Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-10-09
Extracts from the Speech OF. Colonel
Hamilton in BROOKLYN, N. Y.

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Hamilton in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Col. A. j. Hamilton, member Of Con-
gress from Texas, and who received the
united vote Of the Democratic members for
Speaker Of the House, made speech in
Brooklyn, N. Y, last Thursday evening. =
We give some extracts from his speech,
which we ask the honest Democrats Of Bel
mont County to read and ponder well:
| | will not, at my time of life in
the serc and yellow leaf, and when so much
Is before us TO accomplish the salvation of
the country and the perpetuity of its nsti.
tutions, in which the liberties of the people
arc involved, attempt-there is too little
time lett me for that work to spend any of
J il in listening longer than enough to mani
fest decent respect to any iwIdlle about the
cause Of the rebellion | say, what are you
going to do about it2 The fact is that the
rebellion exists. You will agree with me
that great, pateInal, glorious Government
is being sacrificed, that it the effort to de.
stroy it be successful we may well doubt
whether we or our children will ever be the
recipients of the same measure Of freedom
and the blessings resulting from good Gov
ernrnent that we have been. Then tho only
question for YOU and is to determine the
mode OF restoring the Government 1t is
not too late to ask, but perhaps well enough
to inquire, what were the causes OF this Re-
be lion. | cannot do better than to call
your attention TO what one of the leading
spirits, a Mr.. Spratt, of South Ca oina,
who addressed communication at great
length, and as he intended with consnm.
mate ability, replete with all the arguments
OF the school to VIII Oh he belonged could
bring to bear upon the principles upon
which their Ghvornment was to be based,
as contrasted with the Government of the
United States He said there was no man
who deserved the name Of Statesman in the
the South, who would pretend that Seces-
SION was caused by any aggression of the
North upon the rights Of the people Of the
South. He said it was ati less the result
Of any act ofoppression on the part of the
United States Government What then
was the rea,ou2 He said il was because OF
the dlfferenc. in the organization OF society
North and South. II WAS because in the
non-slavcho,dng States, from ths fact that
every man was II freeman, you were neces-
sarlly Democratic; every man being free
inan it resulted that the aboring class in
the non slaveholding States had the power
in the Government, and it required but lit
tie argument to prove that when that was
the case, the Government was in the heels
of society, because labor was always in ex.
D cess Of the direction of labor; that is to say
n there were more laboring men, and there
would continue to be, than there were men
; who by means OF their capital directed Ia.
; Dor. He said when Government was in the
( hands OF those who direct labor alone, j,
was in the head OF ociety, where it pro-
perry belonged And now, said he, having
cut loose from the North, have we eradca
e ted the evil? Have we succeeded in gaining
v our objecti Not at all.
, He was explaining in this letter that the
n Government at Montgomery, Ala, had
e failed in meeting the objects of the revoIu
/ tion, because it had not provided for reopen
c ing the African Slave trade. Said he il
b will involve the necessity Of another revolu
Z tion. Here is the evil; here are the labor
d ing men, and they are in the majority too
{ who WELD the power in the Government -
d They vote at the ballot. box, and from tn,
e premises that have laid down you will
) perceive that Slavery and Democracy ar,
J. Incompatible. Loud cheering He pai,
}. high compliment to the great New Yort
}, stat esnlan who is now the Secretary of Stat,
II F the United States Government, [cheers
, and said that that great statesman, for b,
/, gave him credit tor being great, never ut
y tered a greater truth than when he SAID
i. there was an irrepressible conflict between
G the two systems of society. (Great ap
h p'auSe. And, said he. in this additional
this second revolution, that will be force,
is upon u.s. although it may be bloodier thar
= the one in which we are now engaged, W,
g must get rid of the last and the least re-
), mains OF Democracy, and to use the lea,
l. plain and emphatic of his words we mus
It have Slave Arist0cracy. Well, Ieliow
citizens, il that was the sentiment Of on
!. solitary man in the South, If it had no
Ii been addressed by ona Of the leading spir
n its engaged in Rebellion, to another, tn,
!. trusted agent Of the State Of Louisiana
N then sitting member Of the attempted new
n Government, there might be but little sig
, uilicance init. II it had been reprobatet
Y by the public press of that country, if it hat
IS bsen condemned by the public voice-an,
+ when say the public voice, | mean that o
is those who WELD the power Of III, South
|y whose voice alone is heard--it might hav
Is gone for nlthing; but when you bear il
mind that that letter was reproduced in tn,
ie leading press OF the South, SPOKEN of il
" terms OF commendation, and no man has I,
le this day upliied Ills voice against any one o
[ the positions thore assumed, ii you could
60 as have done, hear in the hotels, and il
fC wv o''SNto, "hN CCuOtS VI tuu
II sentiment from men who, two years ago
! were regarded as loyal saying, Republ
e canism is failure. We are astonished tha
IT we ever thought it could succeed; we nov
o re ,lize the fact hat We must have as tronge
,s government. lfynu knew it as know it
o you would foel fellow citizens, that ther,
g was something more involved in this revo
e luton than simple desire to get rid of thi
/, hated Yankee. 1t is not because the me,
e who inaugurated it hated the people Of th
10 North. As Mr. Spratt says, il was not be
!. cause they felt that you had seriously wrong
IN ed them, but it was n deliberate purpose q
N their part to he the controlling spirits in
,r new and different order of Government
10 where their power would be perpetual, an,
70 they would not be subjected to the chance
of the free choice OF flee people in re
D? curing elections, as had been the case i
IN past time in our country; and he that doe
ID not realize that fact to day, does not ye
ID understand what that revolution means, m
go by consequence the man that is to-day hal
Q. tering himself that, by concliatory mea'
i. ures, by kind words, by peace offerings, th
!, | dialoy,l Statae c,n ha causad m raau,u