Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-03
A. ABBOTT.
W. II. MARSHAL,
J. w. CASE.
NJ. VI. LACGuLIN.
Views of the Hon. Reverdy Johnso,

To the Editors ofThc Baltimore American: -'
GENTLEMgN-t regret to learn that som,
of our Union friends are doubling my nc
cep.ance Of the nomination to the House of
Delegates from Baltimore County, will
which their Union Convention recently hon
orrd me.
never fora moment hesitated acceptance
| 1t is true that the trust, should the peopl,
Of the county confer it, it will involve much
inconvenience and sacrifice, but what ar,
these to loyal citizen in this period of ouI
States trial and peril? She is entitled tc
the service of all her sons, in any situation
in which it is suppoeed they may be able tt
succor her.
A rebellion, such as the civilized world
has never before known for wicIedncss and
insanity, not only without Justification, but
without even the pretext Of proyocation, i,
involving our State thank God vet, as ever
and to be forever in plotters' despite, true
to the Union in alarm and afflction, al.
ready bringing wretchednes to many house.
hold
Unless we prove forgetful, to ally, Of the
lessons Of our torcfathers, ohlivious, espe.
cialv, of the teachings of Washington, re
pardless of tho opinions of the great and good
men of other climes friends of constitutional
liberty, heretofore in their struggles to Sc
cure it, animated by the brightness of our
example, we will remain in the Union, and
joining heart and hand with the faithful
everywhere, expend our treasure and our
blood in perpetuatng what our fathers ex-
pended their treasure and blood in establish
ing.
Discarding all mere party promptings as
not only unsuited but degrading to the occa-
sion, it is our imperative obligation. as we
reverence the dead and love the living, to
rally around the misunderstanding
applaudng, aiding them, to the fullest
measure Of our ability, in their present
mighty efforts to crush the treason. These
efforts must succeed. No cause can long be
maintained which rests on broken faith and
violated pledges. From these we know, the
world knows, the rebellion originated. The
conspintors who plotted it have, for years.
been stealthily engaged in the almost fiend-
ish purpose. Oaths-what were they to
them? what were they ever to traitors :?
They serve only the hotter to conceal and
work out the intended treason. And, de-
yeloped, by whom are their armies led :?
BY men, educated, clothed, fed, at the ex.
pense fthe nation, and owing whatever
honest fame they possess to its protection and
their traitorous task? Deluding still further
the mistaken buthonest citizens of the South,
they, from the first, have lost no occasion to
I'll their ears with the greatest falsehoods,
libelng, with that end, the very soldiers with
whom, or under whose command, they had
assisted in maintaining the honor Of our flag
soldiers who they know are as humane as
they are gallant and honorable.
A cause so beginning, so maintained, can
not long Withstand the rightful authority.
and therefore the almost unlimited power oe
the Governments Government from its
birth securing throughout its entire limits
moro Of individual happiness and social pros
perity than man ever before enjoyed, and
never more fruitful Of these blessings than
at the very moment when treason raised its
unhallowed hands, for tho mere sake Of in
dividual aggrandizement and power, to dcs-
troy it.
What is to be done in such mn emergency
true men can easily decide. The question,
in the language Of Henry Clay, in 1850,
when anticipating such catastrophe, ad-
mits Of but one possible anaoer--the po,ccr,
the authority, and dignity of the Government
ought to be maintained, aud resistance put
doicn at erery hazard.
Let the voice of Maryland in the coming
election speak trumpet-tongued that deter
mination, and beside that II will, in great
measure, rescue us from the direct calami-
ties Of the conflict; it will carry dismay to the
Rebel leaders, and do as much, II not more,
TO arrest them in their unholy enrsW than