Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-04-09
PEACE AND COMPROMISE.

nor,9r OF war and the livelIness OF peace.
God knows, too, deprecate war to
long for peace. But how is it possible? By
compromise about which Senators talk so
muchf Can we do it by passing peace reso.
lntions as did the Legislatures of New
Jersey and illinoisY viii the rebels listen
to compromise? Let " see. 1 read fir st
from late speech made by the President
OF the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis,
at jackson, Miss.
AFTER what has happened during the last two years
my only wonder is that consentrd to live for 20 long
time in association with such m e.cant. and hsve
love so mach Government rotten 10 the core Wero
ever To be proposed sgain 10 into a Union with
such people could consent 70 than 70 trut
my sell ia den OF hieves" l-7 -
The Richmond Dispatch clinches this BY
saying:
we warn the Democrats and Conservatives OF the
Noh 10 dismiss from their minds once the AtsEEAbLr
DELrsoE that the South eau ever consent 10 enter a
upon tNr TEaNs the old Union.r That '.if the NortI
WI allow US to write the Constitution ourselves aud
give us every guarantee sheld ask we would sooner
De under The government Of England or France.n
Again the Richmond Wing of the 10th
says:
I'VE have committed many error, in our treatment 81
the YANKEES Net the en-t has been in regarding them
az something better than they really are TnKY irg III
NATURE NENiALs, AND FITTED ONLY ZOE MEsIAL purIEy
They ARE IN oPEs, FLkGRAsr IxscnRgcrIoy AGAINST
IhEh SATckAL LoEDs AND MASTERS, rhg sEKTLsMzs or
TEE SOUTH
One more quotation, and that from
leader In the Richmond Enquirer ON Val.
landigham's late great speech:
'f they repudiste the debt they have couracted and
abandon the government they established. and recant
vows, and break pledges, and eat dirt it is well we
and although We shall not exactly respect ia
that affair yet we shall not be unwilling trade with
lhem1hoiins or noses lulc-eo, to show them all
suitable eivuiIies-but at a proper distance"
Kat al ~
Democrats willing to do thatl Are Sena-
tors willing to compromise on such terms?--
would not have believed it. had | not
heard the speech of the Senator from Sen.
eca- He is willing 10 compromise, and
great God-upon what terms2 / hope it
will be put upon record and sent out to the
loyal people of Ohio and of the North, that
the Senator from Seneca, speaking for the
Democracy Of Ohio, has stated upon this
floor, that he is willing to compromise with
the South by permihiI.y slarery to spread
orer and occupy erevy inch Of the teritor, of
the States Of tie free Worth! So spoke not
Washington, so spoke not Jefferson and
the other great fathers Of the Republic, who
left upon record their testimony against
human slavery So spoke not Daniel Web
ster, who declared, he would 'nerer consent
to the extension of the area of slavery In
the United 9tatesl' So spoke not glorious
old Henry Clay, when on a memorable oc-
casion, he uttered these eloquent words:
u have said that could vote for it myself and
repeat, thai yEvKR CAN and NEVER yorF, and
EARTHLY rowER EYER WILL NAKE ME VOTE, TO srREAD
slavery ovER TERRITORY WHERE sLAvExr DOES sor sow
kxisr.r
Mr.. LANa-Would not the Senator
sooner have slavery than lose the Union?
Mr.. GUNcKEL-"Liberty and Union,
one and inseperable," said Webster, and SO
say l.
Mr.. LANa-But how if presented as an
alternative? ~.
Mr.. GUNcKEL-That alternative never
will come. Thank God, we can put down
the rebellion, restore the Union, and still
retain our liberties.
THE cHIvALRY OF THE souTH
| And to whom would the Senator yield up
to the curse of slavery, the territory conse-
Grated to freedom by the blood OF our faith
ers? To the villains and traitors who have
murdered our fathers, sons and brothers
and desecrated the bodies of our dead
Senators have grown pathetic over the I'm
prisonment of Dr. Olds. Why no express
sions of sympathy for the four hundred
Southern Union men, of whom the papers
tell US this morning. many of them over
eighty years of age, who are now suffering
in rebel prisons for no offense but loving
the old Union and the old flag? Why no
sympathy for the Union men and women of
East Tennessee, Northern Alabama and
Texas, driven from their homes, hunted
down by blood hounds, imprisoned, MUIR
dered, because of their loyalty to the gov
ern ment of their fathers? Why not word
of indignation at the rebels for their inhu-
man and barbarous treatment Of our own
sick, wounded and dying soldiers? Why
not word of denunciation for their infer
nal conduct in desecrating the bodies OF our
dead2 The Senator from Ashland laughs
does he think these things funny?
Mr.. KENNEY.---I laugh to think anybody
r would believe such ridiculous stories. ~
Mr.. GUNcKEL If the Senator will moi
believe what has so frequently been told by
, our officers and men and Union refugees
from the South, he will believe the Repor
, of the Investigating Committee appointed
by the Senate of the United States, which
J upon the testimony OF men like Governo
Spraguc, of Rhode Island, reported thai
e after the battle of Manassas, the rebels dis
: inferred the bodies OF many OF our dead ano
a cut of in some instances, bones to be used
= as personal ornaments for chivalric South
/ ern ladies', and in others, heads to be turn
!. ed into drinking cups tor use at o marriag
y festival rl"
II FEW QUESTIONS FOR vALLANDiGHAl
a DEMOCRATS.
But to return, why this opposition t
, simple resolutions in favor OF sustaining
: the Government in this her struggle 70
, life? Why these quibbles as to .constitu
! tional and law questionS2 Why these, de
> nuncations of the President and those la
{ boring with him to preserve the integrity
| of the Union? Why this want Of sympa
! thy with the suffering Union men at the
South and with our brave soldiers in the
!, field? Why such public statements as thai
; made this morning by the Sesator from
Seneca, that the rebels had whipped us il
: nine, battles out of every ten, sine the wal
began? Why so misstate the facts and 81
e disparage the exploits Of our gallant army
J. Why reprint in all the pemoc ailc paper
l. OF the State the speeches Of Vallacd g
/, ham, Cox 4 Co., and send them gy IA
a thousands into the army? Why such ;.