Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-05-30


1 .c.,;,, ,ro,,Id Gladly socr;f;ce Won and
uahger u ~, luu ",,Sanf sncb mon. If thereby
me, anu oLe uoI a Nov Of esca no for themselves.
eney e.o9y, 'a ,ba Ieast of tbe dangers which they
,Un hava so w;cLedlv incurred.
. Here at Washington. perhaps, we know a
l;ttle more about e-macbinations of the
consnirators cons at Richmond, than they are
o,rorn nf Rut bes;dos that the documents
Gvour note to Col. Russell your note to me,
oTnd tbe nr;nted slim. hear internal evidence
GA concerted ulan. n scheme invented mot
bv the hold and patriotic Bolts, butt by
4 Hose same consp;rators. who falling to in
l t;m;date the Government by bullying vio-
jence have changed their tactics, and still
n hone TO win the victory and destroy the ma
tion by a less hazardous but more cunning
/, process.
Il Your note to Col. Russell (which he |
!, Showed mel imports that you are safe and
comfortable at Richmond, while we have
melancholy testimony that such men as you
( are neither safe nor comfortable there
+ 9, Your note to me of April 23d covering
E the printed letter, bit not ntentionia1) con
toins several phrases which am persuaded
: Won would not have used if left to your own
e free action. The note begins BY stating its
!, main object tbus-'J write hurriedly 10 say
, that have cousenfed to the publication OF
= nv letter 70 Won. with the hope, &c" Which
loi,or IN ,neS I have received several letters
4 fom Won but none of the 10th of April
,Con:ented to the publication whose
instance? The phrase and the context ip-
i ,,;,o tho ;,ference that the nnblicotion was
g ,odo @ ~" n, n,v ;nstance and that Inference was.
: oI bolevo ~v ny yyenerallv drawn in this CITY and
iii I rrob,blv bo drawn nj, over the country
e ,.harnao ,,o', do Ino,, tc,t had no. hing 70
n a. ,',;ti ~ ,,,hl;oot;on
IT, ro,a ooncludeo with tb;s very sup
,oa,;,,, i;uo I;O 81 a,,, not nj Ebcrtv 10 sneak
10 f,sha, ;sO - oo;,a on bo,n " 7 can easily com-
IS nrohond hat bnm;;ot;no fact: and I do
t. pa;nf,llv symnotb;zc with vo,, and with all
~ po'J "a G,;tbfrl ,no, in nv native State
: su sshon " I hehold tbe can;taj Of tbn once free
Is WIZ ,I rro,J V;,o;n;o sni,;ectej to the tvronnv
y aea P,UIa ,ia III, s,''"' y
L. Vi Tho ar;n,ej latter Nosi that should
ma o. ao aoo ps,,oh jott,r nnJer tbo hand of
-, tbe Soll,nt and giIfed John Nj Bcttsl
W sboll nat 90 into any minute criticism of the
he t,ts in, ny ~ ~ bow i con,raj;cts ali tbc
- ;, .e.to e. aaom ba,, ond hon"rohl, no,t;.
., ii,lil' 80 ~ III IL. ,,,tn,,,orohod ,ba whole
& Taa i'e.y e nyr ", aotvo omJ nsofnl c,eer onwor
at ,id ., y"rJ yUu.J far tbo iost thirty venrs NV
rs, rnrsor,I 1nr reoard and nv greot resnect TO,
se po,oo po,,r cb.racter forb;d me- fo do tLat In,
,e- }o "arnnt fnrbeor 70 saw That the whole scopr
~ aud tendency Of the letter. if not it's design
y ;s an nronwent in favor of dissolying tn,
lie T";n an "I anJ blo,t;no from tbe man Of th,
he ,yorlJ tLe nation of the United States. I
.d- Is n silent approval (by falling to condemn
of the violent and Revolutionary proceeding
NJ the neople of the Southern States (il
JIG several of them before the idle form of Sc
his ccssion was gone through With in plunder
op inc the money and arms and other proper
ost ty of the United States: in seizing upon on
nngarrisonel forts in making open war III
" on such as refused to surrender: in firing NJ
the on, and in some instances actually dogradin
the Gag of our country and in schemes an
nroiects boastfully announced in the publi
pross, and partaly acted out in militar
preparations, to seize this Capital by vioenc,
~, om' and break up the Government.
TO Your letter does not IN terms assert. br
no. bv necessary implication assumes. that th
, in fdm;n;strtion can. fit will, restore tn
4, neocc nf the country. by the cheap and eas
lhlS rpyncriment Of iss,iina proclamation. .spr,
crn nos;ng a truce of hostilities and the INN,
ern 5;,te assembling of n National Convention !!
the II seems to me, my dear sir, that there al
H., some serious objections to this cheap plu
10y of peacc, and first, the President has I
mower 70 call n National Convention Sccon,
well If he did call it there is not the remote
,ms rnn. nrohobilty that the insurcent States won
" nDlV
I9aa there is little hone that they would agree
pre- come in ON equal terms with the other State
!. A, Inv rocantinp their recent assumption of sep
IS'G p@m. rnte and absolute sovereignty, and by +
vccn storing all that they have taken, by violenc
div. from the United States. In short, after ,
rates thnt is mast, it seems to ME that there a
n, mt an M hut two alternatives left to this Admnstr
s voice ton first to submit implicitly to all the ca
no Of Of the insurgcnt States, and quietly consc
u ,aaS ,d to Acknowledgement of the nation; or secon
,rot to do its best to restore peace law and ordc
'e i,;; II Inv supporting 'the Constitution and ii
" yn. as, Union, and tho enforcement Of the laws
ilical Let the nation Judge which horn of Ii
" Seon en- dilemma the Administration ought to tai,
lsa. in view of all its obligations in regard to d
nermanent interests of the country, and
It's own patriotism and Constitutional dut
fol- | am amazed at tho course of things
by Virginia Your Convention was not call
IN to dissolve the Union, nor trusted with d
:" power of secession. BY the act of its Gre
tion that sovereign power was reserved
to nnh, the The Rople of Virginia Yet as soon as i
,s pa on Convention had secretly acted upon the su