Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-11-13
Governors Thanksgiving PrOcla-
nation.

Governors Thanksgiving PrOcla
nation.
Remembering with gratitude that
health and general prosperity have
been vouchsafed to the people of Ohio
during tho past year-recognizing the
guiding hand and protecting care of
Almighty God in all that affects our
lives and fortunes-desiring above all
things a continuance of the divine fa-
vor, 1, Edward F. Noyes, Governor of
Ohio, do hereby designate and appoint
Thursday, the 9th day of November,
the present month, to be Observed as a
day of public thanksgiving and prayer.
I earnestly recommend that all the
people of the State do, upon that day,
abstain from ordinary labor, and unite
together in worship and supplication.
especially request those who have
been blessed with health and abund-
ance, to remember and provide for the
sick and the poor, now that financial
troubles assail our prosperity, and as
the cold winter approaches.
"He that hath pity upon the poor
lendeth to the Lord; and that which
he hath given will He pay him again" "
Given at the Executive Chamber in
Columbus, this third day of Novem-
ber, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seven
ty-three, and of the Independence OF
the United States the ninety-eighth.
EDWARD F. MOVES.
| BY the Governor:
A. T. WIKOFF,. Secretary of State.
| Under the inspiration of the late
elections, the New York World makes
! bold to say that a revolution has set
in," and predicts, as its result, that ''a
] Democratic Congress will be elected
| next year and Democratic President
| in 1876" The World mnst have a
queer idea of what constitutes revOlu-
ton, if it supposes that recent Repub-
lican reverseS mean any such thing.
The mere defeat of a political party is
not a revolution, whether it be partial
or entire. Revolution implies COM
plete change of sentiment, Q CONVEX
sion of popular opinion, and not mere
| censure upon certain men or measures.
| AS yet there has been no such change
or conversion. The Republicans have
permitted the elections to go by default,
and the result has of course been adj
vantageOus to whatever party was op-
posed to them. In some cases this was
the original Bourbon Democracy, as
in Ohio, but quite as frequently it has
been some other party, or combination
of parties, as in Iowa and Wisconsin.
Had there been a revolution the Re.
publicans who refused to vote, as tens
of thousands have done, would instead
have gone to the polls and voted with
the Democrats. But very few, if any,
| have done this. The whole body OF
Republicans, with few and unimpOrt
ant exceptions, remain unchanged 10
their sentiments respecting the Demo
cratic party, and have no more idea ol
coalescing with1it noN than they ever
had. A considerable number of them
have, for the time being, withheld
their support from their own party
but they have not transferred it to the
Democrats, and have no idea of doing
so. The Democratic victories are eu
tlrely negative, and evince 10 such re-
casting of the public mind as consti
tutes the essence of revolution. The
Democratic party has made no gains
added nothing to its numerical
strength.
On the contrary, its vote is lighter
this year than last, and proportionate
ly lighter than in any previous year
In Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin and Min
nesota its organization has been utterly
abandoned, and the successes of opposi
tion elements in those States are no
Democratic successes. They are eX
pressions of dissatisfaction meant fo
the admonition of Republicans, not fol
the encouragement of Democrats. Th'
same is true of Republican reverses il
other States. Should these admoni
tions be needed and the lessons the.
teach profited by as they should be
they will only purify and strengthen
the great Republican organization, ant