Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-12-11
Words of Lofty Cheer.


There are Of course faint hearts and weak
sisters among those whom the incessant
aggressions and outrages of tho Slave Pow
er at length reused to resistance, who, find
ing that the path Of duty is not always ra-
dlant with victory or strewn with flowers
are inclined to initiate those children OF Is
racl who sighed in the wilderness for the
tieshpots OF Egypt and insisted on being led
back into the full fed bondage whence they
had escaped. There may be some who com
plain that the National cause makes no
progress, and that Slavery and Treason may
ultimately triumph. 10 these we would
commend the fact that, for the first time in
our countrys history, our people are read
ing and pondering Presidents Annual
Message devoted in good part to the con.
sderatiOn OF this problem How can we
best abolish Slavery and thereby save our
country?-and closing with these memorable
words:
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the
stormy present The occasion piled nigh with dicuty,
ana we must rise with the occasion As ease is new
so we must tank anew, and anew We must dsen-
thrall ourselves aud then we shall country.
Felow-cilzelis, WE cannot escape history. Ne OF
ms congress ana ihis administration will be remember
ed IN spite OF ourselves. No personal siglfcaucr or
nsiglicahce cah spare one or another ol The fiery
trla through which we pass VIII light down. in honor
or dishono TO the utet generation We say we are for
The Union The world will forget that say this
We know how 10 save the Union. The world knows
We do know how TO save H.. We--even WE uERe-hold
The power nnd bear the responsibility. In
SLAVE WE AssUas FREEDOM TO rnE FREE hon
orable alike in what give, and what we preserve
We shall nobS save meuny lose the last hope
o earth otner means may succeed tis could lail
Ihe way Is PLAIN, peaceful generous justin way which,
y followed the world will forever applaud, aud God
WASHINGTON, December 1, 1867
Sentiments so noble, so forcible, SO pro-
foundly true, have very rarely found their
way into the manifestoes of rulers and Gov
ernments. Their accustomed place is in the
unheeded derided utterances of scorned ia.
natics, hated reformers and stoned proph.
cts. Their appearance in Presidents s
Message is an Immense fact, significant,
fruitful, enduring. The howls and jeers of
q million 'lewd fellows of the baser sort"
are soon stilled and forgotten, while the re-
yerberatlons OF one such voice are prolonged
and diffused through centuries.
THE elections go against you" shouts
exultingly Seymourite. Yes; the send
ing of One Million Union Volunteers to the
seat Of war has temporarily eelipsed the
Three Hundred Thousand Majority given
for Lincoln by the Free States. Send am
other Million of Union Volunteers to the
field, and we shall be outnumbered at the
polls far more decidedly than we now are.-
So the fears ofa draft, the pressure of War
burdens. the odousness of shinplasters,
will impel some to fall away; but their place
is nobly supplied by Union War Democrats,
proud to stand by their country in her ex.
tremity regardless of all party ties or shib
boleths. The Republican party lost cleo
tions from like causes in 1914; but in 1915 il
had virtually the country to ITSELF ''The
thing that hath been, it is that which shall
be. and there is nothing new under the sun. .
Let no man doubt that such utterance as
those of the President above quoted fore.
shadow and predict the course. of events.
whatever may be their reception by the
grogshops of to day. How to save the Re-
public by extinguishing its arch enemy,
Slavery-that is the problem of the war;
And it will surely be solved. or will solve
itself in such manner as 1.-THE world will for
ever applaud and God must forever bless. =
To doubt it in to doubt that Divine Prov
idencs- benignant, and just-pre-
sides over the course of human affairs. Yet
little while, and the doom Of Slavery and
Rebellion will be accomplished. 88
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