Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-01-03

TWO years after Calhoun had dropped the
7arlG and took up the niger. The South
ern gentlemen thrfin the citycf New York
were charged with getting up the mob, ]
know not how justly. ] sec in the ncwspa-
pes Of that time that the Abolitionists gave
notice Of holding meeting at Clinton Hall,
on ID Of October, 1888, and that placard
was put up through the city, signed "MANY
SoUTHERSERs, requesting all persons from
the South, and all persons interested in the
subject of the meeting, TO attend at the same
hour and place and express the true feeling
of the State on this subject A disorderly
mass did attend, compelling the Abolition
lists 10 withdraw TO another place called Chat
am Sreet Chapel. Their opponents organi-
zed and passed resolutions at Clinton Hall
against interfering with Slavery. Whileatthe
Chapel the Abolitionists adopted Consti-
ton for Society for immediate emancipation,
therein declaring its object to be to elevate
the character and condition Of the people Of
Color "bm wU nerer counteaanceti the oppress-
ed ai.emd;caftsg,ftair. righ,@,ly resorfng %
| physical forcer' Lawful moral and religi-
Gus means by appeals to the consciences
hearts and interests of the people" is what
they propose to resort to. Might they not
do this without blame? Might they not be
argued with, to show them their true interest
their obligations to God and man, involving
their happiness or misery in time and eter-
nifty, without doing them wrong? Would
it injure them to enlighten them? Whether
they got up the mob or not, it played into
their hands, or gave them what it was sup
posed they wanted, an increased Abolition
excitement in the North, and something Of
bugbear for them to point at while trying
to frighten the South. At the same time
the masses Of the Sonth were filed with
intense prejudices against the North. A
man from Belmont county, who resided some
fifteen years ago at Anguish, Georgia, in
formed me, about that time, that the com.
mon people, y as he called them, were very
bitter against the whole North, often saying
they would rather trade with Europe than
any of the Free States. Others have con-
frmed his statement. The Southern people
have thus been prepared for conflict with the
North long before President Lincoln was
thought of for the Presidency. 81
In pursuit of their object-the alarming
and uniting the South--the politicians have
made the most of all events in any degree
chargeable to Abolition. Hence, Gov Wise
after the U. S. Marines had subdued Johr
Brown and his followers, runs Old Virgins
to one hundred and eighty thousand dollar
Of expense in guarding against pretende'
dangers, gasconading and making q fuss gen
orally, as if bent on furnishing materials 70
writer's Of comedy and .rce. Not 30. II
was neither coward ncrf fbci.in that .thinss-
He was alarming and therefore uniting tn
I s0a.n. . ss;'is Ii 'hs ssss5 80
~ !;Sl Is.a ,sss.,, lam ssssS peli,ie
! al leaders fcr governing the Uil 10 s
that some have thought theirmger ~sitatiol
i had nonbject beyond presenting thereby
mass ,o power with which to bargain witt
j tho pof ono Of. the Northern parties
| br Il DIG with which they got control q
h the government. This seems TO have bee
the plan pursued, whereby for fifty or nor
years the South> with scarce one third 9th
\ white populatior, have taken about 4 e
fouths Of the federal ofz \ stated n
u laws; the other fourth Of the offices BEN
conferred on the obedient But as soonastll
4 Presidential patronage is lost as soon asth
d south sees it must cease to rule the whole Vi
ion it raises the standard Of rebellion; itwi
= not serve itmu1uRle as if moved by J.
0 Calhoun's satanic ambition who gave, ey
t dence in 1882 that he had rather "refgn
n Hell than serve in Heaven" until the dres
n Of jackson and the gallows restored orde
NJ The whole North had acquiescsdin the r
a port Of the Congressional Committee, an
d we're only seeking by moral suasion to remov
vi gradually the fetters Of Slavery, when Sout
,fl erf' politicians by their arts and emissari
lel increased and intensified a Ahplitionim in Il
,rl North for the purpose Of uniting the Sout
IL Duff Green, Calhoun's Editor, in ls'
,c proposed to publish newspaper for Sout
fyl ern circulation He says in his Prospect
m substance that 'sthe south had theretofo
m erred in admitting Slavery to be y moral Al
nj political tsil-and proposes by his paper
n to show that Slavery i right in itself III
r. what is to be feared is not what Ahe lit
NJ knot Of Abolitionists in the Moth may
,ir for indeed they do not add>sss the Slaues
Nv Ian. but this Is 10 be feared that the Co
- ciences Of the masters may become too {,
.rg der to hold Slaves And his paper will 9
IL these consciences of the Shareholder 7
IRE Prospectus was published several weeks
tn the United States Telegraph. Consider
3D. Duff Green's positionin reference to
me houn, this prospectus should go far in exc
Use pating the Abolitionsts from any impro
an. designs on the South at that time &confl
inp he opinion Of Clay and Madison herein
liz. ter quoted. After the South had brewe
ifI more intense Abolitionism and charged
,eir with designs of violence which it fancied
"a; Society of friends at their meeting in B,
,3s more in lS42 disclaimed connexion with s
in Abolition Societies as allowed or might
cad low any coercion or physical force as mt