Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-09-12
authority of the country. In any other mode

some think thar Now oil this Is OF no avail |
We can't throw off the legally constituted
authorities. In order to support the nation
we must support the Executive of the Ma
ton. (Great applauseS The time may have
been when it was otherwise. But that time
is not now. When our country and its capi- |
tai are threatened by hostile force of armed |
rebels, lis not the time to refuse our support
to the National Executive. Now force must
be met by force.
/ remember, at one time, when rebellion
threatened the country, and when General
jackson planted his foot upon it, that J. with
twenty other good Wings, called upon the
old General to assure him of our support of
his measures to crush incipient rebellion.-I
And | would do 20 again. Cheers.
Much has been said about the origin of
| this strife. Permit me to say, my friends,
that we have nothing to do with that The
Ship Of State is now in the midst of the
breakers; The commander With the aid of
the crew may be able to save her. We must
all unite. So, even if all have erred widely
that is not now the question; but the ques-
ton is what is to be done to save the coun-
try. (Cheers.)
[ hope, yea my friends, | know, that
party spirit has greatly subsided 1t cannot
be that men can all at once lay aside their
feelings connected with their party sympa-
thies; they will continue to feel them; it is
impossible. at once 10 blot ont all these CON
nections with the past; have stood aloof
from politics torseveral years. Since 1851
have not belonged to any political party; but
now find myself belonging to Il party--the
party of my country. Applause ! hope
never to belong to any other. Cheers. u
Under the troubles that have 80 grevous-
~ assailed our country there has been much
of elimination and rccrinination. The Re-
publican has said to the Democrat you have
brought these evils upon u; and the Demo
crat has replied to the Republican, you did
it. But IL seems to me that. the represent
tatives of party had better Just agree to
close and balance the accounts with each
other. Laughter and cheers. But, the
fact is, my friends, the origin Of this rebel
lion is with neither ofthc parties us such =
The source ofthe evil lies much deeper down
and further back than all this. From the
time that Gen. Jackson planted his foot
= upon notification in South Carolina, in 80,
there has been general progress in the
schooling for rebellion in that State With
in that time whole generation of young
: men has there beeni reared up aud educated
: to disunion. She is a disuniOn State. And
: the fact is now unquestionable that she car
: be kept in the Union only by the strong arm
Of power; and would stretch out that arm
e with an unhesitating firmness and compe
her TO remain. Immense applause. Othe
States have been, by degrees seluced from
their allegiance to some extent, by influences
similar to tho viii, h have proved so pesti
lental to South Carolina You all rcinen
ber the wild buccan, ering that was set OF
foot in 1919, when organized bands of adven
turOus young men inva led the Island q
Cuba, in which invasion all unfortunate an,
misguided nephew of the venerable John j
Crttenden was taken prisoner and garroted
Now, these young men and their associate
and sympathlzers, trained to live wihOu
labor, many of them poor and all of thcr
proud, became the "knights of the Golde
Circle, "a secret 'ganizatioli--sct on foe
to carry out their desperate and vilhaino,l
plans But this was put down. They OF
ganized anew, and were again put down; bu
not till after a desperate struggle hav
convesed with Judge Campbell, U.
IS Judge IN Alabama. on this suhjcc and h
;, informed me that 50 strong and so violer
lc had become this secret organization, that h
" expected on some occasions to be viulcntl
torn from the bench, and cast into the way,
r. Of the Gulf These secret conspila tors the
IN turned their attention to the North
educate a political school in their ,lc>perai
doctrines. They soaght to distract the cDu,
try on the exciting ,u3jact Of slavery. The
= SO far and 50 well managed their nachini
tons a. to break up the Democratic party
Charleston BY this rupture they so veal
cned the political power OF that party a,
# bring about the election OF Mr. Lincoln ari
n thereupon seized upon his election as II pr,
he text for dissolvine the Union. ~.
sal Secession, my iIcll., has never bee