Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-09-03

Itoxication, trying to get at her change
her position, "like a drunken man, F"
for quite while before she gravitated
to Wheeling.
, And now &C mes Isaac Mitchell Ri
lev, late Democratic nominee for Pros
ecuting Attorney, who seems quite
rHeyed at the action of the late Repub-
r Iican Convention. Indeed Isaac essays
! to be facetious-yea, even funny. Dear
, Isaac, that Convention was hot organi-
zed to please you; nay, verify, we
knew it lacked the effiuvia of decdyed
hen fruit to make it delectable to your
refined olfactories. Poor Isaac!-an
unfortunate sheep once saved another
Isaac, Che wasn'ta Democrat, thought,
but, having suffered political emascu-
. lation recently, thicket full of rams
fast in the brambles, won't save you
and your party from the merited fate
Of political eunuchs. Unfortunate Isaac!
The report is current on the street
that the Bridgeport Standard is to be
revived as t,'i-iceekty. Such an enter
PilSO Slo lildI W III pC hChAiN Cistf-i u
without trying very much.
Old Mrs. Ellen Grier died Saturday
evening, after lingering Illness, and
was buried in Bridgeport graveyard Oh
Monday.
THE Wheeling Latei}jgeacer i y
\ years old" Is az announcement III iiie
press. We have known the paper ana
|
long, having been a subscriber To il in
labOut 1855, '56 and 81, we think. We
admired the paper then as now, and
labored in Hancock county, Va, TO eX-
tend its circulation, and we cOngratu-
late ourself upon reasonable success
in this direction. We were interested
in the success of the journal because it
was interested in US, anu was a bold,
fearless, gallant champion of the right
as We then understood it, and have
since, with maturer judgment, never
had cause to renounce t. We well re-
member during the John Brown eX-
citement, when passengers over the B.
d o. Road were subjected to outrage in
the slave interest; upon their arrival at
Bellaire, the alternative being given
them to stop, take some other route, or
submit to examination of bag and bag
gage before they would be permitted to
proceed, lest they might have battery
of 20-pounders in their vest pockets, or
a full line of men of war in their vail
ses, with which TO navigate the Shenan-
doah at Harper's Ferry. All this and
more done at the beck and nod of the
IslaveOcrats of Virginia. We recollect,
we say, wha. storm of excitement
was created in the Panhandle-and we
know in Hancock county--by a leader
in the 1ntelligencer called "French Es-
pi0nage." Why, the poor devils up in
Hancock shouted themselves hOarse de-
nounclng the paper "a incendiary, &C.,
and as an abolition document. Wei
think there was at this time but one
old slave, a woman, in the county, and
ifa field full of slaves had sold for FIVE
cents they couldn't jointly have bought
Il negro baby; and yet they thought
Archie Campbell guilty of a henious
crime. This feeling was intensified by
the celebrated charge of Judge G. w.
Thompson, then on the bench in the
Panhandle. This charge will forever
remain discredit-tO call it by no 9TH
er name to the man that uttered it, and
a monument of the virulent folly OF the
slave power. We were then informed
we sho'd not read such papers as the In
telligencer, n. Y. Tribune, Pittsburgh
Dispatch, then only weekly, and pub
lished at 30 cents year; the Cincinnati
and Pittsburgh Gazettes. These pa
pers were specially tabooed. We haG
no means of knowing what the circula-
ton of the Intelligencer was in Han
cock at this time, but was aware its
list was reduced for the reason annOun-
ced. There were or 10 Republicans
then in the county-Or abOlitionists as
we were then called. We were chris
tened Repubs. in FremOnt's campaign.
Nothing dannted, however, the few
friends of the paper up there worked
for its circulation, whilst it commend
led itself by its able course, to the bet
ter sense of the people. And to-day,
from beinga weekly Journal Of but
limited circulation. fighting for thel
right as God gave its noble Editor, |
Archie Campbell, TO see it--With con
tumely heaped upon it, End its Editor
in danger OF demolition, it has fought
IFS way up through hell OF Splintery
prejudice and disfavor, till to-day it is |
q cledit to its champion, and an honor
10 the State of whose interests it is a |
fearless and able advocate. Hancock |
is now staunch Republican county,
Slavery is abOlished-West Virginia is |
fir e-the press is unmuzzled, and the
prosperity of the Intelligencer is shi-
ming monument to the sober second
thought of the people. To no man,
we hesitate not to say-and we know
whereof we speak-does West Virgin
ia owe so much of her material growth
and prosperity as to A. W. Campell,
the accomplished Editor of the Intelli-
gencer. Archie, you may be too near
your people to have your shadow as
sumo its wonted proportions, but if thei
young commonwealth of West Va. de-
sires to honor herself in the person of
her next U. S. Senator, let her delegate
that Office to one who has, during the
dark and troublous hours of her history
honored her by his pen, his counsel, his
best endeavor, and his whole life of
earnest labor for her good, A. W.
Campbell the worthiest man in West
Virginia for the position.