Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-02-12
THE REAL CAUSE OF THE WAR.
An Able, Truthful, and uUnanswer-
able Expose of the Cause OF the
War. and Who are Responsible for
A., r. farnol Rahallion. ar tt. rtff

An Able, Truthful, ana UndnbWer-
able Expose of the Cause OF the
War, and Who are Responsible Tor
the Internal Rebellion. ur 5flI
Without the help of the abolition war
upon the SOCIAL ORDER Of the South, Sc.
cession would never have been attempted.
Il Louisville Jour. ''ln O. lii
Ip answer to the above libel upon the his
tory Of the country, by the Louisville Jour
nal, which is ever haliing between treason
and loyalty, the Nashville, Tennessee, Union
of recent date, says 1t seems to be a
favorite employment with some OF the pro-
fessed Union newspapers, to lay the burden
or least half the odium Of our civil war,
upon the anti-slayery party. Editors who,
through mistaken party zeal, thus divert the
attention of the people from the original
and real traitors, in our humble opinion, do
great injury to the cause OF the nation. To
say that the rebels have been prouoked to
treason, by Republicans aud anti'slavery
men, is greatly to palliate, If not to justify
their infamous crimes. 1t is virtually say
ing to the revolted States, that they are
avenging themselves OF repeated and aggra-
waited insults in making war upon the Union,
the Constitution, and the laws Of the land.
The history of this deplorable controversy
for many years fastens the guilt aud respon-
sbility of the war upon the heads OF a po-
litical faction ut the South, who were fully
determined to rule or ruin the nation. The
war upon the social order Of the South, =
of which the Journal speaks, was myth
as unsubstantal as gossamer's shadow. :
Slavery prospered under it, and slaves in
creased in value. The number Of fugitive
slaves in 1860 was only oneJifh Of one per
cent. in all the slave States and 1t is be-
leved that far the greater part Of these
escaped to places of refuge in tho South. :
Senator Hammond, of South Carolina, In q
speech made in that State, October oath
1858, bore the following testimony to the
actual condition of slavery .. .... ST..
1.-The rock OF Gibraltar does not stand Sc
| firm on its basis as our slave system.
in this rery quarter Of century
our slaues haze doubled IL numbers, and edci
sLaue has more than doubled az rdlas. Th'
very negro who, as. u prime laoorer, wou..,
have brought $40J in lS4S, would now, will
thirty years upon him, sell for $500. :
MIR. A. II. Stephens used language equal
ly as strong, on the same point, in speec
delivered in 1859, in which ho said that h
did not believe that slavery had sustaine
. any injury by these agitations. On tn
contrary it has been greatly strengtheno
and fortified by the action ,of the Govern
ment.
We are convinced that the declaration {
the Journal il in opposition to the testimon
of history, as to the true origin, and four
tain head of the Southern, or as it nigh
more appropriately be styled, the Cotto
State rebellion. For more than gener
tion, treason and dsunion, and the establish
ment Of Southern Slave Copfederacy hi
been forgone conclusion with the politician
of the Calhoun school, to be embraced Il
moment the democratic spirit of the cou
ol try should expel them from power. r.
i, Rhe,t said in the Secession Convention
II Carolina: . l.aIB sa. #if
3 "The secession of South Carolina is n
IS the event ofa day. 1t is not anything pi
= duced by Mr., Lincoln, or by the non exec
/. ton of the fugitive slave law. 1t mi
\ ter which has been gathering head for tvs
Z ty years.. aaofa
II In the same Convention, Mr.. Parker sa
ny 1T il no spasInodic effort that has col
suddenly upon US, but it has been gradua
Q cullninating for a long series Of years.
At the same time Mr.. Keitt said:
a II have been engaged in the movem'
: ever since entered polical life" u
!. And Mr.. Inglis said: + 3..I 'li . t.
:, "Most Of us have had this matter un,
- consideration for the last twenty years
\ Hon. Edward Everett said that he ,
ii "well aware partly from facts within
personal knowledge, that leading South
n politicians had for thirty years been rest
ed TO break up the Union as soon As Il
ceased TO control the United States Cove
to ment. m HlfH la,I) -
and In 1899, Chief Justice Marshall, in a
- ter to Washington, dated at Richmo
u said: ITO me it seems that there are I
l who will hold power by any means, rat
,1 than not hold it, and who would prefa
N dissolution of the Union, to the continue
i'd of au Administrations not OF their
90 party 'lIepa ias .-a94o gi I.-4
= What correct picture he drew of Br
iuridge and JEFF. Davis! 1rI ~. & h-f.'
q The quick eyed and lion hearted old n
~ Andrew jackson, was SO firmly convir