Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-10-11
Are the Republicans Dangerous?--
Opinions of a Southern States

man.
The following is an extract from the able
and eloquent speech Of Henry Winter
Davis, nude at Baltimore, on Thursday the
s7th ult
swell gentlemen, how are you to judge
CT the purposes of party BY hunting up
the epeeches Of small men who want to
carry a neighbOrhood vote! By extracts
from furious editors of small papers, who
think they are never safe unless they are
beyond the most extreme in their neigh
borhoud! Are we TO judge of mems op,n
ions by the imputations Of theli enemies
and their exaegerations fur purpose! Are
we to suppose that our friends are black
because their :eaets,ls ddbb them blacks-
Or are we not rather to look at the facts
and to remember that among the millions OF
the North there ate men as wise as we are,
as honest as we are, as well educated as we
are, having as great Interests at stake in
the perpetui,y of the Union as we have,
and as earnestly and honestly devoted to
the integrity of the Constitution as we are,
anC that they are not likely deliberately to
invite civil war, deliberately to IN DOT ques-
tions which are wholly needless whatever
their opinions may be on them. Let Us at
least give them credit for common sense
and luke their declarations rather than the
declarations of their enemies and Of her
enemies. Is a Democrats impeachment evil
dence against anybody-on question oi
politics! Laugher aud cries Of mo, nor
! Now we all know that there are men who
| are furious at the South ON the negro ques-
tim, and there are men at the North who
are furious on the negro question. | am
thankful that they are in an equally small
minority in both sections. Their power is
amor. do not believe that between them
they could Sc, q regiment in the field, even
il they desired TO do SO. And, gentlemen,
If collateral proof was required, of now far
the conservative masses Of the North. the
conservative leaders OF the Republican
party, or rather of the whole body OF the
opposition in the North to the Democratic
par,y are misrepresented, there would be
no better or more convincing proof than in
the fact that, whilst the whole body of the
Republican party are denounced as abolition
lists, the abolitionsts themselves have very
| quietly refused their support, ard are or
ganizing separate tickets for themselves
Laughter anu applause. Can Mr.. Breck-
inrdge's friends say as much of the dis
unionists! Why arc not the abolltionists
satisfied with the representations oi our
south ern brethren! They cannot want any
thirg more than to invade the South; they
cnnnot want anything more than to disturb
our fresides; they cannot want anything
| more than to break up the slave trade be.
tween the States; they cannot want any
thing more than scenes OF blood and des'ruc-
tion throughout the county: they cannot
want anything more than to repeat John
Browns crazy and bloody exploit hy the
thousand times yer, Thai is what we are
taught by leading orators of the democrats
to expect. il not the result OF n set purpose
the tendency of the conduct Of tho conser-
yative millions of The North. And that, IN
the lace of the fact that, great AS vas the
4 storm raised by that insanity ofJohn Brown
and re, kless us were the imputatons upon
pentlemon Of certain political opinions,
throughout the whole North, yet, with al
the powers Of the United States to rake
evidence from one end of the United States
to rake evidence from one end Of the coun
try TO the other, with diligent examination
extending through months, by the Senate @
the United States, by an able and honorable
committee, headed by Mr.. Mason. Of Vir
D pinip, and. after a careful examination by
the legislature of Virginia, there was nj
evidence found that implicated any body o
confederates. or any man holding poll'ca
: oositicn, or aspiring to hold any position
:. anywhere in the North with that insane
perfurmapce. II is as have said before
instead ofbeing q source of disquietude, tn
most queting Of oil the occurrences ot tn
:, last half century. 1t has lifted the veil
, Misrepresentation, and enabled us to SCI
what men are doing. Till that event occur
red. and ill these Investigations wer' hat
such was TIE uniformity of the impdtstio
.of extreme anti-slavery opinions TO grea
j. body ofmen at the North. end of an earnes
n determination to intermeddle with souther
= institutions TO their damage, that gentle
man. even Of calm minds, were perhap
justified in having q doubt, or even perhap
|, justi ed in having doubt. or even perhap
Is in forming opinions, adverse 10 them upo
the subject. But when investigations wer
= m ade, after that occurrence. subsequent I
all the prcvocatiops, all the series Of ou'
!. RACES in Kansas Territory, where rorther
8 men were allowed to, be hunted down b
10 the hundred, during, believe, more than
yen, for the express purpose OF extendin
: slavery into It by border-rufians-notwti
sta ndiug ell that excitement, nobody cou
Be found implicated, except those at HarI
d er's Ferry, directly with Brown. and one {
It, two accomplices who had fed. No man
! name, not even any ofthe leading abolition
!, ists at the North, was found concernedin in
- Why, It is, as a general, thing, true, tn
the abolitionsts at the North, so far fro
= exciting rebellion, are of the Quaker
opinion, that It is wrong to shed blood, al
:, the most pesceahle and quiet, II the sillie
= and most misled, Of people in the world
+ [Laaghter.] ia
70 Gentlemen, have stated what belle,
~ to be the Condition Of affairs at the Mort
on n, with these views Of Mr., Lincoln and b