Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17

our brave men. shall have crushed this
rebellion, aud conquereda a peace, when the
clouds of war shall be dispelled, and peace
restored to ourcountry, will any one be salts
fed If in this hour Of his country trial he
failed to,pefformshis part? -
Many Of 0ar sister States have been over
tcome by the rebels, and are under reign of
terror. Thousands of good and loyal men
and women in Those States are looking to us
for deliverance. ARMED bands, commission
ed by unfeeling usurpers, have robbed them
oftheir property, devastated their felds, set
fire to their dwellings, and cruelty murdered
their friends. With agonizing impatience
they are waiting for that expected time
when the army lof the Government they
love shall appearamong them, bearing aloft
our country's flag, the emblem Of justice
and security. The bugle notes that shall
herald the approach Of our army will, even
in the deuolation Of their homes, be a glad
some sound, and its appearance will turn
their sorrow into joy. GI U9'
Come forth, then, mybraye countrymen,i in
answer to this call Of your Governments
Rally to the standard of the country. Our
cause isjust The end in view is worthy Of
a great and powerful nation, and of q patri-
otic and bravo people. Let us be equal to
the crisis, anifrinly resolve that our Union
and Constitution must and shall be defend
ed ara prescrvehssAnd that the laws must
and shall be obeyed, and that the rich IN
hcritance which came to US from our illus
trious ancestors shall go down from Us to
onr postority uniinpaired,
.l'is .. b. S. CowEN.
l append an extract from late speech of
the eloquent and gallant Senator Johnston
of Tennessee. 1t contains vivid, and, /
doubt not, "a truthful picture of the sufferings
and feelings Of many Of the loyal people Of
the seeded States. '.i1rrtF ufw|
BIS. CowEs.
The !, other day, when stood in
the presence of Two THOUSAND Ten
nessecans exiled like myself from their
homes of comfort and the families of their
love, found that my manhood and stern
ness of mind were all nothing, and that |
was only child. There they were my
friends and fellow citizens ofny beloved
; State, gathered upon the friendly soil Of
Kentucky, from the. tender STRIPPING of six
teen to the. gray. haired fathers Of sixty, all
mourning the eyil that has befaen our land
and our homes, but all seeking for arms
wherewith to go back and drive the invader
from our fields and hcarth-stones. zap
plause.) l cssayed to speak to them words
Of counsel and encouragement. But speech
was denied me. | stood before them as one
: who is dumb. If it be true that out of the
fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh it
is also true that the heart lnay be too full
for the utterance of speech. And such
were ours-two thousand of us exied Ten
nesseeans and all silent Silent as city
G ot the dead But there was no torpor there.
There was the bounding heart and throbbng
brain, there were the burning cheek and the
blazing eye, all more eloquent than eyer
: were the cutterings ofhuman speech. Cheeys. J
4 Each of that throng of exiles, who had wan
4 dered among the mountains and hid in their
caverns.. who had SLEPT in the forest and
squeezed themselves, one by one, through
I the pickets Of tho Invader, each was now
: offering cpnllort and plc,lging fidelity to the
: other. Youth aud Age were banding to-
, Seincr IN nny nlilancc tnat VIII never
y yield till our country AMI our flag, our gov
/, ernment and our institutions are bathed in
: tho sunlight ofpeace, and con ecrated by the
baptism of patriotic blood. ( VocJcrots ap-
phtUSe,
> There were their homes, and there too is
b mine, right over there. And YET We were
homeless, exilcd And why? Was it fnr
. crime? Had we violated any law? Had we
4 offended the majesty Of 1W government Or
u done wrong to any human. being? Nay,
J. none Oft these. Oar fault ollr only fault, was
n loving our country too well to permit its be.
trayaL And for this the romorselcss agents
Of that "sum Of alI yillanies," Secession.
: drove ,is from our families and fresides, and
+ made us oxiles and wanderers. But the
time shall soon come when we wanderers
= ,0W 90 homcl (Gheersy) For depend upon
:. it, my friends, this monstrous iniquity can
not long sub5st Some bolt Of Heaven j
d righteous vengeance red with uncomon
wrath, will blast the traitors in their high
, estate. But whatever they may do,-
!. though they may ravage our State and make
,, desolate our homes though they convert
j the caves of our mountains into sepulchrcs
$ and turn our vallies and plains into grave
/ yards, there is still one thing they cdnnot
| 1O-they never cnn while God reipns