Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-22


THE Gazette a Few issues sinre gave
prominence 10 an article from the
Wheeling Rey,istsr, headed "Progr S."
which says.
There are tWn proud boasts essen
tally, oftt.a Radical party. The first
that il Is tn, parry of high moral ideas.
and the scu1d tliat it is the party of
progress"
As to the first the fruits are Beast |
Butler, Theodore Tilton, II. w. Beech |
.er. Victoria Woodruff, and hnSt OF
lesser Credit Metilier lights. While |
its progress consists in making black
man as good. if not title better than Il
white one" &c.
II W. Beecher, Theodore TiltOn
and Victoria Woodruff were bright
and shining advocates of one Horace
Gree Democratic LiberaIistic-
mongrel nominee of the Regis
ter and G0zette's party-and now Beast
Butler is their legal adviser. Gr,. j.
Allah, and 10! Mohamet is his Prophet.
The 'lesser Credit Mobilier lights" re-
ierred to We presume includes James
Brooks the Prince of Credit Mobiliers--
and Grand Sachem OF the Democratic
party at the time-.with such ''leSser
Iights'' as Sam Cox and Fernando
Wood, Ell III OHlRe genus, including the|
lesser and the grea. er lights of the De
nocracy as salary grabbers-with the
ghost of the Southern Confederacy, and
great expounder Of modern Democracy
Alex. Stephens Vice President C. S.
A, &c., as the great defender OF the
salary steal. OF course, il includes ali
these and those great chords Of the
Democratic heart, Boss Tweed, Con-
nelly and other Democratic inmates of
Sing Sing. A party, tacki'ig, as the
Cincinnati Inquirer says" Only a
speech from JET. Dauis to finish its
character" If these, and this be sam
| pies of ihe, .'lruitp of the Democratic
party; surely it comes with finished
grace for the Gazette and Register to
talk o. Republican frui.-representing
as they do a party comprising within
its organization, in addition to the
worthless named those other "lesser
lights Of Democracy who had charge
Of those Democratic organiZttiOns--Lib
by Prison, Belle Isle and Anderson
VILE. With its hands reeking with
the blood of the Nation, with its patron
saints, Booth and Winder, Turner
Wurtz and Semes, and the fiend Black
burn with his infected clothing, it is
surely in an envious position to read
homilies on political honesty. But
then why should not the lesser lights,
ike the Register and. Gazette pirate
about the Republican party's pro
gress"-even in view ofall this-when,
in the darkest hour of our country's
history, when the life of the nation
trembled in the balance, the very air
quick with impending events, and the
blood of our fathers, husbands, sons
and lovers were shattering the grave
stones at Gettysburg; this same Demo-
cratic party of which the Gazette is a
part in its State Convention in Column
bus, i0hio-"R "Resolved, That the 200, 600
Democrats of the State of Ohio send
greeting to their brethren in the South"
Then was it--when the loyal heart of
the nation throbbed with painful anxi-
ETY. and unitedly prayed-"God save
our native land" and every ear was
bent with fearful interest to hear the
news flash along the wires of an inglo-
rious surrender of the embattled hosts
of freedom to the cohorts of Demo
cratic Rebellion, and that the beacon
light ofman's political redemption had
been blotted out by the hand of ma
tion's assassin--then was it we say
when the ,down-trodden negro his ank-
les calloused with the manacles of sla-
very to perpetuate which, the Demo-
cratic war was being waged--that the
despised colored man came leaping
into the "bloody chasm" Father Abra-
ham 100000 strong and help turn back
the enemies Of civil liberty, and re-
ceived on many bloody field the shot
that laid them low in death, fighting
for a country that had only euslaved
them. This is the people whom theI
Gazette and Register deride the Repub-
lican party for endowing with all the
attributes of manhood. These are the
men the Register says the Republican
partylhas tried to make little better
than-white men, They have showed
themselves not a "little" but a good
deal better than many Democratic
white men, in their fidelity to their
country in the hour of their country'sI
trial, and in their fidelity to the prin-
ciples that saved the country, and last
ly in assisting by their votes in perpet-
uating the liberties of the Republic for
which our fathers suffered and fought,
and the immortal Lincoln died, at the
hand of Democratic assassin. God
save the Republican rarty from such