Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-06
Slavery Blockading the Way!
fFrom Hsrper's Weekiy.l

Slavery Blockading the Way!
lF'rom Hsrper's weskiyl
Two Christian knights, brothers, in the
great army which bad undertaken TO wrest
the sepulchre of Christ out of the hands of
the infdel, departed from their tent early
one morning in search of a diamond of rare !
beauty and great price, which they knew
to be concealed in neighboring castle, and
which these pious brothers had promised to
their mother as token Of filial love. As
they rode along they began to discuss the
setting Of the jewel. The elder would have
it set in plain massive gold, but the younger
insisted upon its being surrounded BY a
chain of fine pearls. As neither would yield
and each waxed hottor and hotter as the de-
bate was prolonged, they finally came TO
blows, and both soon lay prostrate, .feint ard
bleeding, at the gate of the CASTLE An
Arab, passing that way, humanely dressed
their wounds, and inquiring the cause of
the quarrel, bade them cease their strife.
That diamond is mine, and now, lest it
should give rise to further quarrels, will
take 1t with me at once to Damascus" So
saying he departed leaving the helpless
brothers crest-fallen. :zr.trf
1t would seem that these Christian bro
theirs must have been the lineal ancestors
of some Of our politicians and statesmen.
The record Of Congressional debates at the
present time contains little else than never
ending quarrel between nemancipationists and
others with regard to the disposal of slaves
whom we haven't got and whom we are not
likely to get very soon, from present ap-
pearances. One honorable member pro-
poses to emancipate all the slaves in the
South at blow leaving the ultimate ques-
tion OF their disposal to be decided hereafter.
Another is for transporting them to Africa.
A third demands that Nicaragua or some
other tropical region be acquired, and the
: negroes sent thither to build up q great
9 tropical empire. A fourth insists that they
q be taken into Government service. All this
f tine, be 1t remembered, the slaves about
: whom these gentlemen are fighting are calm
] ly picking cotton and sheling corn on their
9 masters plantations, and we can no more get
: at them than we can at the inhabitants of
O Jupiter.
n Then, on the other side. We have another
S practical party which is furious with every
l. body who dosen't fall down and worship the
o divine institution of slavery, The, Leeisla-
n ture, OF Kentucky, which has been SO long
;, on the fence that it requires an effort to be-
n l5eve that i is now fairly on the loyal side,
e demands that no enemy Of slavery be allow
l. ed to remain in the Cabinet The Legisls-
Is ture of Maryland, reeking with treason, pro-
IS tests against the least interference with tho
y splendid institution. Newspapers here and
there below daily that the rascally abolition
l. lists are the cause of all the trouble; that
ofI Wendell Phillips seized Sumter, and LLOYD
ID Garrison founded the Confederate States.
ii The telegraphic dispatches from Washing
fy ton teem with accounts of abolition con-
e. spiracies. IF they are to be believed, our
~ representatives are on the point of cutting
as each others throats and that of the Pres
al on oP n
MS opinion touching the disposal Of questions
st which can only arise when the rebellion has
he been fairly crushed out. s..f.,.
We 1t is not good to be jealous of Providence.
n. 1t is well that he should take every possible
care and exercise every possible forethought
in our travail; but something may safely,
nay must always be left to Providence. Hon
orable members and gallant generals are
very wise, no doubt. But Providence is o
ax good engineer, too. The slavery question Is
ne just the sort of problem which Proyidenoe
h. is apt to solve we'll In the Revolutionary
: war Providence took care of one or two things
II, were not the least important of the war. Let
'c- us trust the same power now.
Practically, wherever our armies advance
;, slavery will disappear. Generals may order
u the return of fugitive slaves, but the rank
ed and file won't execute the command, because
" they have no interest in doing 60. Pro
nt CARNATIONS may be issued protecting slavery :
~. NJ but the slaves won't pay much attention 70
nd them, and the masters will not have the
M ~. power, nor the troops the time to snforcs
nj them. To flourish, or even to exist, slavery
in in requires perfect peace, and the most strict
To and through execution of municipal law ;
ON it can no more thrive in the midst Of ciSil
W. war than gunpowder can be manufactured
mr. in blacksmith shop. This implies no
as abolitionism among officers of our army.
Of General Sherman, at Port Royal, made hi,
he debut with proclamation which, 30 far q