Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-08-02
Furious furorious Prnitur.'

the captains (amighty few of that low grade J
the Colonels (numerovs) She Generals Chick
as hairs on dog) and The Major Generals OF
the highly intelligent and carefully poli'hed
society Of the trans Mississippi South West,
recently in convention in Lexington, have
'ully manifested how it is possible for men
in rage 10 make perfect fools Of themselves.
! Everything was Tremendous there, accord.
! ing to the tclcgraphc report. Southern pro-
ceedings ore always Tremendous. The "ax.
cltcmenr among the Colonies, Generals,
Majors and Captains was tremendous no less
| than twice. The 'conleusion' was tremend.
Gus. So was the s,orminess Of the session.
Everything was tremeJ Jdouz even the folly,
absurdity and chldishness of the entire oc-
casion. These wer moree tremendous than
! all else.
Think Of it now--the stupidity that acts
up great six foot 2 inch fsllow-pompous
with self assumed or bar-room baptised title
of GENERAL--feTce with great whiskers,
and carefully cultivated martial scow-and
ectual fires out of him in bomb shell style, an
offered Resolution to exclude by taxation the
products OF Massachusetts from the State of
Missouri for that Massachusetts will not
catch Kentucky niggers Not to talk Of the
unconstitutionality of such a pro-slavery re-
venue arrangement, consider its folly. IL
proposes tc stop the supplies of the neces-
saries OF life of this very creature, and of
his brothers and sisters, and friends and nei.
ghbo 9. Missouri does not manufacture. She
has 10 buy, or go naked and wretcheI. But
all the manufacturing States regard niger
catching with equal repugnance. General
Phoole, Of Missouri, therefore is obliged to
exclude all American manufactures from his
State. There are British fabrics. To be
sure. But England not only refuses to catch
slaves, but emancipates all she has power
over. SO with the French But France and
England are out of the Union, and not bound
| by the "Conpromises OF the Constitution"
| Then comes difficulty not anticipated by the
Generals and Majors Of the South West
The manufacturing States Of this Union are
the importing States. IF Missouri wants
Manchester or Birmingham, Lyons or Paris
fabrics, she has got to buy them in Philadel.
| pha, New York or Boston. She has not the
choice Of going to New Orleans for them, nor
to Savannah, nor TO Charleston. They have
lots of slaves there, and carefully cherished
slavery-but no ships, no European trade, ,and
no present visible means of establishing d.
| rect European trade. Does not General
| Phoole see that his Resolution besides being
sclf-injurous, is impossible Of exccuton!-
Missouri would become as ragged as Lazarus,
and more i'm Povershed than Job, il she un-
| der,ook to accomplish the policy recommends
ed to her by the epauletted fools recently in
| Convention at Lexington!
| There would have been no harmony in this
affair, if some COLONEL, after hurricane
of Missouri eloquence, had not passed through
the Convention Resolution to suppress Free
Soil opinions and publications in the Central
Save Stutes. My percussion cap friend, you
might as we'll bag the winds that sweep your
States praries--as well chnin and hopple
the laws OF gravtation, as the great law o.
the freedom Of thought, ana in Republic
the consequent freedom of expressed opinion
Know too. military Sir, Qncus non iuceRdol
that Resolution sows civil war ia the South
You ure not all OF you fools, nor all Weddet
by actual or imaginary interests to the sys
tenn OF Slavery. There nre Colonels ant
Gene rails "ho viii think and speak their cou
vction that unpaid negro labor is til c bane
of the prosperity of the South, and who vii
avow their unwilingness to transmit 1t as the
basis of u social economy 10 their children
and their children's children. You Colonies
and Generals will come by the ears. Yol
had better be careful how you pass such Res
oluti'ns. They are wholly useless, utterly
| ble-but they are dangerous too
They lay the foundations of an Inquisitoria
Violence of your own society, which will G,
far towards bloody issue of this SLAYER,
question.
4 The folly of these epaulettes is harmon
ious one 1t luns through their ideas L
Trade, Commerce, Society, Politics. Fnanc
and Law Slavery is blessing, not curse
Yet II Is curse Ioo--To De amt tliurulpu u
expansion. A natural settlement ofs Ter
ritory, is by allowing the citizens of nei
ghboring State TO legislate for it, A refusa
to allow State officers end State property L
. to be used by the United States Governmen
in its new business of negro catching, is
declaration of hostility against the CONSTI
3, TUITION. How magniicently Gen. PhOol
Of Missouri must have piled up the vocal o.
D that word, when speaking to the resolution!
, And then that threadbare threat of a dissolu
5 ton of the Union-the crowning lie and i'm
pudent cap-sheat of all slave driving convo
( cations. We wish from the bottom of ou
0 hearts that Dlsunon could be slapped to thes
= people for just two years. Oh how the
d would sicken of it. Within the first wee
1 of its operation, from every Slave Slate woul
e he seen men hurrying North with portabl
r property. An unceasing tide of emgratio
e would set in of all people who could ciea
n out with what they had in hand, or could 500
reduce to possession. The apprehension {
a future trouble with the Slaves, would sprca
Y such sense of insecurity as to depopulat
!, the South of her white Mechanics, her lent
,. ers Of money, her merchants, teachers, sma
farmers, and all indeed who had not tast
G for sleeping in the midst of armed patrol
II and pistols under their pill VS., and who wer
81 not tied down by the ownership Of slaves an
y of agricultural land. Credit would unwil
IS ingIy and timidly be given to the South,
III I,hn 1 nd in n l..