Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-12-01

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t myriads of men wss put TO flight in two o
three hours That only shows that bad new
| although unwelcone, is nevertheless frequ
emily true.
HIGsER! NIGGER!
Well, gentlemen, all the people of th'
United States are not over in Covington O
Newport, daughter and applause) along tina
said of the market especially, (reSerring t.
Newport.) There are some people also
North OF the Ohio river, aud these people
are determined in believe every State ex
cept one, that the Republican party is &
party-the anigger party" if you choose
You have cried "nigger' nigger!" in Pom
sylvania, ia New York, in Minnesota, and
all these States have decided agsinst you.-
The cry has returned back upon you, and
4 you have tseA discovered .e be the party
disposed to sacrifice al the righ!s, of the
white man for the nigger-you are "weigh-
ed in the balance, and found wanting. -
That is the truth about it, and tell you,
your time draws nigh. The day of your
rule is about to cease. This Republican
party is going into power in 1860, and our
Democratic friends begin TO see ihe wind;
they are very shrewd politicians, will pay
ihrm that complimenD they understand
which way the populr majority is going,
they are almost ready to ackn ,wledge be-
fore the people. and in their presses that
the Republican party is going to take the
Presidency in 1861. ~ .s...
DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION.
Now what dodge are you going to try 10
get over that, You would suppose they
would dodge into every known corner would
you not! What dodges have they tr.ed!-
First, you know slavery was legal insti-
tuition, and Congress had no rightito inter
fere with it That was ence the Democratic
doctrine. Then the next institution was
that Congress had right to interfere, and
could repeal the Missouri Com promise. That
was another dodge. The next was that the
people had right to settle the que stion for
themselves. That was another Dodge. As
soon as they tried that with sold Brown"
anC IT failed, they came back to the old
dodge again, that Congress did have the
right to interfere with it. and had right to
pass law admitting Kansas, as a Slave
State, and saying to the people Of Kansas,
if you will come in as Slave State you
shall have so much money; but if not, you
shall not come in without a certain popula-
ton, and perhaps not then, we will consider
about it when the time comes. "Popular
Sovereignty" would not do. "Douglas you
are squeezed orange, and we will throw
YOU away" Then came another dodge: the
Un:ted States Courts crme in. and did their
part. That would not do, and now the
dodge is if we elect President of the U.
States by popular vote-5y the wi of the
greatest number--if we, by the great popu-
lar, constitutional majority Of the law aud
order men, elect President, leaving the
minority 10 you-you say you will dissolvs
the Union. --a
Let US look at that, awhile-this new
dodge for 1860. If you elect a Republican
President. "we will dissolve the Union. p
Who are we? Let US look at that. AVE."
the sIaveho!ders, the number one, might.
under some foolish prejudices, think that
they could do better by disselving the Union;
but what are you, the twenty men Of Ken
lucky, going to do, Why dissolve the Un-
iont Answer me that. We, the Republi-
cans, say that in the free Territories of our
common country, there shall be place re-
served for you ard your children. in case
misfortune, or slave competition, shall drive
you from your homes into exile, into some
new country, as it has sent millions, where
you shall be untrammeled and undegraded
again, bv laboring lougside the unpaid
slaves. For this, you are going to dissolve
the Union.
Well, now, that reminds me of an anec-
dote that used to hear in old Madison -
There is good natured old grandmother
who had al! her children grown up and mar.
ried off, and little grandchid used to come
and see her. Well, when this child wanted
anything Of her grandmother, and she found
that she could not prevailon her good feel
ings, she would exercise on her fears. When
the old lady refused to give her anything
she wanted, she would 60 TO the top of the
stairs and say. snow grandmother, give it
me or l will throw myself down the stairs"
And the good woman would be much moved
and would say. "don't, honey, come and get
il: don't, for Gods sake, throw yoursel.
down stairs." L. there any man who is q
laborer, who does not feel that this thing
of Slavery is degrading to him! Is there
any that does not feel this, Have | not
felt it? Have not my children felt it since
] have beon thrown into this new attitude
of a non-slaveholder, and now are you going
throw yourselves down stairs! a.
THE FOOLISH FOOLS.
In the first place. let US look to the slave
holders themselves. They are not all fools,
though some of them are the biggest fools
that ever saw, because they belong to the
class of "foolsh fools;" and as the old man
said, "the demand foolish fools" he could
not stand, and being asked what they were,
he said they were the fools who did not
know it, or who boasted of it. Gentlemen,
the whole cotton crop that is said TO be
King, that is said to do all the commercial
exchanges at home and abroad, withou,
which the world would come to an end, is
nothing. The census shows that cotton
cuts but small figure as production OF
the United Sta,es,it being but one thirteenth
of the whole. Why, the insignificant thing
of hay, that General Shelby said he would
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