Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-04-11
''Our Country, ITS Peril--Its De-
r Ilverance.,'


The leading article in the Danville Quar-
terly Review of the first number is from the
pen of Dr. Il. j. Brcckinridge, under the
above title. ..--. p........1...
We give few extracts in regard TO the
present difficulties and their settlement.
In regard to secession, Mr.. Breekinridge
says: Pa
There are immense considerations, alto
gcther independent of the real merits ofthe
great cause which is under trial-why the
course dictated by South Carolina, and
adopted by the other cotton States, should be
such as follow j. This method BY secession
annihlates the very idea of all force in per
m3neut constitutional union, or common
government over sovereign States, and es-
tablisbcs as inherent in all possible future
unions, the idea of anarchy, and deprives
liberty forever Of the possibility OF being
either stable or strong. 2. The method of
secession, by sepordte State action, il founded
on illusions utterly fatal and absurd, that
the American people are not ndtion-the
Federal Constitution not Government--the
American people not bound to be loyal ex-
cept to local authorities, which being assum-
ed, condemns this continent to be the ever
lasting habitation of everything feeble, fac
tious, and extrayagant. 3. The adoption of
ordinances of secession, by conventions called
by ordinary Legislatures without allowing
the people to determine by previous sover-
eign act, whether or not the convention shall
exist, and by q subsequent sovereign act
whether or not its proceedings shall have
force-destroys the very idea of the sover-
eighty, OF the people, makes constitutional
liberty and security impossible, and invites
factions, In proportion as they are corrupt or
incompetent, to usurp and to abuse soyer-
eign power. 4. The utter refusal to con-
suit with States, all Of which were united by
the highest human obligations--and many
Of which were involved in perils the very
same in kind and higher in degrees line
of conduct reckless in itself, insulting to all
others, apparently adopted with the pur-
pose Of rendering all peaceful, considerate,
or even decorous arrangements impossible,
and necessarily jeopards, in the result reach
ed, the profitable continuance of slavery, if
not its very existence in the slave States,
and amongst them the most powerful, the
most loyal and the most enlightened Of them
all. ttstg
They who know the part of human affairs
and they who reflect on that eternal logic
which is of the essence of things and events
know that nation like this can not die. /
il hardly possible to conceive how it cal
euea be murdered; but die it can not. l
would be as easy to conceive that Franc,
could be blotted from the map of Europe a
one Of the greatest nations, and restored Il
the condition 1t occupied before its conques
4 By Caesar; as tcrguceive Of the Americal
naIl9n Deing ahnimiated, us supime caTee
cut snort, us Douhdiess possessions parcelie'
out, anu an ignomlmous retin9e OF NUMBER
ies arist9cracies, deihocracies, dukedoms an,
FI princlpahties permanently ming It's seat OF
empire ana ol gior$- AIter eignteen cen
tur1es OF anguish, !aiy, haliea by the &C
carnations oi MANKIND, IS purging herself II
paptism OF blood from the very condltlol
which men are preparing Tor US ana tn
consuming lnstincI Oh ner restored lie Is 10
that very ndttondt may wh,cn we are eS eS
pected 70 sacrinoe, ane IN aeiaai, OF wnic
u sne mas suffered every form OF evii, IN ever
stage OF civiiiza1l9n, alton, under every KIND O
government What nave they 70 9ner u
IN excnapge ior our nationai unity, put sol
row wtn9ut an op)ect-and degradatio
without q mit-accompanledw with struggle
and sunerng i9r It's recovery: renewed, an
!, suppressed IN piood, and renewed forever
poreTunfli In some distant age, perhaps,
shall be restored amidst rejoicings OF a
+ peoples leal1 ~ 1oi ai@7F ia~rii -
? Touching the evils and treatment OF s,
cess;on Mr.. B. saws: on eif u
5 II, ,bo dom;nsnt no rtv IN So,,b Carel;,
I ,.rt Nth tba noI;t;cai faisabooJ tbat "
I @ neorle ~ Of hat Stata are not c;t;aens f IF u
Pfn;taJ S,staS avcant tbro,,ah tba Tors.;, :, !,
t;an .nd aoSernment @ of tbat S,ata and \
tLa Natn1oI Adn,;n;strat;on start ,;.h u
2 onr onrresnnnd;nr ,ol;t;coi faisahocd tbat ~
S,nra,pe 10 ~ of tba land can nnt Le s snfnrca ~
ppnrJs sup ,%s ,aonle 90 Somth CsroI;na ~,
!. uarnto IL pp;Sbas pib md scts ofth;s do,,,;n 7,
arty r.~-S and lat 10th nart;es conc,,r in tba NJ
anu ,'al;s;ooi n; T falpsbood ths, tha mi, mi -
. us;onn pJhn ha.tar than tSa r;st. ~ coil;s; s
sGts% ~ = anfarc;ns tha Isvs AZ,
" ~ nonrse nnII;f;cation secess;on N scd;t;o,
u arahro ;no,,;,abIa nrod',n
# re le'Viu''om, .h ,,an;,at;on 81 snc;ot,, anS nrhi
!, - "a 5arnIated l;hertv and tbe secur;, &
o oc,s,r,n JUL, ant end ,;fs hecows more and mo,
It =, poIIJls psIlcs &c G tba nrno n;yat;on of socetv h
II I'os poso, ,n",s - and nd oare nsrfsct r. ths q
d conles no,e 4u ali nie y ~ ~ ,,,:r 'r r.,',
o prGSs T1Ii n T,s.;t,'.;s,, S s.,oss;o. 49,
S ot . netti" tsn " Ss.,S ';s os ,a.sliv ~";d ~
!. e. na.,oo :, Eha... sl is,v IN sbe Na,th nnss;b
/ porSyno' nTI. raa"..i ~ G"ror,,nnr. x 10. ),
y ran nra ue re.d ~ desI w;,b tbe South rarol;,