Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-05-22

satisFv the Southern demand. IL must be q
Confederacy with majority Of Slave States.
This condition was declared by Mr. Pugh In
his speech at the Washington birthday
bnpouet at the Burnet House IN 1861. He
declared that the equal power OF the South
in the United States Senate must be rcstor.
ed, otherwise the Uuion would never be re-
stored. But his premises went even FUR
tber than this: he declared that when the
Union was formed nearly oil were Slave
States. and he assumed that this status OF
slave representation in the Senate was one
of the compromiyes Of tho Consultation,
which had been viointed by the modern
preponderapcc of Free States in the Sennte.
Therefore his premises would require large
preponderance of Slave States, in order to
restore the Union. II is supposed that q
Confederacy, leaving out New England, will
make this preponderance, and when once
made, the South will see that it is main
tained.
That this plot is still entertained by those
who adhere to the Democratic organization,
any one can see by the persistent attempts
of their organs to excite sectional hostility
between the West and East; and this con-
dition of restoration laid down in this ad-
dress, is the unmistakable ear-mark of the
original conspiracy.
The address predicates the necessity Of
the restoration Of the Democratic party up
on its past history therefore its past histo-
ry is the lesson Of its future expectations
and purposes. The restoration of the DEM
ocratic party is the restoration Of the rebels
to power, for every rebel leader was lead
er in the Democratic party. 1t Is the re-
surrection Of party which died of treason
in Buchanan's Administration. when Cabi-
net officers were transferring tho Govern
ment arms and property to 'ccaspirstors,
disabling it's forts 30 that they might be
seized by traitors, robbing its treasury and
even its sacred trust funds, sending its
vessels to distant seas that it might be utter
ly delenseless, delivering up its navy yards
and arsenals to rebels, and bullying an I'M
beetle President into driveling submission
to the seizure of forts, arsenals, custom
houses, post Offices and public vessels.
The President of the Confederates was a
Democratic Secretary Of War, appointed
and sustained by the Democratic party when
his Secession sentiments were as well known
as they are now. Their Vice President was
Democratic leader IN the House Of Rep
resentatives In Congress- Their Cabinet
officers were leading members of "the old
Democratic party" Their Generals have
nearly all been accustomed to command in
the Democratic party. Their foreign agents
are all old Democrats. Their Congress is
ancient Democratic. Their principles are
the same they held in the old Democratic
party. The old Democratic Cabinet Off
GERS, foreign Ministers, Senators, Repre-
sentatives and party leaders are, with very
few exceptions, among the Confederate re-
bells, where they hold similar positions
But remnant is left There is where the
old Democratic party has gone, and nothing
less than a restoration of them to power
will be the restoration of the old Democra.
tic Party.
The "Old Democratic party" is now the
rebel Contederacy, having carried into oper.
alton the logical result of its doctrines. The
only way that the Democratic party can be
restored, is for the Government and the
people to submit to the government Of JEFF.
Davis. That is the feast to which the peo
pie are invited by this address of the rem
Hant of bereaved Democratic sympathizers
in Congress-this fag end of treason which
astounded the world, and disgraced Repub
lican institutions in the eyes of all man
kind.
The Government almost throttled will
treason, bound hand and foot and deliver
ed up to traitors; the nation exposed to thu
insolence Of foreign Powers, becanse ueak
cned by instruction; the land covered with
bloodshed and devastation; thousands of
Northern sons slaughtered on Southern soil
the country shrouded in mourning the 10y
al people Of the South suffering barbaritiet
which have hardly been parallelcd in histo
ry, which infict remorseless destruction on
the property of every man suspected o.
fidelity, and spare no provision for helples,
women or tender infancy; the mass of the
people of the South, melted to savage ia
naticism which revcls in the most horrible
atrocities, both on living and dead, anG
which, ifthey could reach the North, woulo
delight in the indiscrmate massacre of tht
people, and the general devastation of theil
property; fierce sectional hate which may
outlast generations all the Decentralization
of war; millions OF Northern property rob
bed in the South; burdehsome taxation
and thousand millions of debt-these ar,
the assets Of the ''old Democratic party >
these are few of the items Which that par
ty has cost the country and it is to such
history that this remnant Of mourners TO
that organisation appeal to show the necessi
ty for its resurrection from death of Treason
and memory of infamy.