Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-09-25

The S0tffh bfftcetH htn1st!pss, dEc ihc shcji
fka. las sirea3y smiitsn them TO tie earth
There is q wrath boiling up ct the North
but it is wrath which boils against tissa
There is hostility ct the Norlh-but it is
hostility whieh tkr. have aroused, which
has e.ricksn fseBi down and irN Leep them
9oea.
Iwish to feel the pulse Of the North to-
night. yish to see Slet5er IL be reaso.
OF maGnes throt bing there-whcther it be
rhe rational wrath Of those whs believe they
have been outraged in their desrestrights OF
whether it be The madness OF men who have
flashed into fury csuselessly.
Sir, there are u series Of great facts which
strike rs wheresoevsr we turn our eyes. In
1853, the presen; incumbent of tho Presi-
Dental chair was elevated on the shields oi
twenty-eeven Ststes, and borne to the
White House amid the scclamstions of an
exultant people, rejoicing in the advent OF
an'are of peace. Three sons have run thsir
course, and now.
"Iie is at suppsr-aet where ls eats, bur
where is esten. A certain conrscation ei
Since he u,isca lied the morning s,ar,
Nor man nor ficnd bath fallen so Ear.
When he sscended the chair Of State, &
great majority of seventy ia this House
sbsequiously awaited lis will. The sun
had not twice run his course ere that
majority had shrirelsd 10 Eeventy-fsur men.
Their place knows them no more. This
side Of the chamber 10 4 cbs.psl-house o!
dead Democrats.
Sir, the fatal hoa- has Come. Even while
speak, the stricken Fl ii Of Iowa brings
TO them defeat and disaster, crushed hopes
and cruel iissppointment Their feet are
slresdy cold in the North, aud ,s le fee
upward sad upward and upward toward
their head in the South, all is cold a. sDy
stone.
Ear different is my estimate Of my North
ersbrethren. ! am not aware OF any act oi
the North, as they appear upon our statute
book, or as executed from the Executives
chamber, however wild may have been the
votes occasionally of a maturity upon this
floor, or however dangerous the arguments
pressed into their support which, in the
slightest degree, has suiied the honor, or
injured The interest OF the South. They have
differed upon industrial questions and deci-
ded them by party tacics; they have been
set, one party against tie other, in party
manoeuvre, party triumph and party DONNA
tions but say that, during the eighty years
of the Republic, there is no portion of this
To- IL l,- ;rt tbo
teethof either the north or the South that any
great right of either section his been tram.
pied down; any great right of the Constitu.
tion deliberately violated; any fact showing
that madness ru,es the nsj' r.ty either al
the North or the South.
1 Sir, is not that the reason! do not ask gen.
tlemen 10 tell me whether it is sn adequate
reason. do not ask gentlemen 20 say II
the North is reasonable in hcr anger.
3 simply ask gentlemen upon the candOr and
honor, it that is not the reaSan ot erist-
ine condition O; hiags' There is TO gen.
tlemsn here whose breast does not echo
that it is AID venture li:tle when ! say
there 10 scarcely one of my Democratic
friends who can appreciate the position in
which it has placed them. who docs not from
the bottom of his heart, curse ihe Gay on
which he was SO m;sied If they adhere
still to the Kansas Nebraska act, it is from
necessity. and not from choice, that my hen
orsble friends, finding themselves, at ths
bottom Of .he water, have, like Cooper
sailors in NJ western lake, seized root to
keep tn, "a. ses there. 1t is from neccs-
siiy, aud nc: from cho;,e, that iih a mill
10 th' ~ ater ior a swimming match, with
li.h; n II having floats on.
Sir the party whose policy, however we!
intencec. has gwen occasion 10 stain tbs
American usmc with civil blood by the re
peal Of the Missouri Compromise, is no,
likely to stand well with ;he men of ,he
North, hose brethren have been the SUE
ferers. heir ceai#ls of the outragcs. theil
excavations, their apologies, day after day
in this Hcuse. ,itl the stupendous mass oi
the committees evidence overwhelmed
them; Ind Their rar?ng cavils at that evi.
denee-to my judgment vet unimpeached,
and ifsc, o: crust n weight-scarsely tends
to improve the oor f-the Democratic party
in Nerthern nos;riis.
That is n:y opinion of the result of the
Kansas inves; Ea;ioa. | dare net impute
perjury to men by the hundred: the concnr-
renee O. so many is itself conclusive againsl
the hypothesis of fabrication; end must be
psrdoned if my legal hatils uiIl not allow
me to weigh partizen denials against testi
mony sworn in the lace Of eross-exsmina.
ton.
There are men who go about the country
declximing about the ine, liable consequent
ces OF The election of Fremont; and the
question is asked whether that simple fact
is rot sufficient, not merely to Justify. but tc
require a dissolution OF The Union. The
question has been asked me to-day. THAI
is g question which do not regard as ever
4 subject of discussion. 1t never will be
done while men have their reason. il never
will be done until some party bent upon &c.
CURING party power, shall again and sgaiI
exasperate beyond the reach OF reason the
Northern anG Southern minds, as my South.
ern friends have now exaspcrsted the North
ern mind. II would be an act of suicide
and sane men do not commit suicide. The
act itself ia insanity 1t will be done, il
ever, in a tempest of fury and madness
which cannot stop TO reason. Dissolution
means death, the suicide Of Liberty, without
Q hope Of re.urection-death without the
slories Of immortuiily; with no sister TO
mourn her isil.nobe 10 wrap her decently iE
her winding sheet and bear her terderly to
sepulchrt--dead Liberty, lett TO all the
horror of corruption ioalhsume thing, with
stake through the body, which men sbun,
cast out naked on the highway o! nations,
where the tyrants OF the earth, who feared
living viii mock her dead, passing by on
the v,her side, wargiHg their heads and
thrusting their tongue in iheir cheek, at her
saying, behold her, how she that was far,
among the nations is fallea!--snd only the
few wise men who icEed her ou' Of every