Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-09-12

elect our man President. Applause. An
not only did these Southern leaders fin
that they had lost ali control of the Govern
ment for four years, but they find anothe
great fact, that the mud sills" of society
henceiorth aud forever, would control tn
destlnies OF this nation. Loud applause
know something ofthe pride of these South
ern men. They cannot bear the idea that
poor common rail-splitter should be Prcsi
dent over them. Applausc. They can
not conceive of such a thing. Well now, 10
my part, admire rail-splitter who ha
SENSE enough 10 reach the Presidential Chair
Phey cannot bear the idea of going up an,
bowling " a President who once, when b,
/ was boy, worked up and down this rive
Tor his dimes. That amt all. They can
not bear the thought Of being excluded from
all the great and lucrative oficcs--of bein,
thrown from the high offices in the Courts o
Europe where they love to shine with thei
fashionable wives aud pretty daughters.
bave sometimes thought that if John Bel
had been elected may be they would hay,
borne It, But when Mr.. Lincoln was elcctc,
they knew that they would see these boo
Black Republicans, who, Ike Lazarus, hac
been lying at the rich man door begin.
tor crunb Of comfort and not getting it
they would find them there sitting in tn,
White House, clothed III purple aud fine
linen every day and faring sulnptuousl,
every week, and, worse than all Old Fathcl
Abraham at the head Of the table. lLouC
app plause. And now am going to breal
up the Government of my fathers to gratif,
such men? Never never! Load cheer
ing. Never while the world stands will
consent to do any such thing Applause.
But, oh it hurts them; for there are iu,
fifteen hundred men in the Southern Con
tederacy who think they ought to he Pres
ident ofthe United States IT, day. Laugh
ter.
Now, my hearers, | am going to speal
OF something political for moment These
same bad men-I am going to throw out a
hint which know to be well grounded
these same bad men foreseeing the certain
election of Mr.. Lincoln, about the time Of
the Baltimore Convention, entered into q
consplracy-a written eonspiracy-with theil
names signed to it, to overthrow this Gov
ernment, and inaugurate one of their own ts
perpetuate their power over this whole ma
ton. How do | know that? One of tho,,
hypocritical Peace Commissioners had tn,
document in his pocket in Washington
Judge Douglas, of lamented memory-le
his friends do justice to his country. LooI
in his private papers, and you will find i
all. THERE ARE MEN IN THE STATE OF
ONO THAT ENTERED INTO 1T THEN. YOJ
HAD BETTER LOOK OUT FOR DO
MESTIC TRAITORS AT HOME.
make this prediction to-night-That If h
'SoHhern army ecer appears upon The bdIiL
Of Me Ohio ricer, they ,ciUbe found as THO
as 6h,citerries eren here. Great applause.
After these general remarks | shall speal
to you OF the means. to which our enemie
resorted, especially in my county, to carr
their point. Most of what / shall say no,
will have reference to my own State.
wish to let you into the secrets of the move
ments of Secession leaders where | hay
seen them, and know the truth of what
affirm. The first step that our rulers in tn,
State ofTennessee took to accomplish tn,
ruin of our State was this The last office
holder in the whole crew perjured himself
Having done that, they were prepared fo
any wickedness that might follow. [Ap
plause.
The second step taken was this: The,
flooded our country, especially through thtt
newspapers aud the tel-lie-graph, with the
most perfect and complete catalogue O
falsehoods the world ever heard 1t would
require book bigger than the Bible to re
cord the hundredth part ofthe lies circula-
ted in the State of Tennessee alone-[laugh-
ter for the telegraph every morning
brought one that would fill at least a hundred
pages. Laughter
After passing off these falsehoods, they
began deliberately to rob our mails. They
did it long before Tennessee seeded. and
tbnu did ~ hIy tho etN.n,,t -a,a.,.,,
Harris. Laughter. l left home in July.
For five weeks | was the best Know Moth
ing you ever saw. | did mt know anything
except Secession falsehoods. | took half j
dozen papers daily and weekly There
anything except these awful lies ever,
Ferry. Seven thousand Federal troops kill
cd, and two thousand taken prisoners-Mr
Seward has become dissatisfied with the
Lincoln Administration and has resigned
won't have anything to do with it. Mex
morning Gen. Scott has resigned. Mex
morning that was contradicted. Gen. Scot
had not resigned but Abe. Lincoln had hin
a prisoner at Washinton. That was calcu
lated to have ruined any Unionism in Ea5
Tenn. Butt biggest lie Was the statement;
pcihS CACcuoltcly ClTCulateu UuO-tndt AUfu
ham Lincoln intended to set our niggrrs fret
aud make our daughters marry them. =
Laughter. have heard respectable mer
and women declare that in the hearing O.
the people. looked at them right in the
eye andtold them lit is lie" Applause.
Citizens of Ohio, the most of our people
deserve your pity--not your indignation =
When truth is excluded from them-by
men to whom they have been in the habit O
looking for instruction and alyice and intor
matlon-is it any wonder that many Of then
should go astray.
Again, in the next place, they set at de
fiance. some OF our State laws. That Leg
islature was the worst body men, the mos
corrupt body of men that ever convened OIL
earth. 1t was so wicked so vile aud cor
rupt, that last January, when we begged
some of our Union members to go back
some OF us felt almost ashamed TO ask hon
est men to go into u n bad s,mpany. The,
wanted to fix it so that these voiun eers from
every part of the State and the Southern
States could vote at the election in June
The Con ,titution OF the State requires mer
to be residents OF county six months befor,
they canvote init. In our election there
volunteers voted wherever they happene,
TO be. Men who came from Davisson coun
ty voted in the city of Knoxville, and soiI
every town in East Tennessee.
In the next place. they overthrow th
Constitution of the United States before th