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

no 949.l
explanations, and if I should seem to be
little egotis,ical on this occasion. you mus
allow it. because can appeal to the gres
mass of the people that am not in tn
habit of indulging in that weakness.
s- pIsfURBER OF THE PEACE.
Well, then, Cass. Clay is a disturber {
the peace, agitating the subject o. SLAYER
in slave State; disturbing old institutions
interfering with the properly of the country
a violstor of law and order. Well now jus
Yet us look into shat. When the standar
Of fvreign invasion is raised, the authori
ties Of our common country call upon US t
raliyrto its defence, and we fall into lin
and 60 into the field of battle. and il, thro
an ignominous fear, we desert that stand
ard or betray our country, everywhere
without distinction of party, men. womel
fur cHildreH, That man Is denounced as
traitor to his country, 10 he not. Then tel
me, men of Cuvington and Newport. i
such there be here tonight, hyou denounc,
one for falling from the banner Of his coun
try, where duty, and that eternal allegianc,
which man owes to the place of his ma.
tivity calls him, how much more. shall hi
be infamous in the eyes Of men when ,
greater danger is threatenee-when ths
liberty of a country, more dear than all pro
per,y. and 4 man u,eanly shrinks IRON the
post of danger. an enemy may lay waste
your 6elds; may burn our house, sack your
cities, destroy your property; but when
peace is restored. and the prudent hands Of
industry and economy may soon restore 80
you your pristine condition; your fields may
be planted anew, under The smiles of PROV.
idence they will again be filled with grain;
your houses will be rebuilt and your cuffers
viii be replenished. But when the liberty
Of people is gone-when the freedch Of
speech and Of the press 10 stricken down
and silrnced, who shall restore them to you
s--4r ossAwATOMIE BROWN.
Well now | come to the answering of
going To speak plainly and above board, and
without reserve. fn my humble judgment,
il has no connection, whatever, with party
associations in these United States, as such
] say il here now, as will say ;::,ou all
occasions, that it is nothing else bus Sc
quence, and fruit foreseen by all sensible
mer. of that invasion OF Kansas by the
Southern pro slavery party, united to their
Northern allies. you don't like, that, you
must come home to your bosom aad ask
there, whether il, be true; it is realization
of the scripture truth. that they who "sow
:he wind shall resp the whirlwind." Ii is
tnst. and it is nothing elsa. Our fathers
knew and ielt all the exciting accompania-
menis that have follow ed in the wake of
this institution of Slavery. They ioresaw
that it would tepopalaie Kentucky, and the
great States of the West aud S luth- West,
as it has depopulated Virginia, and as it
has partly depopuIated Kentucky, and they
reserved in the far West, in the then unin-
habited territurv, and hume for the free
white laborer and his children, as they sup
posed, forever, against the strong conpeti-
ton, of unpaid labor; where, under their
own vine and ig tree, they may sit, and
none may make them afraid, and they pass
ed, as sold you ON a former occasion, this
Missouri Comprom Sc, that North Of > that
line of IS SO, Sineluaing the territory of
Kansas, the scepe os the feud, the scene of
all our woe should be consecrated to free
men ard that no slave foot should pass tilat
line. Who violated that contract! care
not whether il vas got up N rth or South,
buf Il was really got up South. lie was
by the North and Sbuth; il
was cunsummated by the iuimos, unanimous
spirit and conscience oil all the Democratic
people Of all the Northern and Southern
States. WIN violated il.r Who opened
up, again, this source of strife, to leave the
question to be determined as it was, by the
rife. the sword and blondshed! The Dem
ocratic party did ii. They are the men who
did it. Stephen A. Douglas is the author
OF that bill, leading Democrat, so claimed
North and South. Did | not tell you as /
went through here before, there was a
'hopeylfagling' going cnl as To- whether il
should be Douglas or Bnchauanl Dou't
you see the leading papers coming out and
taking one side or the other; some for Mr..
Douglas and some for Buchananl Douglas
wus the man that did'it He is strong
candidate for the Charleston pomination-
The Democracy then are responsible, not
we. lf bloodshed was the fruit in Kansas
of the sttempt Of the Democratic Admins
.tration. contrary TO their pledges in the
Cincinnati Platform, that they would ullew
the people of the territories to determine
upon their own institutions for themselves; /;
! say if the Democratic party did. by a
Democratic President, violate their pledges
and the people were denied the privilege OF
free speech and free access 10 the ballot,
driving old Brown from his settlement and
tsking possession Of his plantation, murder
ing his sons and making his daughter mad,
vino is to blame for the institution of these
late steps Of boodshed and violencei It is
right you should hear little wholesome
truth in Kentucky; you who are net in the
habit Of hearing it. say it is nothing but
a personal feud-a guerilla warfare, com.
menced in Kansas by the Democratic party
aud carried on BY Brown, upon the princi.
pie that wherever he found STAKEHOLDER he
should make war upon him. All this assail.
ing of leading men in the country in this
connection-all this-I had almost said in,