Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-08-29

trabands, and retain them. do not know
what he is going TO do with the question ;
but 1 suppose be is going to do with them
something as the Irishman was going to do
with the Widow Malones pig. "Did you
steal the Widow Malone's pig, Patrick"
asked the priest. THAT I did," "What
made you7 Think, when you will stand, you
hereto, in the Great Day when / shall be
there, and you will be there, and the Widow
Malone will be there, and the pig will be
there" "And will your riverence be
thereT yes" And the Widow Ma.
lone there?' yes "And the pig
there?" "Ycs" swell, / should say,
Widow Malone, take you pig" Laughter.
Now, do not know but Gen. Butler is GO
ing to take as long q credit as did the Irish
man. But, when we have Constitution,
and when they acknowledge its force, have
no doubt but every just citizen will be for
seeing it complied with. Now, / have just
as much confidence in the masses Of the
Southern people as in the masses of the
Northern people. Both are alike. The
masses are honest. To be sure, their insti-
tutions, their means Of communication, rem
der them more excitable more easily lead,
and more relying upon their leaders for pub
lie information, and therefore more liable to
be misled than Northern people. Never
thelcss, have confidence in the Southern
people; and the result Of the great conflict
in Kentucky assures me that the Southern
heart is withthe people sound to the core.
Though terrified into seeming Secession,
with the exception Of one or two States in
the South, ! am well satisfied that if the
question of Union or Disunion were submit
ted to the people to-day an overwhelming
vote would be given for the Union and its
Stars and Stripes Applause. Every in
dication has shown that whenever there has
been an election in an Southern State, and
a fair opportunity given, you have seen that
the Union sentiment has prevailed. You
will see that il is by military power, by
threats, intimidation, destruction, murder
and arson that they have succeeded in getting
in advance the cause of Secession. In some
States. as for instance Louisiana, they never
submitted the question to the people at ALL
It's base humbug of Davis, Cobb and Co.
to place themselves in power. The election
of political opponent is never cause of
Secession or for disturbance and if those
Secession leaders had opposed Mr.. Lincoln S
election from the time ofthe Charleston Con-
vention with half the pertinacity and force
that did, he never would have been elec-
ted. I charge in all my public speeches
that they connived at that election and the
same has been charged home upon them by
their own people in the South. Their time
had come. 1t must go, or they would be
ruined. They remind one of little boys who
want to ride horse. Those in the city get
a hobby horse, and they can ride that.
Country boys get astride Of stick, and ride
that. This knot of ofice-seekers, failing to
get horse to ride, or even q hobby, have
mounted this poor stick Of a Southern Con-
federacy, and are riding that. 1t is just
such ambition as caused the angels in hoav-
en- to rebel. 1t was not because we had not
good Government but because they could
not rule it. Call them Democrats, OR en-
titled to sympathy of Democrats, with arms
in their hands against their Government,
aud their hands red with the blood of our
murdered citizens! They are enemies Of
their country they are traitors against the
Flag and the Constitution and as such ar
raign them in the name Of the Constitution
and the Union. arraign them in the name
Of civilization; l arraign them in the name
of Christianity; Iarraign them in the name
of the fathers Of the Revolution, who
poured out their blood to gain the Liberty
transmitted to us. / arraign them in the
name of the soldiers who marched barefoot
to secure our blood-bought Liberty. ar
raign them in the name of the holy memo
ries of the women, of the Revolution, whose
pure and gentle hearts were crushed and
broken. In the Day of Accounts, the savage
Brant and more savage Butler, that deluged
the beautiful valley of the Wyoming with
blood, will stand up and whiten their crimes
in comparison with the perfdy Of the men who
now attempt to divide and destroy this
Union. The ferocious instincts of the savage
taught him that he might be doing duty
to his people; but these men were born in
land of civilization, and baptised in the
name of the Trinity, and they should be held
| to an account for the abuse of the trust which
has been confided to them. Who are these
men in arms against the Governments
arms against the Union? They are mer
who have been educated at its expense-beer
laden with its honor-been pampered at it:
Treasury. five perish we may say with thu
poet over the stricken eagle:
aKeen were his pangs, yet keener far to feel,
II He nursed the pnion which inpelled the STEEL
Whlle the same pnmase that had warmed his breast
Il Drank The last le-drop OF his bleeding heart"
If the Union is stung to the heart, it mus
be melancholy reflection that we hav.
reared the men to do it, and like the dement,
ed Lear, we shall learn
allow sharper than serpent's tooth II Is,
Il To have a thankless child; H Ht
that we have nourished and brought vi
children, and they have rebelled against tn,
) institutions of their country. We hav,
, seen by the action of the Border Southerr
States that it is not their intention to per
/ mitthis Government to be subverted. Ever,
4 crime known in the catalogue of depravit
r from treason to larceny, has been commit
+ ted in attempting to drive them into Seces
, sion. How can these men be sustained b.
any one, with hands dripping with blood
Q not only with the blood Of Northern, but O
r Southern citizens; and why? Because
y Northern candidate was elected, who ha,
a four years to serve, whose election the
. might have prevented-whose election the
a connived at, they will hazard whole eternity
6 so far as temporal existence is concerned, +
! crafty present personal pique and feed
r mean ambition. Whoever sustains them,
S will not. Whoever cries peace, / will not
n Whoever cries compromise with them,
| will not. Great cheeringl lam for peace
Q but am for making peace with the loya
citizens of the South-the loyal citizens o
: Kentucky and Of Missouri too, who hav
sent that modern nNebuchadnezzar, Claiborn
r. Jackson, to grass. [Great Laughter.
: They ask in repetition can you coerce