Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-05-21

prosecuted for purpose such az that they
should refuse to enli,R In the opinion oI
your committee, no sane man, unbiased By
passion or prejudice, can put any Other
construction upon, or ascribe any other in
tenlion to this speech
Can any honest man imagine any other
I purpos, or motive Tor making such an ''ar
gunent" at such tune, but to induce and
influence Democrats not to volunteer?
We think every one Of our candid read.
ors will agree with the Committee that out
of Olds' own mouth they convicted him Of
disloyalty to the Government, anl an at.
tempt to prevent volunteering and enlist
ments And here we might stop with our
notice Of Od's case, but if so wo should
stop just ut the place "whcre the laus h
comes in. I" N, b. ...,., i. 4. ........-...--
Oids, let it be remembered, swsars that
at certain places, naming them he made
that speech. Hell permitted, in his to defense,
call in witnesses. lie calls in eight D.mo.
cratic, copperhead witnesses On direct
examination by the defence, the question
was asked each witness if Olds, at the above
mentioned places, in his speech, directly or
indirectly, discouraged enistnents. And
every coppcrhead answered No" When
the cross examination was made by the
prosecution, the identical language which
Olds testified as having used in his speech,
was engraited into the question, md the
witnesses each asked, if Ods used such
lanpua un mr. anyth;n, i'll, :, Al IL
swore he used no such Llnguage; two said
they could not recoltect, and three replied
that something to that effect was said
Those witnesses who said that Old, used no
such language were further inquired of,
whether, If he had used such language
quoting the very words Of Ods speech-it
would not have been considered by them
that he was discouragng enlistments. And
they said, if he had used such language,
they should have thought he was discour
aging enlistments. The others, who admit.
ted that O.ds did say something like that"
replied that they did not understand he
discouraged cnlistments. And there We
will drop the Copperhead representatives of
the Fair6ell Democracy, after quoting one
thing more from the report The Commit
tee say:
In concluding their synopsis of Dr.. Ods
speech, the Committee call attention TO an
other paragraph. The President, in his
inaugural address, direct cd portion of it to
his ''tc low citizens OF the Southern States"
Mr.. Lincoln said: '0.
on non ha' eao, ,ta hFn aays and when aler much loss
% U 'J , lls, mi no fon nroi either you cease light
M 'n' iulical questions s TO terms intercourse urc
still upon you.' - ~
This appeal of the President to the peo.
pie OF the South, DR.. Olds quotes as if il
had been addressed to tho people of the
Northern States to induce them not TO en-
list IN defense OF the Government. Ad.
dressing his nelghbors OF Fairfield county
OldS says to them: ...t
ioH eannot Gyht dlIoays. and ,ohen after
much loss upoa 6oth stie', and no gai,a upon
either, ytu cease fJhsiiag, The Identical oues-
hoas as 70 terms V Intercourse arc still upon
y0u Don tSlart and turn pale, dear Re-
publican friends, Tor in the language of
Patrlck Henry, ''VMis be treason nuke the
GeSt d u, for it is a literal quotation from
llncoln inaugural address. IT you con.
slider such language as discouraging enlist.
ments and as opposing the war, Mr. Lincoln
and not myself is responsible
Not only does this knave of an Olds
preach treason, himself, but by falsifying
Mr. Lincoln attempts to make the Presi.
dent traitor. ... I
The investigation also disclosed the fact
that within short time after Olds was
sent to Fort Lafayette he was rendered, by
Judge Advocate Turner, his release if he
would take the oath Of allegiance, but Olds
refused to take such oath. Decem1er 18th
Odds was released, The Committee say:
After the Governor had succeeded in
raising his regiments, and the drafted men
had gone forward: afterthe icentiou,ne,s of
sedtlouS practices and speeches had ceased
to be immediately danger Gus, and the peo
pie could have II season of reposc during
which TO retecr, before adopting the advice
OF DR.. O.ds, he was Internationally dis
charged. nH
We may make further extracts from their
report in regard to the other cases of arrest,
but so far as Olds is concerned he is con
victed, by his own testimony, Of being dis.
loyal, while one-half of his witnesses, con:
vict themselves Of being unblushing liars
and the other half prove themselves to be
fools. - Cleveland Herald