Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-01-30

1ngS OF tnlS coming STORM 1Or months ana
months before the last Presidential election
took place. Essays in Southern newspa.
pers and speeches from Southern members,
which have hardly ceased reverberating
through these halls--all were proclaming
throughout the South 1--WE will never
spbpit to the election Of a Black Republi-
can as President Of the United States if
Abraham Lincoln is elected he shall never
be permitted to be ipaugurated in Washing
ton City. And were they not acting up to
that proposition2 Ifit had not been for
the energy of the prior administration to-
ward its close, when new members of the
Cabinet were brought in to take the places
OF those foul traitors who betrayed their
Government, and for the foresight Of Gen.
Scott in providing military force here,
notwithstanding Mr.. Lincoln had been elect
ed according to all forms of the Constitution,
mob, unlawfully gathered from the States
OF Virginia and Maryland, would have do
feated the Inauguration of the Chief Mag
istrate Of this country. Now, the honorable
Senator boasts Of his intimate relations for
many years with the so-caled President of
the Confederate States, and, if I understand
1t Alright, those relations were equally init
mate and friendly with the principal leaders
of that rebellion, and l presume he was
well acquainted with their purposes and
counsels. They proclaimed to the world by
their public speeches here, and their stump
harangues, that they would never in the
SOUTHERN States submit to the election of
Abraham Lincoln, or permit him TO be in
augurated President of the United States.
They would secede from the Union. They
declared that they would seize upon the
Government before the 4th of March, and
destroy the archives while they were vet in
the custody Of the then President Of the
United States. They knew he was fee
BILE. They knew he was imbccile and
many Of them believed he was taking
sides with them, and was ready and
willing to betray the U. s. Government.
And there is t % much reason, even now, to
believe that that was once his position.
believe, myself, that he was strange com
pound Of imbecility and treachery, and
don't know which quality preponderatcd
most in the man to bring on the deplorable
consequences which have befallen this Gov
eminent. These traitors plotted secession
and destruction Of the Union, aud to do this
they saw that they must divide the old
Democratic party Therefore Southern
Democrat, whom they knew to be supple
and in favor of their plans, was opposed To
douglas, who mustered the strength of the
Northern Democracy. And thus they in.
tended to so weaken and break up the Demo.
cratic party as to lead to the very events
they bad so long hoped for. The gentleman
from Indiana must have known this, for he
was in the secrets cf all these men. In
many places in the Southern States the in.
quiry was made at the time of the election,
how shall we vote so as to secure the elec.
tion of Abraham Lincoln As for our chief,
our tool, John G. Breckinridge, we never
can hope to elect him, and as we are deter.
mined never to submit to the rule of Black
Republican executive, how shall we vote SO
ascertalDly TO insure the election of Lincoln,
that we thereby may be enabled to carry
the masses Of our States with us in our
REASONABLE and Internal project to effect the
dissolution of this UniOn2 What course
did the gentleman himself take in that cleo.
ton! Why was a ticket run for John G.
Breckinridge in the State of Indiana, in
Illinois and other States2 1t was simply to
abstract that many votes from Douglas in
order to give these States certainly or prob
ably to Lincoln to secure his election and
to bring about the very condition of things
upon which these Southern traitors were 10
dlsown the Government How many votes
did John G. Breckinridge get in Indiana
and Illinois? Did the Senator himself be-
!ieve that Breckenridge would get more votes
10 that State than he actually did poll p
Was any electoral ticket for John q. Breck-
inriidgo put up in those States with any hope
or belief that he could carry those States ?
Not at all, Sir. The proposition was, that
the few votes that Breckinridge would get
in those States would otherwise be cast for
Douglas, and then Douglas would get all the
votes of the Democratic party, and the elec-
ton of Lincoln might be jeopardized If not
defeated. Well, Sir, the election took place
and the pestilent and reasonable State of
South Carolina passed an Ordinance of Sc.
cession. Mr.. Davis then referred to the
course of the seeded States, contendinp
that there was no cause for secession. He
considered it great mistake that Old
Hickory was not allowed to 20 on and hang
the traitors from South Carolina in 1899 -
He Davis knew that there were warrants
issued for treason against three of the prin.
cipal traitors, and at the very first gun from
Charleston Old Hickory would have seized
these traitors and hung them. But now a
conspiracy Of thirty years has broken out in
stupendous rebellion, aud there are many
people in the South today who would Iike
to have their old enemy, England, rule over
them, with whom already we have had two
struggles. Rather than such thing should
happen, he would prefer to see the whole
the ocean. In conclusion, he argued the
Senate had right to expel any member
whose conduct in any way untitled him for
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