Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-07-17

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,ehipping he rebels in the South h-[Cin.
CON-, 18th inst.
John H. Heaton, late Editor Of the Ga.
zette, was delegate from this County, and
a member Of the Committee on Resolutions.
Heaton, In his paper. aid:
Lincoln, with the lie of peace upon his
lips, has for weeks been inauguratinr and
has now plunged the country ibto a Bloody
war, The untold miseries and bor.
rors Of which no man knows, and all for
more partisan purposes. ~
This movement of Lincoln means dis.
union. Let ece,y true Loper ofhs country,
therefore, Jro,on do,cp this atten,p, 10 deluxe
this lond IN tiuternal blood, by na nholy,
,cicked and domnaJle ciril ,oar. We feel re.
,o'ced 70 chronicle the fact that the Demo.
cratic Members Of de Rsnnsaylpanid LENS
totnre, tchen called upon 10 rote a half a
million oftie peoples mone, 10 carry on this
uni,oiy ,odr, promptly and 10 a man pofsd
No; And ,ohen Gov. Demnison shall as he
iciu. cal for similar sun, for a similar
Papose, zoe trust the Democrats of the. Ohio
Lcgtstat,1e ,oiN wompth pote; No. ~
II Lincoln and the irrepressible wing Of
the Republican party are determined that
nothing short of'civil war will satisfy their
thirst for blood, let none bat a,ch be te par.
ticiponts. 80
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And their hope IL to make this a war al
sections--for npon sectionalism they live,
move, and have their being. Therefore
,oe say to al t,we iorey Of their counf,l
!Gach, e handle qsf this acc@sed, t4is s,.elsa',
Heaton also said to Democrat of 81.
Clairsville, ".JeG Davis is did sight bet.
Ter Union man than Abe. Liacola."
He published approvingly lengthy arti.
Gle from Medary's Crisis, 1.-THE Editor Of
which was chairman of this 4th of July
Convention, which we quote from AZ fol.
lows:
"If Virginia secedes and joins the South.
ern Confederaoy, Maryland will undoubted.
y do the same, and Men Wash6,oton On
States, and % Resssnt y b@v,, G o@'ydeae1a;sa ayvd Nss
fres.dsnf Stephens ~tU occupy the places
''That it Is mere matter of time with
the Border States, when they shall Join the
Southern Confederacy, is, or should be,
known to every one. There can be no such
thing as permanent division between them,
and when tho Border States 20, what will
be the condition Of Ohio and the North
Western States2 Will they be content to
be attached 10 New EngIsna, in xcold frn.
sen, Northern nation Of negro worshippers ?
Not very likely. We shall all be Knocking
at the old White House at Washington fop
admission We will fix up Government
good enough 10 ipc under-5cttey than noe
haze got no,o IN all probability
The time has arrived when each State
must look to its own interests, and the care
Of its own citisens. We are In the midst Of
rcvolution--not Of people but Of States. =.
We stand to day where we stood after the
expulsion Of the British authorities from
the Colonies. We rest upon our State or.
gaDisations, and our future is in our own
hands. Our old National Government has
no longer any ersstence, only By the sufsunce
Of such States as choose to giue Il o roltn.
tary support. No one of any parfy in an.
tho,Ity seems disposed TO advocate its eris
tence. They only look to its permanent d;s.
severahce They seek only for lines Of dc.
markation BY which TO divide il. !. But who
has the power to mark those linesp Who
has power even to commission the survey.
ors and tho marksmen7 IL Is matter
wholly IN the authority Of each State for
itself. No ono has the power or the right
70 dictate its terms--whether To iop the
Southern or Northern Confederacy, form
new one with such States as will join Il, or
set up for itself and become a foreign m .
tion' to all the others. We have arrived
at that point just now our State sovereign.
ty has vindicated itself against It's own In.
upon IL in the order of
events that have hurried US on from noint
TO point until we are landed upon the sbores
Of our own Independence. Gov. Dennison
may now, with all propriety, talk of the
comfy Of nations and of sipternat;onal y; ,
law" We have Vattel and our own State
Constitution left. What mors, ercsnt n.cI
passiue obedience as zoe choose 20 msld p
Ldgo g safe from the elstchss ofihe Ken.
facay Lao, and criminals sutDec oniy to our
,ohich Is Of Ohio; Coz. Denr,son ~ has ''@, ~
superior he ca, treat, By the iciH of our peo.
pie, 'c,sh any State or Nation, and from
such aft,aaees as our Legislat,vs, thraaoh ths
den'deds Of he people, may authorize.
when you propossa division, virginia.
Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri will elect
70 go with the South. Will that be salts
factoryY Not at oil for Ohio, Indiana and
lllinois will then refuse to be tackled on 10
New England, and will follow the Border
slave States from both interest and incIina.
ton. What then becomes of MicLigan.
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa? Necos-
sity will stare them in the face at once. and
they will be compelled to 20 too. What
then Of Kansas? Cut off from all co,nmu.
nicstion with the East she cannot live alone
from her present position aud State boun.
daries. She stubbornly refused 10 prcpare
for tho event. We tested her early on that
very point, long before, II is true, any one
would believe the present state Of things
possible Then where will be the Terrific.
les and Pacific States? All. al must be
consulted, What of New York? How
ong would she hesitate 10 which coufsdcr.
lcy she wuuld look 10 support her great
interests2 And tariffs or no
:srifis the sturdy old German farmers of
tcnnsyivanIA, who have m instructive pre.
udics against tho Yankees, would raise D
n arms against any such wooden nutmeg
And New England herself
With largo and growing minority Of AL
rue Democrats, who love their whole ooun.
~, q any you can 6ud anywhere, wpuh