Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-03-12
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democracy OF Kentucky, nor of the tree
States, 70 play the role. Of secession under
the thin disguises Of Democracy. Do not
the Senator, from Kentucky aud his Con-
federates know that this abhorred and 40.
cursed rebellion, born of the fell spirit of
slavery, was plotted by Democrats, organ
lzed by Democrats, and inauguIated BY
Democrats Do they not know tkit Demo.
Gratis raised the banners of revolt, aud
dragged their cowardy and reluctant op-
ponents in the confederate Statos into
civil war? Do they not know that this is a
Democratic insurrection2 Do they not
know that stephens and Toombs and Cling
man aud Benjamin had to turn Democrats
before they could plot treason? Do they not
know that man must turn Democrat before
be can be traitor? Do they not know that
every willing leader of this rebellion would
this day vote the Democratic ticket2 Do
they not know that every traitor In arms
halls and welcomes Democratic victories?
DO they not know that every yituperative
phrase they utter against the Administra-
tioB in these Chambers, in State Legisla-
lures, in Democratic conventions, before the
people, or in their presses, excites rebel
hopes, fires rebel hearts, aud nerves rebel
arms?
Sir, | should think the Senator from
Kentucky. and the men who unite with him
In these wicked deuuBclations of the Admin
i.tration, would feel the blush of conscious
shame mantling their cheeks when their
words are hailed aud applauded by the men
they once followed, whose councils they
shared tor so many years, whose souls arc
stained with treason, aud whose hands are
red with the warm blood of our murdered
countrymen. The Land resounds with the
tread OF half d million Of rebel Democrats,
ready 20 pour their murderous fires into the
living bosoms of our kindred and brothers,
who have left their homes to uphold the
cause Of their country. You hear the sound
ofrebel cannon, You see the flashing Of rebel
guns, and you rekin1le the zeal Of these
Democratic rebels, aud dampen the ardor
and the hopes of your loyal countrymsn by
renewed assaults upon the Administration
in whose hands are the issues of the strug-
gle, so far as they depend upon human
agency, by proclaiming the hopeless char
acter of the contest, by demanding eompro-
mise and peace dictated by rebel bayonets.
Sir. We are often reminded that the land
is dotted over with the graves of our coun-
trymen who have fallen in this rebellion.
Who filed those graves with the bodies Of
our murdered countrymen ? Every bullet
fired in this unholy rebellion at the hearts
of our loyal countrymen, battling beneath
the old Hag of United America, was fired
By disloyal Democrat for man bas to
be Democrat before he can be q trsitors
Sir, the brave ami devoted men who have
followed 10 the field the flag of their coun-
try, who stood by that flag with answering
fidelity through sunshine and storm, amid
the diseases OF the camp and the dangers
of the battle field, and who now sleep ia
their bloody shrou1s, went down by shots
and shells fred by disloyal Democrats The
brave men who fill the hospitals, or .linger
among their kindred and friends, mainsd
by wounds, were mailned by bullets fred
fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters,
wives and children, are mourning for the
loved and the lost who went down in the
storm of battle or by the fatal diseases Of
the camps in this Democratic rebellion.
Fathers and mothers who are mourning
over lost sons were made childless by rebel
Democrats. Wives made widows in this
war were made widows by the bullets of
rebel Democrats. Orphan children wers
made orphans by Democratic shot and she'll
The flags of the Republic, riddled aud torn
by shot and SHE'LL were riddled and torn BY
the shot and shell aime by rebel Democrats
Let the fathers and mothers, the brothers
and sisters, the wives AMI children Of loyal
| America remember that these sons and
brothers, husbands and fathers have fales
| in an accursed rebellion, born oil the dark
spirit Of slavery, and plotted, organized, and
inaugursted by Democratic leaders, Ehd
fought by rebel Democrats who howl With
| 6endish joy when their Democratic. synipa-
thizers hurl their fierce maledictioHs against
| the Government, or win victory over the
supporters of the Administration. Let the
heroic men who are bearing the cause OF
| United America and OF the rights of human
nature in the land of the rebellion, ever re-
member around their camp fires, on their
weary marches, on picket duty, in, storm
and darkness. aud on the perilous ridges o'
battle, that the foe around them and before
them, pouring lealen rain, and iron hail int
their bosoms, are traitor Democrats fighting
to dismembar the Union and blot our native
land from the map of nations. Let theu
remember that these rebel lesions who ar,
hurling death into their ranks ara listening
with hungry ears to the maledictions hurled
at the President By rebel sympathiIsrs il
the loyal States, and watching their actios
and shouting over any Democratic victorie
won against the Adm nistration as the tri
umph of friends aud allies. Let them rs
5 member, too, that in the loyal States Ii
apologists OF treason and of traitors, tn
vituperators of the Government and tn
intriguants who would battle the policy o
the Administration and sacrifice the unit
Of the Republic by az ingorious and dis
E honorable peace, are Democrats, who Civ,
t to party what should be given to their ooun
0 try. rent and torn BY civil war.
Sir, with the damning fact plain to tn,
e full comprehension of mankind, ths
. Democratic leaders plotted for years .thi
wicked rebellion, that they inaugurated an
I proclaimed it, that they have for nearly tw
t years put forth the most gigantic efforts I
a dismember their country and blot the r,
, public of the United States from the list
! nations, men in these loyal States, callin
] themselves Democrats, dsnounce the GO,
ernment and the acts of the Goyernmen
Q defame the men who are STRUGGLING to carr
! the country through the impending oontes
9 encourage men not to enlist and TO lea,
!, the ranks of the couniry's defenders, d
/. mand peace at the certain cost OF the il
tegrity Of the Union, aud call upon the
|, Representatives to withhold men aud none
: from the Government. ~.
i Sir. spies and traitors Gil the land, an
n skulking nsutrals everywhere abound. b.
the M her dav conypntion of men callif