Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-05-16


battles Of the valley Of Mexico.
The Gazette, Of last week, comes to US
burdened evidently with an emanation from
the brain Of its oste,sible editor. That gen.
deman appears to be in ecstacies over the
fact that, out Of respect for the wishes Of a
few Of our friends in this place, we refrained
from showing, as we gave notice we would
whether the editor Of the Gazette was 0
Union man or not" and, mstaking our for
bearance and desire to say nothing during
the stay Of Capt. Tallmans Company in oul
midst that was calculated to excite to acts Of
violence or infame the feeling that already
existed against treason and traitors, tn COW
ardice or inability to do as we had promised
gets of great blow horn editorial from
which we clip the following:
Now what must the public think OF an editor who woult
boldly make such charge nnd then attempt To sku!k h
.b o e '" ."y to nj Ss S
session our files complete from the first number down Il
tho lset and he must a lens ATTEMPT to show that his
charge true or like nn honorable man confess the truth
and say thnt he has done injustice in this particular,
:und branded before lls community as = common SLAM
And he must at least attempt to show
that his charge is truc,' or give libel, or
stand branded asa slanderer Well rs there
is no getting out of this matter, as the fat
editor appears to be inexorable, and deter
mined that either he or We shall be dsgraced,
We shall "attempt to show that our charge is
true, that the editor of the Gazette is a
Disunionist
What is Disunionist a? One who advo-
cat0s tho existence of Disunion-one who
sustains those who are in favor of division
of the Union---ono who advocates measures
that must result in Disunion-one who be-
lieves in the right of States to act indepen-
don't Of the General Government.
Now, We shall make few quotations from
that paper to show that its editor is commit
ted, oitherby editorials or articles copiod and
commended by the editor, on each of these
positions.
He advocates the existence of Disunon in
his papor OF January 81, in tho following
manner:
SfI SrAIIs ARE NOW our or Tux UMoS, viz! South
Carolina, Geor1o, Florida, Alabama. Mississippi and
Louisiana, embracing territory twice nrgc Eng.
land and ireland In few days, in all probability, we
shall have TO add Texas to the let
He does not say that they claim to be out,
but that "they are out Of the Union," and
instead Of taking a position in favor of sus-
tanning the Union, he is in favor of adopt
ing tho quotation made by KennOn, Jr., at
the meeting in tho Court House, on the
twenty-second Of January, and saying to the
Government for these disloyal States:
separate tbysslL pray thoc, fromme."
thus recognizing and encouraging the exist
ence Of Disunion.
Again He has sustained the men during
the last campaign and ever since who early
proclaimed that the success of q particular
candidate for President would be sufficient
cause for dissolution Of tho Union, and who
declared that in the event of Lincoln's sue
oes they would destroy it
He has complimented on more than one
occasion the mon who are the prime movers
in the Disunion movement
He has filed his paper with article after
srticle abusing tho Government: declaring
that VIC have no Government that we are
bound to respect or obey, and advocating the
propriety Of abandoning it and joining the
Cotton Confederacy.
We quote freely from an article published
in that paper Of April 4, and specially COM
monded by the editor to his readers. The
article was placed IN prominent position in
his paper, and loaded as editorial rejecting
the sentimeal Of the editor and we ask our
readers IN examine II carefully, and then say
whether thoy have ever heard or read as
much disunionism aud base treason to the
Government, clothed in the same amount Of
language
II Virginia secodes and joins the Southern Coniederaoy
Maryland will undoubtedly do. the same, AND TaEs
WAsuINsroS CJrv 6ncoAEs rnE PROPERTY or rnH Con.
vspkRArEp sTATks. AND PRnsipgsr DAVIS AND VIcE-
PHnrprr srEHsss wuL oocvrs rirS yLAr1r oy ILs.
gus asp Hssnds