Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-09-04

rights; talk ABOUT t10 dangers vi Ceu-
and clearly refers to and re-
asserts the old Democratic doctrine out
of which secession and notification
and inevitably now.
THEIR LEADER IN OHIO.
The nomination of Ex-senator Allen,
a gentleman of ability and reputation,
for the Office of Governor, is Significant
and was intended to be, that the party
has rejected all ideas of progress, and
has returned to its dlte6eilum notions
and principles. Mr.. Allen, in the days
in which he lived, was State Rights
Democrat of the strictest sect, enter
toining all the notions in regard to sia-
very that were common to his party at
that time, and his nomination is
proclamation that the party has return
ed to thsse doctrines and ideas.
AS we'll attempt to restore the cost
ume and manners of ancient Egypt by
presenting for our admiration and pat
tern well-preserved mummies from hef
pyramids. 1t is vain and futile at
sempt to ignore the war aud allsthe
mighty lessons and events Of the last
twelve wears. Within that period,
since Mr.. Aliens departure from po-
litical life, and before his resurrection,
the greatest events in our national his
tory have occurred-eventsw which have
given new form and color to our po-
iitical system, and must irresistibly
shape our national destine5; and at
tempt of the Ohio Democracy to ignore
these events and changes, and restore
the ideas and sentiments CT the past, in
the nomination of Mr.. Allen, will be
as fat and Improbable a performance
as that of the Saxon king who sat upon
the sea shore and forbade the advanc-
ing tide.
The New York World said with sat
isfaction that Mr.. Allen was not in pub
lie life during the war, and was not re-
sponsible for the course of his party
during that period; but my answer is,
that the course of the Democratic par
ty during the war was the logical re-
suit and sequence of the principles
whichMr.Allen had advocated through
out his life, and which he has been re-
surrected to represent.
A DEMOCRATIC CONFESSION OF FAITH.
4 | have just read a speech made by
Mr.4Allen, at Hamilton, in this State,
in 1868, during the war, in which he
declared that slavery ought not to be
exterminated, that the RepublicaL par
ty was solely responsible for the war,
thN the South were driven into seceS-
sion; that Lincoln had shed enough
blood to float the Great Eastern, and
his cry was still for moae; describe the
war as numbering seven or eight hun
dred thousand men, and making
million and half of orphans; said that
it was the work of AbolitiOnists, in
which the Democrats had no share; that
we could only succeed in the war by
destroying the State governments OF
the South, and puttinga Il garrison in the
South Of seven or eight hundred thou
sand men; that if the AbOlitiOnists
succeeded in the war the negroes would
come North by the hundred thousand,
and take possession of the places left
vacant by the murdered white men =
who had been murdered for that very
purpose.
The members of the convention who
nominated Mr.. Allen were not ignor-
ant of his record during the war, and
he has been brought forward that these
sentiments and his previous opinions
in regard to slavery and State sOverei-
cracy of Ohio. Ispeak of him only be-
cause he has been put forward to rep
resent the Democratic party OF this
State and the spirit of that party
throughout the United States; and L
present the speech of Mr.. Allen as rep
resenting the general spirit and action
of the Democratic party throughout
the war. Will the friends of Mr.. AL
len now say it does not, and that he
was worse than the party? We will
see.
THE OLD BANNER.
Thequestion need not be asked, why
/ again refer to the record and character
of the democratic party, l have no
choice in the matter. 1t has again
thrust itself, with all its deformities,
with its painful "reminiscences, with the
worldwide consequences OF its crimes
and blunders, into the face of the MI
ton, demanding recognition and pow
er. 1t admits no change, professed no
regeneration, proclaims its ancient
heraldry and principles, and stands be
fore us the hateful political thing it
was during the war and for ten years
before. We are told that we should let
by cones be by cones; and yet we are
confronted at the same moment with
the columns of the Democratic party
flying at their head their ancient BAN
ners, on which are inscribed: 1.-The
preservation of human slavery-The
repeal of the Missouri Compromise
The bred Scott Decision-The resolu-
tions of 179S-Tbe Government has no
power to coerce State to remain in
the Union-NO power to suppress the
rebelliOn-Not man nor a dollar for
the unholy war-Opposition to the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth
A nts-RecoDstructiOn laws
null and void-No power to punish the
KukluX-This is the white mans Gov
ernment-No national unity but SOW
ereign and independent States;" and
the long catalogue of intermediate
crimes and blunders that have not
time to mention.
The masses of all parties are honest,
and intend to be patriotic, and their
errors arise from their principles and
The course of the Demo
cratic party before and during the war
was the legitimate result of its prin-
ciples and education for years, and
these, rather than the individual men,
bers of the party, should be held re-
sponsible for its crimes and fOllies. To
be compelled to review these principles
and rehearse the story of their bloody
consequences is repulsive enough, but
as long as they are urged upon the
American people they must be fought
and exposed, be the task ever so irk-
some.
1t is true in morals as in physics that
the some principles always produce
kindred results, varying only with the
circumstances of time and place. And
here is the Democratic party proudly
asserting its ancient principles, per-
meated and saturated through and
through with the ideas to which have
referred, and loaded down with black
and bloody events to which they nave
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