Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-09-19

you hear this idle parrot prate about the
liberty Of the press" tell him it is to he en-.
joye1 so long as it urhelds right, aud it /.
not to be an engine Of destruction, going
about on its merciless errands. In my opin.
ion Mr. Lincoln ought to have laid his hand
upon. great many reasonable journals
which he has not done. [Cheers. A more
aboininable abuse never existed. II Satan
had been let loose after his confinement of a
thousand years, he could not have done
more nisch ief than these miserable, treason.
able journals. am for strong measures.
did not learn my Democracy in the school OF
management, or lobby, or trickery. learned
1t at the bar Of Auarew Jackson's court,
where 1t was patriotic, and where it taught
that true Democracy was not inconsistent
with true duty. Why, its first duty was to
uphold the Constitution, and in the Ian
guage of the Son Of Man, ''render to Cesar
the things that are Caesars; and to God the
things that be Gods" This is true Democ.
racy.
DUTY OF DEMOCRATS.
Any Democrat that undertakes TO embar-
rass the administration, whether he loves or
hates it, in such a crisis as this, is no Demo.
crat and no good citizen, and ought to be
put up as Il monument for scorn to poin.
her slow, unmoving finger at His genuine
ness must be about equal to that Of the old
revolutionary soldier have heard ofin the
interior of Pennsylvania. The inhabitants
Of the place had determined on having a
4th of July celebration, of the old fashioned
spread eagle kind, and looked for man for
revolutionary soldier, to give interest to
the occasion, and finally succeeded in finding
one, an old German. lie was brought a
great distance and placed upon the platform
near. the orator, who waxed grandly eloquent
upon the patriotic deeds of the surviving
hero, and at the close of the oration he was
desired to give some of his personal recol-
lections of the war. 'You, said the Presi-
dent, must have known Washington?"- =
Eyes, l knew him." 'Where did YOU see
him?" AT Trenton" Were you in the
battle?' Eyes, l surrender to Washing
ton" You surrender to WashingtonlG
How was that" 81 vas Won Hessian!''-
[Great laughter
Now, think, when you find men prating
about the Democracy embarrassing the Adj
ministration at such time as this, when
you ignore their history, you will find they
were ''von Hessian." Laughter.
TIE ''BLAcK REPUBLICANS.
They are distressed for fear / am going to
turn Black Republican, or Abolitionist, Or
something-particularly those gentlemen
that were in Buffalo in lS4S. They are
so much afraid of Black Republicans and
Abolitionist, now, that they cannot be with
them in arre,ting rebellion. These very men.
some of them, had my name published SO
long in black letters for standing by the Con
stitution that | am not SO much afraid of
what is black as they seem to be. I think
it will be well for them to review their own
history. have fought the Republicans all
my days, and will again when please; but
when they will 90 with ME to put down re.
bellion in arms, | will go with them. do
not regard my political virtue so weak that
am afraid to test it. Captain Marryatt
tells of la'ly at a boarding school that went
into the parlor, and seeing a gentleman.
came running out, crying: "A man, a mani
And so it is with these politicians, they are
afraid they will get too near Black Repub.
lican to lose their Democracy in spite o.
themselves But history and somewhat
enlarged experience have taught me that il
is not always the most virtuous that make
the most parade of their virtue.
THE CRY OF PEACE
The great cry now is Peace" They saw:
'"There must be peace" We are all i,
favor of peace. | don't doubt but that many
honest men, Democrats and others, think it
attainable by negotiations with rebels, but
any one who will look at it with half an eve
can see that it is impossible rs
Stand up, Mr. Apologist for Secession!
and let us see whether you can face an indig-
nant people. In what work arcy you engaged?
Attempting to destroy the Government of
your fathers. II am not trying to do that.
am in favor of peace. Every widowed
woman, made so by this rebellion, has a
right to look upon you, sir, as the murderer
of her husband. Every orphan may look
upon you as the guilty wretch-the DESTROYER
of its natural protector. The loyal citizen,
too, looks upon you as one who aids and
abets treason, and furnishes aid and comfort
to the enemy. Your hands are red with
blOod-blood of your murdered citizens
All, in this brief war how many have been
sent down with violence and butchery to the
grave! How many bitter, unavailing tears
have been shed! How many pure and gentle
hearts have been crushed and broken? And
still you cry peace, when you know there is
no peace! Come, take arms in your hands
and stand by their side and point your bay
onet at the breasts of your own brethren
here, or else help us put it down. You will
stand as men and be no more guilty in the
sight of God to take arms than to encourage
others to do 50. [Applause The party
that attempts to do this ought to sink. Any
party ought to sink to infamy that cannot
lay aside its politics in this crisis; and should
the Democratic party, with all its ancient
history, attempt carrying this question BY
opposing itself to this war, there would not
be enough of them left fngerboards to point
to the burial ground where the whole party
will be engulphed together. Applause.
THE ABsURDITY OF PEACE PROPOSITIONS
NOW.
Now let us see. Suppose there wasa riot
in Cortland, and hundred men were en-
gagged in the destruction of property. You
call the magistracy together. They all come
out and attempt to put down the rebellion,
and the force is inadequate, and they call
out the military power But the magistracy
instruct them: ''Go and put down the riot.
1t is in arms against us. 1t is threatening
life and property, and going on with des-
truction. Put 1t down.. and at the same time
when you are putting down the riot, make
it the most liberal offers Of peace" You send
the officer to arrest murderer. His hands
are red with blood, but you tell the officer,
when he comes "We are opposed to mur-
derers, but go and arrest him, and make
him the most liberal proposition of peace. +"