Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-10-23
A Loyal Warming from a slave State

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American We find the following just and
sensible comments upon the condition ofl
parties in this and othor free States end
clean exposure Of the intentions Of the
democratic" leaders. The warnings given
by the American to the citisens of Mary
land are worth thecarefal attention Of al
loyal and earnest Union nlcn here aud every.
whete. ~.
| dFron'the Brahuore American October iol
ris NEW WARFARE UPON THE GOVERN.
| ..,, MENr.,
| 1t is time, in view Of what is happening
in the great States North of us in the way
OF organizing fierce opposition to the uov
ernuient, to credit Maryland with an sddi.
I tional claim t, unfiinchinS& & wholesale loyal
| ty, since from the time the war was inaugura-
ted no such opposition proportionab'y could
have been paraded within the bounds OF otfr
State as is now being displayed elsewhere.
The old Buchanan, Brecknridge democracy
are again in the field with colors flying, and
with sins enough upon their heads to sink
them to political perdtion as the abettors
OF treason and the plan for sundering the
republic, they yet have the assurance to pro-
claim themselves the only men worthy of
being entrusted with the destinies OF the re-
public and the Union, and are moving heav-
Ell and earth to get into power once more on
the strength Of these pretensons. For one,
we have bad enough Uf Vallandigham, rs
we long ago had enough OF his compeer--
4 cient for the loyal uaen Of Maryland to fad
any set Of men In close affiliation with these
to make them repudiate them in favor OF
: the party in power--tho Union party--Do
matter how little their sympathies were with
our present rtlers in the outset OF the diff
ticulties upon the nation.
There are bur two parties now, the Union
party-cOmposed oil men who stand by the
President, and who include in their ranks
those iii Everett, Dickinson aud Others Of
: all parties who differed with each other in
? the past-and the comforters Of treason,
who seize the opportunity now, when the
: Government is surrounded by difficulties, to
further elnbarrass it, in hopes OF gaining
their ancient asccndency. despite tho threat
D ened ruin OF the country. We did not sym
pathizc with those in Office id their advent
: thereto, and in many Of their peculiar tenets
we noverexpect to do so: butas men entrusted
with the Government aud with the nation .
destiaies now, we shall stand by them, TO
r tie end of the war at least, against thoss
now assailing them under the most false
| pretexts.
Aud If there Is any loyal man In the wide
(. land who is at all doubtful OF what he should
0 do when his ears are assailed by the camor
of demagogues, he has but to determine his
line Of duty by sedulously stunning all po-
litical association with those more jealous
in getting up warfare against the Govern
ment than in sustaing it in crisis like the
present. That our rulers have co,nm,tteJ
no errors in the awfuy responsible duties
: they have been compelled 10 assume by the
s wiskedness of the revolt we shall not pre.
= tend to say but that they have in the main
!, done their duty, and deserve thereby the
thanks of al good citizens we are ready to
! affirm and to prove on all proper occasions.
o We have only to glance over the proceed.
! ings Of the opposition meeting held ut
b the Cooper Institute in New York, the 9th
1 er night, to find i'm its organization essenti.
i ally The same mischieyous elou,ents which
T distinguished another at the same place
: some several months ago. ALI know too
: well the prociIvltles OF Fernando Wood aud
. those SS0ciatsd with hlui, shown from, the
, very inception VI our dlthcultes; and there
: Is, therefore, no more, difficulty IN stunning
disloyal associations. where such names are
in the programme, than there would be in
avoiding aihliatlon with their nllies ut Rich
mond Their very talk about "compronlse'
and conventions betwlxt the traitors Of
, the South and the loyal men who are fight.
+ ing IN the cause OF irae Government aud
humanity, Is a deadly insult to all loyalty;
tor 1t Isl compromise contemplated with
crime, with murder, treachery, robbery, un-
paralleled almost, IN the history OF the world.
Let treason take the Consequences OF its
+ acts; let villaDy receive its appropriate re-
4 ward; q 1t there are those whu would shield
il for their own ambitious purposes, whs
would patch up wretched truce, q res
, toration, the result OF which would be
merely to give the traitors chance to pre-.
pare tor bloodier and more successful
ais. uins ho;ease ,he;, S; Mmen .noy snt no