Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-05-29
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gives good RUE fOr tue reguiatoh VI " III
plies to silly questions propounded to evadsI fc
diffculties--"Answer fool according to his h
folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit" :,
We should pay little attention to your /
questions in your number Of the sth May. /
only you might think them very wise. You d
are very careful to answer no questions, but 7
some of mere incidental character; and :
then, evidently, to turn attention from the I
main subject; and, like a schoolboy, to say
something little smart. Coudyou not say
something sensible2 ta'H
We had asked you why you did not go
South among your dear brethren of genial
and kindred spirits. You very pertly---
Yankee like--answer by asking another, of
course, as you think, apropos--"Why we
do not 10 to the kingdom Of DehCna"
We answer, for the very good reason that
there i no congeniality could never
leave our native land and take up our abode
with slavery, or slavetraders. All such So
ciety, whether black or white, We loathe.
But did we hate Abolitionists as you do, and
, love the dear brothers South and their insti-
tutions as you, we would go South. VIII
this answer your first paragraph? d o..
a In your second you say what we ask you,
4 as a Christian brother, to take back. Mere
9 politieal purity editors niay--as they are ex-
II pected to do--tell lies; but a Christian edi-
a tor is in duty bound to refrain from false
v hood, or reusct when he tells one. We did
:. not say that ''heH and det,M hare seeded, "
4 We did not say, IF the Consultation is re-
!, stored that---it would bring back he'll and
As death :" nor, do we ''zealously defend such
W logic" Could you only write without the
v Garrisonan ghost before you aifrigbted
II imagination, you might stumble on the
On truth. I". a. t' aa
In your third paragraph you throw to
tn gelhcr some half dozen questions, in con
ep plomerate mass and not one Of them per
ed tinent to the subject If designed for
re- tGarrisoni,r, to elicit private opinion, yo,
gs might be excused But to evade our chal
he tlenge mud our questions IN otr defence 0
gs the general caass OF the Government in II
struggles ugaiust rebellion, aud aeainst you
es. party articles Of ''aid and comfort to rebel.
for your questions are pointess
I'll You know the political party in power
ZEN all who hold Office, make no question a5ou
supporting the Constitution Have 80
, a forgotten who demanded an amendment
ent the Constitution in favor OF slavery, a.
compromise with rebels? Have you TO
eet gotten who favored such compromise to say
,ral the Union?
ny, But, sir, bearing in mind your question
ar. have nothing to do with my issue and tn
in they are designed for evasion, AZ presentt
dc, to me personally, will in brief answe
and FIRST, with yonr Interpretation of the Co
a stitution I neither understand il, Ip,r SO su
II. Second, believing the slave. c.trade /
legally Consttutionally an,l,norally pirac
| cannot swear to support TINT capitft crtn
That leave for you, anl your atrstic p
Rticd party co,seience. Third, do not 4
Knowledge the fugitive slave law Constlt
tbnt tion,l The word slape is not in the. Co
ern st,tuton Its irauhers "ou,t WI e,"''
am with the execrable narne. One ''o,oiag s.
for pice or labor," should be returned to him
less whom it is 'dae."
Slavery may he ab,lished tomorrow wit
rc. ont either violation or change OF the Cc
an. stitution.
VI In YOUR furth paragraph you. with VI
ted characteristic political party duphcity. !
n swer INV questions bya quotation from
n Y. Observer, taken from the Reso
ts of tons OF the Ancrlcnn Ant. slavery oocie
And this you give IN PROOF tna, An'
y at tioh,sts are dn nnireno'y 10 .nc oonS', ~
will non ARC rcbeis III every Se"se vi
word -;hnt they are me NJ. rtrue rue au TT
' has irshgatT.s OF the reoelohm anu y. ~
, the labored for more than ,wen,y years 70 ~, nr
y about 10 parry po1,c'' ,iH ns-,,' III :,
Gov ant followers OF breekehr,ugr, ne hnu y
rH der from love to these or rom tne =, ma. tI
! and Of their cause fHa ,0,rht rs Wen ~
ID by John WcMcy, 'Ne o,u Vuaau I n,ha. az :,
Paul, Brigham foung, OF any o.her 81
or or sinner IN PROOF on your s,anar,, "A .
But 20! must stu harp away apon va
'cue son ana his party or your e.n.or,a, no h.
.ocla- would run dry some .fihss arc oase'
, the well as false. n,
lnregard TO your quotauon rom 'i1. %,
y makes very h.tie io[ your ,,;e,a cause" va ns
IL worse. Il makes tne 'as,,Ga;oss hS,;o;s, I"
par war to be, not Northern ho3htionlsts'
% me the degraded barbarian na Ioa.ne1nn, in -