free Ruml'' 'tOld Battle-cry OF
Freedoml and Down with Niggersr'
1t will, indeed, be sublime spectacle.