Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-10-04

be redeemed, and that the present gen
Grafton would never see the time when
we would have an honest dollar in cir
culation, now protest against so early
resumption; while Others of them, like
Ewing, and Pendleton, and ex-Gover
nor Allen, cry "Greenbacks Green
backs more greenbacks !" Now these
changes of that party are real or feign-
ed; if feigned, then the party is not
sincere, and once in power will undo,
as far as they can, all they profess to
be pleased with for the sake of obtain
ing control of affairs. If sincere in
their professions of acceptance and ap
prOval of Republican measures they so
bitterly opposed when first adopted,
then ii would seem to follow that the
Republicans have the wiser forecast
and are the better Statesmen, and it
would be foolish indeed for the people
to take the power out of the hands OF
the Republicans and give it to the
Democrats.
Mr.. President, as / look at it, there
is every reason why those who have
heretofore supported the Republican
party should stand by it in the ap
preaching election. The whole ticket
made at Cleveland is good; every man
on it is entitled to the undivided sup
port of the Republican party. In re-
gard to Judge William H. West, every
well informed man, who has the honor
Of personal acquaintance with him,
and knows the history of his public
life and services, will admit that the
people of Ohio seldom have an oppor-
tunity to vote for SO great man. He
is not only fit to be Governor of the
third State in the Union, but President
of ali the States of the Union. Among
those of whom the country is Indebted
for sound public sentiment on the sub
jects OF Union, liberty, currency, public
faith, caring for the mairned in war
and the families of the slain, he is fore
most. He was among the first in the
fight and was always found where the
blows fell fastest and heaviest. His in-
f1uence was never wanting when a
measure was proposed for the eleva-
ton of the colOred man. He gave an
energetic and jealous support to all the
reconstruction measures, contributed a
full share 10 the adoption OF the 18th,
18th, and 18th amendments of the Con-
stitutiOn OF the United States; while
his speech on the proposition to strike
from the Constitution of the State of
Ohio the word white, and so extend to
the colored men of Ohio the elective
franchise; speech made before, and by
invitation of the Union Club, at Colum-
bus, June IS, 1767-is, in and of itself,
all that is needed to irnmortalize him
as companion of human freedom and
an able statesman. 1t was urrivaled
by any speech made on any side of the
question and unanswered and unan-
swerable by any speech made or possi
BILE to be made by the opposition. II
was all on the subject discussed, chat
the great speech of the Massachusetts
Senator, Hon. Charles Sumner, was on
the barbarism of slavery.
Referring to his speech which we re-
gret our inability to publish in full,
the State Journal says:
1T is the best barometer we have had
of the drift of colored sentiment in this
part of the country-not because Mr..
PoindeXter assumes to carry the color
ed vote in bis pOcket-but because his
fidelity to the interests of the colOred
man has teen persistent and unswerv-
ing through the most unpromising
times, and of that devoted character
which lifts his influence above the
mere plane OF partisan leadership.