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

sum. Well, now, suppose you Gissolv
the Union--suppose you have succeeded a
J General Wise proposes, in taking Harper
Ferry 10y the way old Brown has Harper
Ferry. and yeu take Washington and tn
archives; how are you to maintain i! Doe;
any man say that the Southern Confederac,
will not have to have { large internal police
larger marine and a larger navy, whel
they have not only to stand against th,
powers of France and Great Britain, bu
the whole of the free North There is nj
man of common sense but will admit iha
the expenses of such Government will
have to be larger than they are now. Foo
it up. When you have paid the expenses o
your internal police, of your Southern Union
OF your foreign navy, Of your home army. o
course it will take more than eighty mil
lions. That is 10 say, when your whole
crop has been sold, providing. always. thai
you sell it successfully, you have spent every
dollar of the income to preserve the peace
and you have not single dollar with which
to buy pork and beans, and your niggers ant
jeans.
| KENTUCKY AND DISSOLUTION.
Well, then, say ii the shareholders were
by any fanaticism or false ideas of pros
perity, induced to go into such scheme as
that, what has Kentucky to gain by it'll
There is not STAKEHOLDER in the Common.
wealth foolish fools, as some of them are
that believes he could hold single slave in
this State. A civil war first must be main
tained in slave Sta,e,and the border States
must be tine scene Of war, at that, and when
there is battle field the cavalry are tied
in the streets of Covington, your fine hous es
are destroyed, your property is wasted, and
as to your slaves, they are all gone- OF
course they must be given up, your property
runs down.y mules taken,and your horses
killed, and though you should be successful,
you would be well known as the Flanders
of America.
Why are we, then, to join in such pro-
ceeding Bs that! Why there is net in the
plan and possibility or contingency BY which
Kentucky would or could be benefited by
the Gisunion, when all their privileges, pro-
perty and liberty, now preserved under this
glorious Union, would be given up, lost and
destroyed forever.
Men of Kentucky, there is no resurrec-
ton among nations. If any one truth has
been determined by history, fit is this, that
there is period of youth of adolescence, of
manhood, of decay and of death among ma
tions. When that death comes, the nation
e, ha tod Thi, is
developed in history, tracing the career OF
nations from the remotest antiquity.
STATE RiGHTs. i,
We'll, gentlemen, what do we ask you to
do! As Republican party. we do not ask
you to become emancipaiionists." Every
body knows here thatI am an emancipa-
zionist. You may call il aboltonist if you
please, you all know, however, that am
opposed to slavery. and in favor of freedom,
that am in favor of defending the rights
OF the white man, and not of slave labor
and the black man exclusively. Is that abo-
litionisml IF 50, am one. | believe that
Justice is the foundation of all prosperity in
man, and that all men are entitled to free
dom in the pursuit of life, liberty and hap
piness Yet have been and am willing
all the time. as have proclaimed here and
elsewhere, TO leave this question to be de.
termined by the majority of the people in
the States themselves. That is my doctrine.
IF you like the term of abolitionism as one
to apply to it, care not so long as you un-
derst and the nature of the thing. As Re-
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battle. We say that the national govern
ment is supreme in its sphere and we are
States Rights men, law-abiding men, as we
have said in our resolutions this day. j.
may be that you will see those resolutions,
for it NAV be that some of our Democratic
friends will have the magnanimi,y to publish
them, if they have Democratic paper near
here. but such things are very scarce in
Democratic communities.
We say that the national government has
ns right to say 10 South Carolina or Ken-
tucky. you shall have slaves or you shall be
free; but we say to them you love liber-
tv the freedom Of the press and of
speech. the development of the re-
sources Of your country; if you desire to
see manufactures built up, and love to see
the prosperity Of the white race, instead of
building up degenerated mulatto race, as
is going on in the slave States, do SO, but
we do say that under the constitution OF the
United States established by our fathers for
the promotion of the happiness Of them
selves and their posterity, We will maintain
the territory of this Union, now acquired,
and forever hereafter to be acquired, free
from Ills weak institution, that has brought
Maryland and Virginia to shame, and to the
blush before the world; that we will not
allow any territory where We have the pow
er to possess Slavery, as is our sworn duty.
II you choose to call that niggersm, am
for niggerism.
lam told Mr.. Hogan wishes TO reply to
me rfter I get through. Most certainly,
Mr.. Hogan.
Mr.. Hogan-Tt is all mistake.
Mr.. Clay beg the gentleman's pardon
was just nov told that twas so.
II any of our friends or the LETT choose to
come up into old Madison, and estsblish a
paper there advocating that this country
shall be taken from the white men, | will
say let him lie, him publish anything, and
we will pledge ourselves up there never to
get up panic; we won't mob any women or
children ] suppose you have not nigger
within ten miles ofyou, unless he is running