Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-03-07

| evasion pfUVOSeu 10 ~ unuer the form OF
remonstrance and wise advice2 According
to Mr. buchanan, that would be the only
means Of saving the Union, Or will the
| North, irritatsd in its turn by the reproach-
es of the President who throws on it the
whole responsibility OF the crisis, persist in
its victory, and allow the South, which it has
neither Threatened nor provoked, to act AZ
it likes? That is what q not distant future
will inform US. For our part our wishes are
at the same time for the safety of the great
American republic and for the gradual di-
minuton of slavery. We much fear, how
ever, that the North will seein the late mes
| sage propositions offensive to It, while the
South will find there an eucOuragement 10
its projects OF rupture MIR. Buchanan
| would thus have failed in his attempt at paci-
fellow coufitrymen only an incohereut COM
mentary on the Constitution OF therepub-
lic.n
4 The Debats represents the moderate ops
position party. ltakethefollowing citation,
part OF many utterances from Its pages, to-
, the same erect:
I'm two months Mr.. Lincoln will take
possession OF the presidentshlp. 1t would
), appear from the Language, ofthe journals of
his party, that the PRESIDENT and Congress
will then call upon CAROLINA to obey. Should
! war ensue, and the whole South take part
with CAROLINA, what Will become Of all the
; deplorable interests created by slavcry2 Isi
| 1t not easy to imagine conuncture of cir
D cumstances in which, even II catsstrophes
7 from which the IMAGINATION shrinks with
Q horror, are avoided, the fortunes of the
n shareholders will be thousand times more
endangered by their rupture with the North,
than they possibly could have been by the
: maintenance OF the UnlonF
The Monde (Ultramontane homan Catho-
=, lic,) treats the question from the ecciesiasti-
# cal point OF view: rlt
G When the Apostle Paul orders, slaves to
d be faithful 10 their masters, ne only speaks
., ofa slave as servant, Tor he at the same
l. tune recommends christian masters to treat
t. their slaves as brethren. It Is the Greco
r Roman slavery which IS In vlgor In tho
$. United States, There the slave is juridi-
Y cally brute ne cannot appeal to Justicey
lie contract marriages, or acquire any property
A. whatever. The American law gives the fol-
b. lowing definition OF slavery: The slave
is is not ranged among persons, but among
'e things; ne Is an OBJECT, an article OF proper
i'd ty. AS such ne has nc family, cannot pos
ty sess anythlng, ana enjoys no O. right. =
STROUD Law OF olayery.) This Is the
whole theory OF the homan Law: 1t was
s. IN the sixteenth century, the age OF religious
nj lnnoyatlons and OF the triumph OF the No.
- man law, that slavery acquired an immense
~ extentlon IN the new world In proportion
I'LL as the koman law developed itself, tyranny
a increased and liberty diininisheL- Never
ID could christian head have conceived the
be idea OF Roman or American slayerys tire
ne m 9uireed the Renaissance to realize it. u
80 southern America should become really
CHRISTIAN, slavery would decrease by degrees,
en- and assume another character. A sudden
ar emancipation appears to be as impossible q
d. 1t would be dangerous. Force and selfish
AR ness VIII decide TINS question. All that we
P- have sought TO establish Is that slavery, such
as It has been practlsed IN Greece, at Rome,
cd and IN the United States, Is particular fact
in, which could not have. taken root except in
certain. republics delivered up to atheism
Iis and ratlonalism.
lM The Opimone Rationale democratic,
has had q number OF long articles on the
nd President message, and on the whole ques-
Ior ton atlssue in the United States. ] extract
re few lines, which are specimens of whole
ur MIR. buchanan sees but one means Of
= avertlng irreparable disasters. 1t is, that
100 the North snail give up the fruits OF its re
he cent victory make tne 9naende homorabt,
on 70 the party IL mas defeated ut the polls, and
his ProcHnn, slavery noiy ana stainless institu
re- lieh. HerhaPs' aitef thiS, !, tne repentance
on Oh Ihe Ner!h Is sincere, ana u conducts It
1T sen ao lai.liul supJect, the south, IN I'll
uiaSHsiaiiI1iity, VIII commune 10 sell cotton tt
, / 1he North. Mr. buchanan has encouraged
Tor couth Oarohna ana tne states disposed tt
JOIN n, her III repeilion,
me same journal mas long article on tht
I'M possible advent OF commissioners from tht
SCUM sm 70 seek nrehch assistance or frencf