Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-03-19

would say to them: ''If you like the South
better than the Government, go South and
take your place in the ranks Of the rebels,
where. we can get sight at you, and draw
bead onyou." Cheers. The only hope
of jeff. Davis success is in division in the
North. But, do they ask for peace2 No,
indeed.
The men who say they are Democrats,
and are against the measures necessary to
ma ke the army OF the Union effectual, are
traitors. H.. aarl .
A Voic',-'"Do you mean to say the mem
bers Of the Democratic party are all trai.
tOrs?"
Gen. Kimball--"No, sir; I have denied
that already. But do mean to say that
there are men who say they arc Democrats
who are not Democrats; that there are me n
calling themselves Democrats Who are trai.
tors. lCheers. The mass Of the people
Of all parties are, and mean to be loyal"
Another Voice-"Are you in favor of
arming the negro2"
Gen Kimball-"I am in favor of doing
anything that's right, and of arming every.
thing under Gods heavens to put down the
rebellion and save the Government [Great
applause I'd arm mule il | could, and
they are property. Laughter Armng
the negro--arming the negro-arming the
negro. kcpeated three times slowly. II
the murderer was taking the lives of your
family, and negro should arm himself and
save their lives, would you complain? Yet
rebels are numbering our sons, and fathers,
and husbands, and brothers by thousands;
and when we talk about arming the negro
to save their lives, you make fuss about
1t. The man that don't want to live in this
country because 0 negro shall happen to
shoot traitor, had better get out of it, and
that in hurry. | would tell sympathizers
that the South have passed conscript
law making every man with one drop of
white blood liable to serpe'in the army, and
l have been round and seen for myself and
there is nine hundred and ninety-nine ne
groes out OF every thousand that has more
than ten drops of white blood in them. -
Analgaination began there in the South,
and we want to stop it. The army of the
Union is fully able to whip the white army
OF the rebellion; but it has its black army,
and we want black army to put against it.
never have fought along side the black
soldier as my equal, and l never intend to,
and my Government does not ioant me to- If
you don't like the Administration, hold
your convention and say you don't; but at
the same time say to the traitors while We
don't like the policy of the Administration,
We are determined to fight yOu to the bitter
end with bay0net, aud powder, and bail,
that We may have the privilege at the bal
lot-box OF destroying the Administration in
u constitutional way. Talk about stopping
the war! What are you going to do with
the 70O,0O0 men that now constitute the
army2 Th,y cant be basely disbanded aud
leave armed ioaS. in ts4 Gsd ready TO de-
stroy every right they hold dear as freemen.
But that army will return, and wo to the pol.
troon who has basely icrsaken them, when
they do return, pray God that the day Of
retrloutlon may never come. But it will
come IT deinagogues succeed in misleading
the masses into disloyalty. You have heard
but the whlstling OF the wind in the voice
that has come up from tho armies of the
Potomac, the Mississippi and the Cumber
land, but it these armies are compelled TO
return to settle with traitors at home, then
Us you are sowing the wind so surely will
you all reap the whirlwind
The General then referred to the attempt
made to get every Democrat iuto the organ
ization OF the Knights of the Golden Cir
Gle, aud warned them against it.
lie called upon all who made complaint
against arlning the negro, to arm them
selves and go into the army as he had done.
The man who would surrender the Govern
ment d Constitution to rebellion did not de.
serve to be anything but slave. The man
that advises resistance TO the draft, legally Il
constitutionally authorised by Congress as
it is, is a traitor. The man who prevents
his sons going into the service Of his country
to save his Government, don't deserve to
have son, and if he (KimbalD was wo.
man he never should have. [Cheers aud
laughter