Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-08-07

| be COOS ,t once Now again. sunnose T 90
n JeH. Davis and saw. Pres;dent. i want
1 n" make tb;s AGREEMENT with vo,,
| r. vou will cen vonr four millions Of NEGROES
NJ hama aud not iet them do anvtbing for
ltbo Fnrtberance Of Tho war I viii keen Mt
Ln,ns an of,,,l n,,n,bor IF ,he frce oncratives
of ths No,1h Io Won think he will agree
To ;tY No. he never would agree to il.
Wall tho, I CO.., II becomes n military prin.
c;nle' which should be instantly acted upon,
tbat ,ve ought 70 use every means TO weaken
o,, enemirs and strengthen our own hands. |
N Sl,verv il the basis of this rebellion, wby
lin Gods name do we not knock away the
base from under it? Loud cheers and ap.
plause You say that it is right to take
corn from the rebels, to take their horses,
cattle and everything else, that's all right
but lust touch a single nirpor, then there
an awful hullaballoo about il. Laughter
and cheers. Now, then, look again al an
othcr thing. | have eleven regiments under
Inv command. and from each regiment forty.
four men are detailed for teamsters, to drive
mules, and perform all that kind of work
which, if we only seized the nigCers, they
could do as well as our own men. Only
think of that. There are asa men taken
, away from my eleven regiments, because
we are so scrupulous about taking away mig
| gers from rebels. Why, it is almost enough
f to make whole regiment, and God knows
our regiments are weak enough already: in
, fact, that is why am here to night. to get
YOU people of Cncnnatito raise more men. to
I lfill IN those already in the field. n we can
e wby in Heavens name do we not do it d?
| AM not right? Yes have seen hun.
/ dreds of our boys, after long and weary
r DAYS marching, when they were tired ont
I with the fatigue of their wearying labor OBJ.
n liged to take the spade and turn to digging
t to protect themselves from watchfui and
Y yipilant enemy. These bows ought to have
e been able to have got their suppcrs anj
If turned in to rest, 80 as to be ready to NEE,
IF tae enemy at auy moment and be in cond
/ t;on to foht, and fpht we'll. and If n lot n
n niggers accompaniel the regiments. after ,
,t dnys' march the bows will be able TO tax,
is their suppers and rest. while the nipgers per
N form the laborious work which has cost $,
\, many lives already. Thus the men woul,
he shared ali this unnecessary fatigue. an,
ID would he ready at anv time 10 meet the Ioe
10 Irofrcsbcd and inviyoroted bv. comnlete rest
\ do not mean TO saw that voI. neonle q
ns America. are unenual TO the task Of nlttin,
ar down this rebellion. | believe we are per
is fectlv capable of fighting the thing thron 81
InilrsplypS. and mn thanks IN the EupilSlfn n
So Frencbnon or m the Etl,ionion ILnmens
ID annlause In times of great excitemen
of iike the nrescnt. n s;mnle nrciudicc nav d
); nm immense amount of evil. A creased car
AT fridge produced the Sepov rebellion. bu
| notwitbstandinp all these nfeiudices tbo
as have been instilled into the minds of SOM
n, of our bows, when our troops are worn ou
Ie with 6gbtinp apainst suncrior iorccs. whe
Id outnun,bered and cut to pieces, with ever
N. hone zone, and nothing but destructio
OF staring them in the face. then / saw, if whit
90 men should happen to hear the sweet mus
I'D Of thc riae. even tbough in niger hand
Ie they would ike il amazingly. and he wo,
at derfully clad of it. Now. then. / hay
n- done WITH the niger. and nm hearth
d. rlnd of fit--thorourhly clad of il. I assn,
nc vnu. TJnurhter.1 Now [ have fold va
ire Of three mistakes, and they are yery scrio,
of ones. but / have vet another mistake to 10
,at YOU Of We have an old tradition, a yanit
20 If YOU like to call it So and that is tn,
he wherever our flag goes, there trade follow
ay We regarded it as an inevitable and insel
lid arabic consequence. We thought whcrey,
th Did il not occur to YOU that il is n ye
mt foolish thing TO do. to omen nm the whole
Ird this great frontier for these traitors to smu
nd gle in stores and supplies to our bittere
of enemies? Some NAV DENY that il Is $
ed but We know that for months and mont
,ee thcy were suffering all through the Som
ate for want of every kind of clothing. Ma
el. wherever we 20 we find that they ha,
be. plenty. Where do they get their boo
nd from? A voice, from England. N
ish sir, they don't; they got them from Cinci
on; CHATS so. 'l-from st. Louis, fro
in Cairo, from every place in the North, whe
is they can get to send down goods to Il
not South. They don't care for the country
les long as they can make money. They pa
en-, ON shore before our own soldiers even, an
for commence to trade they 60 into the int
rior and buy cotton. The planter asks VIII
viii he will pay in the merchant offers gree
to backs, and MIR. Planter says, "No, sir; tn
,ht amt good here | must have gold !" al
're at this day there is more gold in the Sta
Die Of Tennessee than there is in tho who
Tho State of Ohio TO go on with this subjec
ole the trader takes down piles of boots al
to shoes, and whe buys them? Our soldiers
be No; they are supplied by our own Cover
'e, ment, and let me say they are better su
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