Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-10-09


position. whatever it may have been, which
! had eljoyed; II was hard to part with
wife and children; 1t was hard to leave home
without knowledge that would ever return
but had something u sustain me in this
Il had true and loyal friends who gave me
moral aid and comfort; IL may be that some
OF these may fall away from me now, be
cnuse my mind may be led to conclusion
which they are not yet prepared for, but to
which they are ju't as certain TO arrive n |
have ARR, el at it tonight. Mr. Spratt
says then that this revolution was not he
cause the spirit of the Northern people was
a Igre ',iv 1t ya'no hitthe,}ov rrnen Of
the United States was aggre ssive, but be-
cause the very framework Of society here
would, it left free to grapple with Slavery,
destroy /. by moral force. Whether that
view is the precise one that has influenced
those who have engage in the Rebellion Of
the South or not, they have been sufficient
" convinced Of one fact. that the inhu e
OF non shareholders in the new Government
was, to he felt less and less year by year,
until at last they should be reduced to the
condition Of scrfs. and that the STAKEHOLDER,
and he alone, should govern the country -
Now, while two years ago would not have
lent my aid to man who was seeking the
destruction of Slavery, while would ba,e
regarded him IA an inpracticahle friend OF
the Government and the peace of society
while DREADED to see an appeal which
would bring in collision the spirit which o y
posed Slavery with Slavery, while 7 did 10
| lleve that our fathers who framed the Gov
ernment understood we'll how TO avoid
trouble on the one han aud inevitable diff
ficulty on the other, 1 an not prepar d 10
see that system used for the purpose IF per
p,tu1ting itself, and in the same ratio that
1t is elevated, my children depressed. The
i question has been changed. It is not what
it was two years ago. There was no Iarty
then who sought more than simply to pro
tect Slavery under the laws, and when the
experiment of Secession was being enter
ed upon, said to them: do not enter upon
it. If you do, you will inevitably destroy
the institution; it is laying the knife to
throat of Slavery. You are in the habit oi
h saying that am not sound upon tho sub.
ject would save you from the very in.
iluence which you pretend to dread You
cannot against the moral force an power o
al Chr steadom, sustain that in ,tituticn, 8
wing and excepting under the protection Of
the U. S. Government. Cheers. 1t i,
because the opposition to it elsewhere
throughout the world, in Wow of the i'm
DleSSIIlpS tHc OUlIcu pC3Ie,
Government is atfording to humanity, dare
not, on account Of that one blot, il they con
ceive it to be so attack tho integrity of tha
Government, but when YOU shall have risk
ed the alternative Of destroying that Govern
mcnt for Slavery and seek to build a Gov
ern nent upon Slavery, us its chief corner
stone, you then challenge the public oppo
sition Of the world to it, and you will inev
= itably fall under it. You cut loose fou
|. thousand of loyal friends. mean not mel
who would, it it were proposed now for tn
lrst time, help you make it, but men VIII
q respect the Constitution OF the Umtet
i States as they understand it, respect laws
respect the good neighborhood and peac
that we enjoy as citizens of a great and glo
rious Republic. They believe that there i
. some ameliorating power in the All wis
: Providence that will allow the remedy I
be applied sooner or later, when it is felt +
: be an intolerable evil. But you have no
o waited for this; you have determined agains
i the public sense Of the world to sacrifice a
!, these consideration, resolving to have n
/ power but Slavery alone; you do more thai
( that, because with whatever purpose 20
Q Commence, you will find that you bave nc
progressed two or three years before i
. your own judgment it will be an impossibi
ity to make the new Government LIBERAL
/ The reasons, tellow-ctizens, are obvious =
4 Sooner or later it will be demonstrated tina
the great body polite Of the people Of tn
, South were loyal to this Government, an
i did desire to preserve it. Cheers Tn
n question at once arises why, then, did the
). suffer them to be forced out of the Unior
). 1t is much more difficult to make one VIII
4 was not present understand this than on
4 who was present. Every arti6ce was used
Minds had been poisoned through a lon
:, series ofyears. 1t had got to be a fashio
+ to out Herod Herod in maintaining that nc
only was Slaverya divine institution, br
q one OF the brightest evidences of the per
lection Of that wis lon that created all g0ol
v Laughter. And even those whose mi.
;. sion 1t ought to have been to spread III
d doctrine IT peace on ear'h aud good.wi
A toward men, spen their tin, ia III pul
A pit proving that it WIS AN institution u.
# dained OF God. have about the sam
opinon Of some in the North who sper
a their time in proving chat it originated i
n hell. liauebter. NY simple, unr ger
q crate view of the subject was that God know
n best, aud that it was permitted for som
q wise, inscrutable purpose, and that whe
MI that had been accomplished, it would, b
the very same power, cease. The publ
n mind was poisoned. The argument was:
II The only way you can stop the Northcr
!, people is to go out OF the Union. and if 80
y go out now they will soon begin to beg fc
Il your own terms for reconstruction. Tha
y was the argument employed everywhere
~ and thousands upon thousands Of men wei
: induced to go to the ballot. box and vote tc
y Secession, having been made to believe thr
it would be the means OF securing perpetu,
i peace. But again, others who had thOus
n naturally upon the subject would say ,
a their Union fellow. citizens: Do not 90
!. the polls; what have you to do with tn
,. movement. It is revolutionary. It is a,
!, n thorized; it isa proceeding to which yc
n ought not by any participation, to give yo,
! countenance. Let the madmen who N
i seeking the ruin of the State, go to til
:. polls alone. So in many of the States ne
>. third of tho vote Of the State was cast
in That was the case in my own State ]
a. ). Louisiana it is nov known that there we
A. a majority Of the votes cast against Seoe
ID sion. At many of the polls were poste
=. saying: Let the vote he open that v
=. may see who are the traitors" and Il
"a Union men dared not vote.
You may say that these Union men d