Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-03-06
Southern Wailing.

That Out-spoken print, the Charles,or
Mercury, which tor its very boldness sn'
opennesy Is entitled to every mans respee,
sees nothirg bot DIRE disaster in the elts
tiOn of BANKS as Speaker, it Gays:
Alter two months OF man1uvering,oppo
sition and Reorganization, with the mos
unsquivocal ami elnphltic declarations oi ia
purposes, cast in th+ teeth OF the South
spurning all cpmproRises, defying all par
and ili4uuion- ib,li,onism has trinmphed
triumphed over the Constitution and the
SoulF, asi elevated il, sworn .chimpon q
that office which Is second only to the Pre-.
sidency in its infiUsnc. upon the legislatiJr
of the COUNTY. nd how was this result
obtainedl The supporters Of Banks neyer
had maipri,y of the house, and fr1m tbs
frst they advocated the plurality rule
knowing thaijlAagcps,pa you'd tF!tog the
gSme into their hSnds. They onnour ced
in the beginning that rule was adopted, NJ
election should ever take place, be the con.
sequences what they might Right filth
fully have they kept their word. In every
ballo', from the first, which recorded their
determination, to the last, in which they
hld forced the House to the biutslity rule,
end securel the victory-they kept he
House at bay. Re garded as an instance
OF party spirit AMI organization, it has no
parallel in our history. Abolition aas not
only elected its candiis.e, but elected him
in the mode frst proposed by 1t; and what
is more remarkable, by the same vote which
it gave two months sgo. I! has mo 1strat.
ed, in the defeat Of the Democracy and the
South, the power % union. Will che ever
learn it in her own great cause"
Mark this langnsge-"It has damons!'at-
ed, IN the defeat OF the Democracy and the
South, THE POWER OF UNION" Again we
say, mark that language, and from It e. Us
at the North feel the importance Of union
1t is well to learn a lesson even from an
enemy, and the South, ever victorious by
their very power Of union, looks with alarm
upon our skilful use OF thise weapons which
have made it victor upon many a political
battle field.
The Mercury, moreover, condemns in no
measured terms the adoption of the p!ura |.
ity rule, and berates Southern Representa-
tives for their coursee 1t says:
While Richardson, and bennington, and
Fuller, were refining upon points of con-
stitu ional planned here and
qualifying there-Banks and the Free Soil.
ers announced their creed of Southern ex-
termination in the simplest form. mo
more slave States!" was the banne--cry
,rhi oh ~, bo atr-fp
drowned in the shouts Il victory. Upon
this simple is ue, they nj only ri+ked snc-
cess, but the Union-re solved that it shoulI
perish before they would yield. Thoy pre-
sente6 this choice t. the )uth-io Southern
men representing the S,uth- md they, sf-
ter two months d, liberation, have pi eferred
Submission TO abolition rither thin resis
ance. They have preserved the Union up.
on the terms of Abolition, and mnde the
Constitution and Southern rights to bow be-
ore its powell
He ask Sau,hern Representatives to point
us to the fruit OF all their labors. What
have they done 10 convict cor ghtst-what
to preserve a Constitutional Union! My
what have they done to preserve even the
Democratic party from another and final
overthrow by Abolition! In now Welding
to Free Soil dictation, for the sake Of the
Union, have they not planted the seeds OF
its speedy di-o!ution, by revolution. perha o
in bloodl HIVE they not verified the
boast Of Banks hmseif--"rhe South never
yet have passed against the united SEN
tmen,s OF the North!