Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-08-20

bur your splendid Government into ruins,
and spread bloodshed, anarchy and destruc-
tion al over the land from ocean IN ocesn.
bccause, ,fofsooth, you believe ValIapdiQham
has been unjastIy' copfiued D summer re.
treat At the Falls Of Niagarai Recause the
Administration, diragrces with you as to The
loyalty Of the act and keeps him banished,
you would embarrass she Administrator
aud thus give traitors chance Of vreskins
youi vengeance upon the execution, ia the
overthrow Of the 49overnmentI tell you
l cannot stand upon 30 narrow a platform as
that Neither can you, If YOU have the
good n your c6uutry at stake. ~ Tlf
Why, says Mr.. Purh, there have been no
arbitrary arrests in New York since the cleo
tion OF Horatio Seymour, and there will DO
no such arrests in Ohio after the election OF
Nallnndighsm Nov what has Gov. Sey.
mour done2 He has resisted the draft. he
pronounced il unconstitutional, and recon.
mended the people to resist it,. Within
twelve days after that the streets of New
York were ilIed with bloody violence, illu-
mined by blazing ediices, and made horrible
BY the frantic yells of. the mob, the shrieks
pf the terrified and the groans of the dying /!
The riot lasted five days! That model Gov.
erner went down to the unfortunate city and
coolly commenced firing blank cartridges at
the scoundrels, and then advised them to go
away like good boys, and he would zee that
tho draft was suspended aal sfl %1
A voice-"And meet again when you
please" eo1fsi .ts srf s1 b. l.-f.e.es ss'-eg
Yes, and meet again when you please. =
Laughter. That is your model Governor,
Mr.. Pugh And with such model Gov.
ernor for Ohio, what would have been done
with Morgan? If you desire such a Gov.
ernor as that you must 40 outside of me to
find him.. - +. ~. - - ..,.t
Mr.. Vallandigham has had an opportu.
nifty to come home. A large committee was
sentyto intercede in his behalf with the Ad
ministration. Now Mr.. Lincoln will have
bis joke sometimes, and he said to these
gentlemen that he would not ask Mr.. Val
landighsm to support the war. because he
was not there to answer-but you gentlemen
IF you will agree that the war is constitu-
tional and will vote supplies to the army. he
70 you'd q recall ,s him Dey ySu nol zee the jpisS
and he wished to commit them to the SUP,
port of the army. They would not answer
that question! Can you, stand upon SO con.
tracted a space as the Valiaudigham plat
form ~,gs u, .ss..l ~ '.,... :. r..
Mr.. .Pugh says he will vote millions of
men and money if we will not free the
slaves. But it is an Abolition war. I know
not whether / am an Abolitionist OF, not. =
But when the issue il between the saliva
tlon Of The country and the destruction of
Slavery, have no difficulty in choosing nv
course. Judge Thurman charges me with
insisting that no State shall, under sny cir.
cumstapees, come back into tho Union ex.
cept as free State. have never ex press
ed n9r held SUCH a. doctrine. i'll had, I
would be filter for the lunatic asylum than
for Governor of Ohio Ihave always held
Slavery to be exclusively q State institution
And what I do insist upon is that Slavery
shall not hereafter be the all controlling DO.
litical power Of the country. Ii the issue
shall be made between, the destruction Of
the Government or the destruction of Ella.
very, I trust L shall be found differing from
MIR. Pugh if be holds on to what he now
teaches. .,.i'.,.s III "a
A voice. .-"Are you in favor Of the
Union as it was?" ~ q ,., -
Not with jeff Davis and his internal crew
in the Congress of the United States!-
Great laughter and applause. I under
stand what you mean. You mean to ask
whether would restore the Union with
slavery To that have TO reply that in
luy opinion the first gun fred upou Sumter
sounded the freedom of every slave. Sumter
fell, and 50 did the manacles from eyerv
slave. -. III
You need not be concerned about Slavery.
The institution will fall of itself. Intelii
gent shareholders Of Louisiana and Missis.
,sippi declare, that Slavery cannot survive
the reconstruction Of the Union thirty DAYS
But they make great thing of the prog
lamation, as If piece Of paper could reach
beyond the military arm. 80 -
A voice. .-"It DESTROYS the constitutional
rights of the South 4, -" -
constitutional rights! Not Of IoyaI men.
and ss fof traitors, they have no other
rights than to be tried and hung Thew de-
clared the war in behalf of their institution;
let them and the institution take the -lepit.
innate corseauences Of war. IL would not
erieye. me If the rebels should NOT ro back
themselves. thought the proclamation
Vas mt tlictated nv rood policv. 4but had
long been convinced that the rebellion could
not be crushel until slavery wss strnck out.
q How did We coihmences sthe Var? Under
the rose. water uolicy. We made slave hounds
Of our officers and soldiers until thew were
about to throw down their arms in disgust.
A yoice-"Whod did it?'' '1fIlt '0a'
WHY, they did il at WASHINGTON, and
your party now stands upon the same poll