Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-06-25

my. Every nero is raising produce to feed
the army and raising taxes to pay them
The negro on the plantation who hoes hi.
corn is just as effective a man as If he were
IN the army, and more 50, for although he
fights well in our army doubt whether he
would in theirs. DO you say we shall not
take him and lead him to fight his own
master and oppressoR Do you want ANY
more OF our own race 10 be slaughtered than
we can avoidf DO you want them to cripple
US all the more by the means of their em-
ploymenH lfyou say 80, you are opposed
to the progress Of the war at all, and there
Is very little hope for your redemption -
This you call abolitionizing the warl
THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION CONSIDERED
Your orators are talking about this good
deal in various sections Of the State, and
claim that it is unconstitutional to interfere
with Slavery in the Southern States.
should like to know what those chaps down
there have had to do with the Constitution
since. they fired on Sumter. Years ago,
long before they had formed Constitution
Of their own, if you had gone down there,
and said yOn were there to protect them by
the Constitution they would have put you
10 the dungeon. ] would like to know what
Constitutional rights they have? They have
the Constitutional right to be whipped if we
can do it, and thiuls We can. Voice:
I'VE Wilt don't choose to go into the
question whether the Constitution ever ga sc
them any rights in regard to Slavery. The
word Slave is not in the Constitution. 1t
is true.it tsayssomcthing about fugitiyes from
labor, and that's all the power it ever held
under the Constitution.
SLAVERY DOOMED. .....
say to you, my friends, you may set
your minds perfectly arrest upon the subject
make the prediction here to. day (andI am
not the first man who has made it, that in so
far as tie political character Of .Sbre,y is
concerned 1t persisted ,rih the sound of the
first ghn IN Charleston horbor. Loud ap
plause. 1t is utterly and totally dead. 1t
cannot be revived, and that for one reason
II tor no other, the Northern people can
never admi. that institution into the coun-
try, even upon an adjustment Of the present
difficulties, which could hereafter aud in
any moment plunge them into another civil
war. Applause. You never will settle
TINS contest, whether by arms or diplomacy,
but you VIII remove the cause that produ-
ced 1t. Ii you do you are not worthy the
institutions of your fathers. Applause.
Soyou may dismiss all this matter Of pol
ICY; 1t IS an old story-an old song, sung
several times too often. r ,t....
ARBITRARY ARRESTS.
But you have another objection to this
war, and that is this matter of the arbitrary
arrest of some men who have not been con.
tent with thinking treason but have been
talking If rather loud. There's been about
half dozen men taken down to Fort Lafay-
'eite--perhaHs Ihore 10 onc IN Dixie Bowe--
Laughter You say these men have been
arbitrarily taken without warrant in the
Constitution. Some legal mouser has sat
down and conned it over, and has not found
anything to justify it. He has found that
they ynever expected any such state of hings,
and therefore there was nothing put into
the Constitution to meet i'll Treason shall
consist OF one overt act-talking is not an
overt act. We must not forget the funda
mental principle Of all governments on
earth places a large discretionary 10 ser in
the hands Of the rulers Of the land for ca ses
of this kind. The old legal maxim is, that
the laws are silent in the presence Of arms.
You have very little cause to complain here
-ifyou had been down South think you
would have had much more.
THE GOVERNMENT HAS POWER TO PROTECT
ITSELF ....
There is no doubt of the power of the
Government to protect itself If you saw
an incendiary apply the torch to your house,
would you wait until he was caught and
convicted, or would you take n club and
knock him down? What the individual may
do, Government may do. 1t may say to its
citizens: You arc preventing the enlist.
ment OF soldiers in the army; you are SOW
ing dlssension among the people; you are
affording aid and comfort to the enemy;
therefore We propose to put you in some
place where you can talk to yourself for a
a. time" Ii this power is not inherent in
the Governtment, it is not worth rope of
sand, and the man who has the power and
does not exercise it, is not worthy to be re-
cognized as ruler. [Applause. Suppose
we admit that the Constitution has been
strained little, it is not strained any furth-
'er than Old Jackson strained it down in
New Orleans when he arrested Judge Hall.
tCheers. How We gloried over it, and
how we cheered, and what boniires we burn
ed, when tardy Government paid back
the unjust fine which the old hero had paid.
ECheers, Now, my Democratic friend, do
not take that all back; | cannot do it, upon
my word, cannot. [''No, no, you are
right" Let us either say this Govern
nient is all right in taking away these ele
ments OF .discord from among us, Or LET us
do he.other thing, postpone it till by and by.
BE HoNEsT-BE LOYAL
Is this time to be fighting the Govern,
ment, when the Government is fighting the
leaders Of a rebellion--in this day of our
trial2 Would you tear down the temple
because some unbeliever comes among the
faithful? Would you tear down the en-
lightened institution of Christianity because
some hypoorite may do deed of darkness
and crime? Would you abolish all the in.
stitutions Of learning in the land because
abuses have crept in? sa,. .f.,s s-eIt
Are you going to stop the progress Of this
war because some internal COpperhead has
been nnmasked and put in q .dungson?---
No, no, and cheers. If you would you
are not the people take you to be. Then
ifyou do not like to indorse this thing--if
you do, not like to indorse MIR. Lincoln s
Administration, You ought to say I'VE II let
this matter alone for the present; if there is
anything wrong We will not call them back,
but put men Of trust and honor in their
places. = He.uiesHo.ii Gdi .55s y
THERE MUST BE UNITY AMONG US:
We cannot afford to quarrel among our
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