Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-09-12

TWO Governments thereafter could live on
prosperously, peaceably as before. No moro
falseor fatal thought ever crept, serpent-like,
into an American bosom. Great cheering
You might as well tell me that the boat
which has been turned adrift above the cat.
aract Of Niagara will have tranquil voy-
age. Cheers. If you will 20 and stand,
as many of us have done, amid the ruins OF
crumbling empires in the old world-ask
them, they will all tell you it is delusion ;
ifyou will go into the cemetery of nations,
and hold your ear to the sepulchre of those
young and generous and high-spirited nations
that have persisted through the commissions
ofcivil strife, they will answer in accents Of
broken-heartedness, it is delusion. And
If you will not listen to the voices of the
past, go into Mexico and South America,
and ask the inhabitants of those bright lands,
blest with climate the best of earth, and oc.
ccupying soil Of exhaustless fertility, and
nvlng amid lakes, rivers and mountains OF
grandeur and inspiration--theyw will lift up
their bowed heads, amid demoralization.
pIoverty, and dishonor, and they will tell YOU
it is delusion. Cheers
Felow-citizens, | rejoice to beleve.--may
L not say to know---that the spirit of LOYALTY
at this time dwells richly and abundantiy in
the popular heart of the North and West
But do beseech you, you who have deep
stake in the present and in the future of our
country---you men of culture and of fortune.
and of moral power, do implore you, by ali
means possible add yet to the power of that
loyalty. If it grows cool amid calculations
OF avarlce, or craven under the discourage
ments Of defeat, our country will be over
come. What we now need is a patriotism
that will abide the ordeal of fire, a patriot
ism that is purged of selfshness, and from
all fear, which is heroic and exhaustless !;
which VOWS with every throb of life, with
every pulse, that it will Ialy.-if stricken down
it will rise again, and that under the pressure
of no circumstances of defeat of sorrow, or
OF suffering shall the national flag be aban-
doned, or the honor of the country compro-
missed. Enthusiastic applause.) What
we need is a patriotism which rises fully to
the comprehension of the actual and the
awful perils in which our institutions are
placed, and which is willing to devote every
power Of body and mind and fortune to their
dellverance. Cheers A patriotism which,
oblltoratlng all party lines-- CHEERS long con-
tnued, and repeated again and again, break
ing forth in loud hurrah la patriotism
which obliterating all party lines and en-
tombing all party issues, says to the Presi-
dent OF the United States Here are our es-
tates use them freely, use them boldly, but
use them successfully. For, looking upon
the graves Of our fathers and upon the
cradles of our children, we have sworn that
though all things else perish, this country
and this Union shall live. (Great cheering,
the assembly rising to their feet and waving
hats and handkerchiefs 1t is such a pa
triotlsm us this, and such only, that will con-
duct you to victory. And | rejoice to be-
ieve that this spirit has been everywhere
awakened throughout the loyal States. The
capitalists have come nobly forward (cheers),
and, risking all, they have exhibited a
grandeur of devotion to the country which,
while it will astonish the people of Europe,
has inspired the gratitude aud the admira-
tion,ofeverytruelA american hearts. CHEERS, J
All honor to them They have proved that
if there is much gold in Wall street, there
is more patriotism there. Cheers. Not
Il Summer patriotism, which fourishes amid
the peans of victory, but patriotism which
struggles, and sacrifices, and suffers, and is
prepared to put all things to hazard, even in
the Winter of national adversely, and in the
hour of national defeat. Cheers. Unless
this country can thus feel the sun of her
national life, which is now obscured, may
yet go down forever, amid storms and dark
ness--if all our great material interests are
crushed to earth by the shadow which is
passing over that sun, what would be our
condition if that shadow should deepen into
the night Of permanent defeat? Is there
nothing olive for but the gains of commerce,
nothing but the embellishments of our estates
Of Importance, and the furtherance of our
ease and comfort Are courage, and man
hood, and honor, and loyalty, and national
fame, and the respect and homage of the
world nothing? 1t is nothing to live with
out flag and without country, and with
future for ourselves and for our children,
and to stand forth the degenerate and de-
spised descendants Of illustrous sires We
might lay ourselves in the dust, and be
stripped by traitors hands of all that emo
bles and sweetens human existance, and still
live on as the cattle of the field, but our lives
would be more ignoble than theirs. CHEERS.
LII, with all our vast material resources, il
with our known and acknowledged physical
superiority over the Rebels, if with our
clamorous and profuse avowals Of devotion
to our institutions, we suffer that rebellion
to triumph over us, do verify believe the
the nOstrils of the world, and that an Ameri-
ctsh CitiLCu WOuiu uOt DC W Wdlh
the streets of European capital without
having the finger of scorn pointed at him.
(Cries of Bravo" and cheers.
Fellow-citizens, if 1 might be permitted
to utter a word upon a subject, L ,ooulti
earnestly counsel .forbedrunce and p 1tience IL
reference to those charged ,oith the ad,nints
trdtion Of our, Government. (Great ap
plause.) Before criticisi,g their conduc
zoe should remember that zoe may not see al
the field of action, and may not be IN an con-
dition justly 20 appreciate the difficulties to b,
overcome. (Applause,) No oman can doub,
the honesty and loyalty Of the President OF th,
United Statesj Immense applause, waving
of hats, and cries OFFS No") or his determi
nation to suppress this rebellion. To him,
under the Constitution the popular voice has
committed absolutely the fate ofthis Repub
lie. HIS hands are enaphaticallyyour hands
and in weakening him, you aoeahen your
selres and you aoeahea the struggling country
that zoe are all st,iva,g to saUe. He Is too a
this moment Overwhelmed ,oitk mountain O.
responsibility and toll such as eper rested on NJ
public man IN our history, aud he is talyen
titled to all the support and all the consola
tion ,ohich a. generous and toarm-hearted
patriotism can giue him. (Great applause.
Amid all the discouragements that sur
round US, have an unfaltering faith in hu
man nrooreSs and in the IN nacitv of mn N tn