Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-04-23


ance or dissolution. Such an avowa would
sink its authors to deep and deserved in
fanny Your earnest and emphatic disap-
probation of all who talk about ,"armisti.
ces and compromises" exhibits your cor.
rect apprehension OF the real source, of
danger You have seen the rebellion in all
its hideous aspects, aud you know, as you
assert, that q cessation Of arms would but
enable the rebels to recover from their ex.
haustion, and to prepare for greater out
rage. A truce with them, now staggering
under your blows and painting for breath,
would be as absurd, as to grant respite to
an assassin thirsting for the blood of other
victims.
We concur in your stern denunciation of
the suspicious loyalty of those who talk of
compromise These men ought to know
that there can be no compromise which docs
not involve total abandonment of the glo-
rious inheritance of free government com
mitted to our care. They must know that
such a concession would be an act of moral
cowaIdice, the recollection of which would
sting us with Temorse and self reproach,
and justly bring upon US the odium of the
patriots Of all lands. The III IN who would
desire a reconciliation upon such terms has
no feelings in common with honorable and
loyal men, aud he ought to place himself
and treasure where his heart is-alnong the
rebels.
As you state, the rebels will have no
peace which does not recognize the right
funess OF their rebellion None know their
fixed and treacherous purposes better than
their Northern allies, who have been again
and again scorntully repulsed by them and
who are still waiting with their accustomed
servlllty, ready to perform any act of con
descension which their masters may sug-
gest. The popular mind is becoming we'll
informed as to the mischievous purpose of
these pretended mcssens gers OF peace. Aad,
unless there is speedy abatement of their
treacberous designs, the gathering storm
ofpubilc Indignation will burst with all the
power of the Constitution aud the laws upon
these heartless transgressors
he assured that your stern resolve to ac-
cedr to no. terms but an unconditional sur
render Of the rebels, has inspired all loyal
men with renewed spirit and energy, and
has stricken with fear and trembling the
Northern sympathizers with the rebellion
Your hand writing has troubled their
thoughts, as that upon the wall of Babylon
afflicted another trangressor, who saw, as
they see III your records, signs Of coming
retrlbution.
We concur in your denu,riations of the
periidy of these Northern allies, who are
striving to chill the feryent patriotism of
our soldiers by circulating letters, papers
and documents which basoly misrepresent
the noble purposes Of American patriots -
This is but a new, aud al We think, the last
scene IN the tragic drama, which has been
enacted by these vile performers. Tne first
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usurpation Of the Chief Executive in call
Ing ior 1000 men. Their pretended zeal
for the Constitution made them Indifferent
to the threatened destruction of our Ma.
tional Capital. Their distractions were
dearer to them than the salvation of our
Government. Whilst you we're bucklinp
on your armor and rushing into the battle
field for the defense Of the Constitution and
the Union, they were preparing their argu
monts to justify their running away from,
the bloody conflict, and thus saving that
dearest to them of all constitutions, their
own bodies. They next appeared with
hyp0critical wailings and lamentations over
the pretended tyranny of the President in
suspending the privilege of the writ OF
hdbeds corpus They were not afflicted with
the sad tragedy in the streets of Baltimore,
when the blood of our brave men who were
rushing TO defend the Capital of our Union,
was shed by the hand of the vile traitors.
They had no tears for those bereaved by the
murder OF our PATRIOTS but they fercely
howled when the dastardly assassins were
hurried, without due process of law to
forts and prisons. Their morbid sensitive
ness on behafof arrested culprits, indicates
u consciousness OF their own disloyalty, 10,
it is not within our knowledge that apy
loyal man of Ohio has any distressing an
prehensions that his body may be taken for
treachery to freedom.
Again. They pretendedly frighten them.
selves and attempt to alarm others, with
the enormous expenditures of the war,
the depreciation Of money, and the
heavy taxes which must oppress the people.
The blood of your comrades shed by the
rebels at Stone river, and ON all the Other
batt'e-fields where our brave have fallen
does not so stir their souls as the great fA
1 in the currency. The mothers and sister
of Ohio, who have lost the props of theil
homes and hearts, have unmurmuringly
given to their country the dearest idols oI
their love; whilst these croakers have made
the air vocal with the bereavements of thei,
pockets. With such mercenarios, il mus
be lmmaterial whether freedom or tyrann,
pre- vails
The last act in these false performance,
is the unpatriotio attempt to incite the pre-
judices OF our soldiers, by representing th,
conflict as war not for the Constitution
and the Union, but for the emancipation o.
the negro. Ii is an unfortunate coincidenc,
that these professed Union men aud no
torious rebels should so fully concur in senti
ment. But Tor the proclamation, say they
we would have cordially co-opcrated in the
vigorous prosecution of the war. Ohio
knows that this is a base pretense. The
same men who howl about emancipation
bewailed in equally strong tones at the ar
rest OF Kane and his cempeers in perfidy,
the disbanding Of the conspirators ut Frank.
fort, and every vigorous act aud policy OF
the Administration which has tended to
crush the rebellion when these suspected
patriots shall show the same enthusiasm in
speaking Of the victories of our arms; OF
your bravery and achievements; of the
triumph Of the Union over the Rebellion
and Of the perpetuation of those great
principles which constitute our national
glory, that they now exhibit for the negro
and the mistortunes of the rebels, their
clamors against the Government and the
Administration will at least have the an,
pedruncc Of being the utterances of honest