Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-07-10
Stand by the Flag.


We have never despaired Of the repub.
lie. We have always felt-even 10 the dark.
est hour, and never more strongly than In
the darkest hour Mati ,Cas in the republic
to saue ITSELF We see nothing ia the pre-
sent situation to change or opinions or our
feelings. Indeed, We see things to eucour-
age US everywhere. We think that all must
see--what seems most evident to us-that
the rebellion has had its largest proportions
and its hight Of power. Under no imagina-
bic circumstances can the South show such
power in the future poyamants of tina rahel-
hon ~ It has shown hitherto. Conscription
has given it all the soldiers il has arms for,
and tor those arms it depends entirely upon
the running Of the blockade. It is now
making its last stand in the border States
and on the Mississippi river. It has sum
moned all the force it can possibly combine
for q single effort TO retain its hold of Rich
mond. That effort is certain, we think, to
fail. We have all confidence in Mcclellan,
in his noble army, in the navy that backs
up oil, and last, but by no means least, in
the good providence of the God of this ma
tion. The people Of the South are ragged,
and some of them are already half starved
They have not the means for subsisting, for
another year, their great army or themselves
II seems evident that the South must be fed
by the North and Northwest within few
months, or there will be famine throughout
the rebellious States which will be king
among the calamities that will prevail there.
Their paper money is universally distrusted,
and their gold is universally boarded OF
sent out of the country. Their navy is not
only destroyed, but all hope Of building
another is abandoned. sisTsfr 5.
1t is under these circumstances that the
President calls for 800, 900 more troops, to
give the finishing touch to the work It has
so well nigh accomplished. It is when the
hard fighting has been mainly done wheu
nothing is left to do but to wipe out wa.
ming power, which may be shattered snd
scattered in day before Richmond; wher
the observing nations have ceased 70 menace
us with Intervention; when our navy hs,
become magnificent one, and is growing
with rapidity in number and efficiency
when our communities are recovering from
the shock which war gave to Northern bus
\ mess I; when our granaries are over6owins
with breadstuffs aud new and splendie
harvest is adding to the stock, that the cal
for troops is made. That these are need
ed for the work which remains to be done
we have no doubt; for we must rise with
such power that the leaders of the Soutl
and the people Of the South shall see tha
further resistance is hopeless. When thi
shallbe done, the rebellion will be essentially
squelched. The quicker this is done, tn,
quicker will the long desired result he reach
cd. Any lingering on the part of the Nortl
to Gil up the regiments called for, woul,
encourage the Southern headers and streugth
en- the rebellion.
i We become benumbed by excitement, ..
ter q time. We are kept strained up h
! such q pitch thatwe lose in the immediate
} issues Of the hour, what we are fighting 10
5 what the stake in the contest is Jus
. now, our sttsntion is absorbed by the Dc
. ings at Richmond, and We oil linger abou
the telegraph to learn the facts, anxious :
know whsther We are whipped or whethe
We are .vistorious: We become absorbe
. BY the ''dtuatior' every day, sud forget III
flag oIstars snd stripes which 6oats over on
: forces and what that fag- -1ostigg owe
them and over our own peacefal bcnes-
: floating npon land and uponses- s-symbolisel
d Whom tho 6ag IVES dsst fred upon q Fol
epmtsr, thes " kncw what 4 meant Ths
/ ve felt the insult and the stinu. But nov
when il is fired upon every day, noy, eits
hundreds and thousands Of our uobls boy
have ssaled Eheir pseriotism with their blood
I now, after year OF Aghting, We loss sigi
1 4 Of the vision which We set before onrselvt
I 1t the opening Of the war. W Z M
81 Then with : burning eye, IN ssger hand
!. sud detsrmined front, We nioodY apd 90
. far sosuss : wasts Of war ssd . pan1s<s
gloomy horrors which only tia panis of VI
!. can Suggest, 8 pa1eefnl undivided .lans
i over which, fiem NoftX u South skd ffol
!, East 70 West, ,1oatsd one fkg tho stars On
y stripes We determined then that, lwha
. ever The cost might ssia W snd tpeasdf