Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-25

| mistaken. LctnO man Imagine tnat because
this rebellion has been made by men renown-
ed in our civil and military history, that it is
therefore the less guilty, or the less courage
ously to be resisted 1t is precisely this
class Of men who have subverted the best
governments that have ever existed. The
purest spirits that have lived in the tide of
times, the noblest institutions that have
arisen to bless our race have found among
those in whom they had most confded and
whom they had most honored, men wicked
enough, either secretly to betray them unto
death, or openly to seek their overthrow by
lawless violence. The republic of England
had its Monk the republic Of France had
its Bonaparte the republic of Rome had its
Caesar and its Cataline, and the Savior Of
the world had his Judas Iscariot. 1t cannot
be necessary that should declare to you,
for you know them well, who they are whose
parricidal swordsare now unsheathed against
the Republic of the United States. Their
names are inscribed upon scroll of infamy
that can never perish. The most distinguish
ed of them were educated by the charity Of
the Government on which they are making
war. For long years they were fed from its
table, and clothed from its wardrobe, and
their brows garlanded by its honors. They
are the ungrateful sons of a fond mother
who dandled them upon her knee, who law
ished upon them the gushing love Of her
noble and devoted nature, and who nurtured
them from the very bosom fher life; and
now, in the frenzied excesses Of licentious
and baffied ambition, they are stabbing at
that bosom with the ferocity with which the
tiger springs upon his prey. The President
Of the United States is heroicaly and patriot
icaly struggling to battle the Vaccinations
| I~t. Al al Il
ed qualification in knowing that he has the
courage to look traitors in the face and that,
in discharging the duties of his great Office, he
takes no council of his fears He is entitled
to the Jealous support of the whole country,
and, may not add without offense, that he
will receive the support Of all who justly ap-
preciate the boundless blessings of our free
institutions?
If this rebellion succeeds it will involve
necessarily the destruction of our national
ity, the division Of our territory, the perma-
nent disruption of the republic. 1t must
rapidly dry up the sources OF our material
prosperity, and year by year we shall grow
more and more impoverished, more and more
revolutionary, enfeebled, and debased
Each returning election will bring with it
grounds for new civil commoton, and trait
Ors, prepared to strike at the country that
has rejected their claims to power, will spring
up on every side. Disunion once begun will
go on and on indefinitely. and under the in
fluence of the fatal doctrine of Secession, not
. only will States secede from States, but coun-
ties will secode from States also, and towns
, and cities from counties, until universal an
archy will be contaminated in each indi-
vidual who can make good his position by
force of arms, claiming the right to defy the
. power of the Government. Thus we should
i have brought back to us the days Of the
, robber Barons with their moated castles and
i marauding rctainers. This doctrine when
ical force shall ever be employed in execu
a and Government into whose practical ad
9 ministration such principle has been intro
. duced could no more continue to exist thar
q man could live with an angered cobra il
I his bosom. IF you would know what art
T the legitimate fruits Of Secession, look al
n Virginia and Tennessee which have so lately
q given themselves up to the embrace of thi
!, monster. There the schools are deserted
f the courts of justice closed public and pri
n vate credit destroyed; commerce annihilated
4 debtsrepudiated, confscations and spoliation
! everywhere prevailing; every cheek blanch
! ed with fear, and every heart frozen witt
4 despair; and all over that desoated lane
,r the hand of infuriated passion and crime j
n waving, with vuture's scream for blood
the sword of civil war. And this is the Pan
70 demonium which some would have transfer
,r red to Kentucky.
Il But am not here to discuss this propc
\. sition tonight. wish solemnly to declar
# before you and the world, that | am for th
n. Union withoutconditions,o one and indivisibl,
ar now and forever | am for its preservatio
y y at any and every cost of blood and treasul
in against all its assailants. know no neu
nt' trality between my country and its foe:
Va Va whether they be foreign or domestic, n
le neutrality between that glorious flag whic
tb now ioats over us, and the ingrates an
ut traitors, who would trample it in the dus
n. My prayer is for victory, complete, enduring
m and overwhelming, to the armies of the re
ye public over all its enemies. am again
70. any and every compromise that may be pr
h. posed to be made under the guns of Il
h. rebels, while at the same time, am dee
- dedly in favor of affording every reasonab
be guarantee for the safety ofSouthern instit
nj tions, which the honest convictions of Il
ii people--not the conspirators-of the Sou
in, may demand, ,oheneDer they shall lay doa
ev their arms, but not until then.
nd The arbtrament of the sword has be-
m on defiantly thrust into the face of the Cover
ar. ment and country, and there is no honor
EN- BILE escape from it. All guarantees and
,at attempts at adjustment by amendments
In. the Constitution are now scornfully rejecte
WIN and the leaders of the rebellion openly pl
.be claim that they are fighting for their inc
md pendence. In this contemptuous rejecti
hnt of guarantees and in thisavowal ofthe obje
M. of the rebellion now so audaciously made,
on. have a complete exposure Of that fra
ose which through the slavery agitation has be
,is, practiced upon the public credulity for I
,ri. last fifteen or twenty years. In the light
lest this revelation, we feel as one awakened fir,
In the suffocating tortuies of nightmare, a
pe- realize what baselcss dream our appreh
nee sions have been, and of what traitort
ave swindle we have been made the victims
e. They are fighting for their Independent,
mt Independence Of what? Independence
can those laws which they themselves have a
the ed in enacting; independence of that G
do stitution which their fathers framed and
,ins which they are parties, and subject by
and heritance; independence Of that bene6c'
last Government on whose treasury and hon
they have grown strong and illustrious
cer- When a man commits robbery on the hi
90 4 wav. or a murder in the dark, he Their