Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-09

is also rightful and legitimate, and sanction
ed alike by the opinions and usages of man.
kind, and by the authority and express in
functions of scripture. They cannot con-
sistently maintain that slavery is immoral,
inexpedient and profane, AND YET CON
TINUE TO SUBMIT TO ITS EXTEN-
SION.--Richmond Enquirer.
To this demand of the South, the New
York Dag BOOK, the organ of Buchanan in
that city, and one of the favOrite presses
of the party, makes this reply:
Shall the Democratic party fear this is
sue, to oppose the extension of Slavery
No, indeed, thousand times. million
times No; there Is not single Democrat
in the whole North opposed to the exten-
sion of the Southern society, or so-called
fex,ensionsof Slavery" la @
We hold negro slavery to be right; right
per Sc, right in itse.f, in the nature and ne
cessity of things; that while there are de-
fects or imperfections of detail, as in every
thing else, and in all human institutions
there are, perhaps, no more evils connected
with Southern society than that at the
North. And we further hold that slavery
extension, so-ealled, or the free, full and
unembarrassed movement of Southern pop
ulation, or its perfect freedom of expansion,
of emigration, OF development southwark and
tropcward, is absolutely necessary to the
peace, progress, and safety of American civ
ilization, and, indeed, to the existence OF
the American Republic. And in our fire.
quent articles upon this particular phase oil
the mighty question now upon US, and be-
fore the people for their action, we have
said that the Northern Democracy when The
question should be presented TO them, would
be in favor of the free expansion of South
ern population, or, as the dupes OF lmPos-
ture would term it, the extension OF slavery.
Every battle fought in Mexico, and every
dollar spent there. but insures the acquIsi-
ton Of territory which shall widen the field
Of Southern enterprise and power in the fu-
ture And the final result will be TO read
Just the whole balance of power in the con-
federacy SO as TO give Us Cthe South) the
control over the operations of the govern
ment in all time 20 come.-SCah Carolina
paper.
HERBERT AND KEATING.-Any provoca-
ton that may have been given for the as
sault upon him by the body OF walters, was
at the most q pr0vocatiOn OF words, ano such
a proyocation as a servant should rot have
a right to resent; and, if white men accept
Il = eh ha
that they will do so with an apprehension
of their relation to society, and the DISPOSE
tion quietly to encounter both the RESPONSE
biites and the liabilities which the rela-
ton imposes Charleston Standard.
Sumner and Summers friends must be
punished and silenced. Government which
cannot suppress such crimes as theirs has
failed of its purpose. Either such worthless
must be HUNG, or put in the PententiaIy,
or the South should prepare at once to quit
the Union.-Richmond Enquirer.
Cne hundred and sixty acres TO every
pro- Slavery settler? To every Free Seller
six feet by twc.--AtchisOn's Toast.
The South now maintains that Slavery
is right, natural and necessary, and does not
depend upon differences of complexion The
lass of the Slave States Justify the holding
of WHITE MEN in bondage.--Ricamord
Examiner.
The South will not submit for moment
to the election of Fremont and Dayton
FiEmore's Albany Speech.
The people of fifteen sovereign States
will never passivcly submit, it the strength
of the fuSionists in the lower house of Con-
gress becomes augmented by Presidential
power.-Preston ). Brooks.
The election Of Fremont would be the
end of the Union, and ought to be.-Sendtor
Toombs.
He wished every man who went into Kan
sas to make il FREE STATE wss hung
as high as Haman, and if that were done
there would be peace and quiet in the coun-
try.-Gen. Sam. Lahm.
No man S in prison in Kansas who ought
not to be.-George Bliss.
The Democratic party is the only party
upon which the Slaveholding interest i'll the
Southern States can rely TO suppor. and aid
in its projects of extension.--Richmond En-
quirer-
The election OF Mr.. Buchanan will raise
the price of negroes five fold Henry A.
Wise.