Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-08-22
A Word of Warning to the Democ-
rapv

The evident design OF the breckenridge
party in carrying out their scheme at Charles
ton was the ultimate dissolution Of the Union.
In the fall of the Democratic party, the
Northern Democratic sentiment was divided
the South was politically estranged, and
the issue which was threatened as the result
Of Mr.. Lihcoln's election was precpitated
upon the country. That issue by their own
wicked intrigues involved civil war. The
election of the President was nothing more
than the pretext for the consummation of
long matured scheme, springing from the
| brain of John G. Calhoun, and the friends
the mere agents of deep and dark conspir-
acy. They executed the duties of their agen-
cy until the close of Mr.. Buchanan's Admin
istration. They in the North insisted up
on humiliating concessions to the South,
and clamored for a most disgrsceful surren-
der of our national honor. They encouraged
Mr.. Buchanan in his weak and timid policy,
and as State after State seeded from the
Union, they attempted to lull the nation in
TO false sense of security. They talked OF
the wrongs of the South, and prepared com.
promises while the South talked treason and
prepared batteries at Pensacola and Fort
Moultrie. The outrage at Fort Sumter
'silenced but did not subdue them. The
smoke of that bombardment has passed
away and the country is resuming its wonted
calmness, while the men who previous to it
were anxious to degrade the nation are again
before the country with the same motive
The means have only been changed. Then
their cry was compromise; now their cry is
! peace.
Senator Breckenridge having been repudi-
ated by his own State, is now talking Dis
union in other States. And the friends of
Mr.. Breckenridge are busily endeavoring to
manufacture public sentiment for him, and
the cause he represents. They rally under
the flag of Disunion, and fraternize with the
enemies of the Union. They are as deaf
and blind 10 the wrongs and forbearance of
the North. as they are deaf and blind to the
treachery and cruelty of the South. They
base their course upon the 'usurpations of
MIR. Lincoln, butsay nothing of the usurpa-
tions Of a great conspiracy. Mr.. Lincoln
suspends the hd6eas corpus, imprisons trail
torous and seditious persons, defends the
capital, and endeavors to execute his great
and solemn oath, and he is denounced as a
military tyrant and usurper Jefferson
Davis steals our forts and arsenals, sends
pirates out on the sea, builds batteries upon
the Mississippi, and equips an immense army
sive war, and yet not one word is said Of
:. his usurpations, and instead of tyranny he
is conplimented for his forbearance anC
long-sutfering. According to their argu
ments the South is a fearfully injured ant
/ oppressed community, while the North i.
J its malignant and implacable foe. They
call this a BLACK Republican war;" ant
almost in the same voice they complain o.
the want of courage on the part of Repub
r licans, and say that Democrats only are. fight
[ ing 1t. They show on every occasion the ut
most contempt for our flag, and exemplify
it by affiliating with those insurgents who
+ have endeavored to disgrace it, All thei
, actions point to one purpose, and that. pur
f pose is the dissolution of the Union
They are selfish and ambitious men,
, And every selfish and ambitious reason
prompts them to attempt dissolution ofthC
: Confederacy. In regenerated Republic
n they have no future. The hour which wit
\ nesses the restoration of Federal power wit
0 nesses their downfall finally and forever
They have only lived by the existence of;
dishonest, disloyal, and Disunion sentiment
That sentiment has prevailed in the Legis
lature for the last quarter Of Il century. |
went into our political conventions, and int
S the feelings of the people. 1t lived by
constant system of intimidation and bravo
d do. 1t was sustained by the patronage O
. several successive Administrations 1t wa
0 tostered by the social feeling which the pc
l. culiar institutions of the South engender :
r. 1t was strengthened and emboldened by tn
e submission and acquiescence of the North
:, or rather by the submission and acquiescenc
y of those men in the North who are no,
prominent in the movement for peace. Thi
/, war has sended all that, and the only hop
d which the cringing and time-serving polit
clans have is in the erection of a peace pal
ty, the cessation of the war, and the dissolt
u tion Of the Union on such terms as will HI
II initiate and cripple the North, and give [
RS those who have been heretofore controllin
70 it a new and perhaps permanent lease {
y power. Hence their intrigues and disloy
II Vaccinations.
d On the framework Of the old Breckinridc
ns organization, this Peace party is being bull
NJ There is the same timber in the rafters, I'll
e. same handicraft the same furniture an
ls household appointments. With few ind
'i vidual and isolated exceptions, this is IL
at truth throughout the whole North. Whe
+ ever we find an earnest peace man, we kno
d. he was supporter of the Ex-Vice Pres
On dent. The newspapers who labored for
Tn success, now labor for the success of his pri
u ciples. Here, in Pennsylvania, the issue
,ir becoming closely and clearly defined, and
n, only wants some such eminent and retiril
ne statesman as Mr.. VIM. B. Reed to come fro
his books and his solitude, and give it Il
influence of his experience and sympathy,
We find in the editorial department su,
he newspaper men as Sanderson of the Lanca
It ter Intelligencer, Acker of the Norristoy
ed Register, Hodgson of the West Chester Jt
m. fersonian, Mcdowell of the Harrisburg I
ms triot and Union, Getz of the Reading G
,at zette, Niemann of the Easton Sentinel, al
't to others. all those journalists were ardent
m in favor of Mr.. Breckenridge, and obsequio
arc supporters of Mr.. Buchanan. They q
We We now all as ardently in favor of peace, and
,as obsequious to the rebellious South. In t
int gallant county of Berks, the sentiment
ID sympathy with Disunion is being oper
m ,as manifested. Mr.. Ancona, its Congressior
rs. representative, whose vote for Vallandi
m, ham, as Speaker, sent thrill of shar
ro- through Pennsylvania, has been endors
lid by small clique of politicians at a rece
r's public meeting. When we say that prom
,ri- nent in that meeting was j. Lawrence Ge
its character will be understood without c
PLANTATION. 1t becomes the people of Bel
di. to resent the insult thus fixed upon the
are and to censure the disloyal course Of n
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