Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-11-06

you are denying us our rights; that we went
into the war with view 70 secure our rights.
What rights? The right TO carry our ne
groes into the Territories. You had exclu-
ded them from the Territories. This is all
q humbug. Every sensible man, and every
well informed politicianin the United States
knows very well that Slavery was secured
to us under the Constitution. By that Con-
stitution VIC could 90 with our negroes into
all the Territories aud occupy every rood
that God had furnished with soil and eli.
mate in which slave labor could pay; and
we were only excluded from thUse portions
where God had given US such soil and eli.
mate that Slavery was not worth taking
there. That is the honest truth about il.
FIGBTise FOR THEIR RIoBTs.
When jeff Davis made his first levy Of
.troops, ] was editing a paper at Knoxville,
East Eennesse--e-pspcr they evushsa ost-
this day twelve months ago. That makes
this my anniversary you know. Laugh.
ter. On the 25th Of October last, they
crushed the most widely circulated paper
that Aoated over JEFF. Davis ungodly do
minions at that time, and the only religious
paper Of any denomination in the entire
Confederacy. Laughter, and God knows my
Knoxville Wing was not pious enough to
hurt. Roars oflaughter. The rebel sol
diers used to meet me on the streets and
commence cursing and Safeguarding me
why don't 20 in for JEFF. Davis and my
native South?" Drunk on mean whisky
for the first levy they brought into the
field we're not the flower of the Southern
youth, as they said-not the best blood Of
the South but the rag-tsg and bob tail Of
Southern society. Said |: What are you
going into this war for?" "We are going
in for our rights?" "What rights have
you lost r. e The right. by Cd, to carry
our negroes into the territories when to
my personal knowledge, for no man in the
South knows more men than do, two
thirds of the whole army at that tune never
owned a negro in the world, and never were
related by affinity or consanguinity to any
man that ever did or ever will own negro.
lGreat laughter and applause.
may say tonight honestly, and in the
fear of God, before this vast audience, they
are not fighting for the negro. They make
that the pretext. They have thrust the
negro forward. They make that the bone
Of contention. | think it perfectly right
that the Federal army should accept the
challenge-take up the glove they have
thrown down-pick up the niger and wor-
ry them with the niger until they have
their fill of the niger. lApplause.
shall have occasion to speak Of the Presi:
dent proclamation before am done, if
you will jog my memory. shall have oc.
casion to speak Of the proclamation, and ]
shall have occasion to endorse it. tGreat
and prolonged cheering.
----- A REREr,s TWO RIGHTS
hold-I will utter it now, lest forget
this part of the subject that every thins
a rebel has on the face Of the green earth,
a rebel South, or rebel North, bis land,
his horses, his money, his hogs, his proper.
ty, including his negroes--all he has ought
to be confscated and then his internal neck
ought to be confseated. lImmense ap.
plause and laughter. deny that the rebel
North, or South, against this benign Gov.
ernment of ours, has any but two rights
, under the sun; the one is the right to be
hanged, and the other the right to b.
damned. CONTINUED laughter and cheers.
THE REBELS WANT A MONARCHY.
The truth is, these leaders OF the South
are and have been for years, sick and tired
ofa Republican form of Government.
know it. have known it all the time
In fact, Republican Government never
did exist in South Carolina. If the letter
and spirit of the Constitution of the United
: States had been adhered to she never coulc
have been admitted in the Federal Unior
as member thereof, for she never had q
Constitution that was in letter, spirit aut
form. Republi can / have lived in Soutl
Carolina. | have travelled extensively in
South Carolina for years. Why. in their
legislative assemblies. the sergeant at arm.
and deputy or two, with cooked hats and
swords, retire and bring in the Speaker Of
! the House, or Speaker Of the Senate, who
! comes robed in enough black silk to dres.
! out in all the amplitude of fashion any two
! ladies here, even in times OF the most ex
! travagant hoops. daughter. The Sheriff
accompanying them, with cooked hat ant
:, sword, gives three raps upon the floor ane
! cries, Make way for your Speaker!
= Laughter. Then he marches grandly il
!, and takes his seat. The same pompou
= forms are observed with one Of their circui
= Judges He is conducted in in the sam
. way. have seen old Judge Butler, afts
wards Senator, march in with his silk rob
on, preceded by his Sheriff and deputies il
9 cooked hats and with swords, crying, Max
Q way for the Honorable Court" and every
thing squatted like so many Quails when
nAWk Is ABOUT. lLaugnter.J
d SOUTH CAROLINA.
Do you know that man has to own s
! many negroes in South Carolina before h
= ), can either vote or occupy seat in the Leg
!. isature The limit is ten. Now, if you .
y South Carolnian have nine valuable M
y groes worth $4,000, you cannot be admitted
+ + but if have ten or eleven little yellow
= ashy piccaninies, brought out Of an sligste
!, swamp, raised on green persimmonsi laugf
y teri can take my seat, while you mu
u stand back, You recollect, for you are q
}. reading men, that when South Carolir
voted to secede, for she led the way, b,
u leading men rose on the floor of the Coz
. vention and thanked God with upturne
eyes like Simeon of old that they at la
), boheld what they had so long looked foI
. : and cried "Now, oh Lord, lettest tho
= thy servant depart in peace, for mine eye
/ have seen thy salvation. Lawrence keit
"a and other members Of Congress who sal
y they had been laboring for this ever sine
: : they had been in public life, thus publicl
n on the floor Of their own convention, a,
:, knowledged themselves perjured scoundrel
y who when they took their seats inthe Hou'
: Of Representatives at Washington and swol
u TO obey the laws and support the Oonstit'
q ; ton, we're then, and all the time they hs