Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-09-27

Enquirer.
"The great evil of Northern society
Is, that it is burdened with a seruiJe
class ofmechdnics and ld6orers, unfit for
self government, and yet clothed with
the attributes and powers of citizens"
"A Democratic paper in S. c., 1856.
"Free society! We sicken at the
name. What Is it hut a cOnglomora-
tion of greasy mechanics, filthy opera
tiUes, small tSted farmers, and MOON
struck theorists? All the Northern
States, and especially the New England
States, are devoid Of society fitted for
well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing
class We meet with, is that of mechan-
les struggling TO be genteel, and small
farmers, who do their own drudgery;
and yet who are hardly fit for associa-
ton with gentleman's body servant.
That is your free sOcietyw-The Mes
senger Herald. a Democratic paper in
Alabama.
1--WE have got TO hating everything
with the prefix free; from the negroes,
down and up, through the whole cata-
logue. Free farms, free labor. free So
ciety, free will, free thinking, free chill
dren, and free schools, all belong to the
same brood of damnable isms. But
the icorst of dUthese denominations is the
modern system of free schools. Rich
mond, Va, Examiner, 1855.
Such was Democra tic style in the
high days of Democracy under Bu.
chansn. o how the party longs for its
good old times under its closing dynas-
ty! Alas, the bad times, and hard,
ever since! Now, alas! alas! they
can neither hunt runaway slaves, mol
call laboring men 'mudsills' nor greasy
mechanics as in the days of prosperi.
ty and Democracy, which now in its
hypocrisy, says it is the friend of the
Stare and the mudsill!
The Democratic party opposed the
Republican measure of the Homestead
for the benefit of the poor homeless la.
borer. For sixty years of its ascendan.
cy il never passed a National act fol
the special benefit of the laboring class.
And when Republicans in Congress
passed the Homestead Bill, opposed
by the Democrats, James Buchanan
vetoed the bill. The year following,
the Republicans re-passed the bill; il
was signed by Lincoln, and for the
first time became law. This Home.
stead measure, all along really opposed
by the Democracy, new in time ol
need has a hypocritical endorsement
in the paper platform of the party al
ways oppusing-an ambi gious endorse.
ment in these words-"rhe preserva.
tion of public lands to the use of actu.
al settlers"
So it is now, on paper, the friend ol
the land .eSs, to whom it formerly re-
fused homestead, as il is friendly to the
Freedman, for his cote, ON whose tracks
| if once played hound for the vote of a
'.Solld South" What side of any
question will not the Democracy take
for votes? Out upon fraudI
| In tht ir PLATFORM, the Democracy
prote st again-t any tariff, but "fOr rev.
enue only" Res. s. Yet, in the ID
they cry out against OBSTRUCTION ol
industry to the country and pauperism
of labor"-thus hypocritically assu.
ming that tariff for the protection OF
labor destroys industry and pauperizes
the laborer. The history of tariff fol
400 years past gives the lie to this dou.
ble-taced platform. In the 18th centu.
ry England thoroughly tested the pro-
rective tariff policy. This laid the
foundation of her unparalleled pros.
perity, the growth of her great manu-.
ring cities, and towering gigantic ma
tional power felt among all the civil.
ized nations of the globe. Her tariff
giving Prot, ct on to her industries,
made her the most commercial nation
ton of the world, and soon made her
mistress of the highways of the nations
the high seas.
The American people, struggling for
threequarters of century against q
false Democracy, have been endeavor.
ing, by noble rivalry, to enter upon
systt M of measures for the prOtec.
tiOn and management of American la.
Dor that must make us the first among
all the people of the earth in agricul
ture, manufactures, and commerce;
and even now, in the face of Bourbon
Democracy, our fabrics are being borne
to almost every portion of the globe.
To oppose all tariff but for revenue, is
just what England wants of US now,
Just as she desired the success of the
late rebellion and the dismemberment
of our Union-all to cripple our indus.
tries, and so give her the old ascendAn-
cies in all elevating rivalries. We are
not quite ready to be thrown, by this
fraud, back again at the feet of En-
gland as dependency for all her fab
RIGS, and at her own prices, and so de-
stroying our otherwise prosperous in.
;iustries.
The cheeky Democracy in platform
of 1877, resolves, 3-"We demand the
immediate repeal of the RESUMPTION
act" That is, that we oppose the
equaliziDg progress of coin and paper,
which seems Irresistible; and farther,
We deprecate its accom- plishment,
even so far in the future as 1879. Then,
can this other be true, or is it just here
where the lie comes in? The 9th Res.
olution declares that, "All circulating
mediums, whether paper or metallic to
be always of an equal tender" Now,
which resolution OF the platform is
democratically true? The Sd and 9th
can't both he true; one or the other is a
fraud. Because resume is to
make ''all circulating mediums equal
tender" This is just what is affirmed
and what is denied. Which is the lief
And who is 80 blind as not to see that
the authors of this platform have
formed lie to deceive?
These are specimens only OF Demo-
cratic hypocrisies, frauds, and false
hoods.