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

EDITOR CHRONICLE: In view of the de.
plorable condition Of my adopted country,
and the various opinions in regard to the
present government Of the United
States of America, and the specula-
tion as regards the jeff Davis Confcderacy,
&c, l desire, through your columns, to call
upon my native countrymen who, with your
correspondent, have left their native coun.
try that they, though poor in this worlds s
goods, yet, while poverty, with all its in
conveniences, may be ours, thank God and
the nation that has willingly received us. it
Is ours to stand up and say / am Free
Man; and our children and children's chill
dren may do the same, if we but do our duty.
And not only so, but, brother Irishmen, not,
as in our native country, where you well re.
collect you had no voice in the Government,
here III this land of liberty you and have a
voice equal with Governor Dennison, a
Cnttenden, a Holt, or even q WINFIELD
SCOTT. BY adoption you have become citi-
z1ns OF this land of treedem-the best Gov
ernmeIt ever instituted by mortal man.
where wealth is not the test OF honor. but
where the virtuous character, though poor
as Lazarus, is entitled to the liberty and
privileges Of a Rothschid. l urge you to
rally to your country's call, and protect her
free institutions, with all their privileges and
Blessings that the same may be handed
down to our children untainted and untram-
meled by anything like jeff Davis rule
Fellow-Irishmen, | would call upon you, in
thn pF au nra1 20 cl,n,., e..
the would that you meant what you said
when you vowed you would support the
Constitution, not OF the rattlesnake confed-
eracy, but Of the United States of America
,-and may it never be said that son Of the
Emerald lie should prove traitor to his
country and his oath.
Brother Irishmen, would call your minds
back to the battle of the Boyne when Ire
land lost all her rights and privileges, and
also to '46, when Smith o Brien for Free
dom's cause sat in the prisoners box, in
full view of the galows erected for his exc
cution, before three frowning Judges, and
heard his sentence, without trial, to be
hanged and quartered and drawn through
the streets of Dublin by horses, and not
even muscle of his face moved knowing
as he did it vas in freedoms cause he was
thus to suffer-
Shall it be said that Irishmen in this
country should so soon forget the CALLING
yoke of bondage in their mother country,
or the privileges they enjoy in this2 No;
never. May the sun refuse to shine. and
the moon be turned into blood, sooner than
AN Irishman should take up arms against
this Government. l voted for John C.
Breckenridge for the Presidency. He was
stItntInnalIyI " InfnutaI. I'D NJ.
Lincoln was constitutionally elected, cheer.
fully submit, and intend to support his Ad-
mlnstration in maintaining this Govern
ment, SO help me God-believing that the
ballot-box had right to say who should be
the nations chief executive
May the Stars and Stripes, in all their
beauty. glory and grandeur, wave over every
foot Of territory belonging to the United
States until it shall be proclaimed that time
Sha II he no longer, and may they never droop
so low "a to perish amid the coils of South
ern rat lesnake. VIM. ToLLErr.
Wayne Township, August ID, 1861.