Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-12-18
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MIR. GncoIn's Message prono,es no frsedom
TO the slave, but nnHouuces the subjcctiou
OF his owner to the will Of tho TJnion: In
other words, 10 the will Of the Norfb. -
Even after tho battle of Bull Run boft
branches of the congress at Washihetop
passed resolutions that the war is only wsred
to uphold that .(pro slavery Constitution,
and to enforce the laws tnany Of them pro.
slavery, and ont Of one hundred and
seventy.two votes in the lower House they
received all bnt'two. aud in the Senate al
but one vote: As the army commenced It's
march the Commanding General issued an
order that no slaves should be reosiyed. into
or allowed to follow the camp"
| Now, in view Of what hes hanrened--;n
view Of these deliberate acknowledemepts
by those who are the Representative men
OF the Institution of slavery the world will
say tbat.it has done oil that. laid in It's power
tto]proyeoke ITS own fate We know the
dcvilish arts reserted to by South Carolina
to " produce Southern. Union" at a time
when in States ike Tennessee and Ken.
lucky, aud Maryland and North Carolina,
she could hardly muster corporal's guard
to abet her p. evil practices; tvfon, in the
significant language Of Mr.. Boyce, theta
was wanting conviction of its necel s;ty. -
Well, there is not a "Southsrn Union"
that thing so much desired, now; and since
every device has failed to produce one. the
last card is to he played, and the whole
outside world which will not give into tho
| wishes OF South Carolina, are at last to be
| subjected to the last stigma. the played. out
arlstocracy have The power to bestow; all
are to be denounced as "A Abolitionistsl" Let
them beware lest such course, pursued TO
its farthest conclusions, cause that result
m Il II
ha. yet been witnessed. "a Norfbep Union.
There was another conclusion arrived At
by this same Mr.. Boyce, of South Carolina.
in the letter to which we have referred, and
what Is more. it is getting OF late TO be the
conclusion Of all sensible men. Giving his
reasons why South Carolina should not
rush upon her fate in leading off in Sscss.
sion conspiracy, he said
For the various reasons I have stated.
L object IN as strong terms as /. can to the
secession of South Carolina. Such is the
intensity Of my conviction on the subject.
that II .Secess1ou should take pllce-of fvhil
Ihore no IDEA, for cannot believe in the
existence of such q sTUPENDous MADNESS
1 shall consider tie Institution Of slar.ry az
DOOMED, and that the Great God, IN our
tttn0ncSs, has made Us the ia.isun,ento of its
destruction"
Now, we ask the people Of Maryland to
consider well these conclusions, arrived at
by one Of the most distinguished men of
the State which is, above ALL responsible
tor the untold horrors and crimes sbroad
in the land, and consider whether the term
"abolitionist, j" coming from that region,
from the fsvorite Rebel commandant at
Charleston, should have any terrsrs for LOYAL
men,. What are the viewsof Mr. Boyce as
to the fate proroked for ITSELF BY Slavery,
but those given thirty years ago BY another
distinguished son Of South Carolina
by US the other day, and what utter folly
is it to suppose that such stuff as wsru-ous
epithets, falsely applied, can stay a mighty
revolution which is achieving more than its
projectors bargained tor when they, with
so much alacrity. set it on foot.
Then, we say, let the traitor Baauregard,
and his imitators everywhere, persist ia
their mad folly They threw down the
gauntlet, and the civilized world has taken
it up, and no championship for slavery will
in the end avail, whilst what they do now
to aggravste the conflict will but agsrsvais
the evils they have brought upon them
selves. After what has occurred iu relation
to slavery, who can fail TO believe, indeed,
with one Of them, that "ths Great God in"
their blindness, has made than ''the ip-
struments of its destruction !" In the as-
plorable straits to which they have arrived,
arrogance is sadly out of place assumption
is utterly absurd With no prospect what
ever of ultimate success, let them give them
some evidence of regret, of pain for thu
slaughter and ruin they have brought upon
their section let them not nsedlsssly PRO
woke worse feeling of disgust and horror
from the world at large by further attsmpts
TO inha,ne malignity, as murderoa. sub
stitute, albeit poor one, for real pow&-
They may intensity hatred they csnnss,
by such additional madness and folly, de.
terinine the great result.