Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-06-27

OF It's laws, and the protection of its liberties
in the execution of which duties it Is
bound to repe force by force. Nothing can
give greater intensity to the facts and prin.
cipes to which the foregoing statements re-
late, than comparison of what has occur
red in all the States which have seeded,
with what has occurred in all those which
have not seceded--touching the means BY
which the revolutionists have gained the
mastery and silenced opposition in the for
mor, and the manner in which the nation has
spontaneously reused itself initsown defence
in the latter.
III. Duty ofMe Nation to loyal citizens Il,
the seeded States. Their subju1dtioa
to a Reign of Terror. ANeged unanimityI
IN the seceied States.
/. Next in importance to the clear appre-
hension of his luty, which every loyal citizen
of the nation owes to the National Govern.
ment, in this most painful crisis-concernin
which we just endeavored to disclose the
enthusiastic conviction OF the nation itself;
is an equally clear apprehension of the duty
which the nation owes to loyal citizens in
those States in which the revolutionary
party has gained the ascendency, or in which
that party may hereafter gain it. This latter
Question as far as we know, seems not, as
J yet, to have been fully considered or deter
mined by the General Government The
secession party seems to have decided it ut
once, and according to its violent instincts ::
and not only does their unanimous iudg.
, ment demand of them exile death, or CON
version-but their legal authorities are re-
, puted to be prompt, and their ubiquitous
committee of vigilance very vehement in the
J execution of code-nearly as simple and
/ efiicacious as that Of NIahomet himself
There is much reason to believe that the ac-
tual majority of votes was cast against the
secessionistS in several States upon which
: they have seized that in several others held
: by them, such majority would have been
cast, if an opportunity had been allowed /;
, and that in not one of those States has there
5 been Il true and fair popular ratification of
secession; that before the actual commence
, ment of armed resistance on large scale by
the Federal Government, the actual majority
, of the people in the Confederate States,
t taken as a body, was hostile to secession
/; and that, undcniably, certain number, and
n that considerable, of loyal citizens, are in
e every one of those States. Allowing that a
!. state of things even tolcrably near to that
c contained in the foregoing statement exists
= nothing seems to us more clear than the
: American people, and by consequence the
$ Federal Government are bound to put forth
n their utmost strength for the protection of
n American citizens situated as persons loyal
e to the Union are believed to be, in every
State that has seeded. Questions of prop
IS orty, questions of rights of various kinds,
questions Of profit and advantage may be
compromised or even gracefully surrendered
,, on many occasions. But no Government
. no people, no gentleman, no Christian, car
withdraw protection and support from those
who are bound to them by the most sacred
IL and tender mutual ties, and leave them tc
u be degraded, oppressed, and prosecuted
u without atrocious niquity and boundles
&c degradation. 1t seems to us that it would
d be tran'parently clear, even if nineteenth:
= Of the people in every one of the Conleder
D. ate States were decided secessionists, tina
$. they should be required to treat the Iowa
8 citizens of the United States. found CASUALLY
v amongst them, much more those residen
I, amongst them upon the sudden outbreak oil
A. revolt, with justice and humanity. If, how
70 ever, it is really true that the secessonist
> arc the minority in many of those States
N upon which they have seized by superio
&c organization, and the suddenness and vio
I'd lcnce of their proceedings, then undoubtedl,
n the duty oil the nation is as obvious to de
le liver those States from such despotism a
y 1t would be II their Oppre ;s0rS were toreig,
n invaders. In like manner, it is the duty o
p the General Government to furnish all tn
lie munitions ofwar to It's loyal citizens re ,idiu
n in States where it is necessary for them t.
~ defend by arms their loyalty to the Unio
~ against armed conspiracies seeking to fore
it them into secession.
H. =. Pcaceauie revolutions are made b
'' voting, and the fundamental principle, OF
10 republican government, which the nation i
ne bound by the Constitution to guarantee t
le every State, Is that the majority of thos(
N entitled to vote, and not an armed faction
I, represent the sovereignty. 1t would b
n curious to compare the universal contemp
he for popular rights and institutions and 10
Mt all the principles and usages of America
m freedom, which has so conspicuously di,
Is tinguished the career Of this secession revo
t. luton since the aristrocrtic minority Ina
- got possession Of power, with the theory Of
Ill concurrent majorities" so carefully elaboyu
" ted by their first apostle, Mr. Calhoun ia
I'd the special protection Of the rights of mi
ar norities in free COVE nments Widely diffe.
I'd ent from the principle Of Mr. Calhoun
to theory is that now reduced to practice in tn
rt seeded States by getting together certai
BE number of persons called II Convention,
u in whom the sovereignity of the people
o. supposed to reside in n permanent and man
q ageabo form ;-b0dlcs which in the revolte
lie States have been converted into secret, pel
Is manent, and irresponsible engines, first o.
to revolution and then of despotism. We d
10 not speak OF the suppression of such despel
'e ate substitutes for republican government
% nor will We stop to point out how fatal
10 such proceedings reveal the anarchy fron
10 which they take their rise aud the mlitar
in despotism in the future to which they un
~ eringly point. What we have to urge
it the solemn duty of the nation to protect Iowa
70 minortles, much more loyal majorities
lg against the ferocious proceedings ahead
lie made manifest under the workings of thes
Il, institutions, and to warn those yet free from
ID their pitiless grasp to prepare for SLAYER
h. before they rush into the power of sucl
ry rulers.
r. g. Nor is it out of place to remind thos,
H. who clamor necessarily about the unaninit,
Il ofthe South and the folly and wckednes
ar OF attempting to resist the settled purpose o
II, whole people who have resolved to leave
re Union which they detest, that the natiol
10 does not believe in either the alleged ''unan
SO unity or the proclaimed ''fxed purpose
ne Doubtless it is true that the peculiar notion
\. of exclusive loyalty to the State We live in
at which prevail extensively in the Southern
r. States, have caused many loyal peope t(