Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-05-22
phlet," or private edition of The address

Whicn is announced
Other Democratic" names would have /:
been added, also, but for the military exi. {
pences which Just now control the country.
Their bearers are engaged in tho Southern
army, fighting the soldiers of the Union, and
have neither time nor opportunity to join
their colleagues in this agreeable duty. Mr.
Jefferson Davis, President Of the rebel Con
federacy, is one of the Democrat" who
would have been delighted TO put his name
| at the head of the list. Messrs. Mason and
Slidell, who are now abroad engaged in a
painful effort to get the monarchies OF the
| old world to make war on the republic, will
be greatly chagrined not to have been able
TO cooperate with their old friends. The
eleven democratic governors OF States IN
open rebellion who are furnishing Beaure'
gard with ammunition and men, and urging
Johnston and Ice to kill our brave brothers
on the peninsula with torpedoes and infer.
nal machinesii tliey caunot be met in fair and
manly battle would doubtless have taken
part in the conclayes by. which the address
; was prepared, bat that the roads were OBJ |
structcd aud travelling somewhat complicated.
Major General Gustavus W. Smith was an
happily prevented from participating by tue
stuGhornness OF Mcdowell; aud the gallant
: General Lowell was'too much occupied by
the inconsiderate improvements Captains
!, Faragut and Porter at New Orleans. -,
: A prnsive tone of despondency pervades
the Address, in consequence of the absence
b Of these powerful coadjutors. But the most
e delicate regard for their feelings is shown.
5 Not a word IL said in denunciation of the
o hideous rebellion of which they are the
l. masters aud leaders. a stranger to public
0 affairs, on reading il, would learn that the
Y republic was in the midst Of 81 i.antic effort
I to save its own life from destruction by par.
d rici1al hands, only by rebukes administered
" TO the Government which is making the eff
,f fort. The plot to overthrow the Republic is
rs nothing bat the energy which strives to de-
~ feat the plot is tyranny and wrong. An in
ID famous revolt against the established order,
n which arrests the prosperity OF thirty mil
., lions of people, which pIunges them into All
t. abyss of bankruptcy aud ruin, which ha:
nc robbed the nation OF the flower of its youth,
4. and desolated thousands Of once happy
at homes, does not pravoke a singlcphrnse OF
of reprobation bu6 the few acts of n loyal ad
-, minstration which may have leaped Tho
K doubtful boundarie, Of the law, in a slrenu
lts ous enleavur to rescue the nation, are brand
ed ed rs despotsm. The men who have no
IVY only violated the Constitution hut who hav'
~, taken up arms to annul the Constitution
OF are suffered to pass in silence or under tn
to gentle psculonytn of fellow citizens, Will
he the defenders Of the Constitution, in tim
rt of unexampcd embarrassment and peril
ey are snecringy bcratod as enemies OF the Re
IN. public, who would undermine its libertie
Wy and overthrow the barriers OF Constitutions
lr- Government.
N, Ii is consistent with the other conduct o.
ls, this small squad of fourteen, that while the
fk- spare the sensibilities of their absent CO
cir workers, and make no allowances for the eS
as tremities in which the Government has bee
ms placed, they should refrain from all allusio
he to the noble men who are perilling their live
TX on land and sea in their country defence
de They can indulge without stint in laudi
he tions of hum drum political party at home
to dwell with beaming complaccncy on the raI
as rooms won and the polls carried by assault
his exhaust the vocabulary OF rhetoric in RI
counting the sixty years Of Democratic ect
an, tioneering triumphs; but for the slorior
ten deeds of the real Democrats of the land,
be Min Spring, Carthage, Henry, DonelsoI
hat Pea Ridge, Hilton Head, Pulaski, Roanoke
ion Newborn, New Orleans and Williamsbul
rth they find no tongue Ellsworth and Baker
or, and Winthrop and Lyon, and Il hundrf
md others, might dwindls into uttas forsotfu
YES ness for all that they say; and the gran
ler- ing the last folds over the face of dying r
lew bellion, might perish where they stan
nay without voice Of sympathy or cheer flo
and these model representatives Of Democrac
- Their eyes are so intently fixed upon the +
like construction of their battered machine
eli. which formerly carried them into polite
uits power, that they cannot see the tremendo
conflict which is waged under their vel
10Y, eyebrows.
oily This sefchosen committee talk vouh
,hle of the Constitution, Of the rigll