Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-11-06
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hbu inuSntcT.J ~ tnht cannot De done.
am for reducing Charleston to ashes, less-
ing not one stone upon another, and then,
hope, those men Who are running for Con.
law that it should never again be rebuilt
while God liveth and man serveth. Laugh
ter. The truth is, and il il not worth while
to disguise il from those Of You who are dis
posed to apologize for US at the South, we
have intended this thing at the South for
thirty years. We long since determined TO.
break up the Government and we're satisfied
with nothing short Of that. In l83l-32 ws
got up the raid Of notification, but fortu-
nately there was man in ls3l-32. the first
letters Of whose name %ere "Old Jackson" |"
Laughter. l never supported him il
politics, but would to God he had been liy.
ing three years ago in place of Buchanan.
Cheers He would have taken these vile
traitors By the throat end straisht tsnins him
self up about ten feet in bis boots, laugh
teri he would have said in his old familiar
style: by the God that made Moses. fet
lows, this thing has got to stop" [laughtef,1
and when old jackson said thing had t3
stop, 1t had to stop, and ali the people said
amen. Continued laughter.
SECESSION CONSPIRACY.
Yes, gentlemen, we have intended it for
thirty. years. Our Southern leaders deter
mined 70 stop at nothing short Of the over
throw Of this Government have known
it and been fighting il all the time. What
did that fellow, Wigfall, and what did Pry.
or admit in Washington just before they
inaugursted this rebellion2 They both
I allowed il as no secret, published it far aud
near, announced it to all the world, and
gloried in it. that ifthe entire North, If the
whole population of the loyal States should
put their signatures TO blank piece Of pa-
per, allowing the South to fill it up:.over their
names, and dictate the terms on which they
would stay in the Union, they would not 40
cept it, because they wanted to go ont, have
an independent government, and break up
the rotten and corrupt old Government. So
said Pryor, the man who demolished your
man. Potter out here. lApplause and
laughter. You remember he challenged
Potter to fight duel, supposng that Potter
would craw6sh out of it. But to his utter
astonishment Potter said: with all my
heart | accept your challenge, but being the
challenged party have the right to dictate
the weapons, aud We must take bowie.
knives in a close room" But" said
Pryor, that Is contrary 10 the laws of duoi.
ling, laughter, and it is contrary to the
code of honor. can't fight that way. ~
He didn't fight. Laughter. p
Almost the last thing that happened to
me before they crushed out my paper wss
q challenge to fight duel from Seces-
sionist editor in the South, Lewis Fl. Pope,
aspecimen Of humanity who weighed ninety
i've pounds, q wGrse-looking man than
Aleek Stephens He supposed that being
. preacher and editor I wouldn't fight, bat
! he walked up the wrong passenger. fAp.
plause. l accepted his challenge, and
wrote in the letter that being the challenged
party l had the right to dictate the wsap.
ons, time and place. 1t was then summer
time and hot weather. l said: II elect that
we fight Immediately after the first hard
rain that comes, 10 hog pen. The weap-
ons shall be two. large, four pronged. iron
dung forks, !oontinued laughte. and who
ever shall shovel the other out, should be
regarded as having killed him IN mortal
combat. VOciferous laughter. He re-
piled that the terms were cruel, inhuman
backed out; and well he might, fol he knows
that could shoveled him out in less than
no time. Laughter.
DOUGLAS, MASON AND sLIDELL. +,
: Let me call to your minds Judge Douslss,
, , the late lsnented Senator from this State.
l regret his death as much as any of you,
for If he were living tonight, know enough
Of the man to know he would be in this war
with q cooked hat on his head, epauIestes
on his shoulders, his sword by his side, and
q commission in his pocket, signed by his
old opponent II, the law and in politics,
Abraham Lincoln. Applause He would
E be fighting the battles Of this Union against
this internal rebellion, for Douglas lived
and died true Union man, and if he could
be resurrected here tonight, with what in.
furiate scorn and contempt would he look
upon these Democrats who are sympathisine
with this infamous rebellion! Judge Doug
! las, while in his place in the United States
, Senate, heard a remark from . Southern
Senator, which he exposed from his place
in the Senate, and dared denial But hs
never dared dsuy it, because he knew Doug
! las could prove it. And what was that "a.
= mark? mo matter what the North may
. agree to conceds to US, the South intends to
: reject anything and everything, because VI
, Intend to 20 out" Who was that Sens or!
1t was that most corrupt and sbominabls
. Of all old dsmagogues, that old, spawned
glandered, distempered, hip shodden, sway
backed, whisky -rotted, John NJ Mason o.
Virginia. Laughter and applause
% know John NJ Mason, and l have know
9 him long, and I know him, if he is livini
& to night, in France or England, as the EN-
Is bodiment Of original siu. Laughter H,
D. is one of the men whom, associated will
|; John Slidell Of Louisiana. our benign Gov
', ernment took out of Fort Warren when VI
,r were feeding them on wholesome diet, pu
j. them on British vessel, and sent them q
st ministers plenipotentiary to the Court O
III St. james and st. Cloud to represent Jefi
IA Davis Confederacy. Ii had been th
or Government, would have tied an ordinar
n- sized grindstone around each one OF thei
d necks and cast them over into Boston har
st bor, where John Hancock Samuel Adams
r, or their friends, along time ag
u threw some boxes Of tea. Siidelrh wofs
Is man than Mason. because no has moro sense
t, Slidell has lived for thirty years by Forgery
d false swearing, lying, snd stealing, bu
,e John Slidell bears on the side of BIZ head
" face that the almighty put there as an ad
O. vertisement, that no judge of human nstur
9, IN Europe or America nigh ever mixaI
70 him for aI honest man. Laughter. l
.e BaowSLow's SPEECH IN ALABAMA.
,dl More than twelve months before Nj
n Il