Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-12-18
A Characteristic Expedient Of the
lai Rebel Leaders.
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-at Rebel Leaders.
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The leaders of the Great Conspiracy have
! done great many foolish things in their
! time, and they are about to do another, in
this instance following the lead of that small
pattern Of Confederate greatness
Beaursgard. 1t will perhaps be within the
recollection Of our readers that we some time
ago noticed letter, written by Beauregard
assuming to deal with the best methods Of
damaging the Government aud loyal States,
and one of his Neutrality-suspicious. was
to call all loyal men Abolitionists! y He
added that when he got com mmand-he was
then in retirement-he intended to do it.
Well, the latest indications from the Cot
ton States in this particular are that the
suggestion is likely to take. He has return
cd to the scene where he made his first bid
for an Immortality OF infamy, and his fellow
traitors are trying one more device to still
further iniame the ignorance and ferocity
which abounds As the thing is likely TO
spread, let the loyal prepare to ACCEPT that
cognoinen with as much philosophy as they
can muster for the needed occasion. To be
sure they have long been showered with Of
fensive epithets by the astonished and
waspish "chivalry, but now it would ap-
pear that the thing is to be systematized,
and one blasting, terrible, sweepingly savage
term is to put all subjected to it beyond the
pale of humanity aimost-at least within
the limits Of that terrestrial paradise, the
cotton region.
However, in some senses it is nothing to
trife with. Remembering the tremendous
part which another little word" coercion
played in the terrible drama at one time, all
must look to see the epithet in question
"Abolitionists "-refurbishsd and put for
ward with power anew to wound and to kill.
As evidence that there is no mistake in
what we have advanced, we would call the
readers attention to two recent announce
ments from one arrival of Southern news.
Here is one from the Mobile Advertiser and
Register of the Goth:
The army has been on the Qui rtue for a
week, past, anticipating an attack from the
enemy. To. day information was received
that the 'Abolitionists have retired some
distance. From their movements it is diff.
cult to conjecture whether they mediate an
attack on Pemberton's army or not.
Let us bear in mind, nov, that this applies
to no scouting party merely, but to the great
army Of Gen. Grant, composed largely Of
men who have never in the Northwest sym
pathized in any sense with Abolition as q
creed that it is not aimed at Massachusetts,,
al of old, and we may understand how sweep
ing the rebels intend to make the epithet
referred to as means of rendering still
more malignant the ma lness of those
amongst them already so badly duped.-
Here is another announcement OF the kind
from the Richmond papers:
AUGUSTA, Nov. 20th.-The Savannah
papers of this morning say that two Aboti-
tion gunJodts and one mortar boat attacked
Fort MvAlister, Genesis Point, on the
Ogeechee river, yesterday morning. After
fierce engagement the boats retired.
We have expressed the opinion that this
new movement on the part Of the rebel
leaders is foolish one, and we think the
results to be attained by them will justify
the remark. If the term, under their man
ipulations, has already ceased to be an OF.
fensivs one nearly, because Unfortunately
and uynstly applied, the course they are
taking now will end, and possibly, in ele-
waiting it to that degree, that accepted IN a
spirit OF Indignation, it may come to be the
word OF power to great nation. And il
such should prove to be the case, taking
into consideration all the facts, it would not
be the first instance in history where an
epithet, given as reproach, has been ac
ceptsd as distinction, to become thcreat-
ter thing of terrible power. The patience
of the moderate men in the nation has long
since been tried to the uttsrmost, by the
shameless injustice Of the Southern Oil
garchs, and IF the latter would know how
far they have lost ground by their past
course, let them consider its effects upon
fifteen hundred thousand voters in the
North, who, at the commencement Of the
present conflict, had stood by them to the
last pretext of right. -Ht
Let us remember, too, that in inaugura.
ting this conflict the rebel leaders started
out with the acknowledgment that there was
! no sufficient cause for it; that to unite the
| South on The basis PIT for,cdrd BY South
Carolina Fictitious aids must be relied upon.
As long ago as 1851 the Hon. Mr.. Boyce,
of that State, in letter addressed to Hon.
j. p Richardson, said, speaking of the
chances Of a '' Southern Union:
Zone thing is certain, fhat South Caro-
Ina cannot produce this Southern Union, for
its Indispensable prerequisite isa CONVICTION
OF IT'S NECESSITY on the minds Of the South
ern peopte Saying further on in the same
letter. Secession Is against the ,cishes Of
tie other Southern States. y
o If we add to this the declaration made by
the three rebel g commissioners abroad
Yancey, RoA and Mann-to Lord yotn
Russell, the whole ground is covered for
more than ten years that the plot to destroy
the Government has been on hand. As per-
| tinent 70 the present occasion We shall quote
The passage So conclusive in that rtmarka-
Bile production, They said:
an pds from, no fear that the sl,pcs routd
be liberated that Secessioa took place. The
very marty in power has proposed to guar,