Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-07-10
I One of the best Articles Of the Sea-

son--A Pungent and Fercibie Elk
pose. of the Scheme to getup val
landigham Party.
We direct the attention Of the copper
heads berea,,,ts to the following take-o
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rom harper "eeby; VI ''e Piopy9Su
Vallandigham party. 49,
We have obtained information Of very
important political movement which has
lately taken place in this city, skd which is
| likely to exercise no small influence upon
the destipies Of this State and ire URion. =.
1t seems that, few evenings since, 4 select
party Of bankers, shipping mefehsnfs, peI.
itioisns, lawyers, and editors net ina ri
yate room at one Of our hotels Jssg4 fssolS
Cd TO Qtgaajzes y pew party. tetbe Known as
The ANTEDILUvlANs. N fr<s Y <-s.
"A Prominent Merchant obs@yed that, ip
his opinion, things had been gking from bad
to worse for many years as encroach-
ments OF the executive were blooming intol
cradle; witness the executionlof the martyr
uordoni For his part, he bfisyed In lesv-
ing trade entirely free, and fIa man chose
to import negroes from Afri$A he saw no
objection IL was notorious t tllat the spiritu,
a condition OF the slaves in 3suth Carolina
Ashsntee or Dahomey.. H} went in for
saving souls where he. could He thought
the legislation Of the United States rotten,
and advised a recurrence to the old colonial
laws, under which his ANCESTORS IN Rhode
lsland.had done uncommonE well for sever
al generations. 80
! An Editor, in. rising, wijhed to say that
he was in favor of the prosecution Of the
war. Blu. he wished It broscclted with
some regard 70 humanity. tHeFwss oppos.
ed to the, shedding Of blooA. sspecially the
blood Of our brethren in lthk slsNe States =
He could wish that Gencrl Mcclellan
should be direcied Ia firesniseesl yolIoys
with blank esrtridre in ths direction Of
|, Richmond. after which a denItatiou should
be sent to Jeff. Davis to offer I'm the reyer.
SION of the Presidency on cond{ion of peacc.
! His blood boiled when he fllought Of the
number of sIayes who had ESCAPED from
their ma steu~during the nr.sent war Hs
lunderstond MAJ l5eperal Ia whom he was
prond 10 ,nll his friend hsd Lost two val.
InabIe Slaves Wbv were thevnot returnedq
Was the Govarnmsnta = common thief? III
was nn1'a ebnrcb .men,lmr himself but he
had fIienJ who went regularIv to meetin
and who ;nfnrmed him that in Deutsr.
onomv-N ',-''.."'f - - -.
Here the Sneaker was ;nterrunted bv ,
bov who can,e in with = list Of our killed
anil wonndcd at Fa;roaks' which the Edito
ILaa,n to 80 lar liz ~ nsri - : :
a lawyer remarked tLat, tho authors O
Tho war p,.re The neonie of Nav Ehylaud
ana S that' ibav wera pSp pr.al a; ;mn;o,,istg 4
nonnlsr I'M ,r,.s.;on ex;,te,i th at i, was, th
ppeppscof ,s-.,Ai, firedyt the frs
tpufi iut he .war. THIS wns- sssistAkss
was Massach usetts which sought sever
ance of the Union, not South Carolina. :
He was bound to admit that the former ha,
sent few troops to support the President
while the latter had dispatched her volun
teers against Washington. But appearance
were often deceitful. The South Caroin
ians were a whole -soulod people, incapabl,
OF dishonest dealing; whereas he knew tron
experience that New Englanders wer,
rogues. He had a case
J Here he was called to order by the Chair
man, who remarked that while he was glat
to hear that their friend the lawyer had 20
case at last, it had nothing to do with tn,
object Of the meeting. They had met Their
to see if something could not be done t,
! stem the tide OF human progress and civil
cation, which was sweeping before it tn
time honored prejudices, abuses, and wrong
to which they all naturally clung. III
would call upon his neighbor, the Banker
to yentilate his opinions
The Banker remarked that the grea
trouble in this country was the.want Of a
established aristocracy. HIS friend, Lor
Thingunlbob, had told him so when he me
him in Pail Mall, and he was convinced 9
the fact AT the Sonth, now, the larg
slave owners constituted an aristocracy
not so solid as might be wished, he confess
J, ed, as many of the young men at the Sout
Q we're apt. TO, gamble away their niggers
. be had himself won fellow girl ut poke
Z and sold her six weeks afterward for 80, SO
(ha ha y; but still the South had an ar
= tocracy, and this was the secret OF the sup,
9 riority of Southern men to Northerners,
? He was decidedly in favor Of the organizs
! tion Of a new party at the North based q
!. sound. .feudal principles. He thought I'll
Q United. States required hereditary artist,
! craoy selected from the bankers, ,merchan
-s bank kers, la lawyers--bankers, men of prol
y erty. and SO torth.s If q plank to this effe
I were inserted in the platform Of the new pa
n ty they might,ceunt, him in rs ~
~ "A ,nal;tican \. c,oneratulated the meeting II,
on't 'ths so,,ydnssa of The views ex pressed i
= the sreakers, and the firin fsbnt they pr
ii ...i -, co ~ n tha ,,,arni.,io,la heresi