The Kingwood chronicle. [volume] (Kingwood, Va. [W. Va.]) 1861-1861, 1861-07-27

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purpose-the dismemberment Of the GOV
ernment They said to themselves Since
we can no longer monopolize the great offices
Of the Republic as We have been accustomed
to do, we will destroy it and build upon its
ruins an empire that shall be all our own, and
whose spoils neither the North nor the East
nor the West shall share with US Deplor-
able and humiliatng as this certainly is it is
past We had, indeed, supposed that under
our Christian civilization we had reached
point in human progress, when a Republic
could exist without having its life sought BY
its own offspring; but the Catalnes Of the
South have proved that we were mistaken
Let no man imagine that because this rebel
lion has been made by men renowned in our
civil and military history, that it is, therefore,
the less guilty or the less courageously to be
resisted 1t is precisely this class Of men
who have subyersed the best governments
that have ever existed The purest spirits
that have lived in the tide Of times. the no
blest institutions that have arisen to bless our
race, have found among those in whom they
had most confided, and whom they had most
honorcd men wicked enough, either secretly
to betray them uuto death, or openly to seek
their overthrow BY lawless violence The
Republic Of England had its Monk the Re
public Of France had it's Bonaparte; the Re-
pnblic Of Rome had its Cesar and Catalne
and the Saviour of the world had his Judas
lscarlot. 1t cannot be necessary that should
declare to you, for you know them well, who
they are whose paricdal swords arc now un-
sheathed against the Republic Of the United
States Their names are inscribed upon
roll Of infamy that can never perish. The
most distinguished Of them were educated by
the charity OF the Government on which they
are now making war For long years they
were fed from it's table and clothed from its
wardrobe, and had their brows garlanded by
/. its honors. They are the ungrateful sons Of
fond mother, who dandlel them upon her
knee, who lavished upon them the gushin.
love Of her noble and devoted nature and
who nurtured them from the very bosom Of
her life and now, in the trenzied excesses of
licentous and baffled ambition, they are
stabbing at that bosom with the ferocity with
which the tiger springs upon his prey. The
President Of the United States is heroically
and periodically struggling to battle the mach
nations of these most wicked men have
unbounded qualification in knowing that he
has the courage to look traitors iii the face,
and that in discharging the duties Of his
great office, he takes no counsel of his fears
lie is entitled to the Jealous support Of the
whole country, and, may | not add without
offence, that he will receive the support Of all
who Justly appreciate the boundlcss blessings
Of our free institutions
IF this rebellion succeeds it will involve ne
cessalaly the destruction ot our nationality
the division Of our territory, the permanent
disruption Of the Republic 1t must rapidly
dry up the sources Of our material prosperi-
IT, and year by year we shall grow more and
more impoverished more and more revoltl-
tonary. enteebled and debascl Each re-
turning election Mil bring with It grounds for
new civil commotons, and traitors. prepared
To strike at the country that has rejected their
claims to power Will spring up On every side
Disunion once begun will go on and on indef
initely, and under the influence Of the fatal
doctrine Of secession, not only would States
secede from States but counties will secede
from States also. and towns and cities from
counties. and universal anarchy will be con
summated in each individual who can make
good his position by force of arms. claiming
the right to defy the power of the Govern
mcnt Thus We shonld have brought back
to us the days Of the robbcr Barons with
their mounted castles and malauding retain
ers This doctrine when analyzcd IS simply
a declaration that no physical force shall ever
be employed il executing the laws or uphold
ing the Government, and aGovernment into
whose practical administration such princi-
pie has been introduced. could no more con-
tinue to exist than a man could live with an
angered cobra in his bosom IT yon would
sion look at Virginia and Tennessee, which
have 50 lately given themselves np to the en-
brace of this monster There the schools are
deserted: the courts Of justice closed pub
/ lie and private credit destroyed commerce
annihilated debts repudiatcd conhscatlons
and spoliations everywhere prevailing: every
cheek blanched with fear, and every heart
frozen with despair; and all over that desola-
ted land the hand Of infuriated passion and
crime is waving, with vulture scream for
blood. the sword Of civil war And this IS
the Pandemonium which some would have
transferred to Kentucky.
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