Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-08-14
BRAND THE TRAITORS.
The Schemes Of Wickliffe, Carlile g.
Co., at indianapolis.

Ihe Cooper Institute meeting held in this
city a month ago to deDounce Congress, and
lndirectly ly bring o1ium upon the President,
was designed TO inaugurate regular cru.
SADIE against the war fhc popular uprising
immediately after, consequent upon the
check before Richmond, and the mighty
demonstration at Union Park, took the
movement all aback. The New York lead.
ers saw at once that they had no chance to
make way against such determined patriot
Ism. They dropped all further direct effort
The chief of them, Fernando Wood, be-
came 80 alarmed at the new phase Of affairs,
that ne stretched bis impudence TO length
never. ventured before. Having in his
speech at the Cooper Institute meeting de-
clared that If the will Of the people Is not
accomplished, they will enforce it as Oliver
Cromwell did, by breaking into the Con-
gress and scattering it to the winds" he is
sued public card three weeks afterward,
averring that he never used any such Ian.
guage, though the stenographers SO reported
at the time, and hundreds can bear witness
to the fact Of such an utterance. The con-
duct Of these New York politicians, in so
speedily seeking cover from the public in.
dignation, betokened quickness of precep-
tion and much prudence. They content
themselves now with working cladestincly
and indirectly.
At the West, however, the original pro.
gramme is openly and boldly adhered to-
The speakers of the Democratic State Con-
vention, held last week in indianapolis, took
high ground against both the Administra-
tion and the war. The principal of them
was the same ''old man from Kentucky,
named Wickliffe, who figured so largely
on the Cooper Institute platform. He was
even more audacious in indianapolis than
in New York. This time he made dead
set, without any care for appearances. He
reviled Congress for having devoted nine
tenths of the late session to the interests of
the negro race" reproached the President
for having gone into the business of work
ing negroes and raising cotton at Port Roy
al, and, after stating that "the President
has now proclaimed the confscation of the
property in eleven States" asks:
Are you for war that is going to take the property in
slaves and eonasca,e IL Are you willing that iour
million slaves shall be set free Are you ask, such
war! DO you want these negroes to come Oh and
compete with yonr white labor!
He answers his own question by exclaim-
ing, mo! no! 1 am for q toltite man s ,cdr
agd6'st tie Aboiiioaists. " If this is not
equivalent to declaring that rather than
prosecute the war in its present direction he
would excite civil war here at the North,
there is no meaning in language. 1t may
not be meant for disloyalty, but it is not one
whit better than the blackest trenson.-
Human wit could devise nothing better cal
culated to give said and comfort to the
rebels under arms. The white mans war
which Wickliffe proclaims ''against the Abo-
htionists" is the very war these rebels claim
to be waging. His proper place is under
the rebel flag. 1t is a base perversion to
represent that confscation sprang from Abo-
lition. 1t sprang from rebel obduracy, and
may even now be avoided by timely re-
turn to allegiance. The property upon
which the confscation will chiefly fall, if the
rebels persist in incurring it, is not slave pro
perty. That simply has to share the fate
of all the traitors possessions. The Gov
ernment which should deprive its incorrig.
ible enemy Of all his property with the cx,
ception of his slaves, leaving his title to the
latter undisturbed, would make itself alike
ridiculous and contemplate. The contisca.
tion bill was intended to bring back rebels
to their duty, and to punish them il they
refused. The measure, it is believed, was
dictated by absolute necessity, for which the
rebels alone are responsible. Whether this
necessity be allowed or not, the bill is at al
events law, and he who attempts to stil
up popular passion, and to drag down thu
/ administration, and to plung the North into
intestine war, because of it, can in no sense
be loyal man. 1t is that sort of faction
which amounts to downright treason, inas
much as its success would inevitably make
the Government powerless, and the rebellion
triumphant.
The other speeches at this gathering wert
in the same traitorous vein. Senator Garlic
denounced the legislation of Congress a
"diyerting the war into an uRhOlu and 81
gantic crusade against the institutions o
the South, and inansurating policy which
would continue the war forever, and brin,
ON a military despotism." 1t follows tha
the rebels ought to resist this policy ant
crusade, to the extremity. Representativ,
) Richardson--the man whose exhibition o
blackguardism and profanity in the closing
scenes of Congress is fresh in recollection
denounced the Presidents emancipation
schemes as calculated to enslave the white
, while freeing the black" He also declares
that IF the Republican party is retained i
power the Government is gone forever"
follows that he would have that party ovel
: thrown by force, for there is no other po:
sible mode of getting rid of the Republica
) President and Congress. ReIresentatiy
9 Voorhees, favored the Withholding of taxel
which of course could nos be done wthor
disabling the Government from carrying o
i the war, and insuring the triumph of th
rebellion.
Now if the mildest sort of justice wei
q done these men they would, one and all,
asrested and sent over to the rebel line
with prohibition from returning under III
a severest penalty. If they insist upon SER
|. ing the enemy, they should do it under h
Q own colors. The over clement dispositio
,e of the Government they are seeking to d.
"a stroy will spare them any such fate b,
le public opinion should have no such mere.
If il ought to brand them with its doepe
IS stigma. Rebel at Heart should be printo
Q on their brow, so that they should be know
d of all men for just what they are. 1t vi
o not do for the people to be tolerant Of SUI
IS characters. We are all engaged in life
IS death struggle. Our brothers and sons {
is the field are pouring out their blood Ill
,fI water to sustain tho Government, and it
/. our duty here at home to take care, with
10 our /, D ierc, that the Government is sustai
/. ed. We have no more right to listen wi
: eomposure to the diatribes of these unar
ed enemies, than our soldiers have to Ia
in quiet the fusillades Of our armed enemi
II no more right to be indifferent to host