Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-07-24
GREAT WAR MEETING
AT INDIANAPOLIS.
Eloquent Speech by BrigadIcl
General DumOnt.
He Shows Up the Vallandigham De-
h - n. mOcracY
HIS VIEWS Or THE NEGRO CUES
'tH t". TION.

HIS VIEWS OF THE NEGRO CUES
i TION.
An enthusiastic war meeting was held /
Indianapolis on Saturday evening, the 1T
inst, The Masonic Hall was filed to over
lowing, aud an outdoor meeting, for th
benefit Of those who could .not get in wa
held. Gov. Morton presided in the Hall
and made an eloquent opening address. Ii
was followed by Brigadier- General Dumont
lite long Democrat, who made tellin,
speech, of which We find full report in til
Indianapolis Journal. ...- .i..e.
After alluding to his experiences in the
army in Tennessee, and exposing the foil,
and wickedncss of the South in rebclina,
the General thus exposed
THE vALLANDIaHAM DEMOCRACY.
The charge has been made a great man,
times that the object of the North in prose
cutting this war was conquest aud subiuga
ton. Such men as this vagabond, Valland
igham- Whangdoodle Palland,ghdm- say,
so. lie processes to be u most eyemplar,
patriot, and he says: Millions for defense,
but not one cent for an aggressive warfare. y
NOW there Is not man in this audience
VINO cannot see by a moments reflection
how utterly absurd that is--."Millions for
defense but not one cent for an aggressive
Warfare Did ever any one hear of a war
that was not aggressive upon one side or
the other? There must be aggressioA II
we do not assume the aggressive our ene-
mics will, five do not invade their TERRITORY
they will invade ours, and If we can only
Keep the desolating tide of war from our ow n
fertile heids and from our own beautiful
towns and villages we have half won the
victory, even though we shall not win a
complete victory at ALL 1t is very vulgar
thing to mention, and am sorry to be com
PEELED to say 1t, but it is nevertheless true
unfortunately, that men, women and child
rcn, too, must live by eating. When, a
lew months ago, was in Virginia and saw
that army ofthirty thousand men advancing
along one OF those beautiful valleys and
stripping the earth of everything that was
eatable as they went, this thing came to
my mind with tremendous force. saw
before me iorcibe Illustration of the meal
culable importance of keeping the war out
ofour own territories. II, at the commence
.nsrit of thizstruagle, we Ind eontcutet our.
selves with acting on tho defensive-if New
York, and Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and
Indiana, and patriotic Illinois had not march.
ed promptly into the border States, how
long do you think it would have been until
the border States would have marched into
them?
/ am reminded of what an old comrade in
arms of mine once said, on one of the bat
tle-fields Of Mexico. 1t was Gen. 10. lane.
l am sorry to know that he is upon the
wrong side at the present time, but he wa,
on the right side then. The General in
command of us saw the Mcxicans coming.
and remarked. "They are charging us"
''D--nit, General, says Lane, "let's chu,ue
hem? That is the true policy, and tla
only one in this war, as it is in every other.
Mr.. Vallandigham and Mr. Bright. and
others Of that stripe-'"rray, Blanche and
and Sweetheart --should have sense enough
to understand this before they prate about
the horrors of this aggressive warfare
Why, even now, at this very moment after
our enemies have been SO often defeated
after We have driven them from town to
town, from fort to fort, in manner that is
almost unparalleled--eve now they boast
that they intend before long to oyerrun and
devastate the fair aud fertile fields of Indi
ana, Ohio and Illinois. And yet Mr.. Val.
landigham aud his school have the assurance
to tell us it Is now too late to think of re.
constructing the Union, and this aggressive
warfare ought to cease Ii
take occasion here to pay tribute of
respect to a gentleman who formerly stood
in the same rank in the political field with
Mr.. Vallandigham and Mr.. Bright, but who,
unlike them, has shown himself by his
course in the present difficulties to be man,
gentleman and patriot / would say that
as far as my recollection extends, no al.
pointment has ever been made by the Exc.
cutive Of our State which at the time seem.
ed to me to be so unfortunate as that of Col.
Graham N. Fitch. 1t has turned out to be
a most excellent one. He is heart and soul
for his country. He adopts as his motto
the dying words of the gallant Decatur,
who, as he lay weltering in his gore upon the
ships bloody deck, lifted his shattered arm
toward Heaven and exclaimed with his re-
naming BREATH ''My Country! may she al
ways be right! But my Country, right or
wrongf' -s
- THE EMPLOYMENT OF NEGROES.
Here followed statement of the speak.
er's personal opinion in regard to certain
political questions, which lack Of room com
pels us to leave out. He then proceeded
as follows: s, isisSa4s4l 4i IS.
A few words upon the negro question in
its present phase. There are among us
here in Indiana and other States, many men
i h n hr..xr - A. T.