Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-08-30

members,nereiy, In the North. The remedy
for this shameiess svi! 10 90 easy ss IL Is
simple > p VIZ need bnt initiate the ex,mpie
stt us by ,hvse who l,sve csssed this con.
dition OF thiaes Concord and infexibiity
OF, spuspore wall accomplish all we ask.
Nothing else .ev.r csa or ever will, We
m ighl as soon expect . divided Il discords nj
army, iHsr'hs Cd under opposing generals,
TO capture the powerful and thoroughly dis
hciplined aud guarded city, as for Northern
honor to bs Sustained by men in'the pay
and keeping Of those who would weaken and
reduce Ms. ln.ihe ordinary business Of life
we never trust the faiihless and dishonest;
csn imagine no resson, for engaging such
40 se ntinels over our entire fortvnes. Just
soslong ss 'our Custom hou.ss. Post Offices.
Navy " ards and Mints shall be stocked
with thousands, selected virtually by those
who are 10 banded opposition to, u.s. and
whose principle business, we are Instructed
to believe lie compounding politics with per.
fidy. it W III te impossible 10 render our con
diiion better than /, 10. These leper-ysrds
must he clesnsed. Their occupants load
the air with a contagious corruption
Throughout, their bodies and their souls
! they bear the marks of the distemper with
which ari.tocrsiic p,!Iu,ienist has touched
them. risk but little in spying, that a,
this very hour, this mighty pbalanx. scat
tered throughout the eighteen Northern
States, hsning common and power fu bond
Of union, are devising measures to despoi
our industrial classes, by con6nng them In
densly crowded felds of labor, or forceinp
them to enter into competition and compan.
ionship with ignrrant and brutalzed bond
men. They all, yes. all. have been brought
10 believe that the doctrines of the Decla
ration Of Independence are hut steroty ped
lies; that the founders OF The na,ion had bu,
sorry conception Of inslienable rights;
that the constitution which they framed wa,
intended as an instrument of cruelty and
crime; and that the fairest feature of free
republican ass citation is a union Of States
peopled with the Lowest grade of slaves
Am right What 10 the trouble against
which we have 10 contend! l. it net the
steady influence of what may with proprie.
ty be called po 'itical ctnspirscies to misleat
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Is 1t not an Administration blackened will
ireachery, and crooked and tottering unde
the weigh; is depravity, using oil tht
patronage OF office, and all the fascina tom
Of position to utierally desuoy us, by max
ing the Territories OF the country but gar
risons for the enemies of freedom and lh,
labor OF white men degrading and fruitless
bvyond the limits Of the presest States! I
am in error, what is the correct interpre
ta,ion of the political discords OF the last 81.
y earsi ,, r a.a-4.ar5a
slaaticipste fu sly that my suggested mod
of redress for existing abuses will be de
nounced as sectional, to which I answer,
it be SO, the antido'e to bane may be
bane itself, "simi!is similibps curantur.
But ito liability TO the charge ia denied
The real seciionaIism is srsyed against US
do but coUn 'el the systematic and persis
tent resistance. In s'ude. of the fundu
mental doctrines Of onr common character
and in the dispensations of the !avors q
Government, we should never know Nortl
a South, an East OF West. My complain
, is that others &C: as il they thought differ
emily. trust wc shall be always able t
command the exercise of such patriotism
i, and comfy as to forever preclude Us froI
J aggression upon a section inferior to ours !
every element Of material strength an
81 greatness. 1t can never ne otherwise tina
{ dastardly to press upon the weak annd slcl
: ~ El. Hbbr. -,..,. ,..
1t will be noticed that have spoken I
A the Democrats ,pasty without reference
D its ptssent Distractions, Ny reason for 4
!, doing is, found in the opinion I entertai
- that these dissentions do not effect issue
,,l as neither branch indicates disposition
h meet. fairly and openly. the great polite
9 problem of the lines. In cnsting our vot,
i, we should be accurately informed as to the
/, effect upon the policy we desire to see q
b tpblished. We should not he made in 5il
. hands cf any ambi ious man. or in ii
, hands Of any combination Of reckless
y interruptions men. 10 force an unnntur
a growth Of Slavery 10 The country, contra
! to what has heretofore been the understan an
r. ing Of the Constitution ofthe United State
u and in pslpsble v,olstion Of what has be,
= regarded a settled and national policy.
ID should be. a matter VI singing regret to l
!. If from or bearing IN the present. conte'
>. I'VE could be fairly charged hereafter with
o violation Of the principles, we bsve 10
y p1olessed to. with having imposed any, I
10 slightest. impediment in the pathway Of
ID ralonsl, well.groundfd, and progressive i
| ertv. .,... i. t -.t
n The all absorbing question now present
e to the American citizen, for what will pro
IN to. be bis ultimate decision, l have watch
is narrowly. ss II has risen into imPoriau
,r from year 10 year. and think know
n opinions Of The several Presidential can
a. dates respecting 1t. ,l,s. ..,... u4
Id ~ am notyaware that the supporters Of
y, Breckinridse sttempt any aconcea'ment as
er his designs in case VI hisssuccess.. IL u
VI should desire TO resort to prevurication. ii
OF hays. placed it entirely without their pos
~. BY irsnkness and boldoess sand had aim
nt said, the rscklessness Of their declarstio
n- lie. has been put forth. prominently, hk
ls- speech and platform, % the Achilles of
% armies Of the South, and as the dstermiI
'ss foe OF free soil, free speech spd free m
'ot He, Glands upon no single democatic %.
vs. msnt. unless. indeed, what were regarded
hv III n. l. r Gffoo . q n