Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-01-29

some exceptions found the working me
true TO the Union. dealt kindly with the
working men, and dealt barshly with the
slaveholders. Loud applause. l recog.
nized my friends and my enemies, and
made as wide difference between the one
and the other az between Dives and Laza
rus. Applause. understand that you
have sent forth your sons and brothers, not
for the purpose Of making peace, but war,
wherever they found enemies. believe
that you sent out your soDs and brothers for
the purpose Of insisting that the flag OF the
United States should wave everywhere in
sympathy with the powers Of ths United
States, and upon that thesis l have acted.
| encouraged the laboring men. A thous-
and woe employed every day by the Uni.
ted States; thirty-four thousand were fed
every day by the United States; over sew
enteen thousand Of these were foreigners,
whose Consuls assumed to represent them,
but who.did not.represent them truly, because
the Consuls represent commerce and prop.
erty, not men. Thirty four thousand, as
have said, were fed every day, and precise
ly the same action was taken toward men
who needed this assistance as would be Ia
ken here. But those men had no voice in
the newspapers abroad or at home, and the
consequence was, their thanks and their
applause were never heard, while the com
plants of the property men, who felt that
wheA they were struck, Slavery was struck,
flowed all over Europe and the North; aud
every Misrepresentation that the malice oi
enemies and traitors could devise, was re-
sorted to in order to embarrass, and il pos
sible. defeat my plans. But there is one
thing have right to say--and thank
you, sir, for adverting to it-and that is,
that from the first week when our soldiers
entered New Orleans until left there, it
was as safe, as quiet, and as convenient to
attend to ones business, by day or byinight,
as ever it was in the best governed cities OF
the North-even our own. Loud applause.
Now, my friends have detained you
upon these topics quite too long. have
only come here to meet you aHd hear from
you those kind manifestations which you
have been pleased to bestow upon me, and
to return to you the heartfelt gratitude which
| feel. assure you, that to your efforts,
to the efforts of Massachusetts, and to the
ideas of Massachusetts, and New England,
the country is indebted for that measure of
safety which has been secured, and for those
great efforts which are now being put forth.
Dub uOI uC uCCCiNCu! DS uuJ WCdIJ. sltttuOn-
Der this, that while We may feel this Wal is
hard for US, it is the effort of desperation
for them. have seen the conscript law oil
old man of sixty the schoolnaster not ex.
While it costs US effort, it costs them des
them life blood. wish that they migh
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not chosen: As long as life lasts, al long
as any power remains, We must stand BY
the Union, one and undivisible. Applause.
Every traitor, every man, every stream
every lake, every river, every mountain that
ever belonged 70 the flag Of the United
States, must still remain under the flag oi
the United States, cost what it will, cost
what it may. Enthusiastic applause. If,
as you fatteringly observed, l shall go back
to another field of duty, l shall 20 back
with the determination never to give up,
never to compromise-[renewed applausel
never to have anything but that flag Ol
ours as the symbol Of our nationality.
Whoever differs from that, let him &C
south of Mason and Dixon's line-he has
no business here. Applause We may
have no means Of dealing with him here
but there are plenty at the South who will
receive him with open arms, for the reason
that he is their friend, not the friend of tn,
country. Who proposes to give up the
tomb Of Washington Who Yorktown
Who the honors won BY jackson at New
Orleans2 Who proposes to have anything
less than that which belongs to us? Who
proposes to give up our fair claim to Mex co
il it comes to that? NJ one proposes to glv,
up the rights of this Union. But let me
repoat-because hear that there are some
who falter-come what may, whether wea
or woe, there is one thing which Ne will moi
lose, and that is, the supremacy of thin
Government over every inch Of our bouu
dairy. ..
desire single word on the question o
emancipation. On that question. yor
know. have held certain opinions Those
opinions have received, in some degree
correction. / have vsews to offer which
think will commend them, elves to tn,
judgment Of every one you. Is there
man here who doubts that some time o.
other, in the providence of God, the negro
is to be free-and that some day the pro
lection of the laws will be extended over hin
and that he will become free. No man
doubts that; and all desire to guard agains
the evils that may arise from that change
& which cannot be made without disregard
ing our political system. 1t is my opinion
that all this has been sent upon the natior
for some great object; and it is my opinion
that it will be easier at this time to settle
this question than to leave it to be settled
hereafter Is it not evident to every mind
that the day and hour have come when al
men, so far as this country is concerned
aud it is the last refuge of Slavery on th'
globe-shall be in political rights free ant
equal. as they were declared by the Delara
ton OF Independence Applause. Let NJ
man be concerned about the question o
social equality. They will be just so fa
equal as God has made them equal, and M
more and no less. Take care lest we bt
found fighting against God. Il He has no
made them our equals, they will not be our
equals. But He has made them free
God willed them free. God will have then
free. And let His will be done fs4
GARIBALDI's return to his island hom,
in Caprera ia made the subject of elaborat,