Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-10-07
NEXT TUESDAY,!

So far as Belmont county is concerned,
the Republican cause is safe. providing
Republicans take the pains to vote, and
to see that they are not surprised nor
cheated. Our friends should realize.
though, that the sO-called Democratic
party is engaged in death struggle for
the spoils of Office. They have been out
in the cold for twenty years, so far as
the General Government is concerned.
They are as hungry as wolves, and the
experience of the country four years
ago establishes the fact that they will
hesitate at nothing to accomplish their
ends. In the South the party obtained
supremacy by the bludgeon and the pis-
tOl, and it undertook by purchase of
votes in the North to obtain complete
mastery of the country. 1t controls all
the States South by violence and terror
ism. 1t has rendered popular elections
in those States farce. That whole re-
gion is solid for the so-called Democrat
ic ticket, Notwithstanding the fact
that in two of the States a majority of
the voters are colored men, whose every
impulse and instinct is to vote with
their deliverers. 1t has been made solid
by the murder and assassination of in
offensive and quiet people-men, wo-
men, and children murders which
would have shamed the cruel Duke of
Alva. The 13S electoral votes of the
South belong to the assassins who ride
over and rule that region as absolutely
as do the horses they ride. They require
but Al more to put them in possession of
the country.
The election of President and ma
jority of the House of Representatives
by this party would be a greater nation
al calamity than was the rebellion.
So sure as it happens will it entail
upon our people rebel war claims
amounting, perhaps, to thousands of
millions of dollars.
| All LlCll III lIC COuln W IIO uO HOI DC-
long to the party of murder and assassi-
nation will be hunted down and driven
out, and the poor, friendless blacks, who
hailed the coming of our armies as the
day of jubilee and deliverance, who new
er failed to succor and hide a soldier of
the Union who had escaped and was
fleeing from rebel prisons, will be deliv-
cred over to their tormentOrs in more
pitiable condition than before they were
| freed
The two hundred and fifty thousand
men who went down in the shock of bat
tie or who died of disease contracted
in the army, will have died in vain.
Mothers and wives whose stalwart
sons and husbands went out to the war
never to return, will have suffered in
lonely homes in vain.
The thousands of vacant chairs at
northern firesides will be cruel mock
cry.
And over and above all will ride, boot
ed and spurred, the triumphant rebels.
Men and women of Belmont county!
you who sent these noble men out to the
big wars, with your prayers and your
blessingS-whO promised them that if
they fell in the great struggle you would
hold them in holy remembrance, and
would watch over and protect their
wives and their little Ones--are you pre-
pared to see the Cause for which they
gave "the last, full measure of their de-
votion" triumphed over now by the reb-
els whom they conquered in arms? If
not, you all have duty to perform. 1t
is to arouse your neighbors as they were
aroused by the martial drums in 1861.
British gold is expected to do in the
North what was so thoroughly done in
the South by the pistol and bludgeOn.
Then the triumphant South will strike
down our tariff laws, paralyze our man
ufacturing, commercial, and agricultural
interests, make us pay for the losses in
CulICu ny llo pcOplC III 1iC wal, anu lIo
triumph and the ruin of the North is
complete.
The Democrats are making death
struggle for Ohio. They are in terrible
earnest. The men who are managing
the campaign for them in Belmont coun-
ty will hesitate at no means safely avail
able to accomplish their purpose.
The interests and issues at stake are
worthy the noblest efforts of Republi-
cans. All Republicans who realize the
Importance of the struggle should
arouse the laggards, if any there be, and
inspire them with the zeal of conquer
ors. Great work can be done in the few
days that remain. Let us all resolve
that it shall be.