Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-29
THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.
Views of Two Southern Papers.
THE NORFOLK LANDMARK.

The outrage market has been liber-
ally supplied of late with CHASTITY sto-
rieS, and some real atrocities have been
committed, as in Tennessee, but never
theless the Northern people have re-
fused TO respond, as was confidently
expected, to the old appeal. Extinct
volcanoes and deserted redouEts are
soon grown over by charitable ver-
dure, and the cOnvulsiOns of nature, or
the ravages of war, hidden by the ten
der hueS OF generous vegetation. And
so in the moral ami political world the
wrecks wrought by passion, or folly, or
both combined, are repaired by reac-
tion of sentiment, or a more enlighten-
ed opinion. For years we have been
waiting for this beneficent result. We
have been patient and long suffering
We have met more than one bitter dis
appointment. The volcano has blaZed
when we thought its baleful fires ex-
tinct; the redOubt has frOwned with
hostile armament when we looked for
peaceful grass; but, with each disap-
pointment we have plucked up hope
and looked to the future. We have not
been without our reward. The people
of the North have begun to reason.
They see that they have been deceived
by profiigate politicians, whose only
idea of patriotism is plunder, and they
begin to comprehend the fact that the
prostration of the South means debility
to the North. The fantastic horrors of
the ku-KluX stories, and the shameless
rapacity of the carpet-baggers, have at
last been understood. Moreover, the
people beyond the Potomac understand
that the destruction of civil liberty in
the South means the establishment of
a despotism which will also crush the
North; and the battle is now fairly
joined between the two adverse forces
that are striving for the supreme con-
troll. For these reasOnS-reasons which
appeal to their pride and their pockets
the people of the Northwest have
just risen up in grand protest against
the cruel and bad administration of af-
fairs now affiicting the country, and
hence it was we have just beheld Ohio
and Indiana, like Castor and Pollux, at
the Battle of the Lake, squirting into
the conflict and overwhelming the
common enemy with confusion and
defeat.
THE SHREVEPORT TIMES.
Thank God, there is at length a rift
in the cloud, and we have in these cleo
tions bright harbinger of the day of
deliverance. They show that the mass
es Of the people are not wholly corrupt;
that the shameless Outrages upon law,
upon justice, upon honesty, and upon
decency perpetrated by the infamous
party in power have shocked the moral
sense of the people, and produced a
revolution i'm public sentiment which
will surely result in the downfall of
Radicalism. The avenging hour which
has been on The wing rapidly approach
es when corruption in high places will
no longer be bought and sold like cab
bages in huckster's stall; when such
scoundrels as Landaulet Williams, and
Shepherd, and Sanborn, and Jayne will
be kicked ignominiously from the
places they have disgraced, and when
Grant will be placed in forced retiracy,
where he can follow the pursuits most
congenial to him-the raising of bull
terriers, the grooming of fine horses,
and the swilling of mean whisky. But
there is another bright augury to be
drawn from these victories. They
sound the knell of carpet-baggery in
the South and hold out bright hope of
its deliveraDce from 'the body of this
death" which has crushed it down for
eight long years into the very dust of
humiliation.