Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-06-12

ohs vi thc specCucs, duuTeSStS, Te5OlutlOu
and newspapers of the cotton States for tn
last twenty years. He is ignorant Of th
celebrated speech of Hon. L. w. Spratt
one Of the leading men Of South Carolina
who declared that Slavery cannot share
Government with Democracy |" "Slaver.
having achieved one victory to escape De
er to escape it at the Southl' He must b.
dent Stephens, as reported by the Savannah
racy, mark you, or the right of man TO rul
himself--but dSlavery is the chief corne
stone of our Government. The ideas of tn,
trainers of the old Federal Constitution
were fundamentally wrong"
In these declarations of tho leaders of tn,
rebsliion, which we are obliged TO cut sh6r
tor want of space--for they could be extend
ed indefnitely-we find the true cause o
this hellish rebellion. 1t was enmity to fire.,
Government 1t was a determination OF
tho part of an aristocrat clique not to sub.
init to the people, and be controlled by al
ignorant majority" as we heard John G.
breckenridge say, at Hopkinsvillc, Ken.
lucky, in the summer of 1861. As fur
ther proof Of this, the Democratic party wa,
hopelessy split at Baltimore year befort
Lincoln came into power, aud split by the
very men who issue this address,
1t is also to be remarked that on the ad
vent of Mr.. Lincoln to the Presidency, the
House Of Representatives, Senate and Su
preme Court were in the hands of the Dem.
ocratic party. Why then did the cottor
wing fly off and set up new Confederacy
The Northern Douglas Democracy would moi
be controlled by the insolent Buchanan De.
mocracy, and so disruption took place.
But this address of the inglorious thirteen
goes on to glority the Buchanan Democracy
in this grandiloquent manner:
1T is the only party capable of carrying
on the war; it is the only party which has
ever conducted war to successful issue, and
the only party which has done it without
abuse of power, without molestation to the
rights Of any class of citizens. and with due
regard to economy. All this it has done
all this, if need be, it is able to do again.
Its success, then, in military point of view
required, the Democratic party alone can
command it. F"
1t then proceeds to say that its restora-
ton (that is Of themselves & Co. to power
is demanded by the following considera-
ton:
Economy and honesty in the public ex-
penditures, now at the rate of four millions
of dollars a day, demand it..
Such economy, for instance, as that of
Buchanan's Secretary of War, John b.
Floyd, that paragon of virtue, and such hon
esty as that of lsham &. Harris.
''The rapid accumulation OF an enormous
and permanent public deb. demands t-a
public debt already one thousand millions
Of dollars, and equal at the present rate,
in three years. to England's debt of cen
tury and half in growth"
1t is dreadful thing to 60 in debt, ism
it, to save the Nation? The war should be
carried on for little or nothing. In fact, it
would have been better, as Buchanan
thought, to have no war at ALL just let our
Southern friends alone The thousand
millions" story is big lie.
Reduced wages, low prices, depression
of trade, decay Of business, scarcity of work
and impending ruin on every side demand
it"
Everybody knows that the reduced
wages" etc., are all the fault of Lincoln.
The loss of fat salaries by the Southern friends
also demands it, but the the thirteen are
quite too modest to say so.
We have our own opinion as to the real
origin of this damnable attempt. The South.
ern leaders are at the bottom of it. Moth
ing is more certain than this to our minds.
The chiefs of the rebellion see that their
work is about to prove a disastrous failure,
aud SO they send word to that effect to their
Northern allies: "Give us two or three free
States for our men, and we will bring the
Cotton States in solid phalanx, and hold the
offices together as before" This is certain
ly the programme. Will the people soc il
performed
Fellow -citizens-all you who love your
country, by whatever name you have been
known in the past-let us frown down all
such miserably selfish plots of partisans as
this which we have been reviewing, and,
casting aside all old party ties. unite togeth-
er on the broad platform of Union. Away
with partisan walchwords and names at an
hour when the nation is struggling for life
Our dear mother country is in PERIL Let
us fly to her rescue Let as all be true
Union men, true Democrats, not in par
tisan, but in national sense.
Weclose this article with quotation from
the last letter written by the bold, patriotic
and lamented Douglas. Let it be traced in
letters of gold in every door of the land:
~ know Of no mode in which loyal citi-
zen may so well demonstrate his devotion
to his country as by sustaining the flag, the
Constitution and the Union, under all cir.
cumst ances and under evey administration,
regardless ofparty politics. against all as
sdil1,,ts at home and abroad.
Noble words Let them be the motto of
every loyal man in these turbulent and stir.
ring times.