Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-06-12

East and West Tennessee will soon be so.-
So is alarge part of North Carolina, Missis.
sippi, and OF Florida. The Federal flag
floats VIGOROUSLY over the soil of every
Southern State. Where is the Southern
army2 1t was lately at Cornth. lie had
been waiting anxiousy for that cloud to
break, that some light might shine upon us.
He was willing to see the Confcderates have
a fair trial. And they have retreated he
knew not whittier. Now, what must we do
as Tennesseeans She is lost to the South
ern Confcderacy forever. The Confederates
cannot reinstate themselves. They have
got neither men, arms, ammunition, gun.
boats or navy. Some professed to feel hu.
INFLATED at this. Some say you will rather
die than give it up Well, he had scanned
this audience carefully, and they didn't
look much like men who thought of diving.
They were here enjoying themselves, and
buying aud selling, eating and drinking
Yes, and while somo OF you talk loudly
about dying before you will give up, and of
shedding the last drop Of blood, and of per-
ishing in the last ditch, and other desperate
actions, your own sons and brothers are
wasting away with the deadly malaria of
the Southern swamps, enduring untold
| prlvati0ns, eating worm. eaten biscuit she'd
ding their blood, and filling unknown graves!
Ii your faith and devotion to this rebellion
is so strong, why are you not down there
with your suffering knsnen2 If this is
righteous cause, why are you staying in
I gloriously at home, taking your ease and
enjoying yourselves, while the men you per.
suaded to join the army are suffering and
perishing by thousandsg 7 have no faith
in the cause, aud therefore am not there !;
but it is grossly inconsistent for men who
buster SO loudly to do so little as those
hereabouts do who talk so loudly and 80
often about never giving up, and about
shedding their last drop of blood. have
always observed in old contests that those
who We're forever changing were unreliable
and did nothing. | want this war stoppedl
i Whose heart has not dropped blood who
has son in the Southern army2 lie knew
something of that unSpeakahle sorrow.-
Think of this You who stay at home and
bfiSter about whipping Yankees and estab.
fishing Southern Conlcdericy. Let lis
stop this wanton. hopeless war | would
say this now, even though ] hal been in
the habit of eating fire five tim - day 1t
is running us. The rebels are burning up
the cotton. Why, IN the name OF reason,
why? Don't it impove.ish the people and
the Government Don't it kill their credit
and their banks? Don't it ruin our hopes
abroad? Then this conscription law.
will not swallow it until swallow aoes, gal
and wormwood. is u base fraud upon
those brave boys who had enlisted for a year
and who were packing up their dear lnemen.
toes of home, in their knapsacks, when thi.
UNANIMOUSLY tyr;lnnical law came to arrest
Them on the eve of theiy departure, and
drive them back, in violation of all faith
into the hardships and sufierings of sold
er's life. Ii binds our boys haud and too
against their will. 1t sczes upon the pool
soldier who has been dreaming for nights O.
, returning to his wife and children, ant
dashes his visions of bliss cruelty to tn,
ground. 1t placed the gallant Tennessee,
volunteer on level with the cunscripts o
, France and Austria. This whole polio,
was unjust and ruinous Now look ut thing
r iust as they are, and not as you might wisl
them. II was the rankest Secessopis
alive, ! could not resist the conviction tha
this rebellion cannot be successfully manage,
with Southern resources viii you wal
until an overwhelming force drives you in
I the ground? viii you struggle agains
I hope? hon one eye is gougcd out, an,
the other is about to follow, it is time Il
/ cy enough You were deceived in thi
| matter, and facts show themselves in
strangely different light from that whicl
4 colorod them year ago. Now, if an
G en2loyed IA your lawyer, anl you make IN
highly favorable fiction of your case an,
your evidence, and tell you you can gai
it; but 1t turns out on investigation that tn
I, facts are wholly different from your repre-
sentations of them, and then it is my duty
i as an honest counselor, to tell YOU to desist
|, | commit fraud if spur you on to YOU
:, own ruin. This is the greatest lawsuit il
the world. One side says we will be indie
/, pendent; the other says you shall not. -
suppose you even get your independence
oh, at what a fearful cost IL has COS
Tennessee already 5,000, 900 dollars in treas
O ure, and 5000 of her active young men
n the jewels and hope of the commonwealth h
q who have been hurried from home to engag
2 in war. Have we right to rob the mex
generation OF these young men? Old mel
if lie and their places are soon filled with 9th
!, ers; but what fearful chasm does th
death Of an army of noble young men max
in societyl Who does not love and admir-
Il young men-their frankness, their mani
/ impulses, their ardor, their self fsacrificint
II natures? And shall these continue TO b
4 swept away from us to the untinioy gray
!. of battle. Geld2 To vary little the beauti
tul lines of Goldsmith
4 ''Princc and King may flourish or may fudc
81 hrea tn can make them as a breath has nude,
Hut the bold youth, their country's hope aud pride
. When once destroyed can never he g 'pnlied.
+ You see the workings of this war. Yo,
5 will lose your young men, the flower of you
+ population-yOu will lose your commerce
I your cotton, your tobacco The air is thicl
b with their smoke and the waters Of the Mis-
] sissippi are sweetened with your sugar. Thi
ruin will tell on your credit, and your hank