Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-04-02
The Northern Aspect Of Democratic
Jealousy of Despotism.


The Hon. A. j. Hamilton, in recent
speech before the National Union League
at New York, spoke as follows Of the mur-
der Of Union men in Texas, for no other
offense than loyalty,to the Constitution. =
He referred particularly to the preparations
which the Union men had made in Texas,
in anticipation Of the arrival of the Nation.
al forces in the Banks Expedition:
They were told that they we're coming
they got it through the public prints, and
they took measures accordingly got
up organizations preparatory to joining the
Federal forces as soon as they landed. But
when 1t was found out that there was no aid
conlng-.when it was found out by the
rebels that the forces was 10 operate on the
Mississippi River and not in Texas. thew
could imagine what consequence il was to
the Union men who had manifested some
pleasure at the arrival of aid He had no
means of knowing how many, but he knew
that some hundreds lost their lives :n con.
sequence of that disappointment he knew
that they had died deaths that had not been
heard of since the dark ages.until. .now--they
were hanged shot, murdered-some tied
they had been torn asunder by having wild
horses tied to their feet-whole neiehbor.
hoods were exterminated and torches an.
piled to their dwellings -thcy we're hung
by twentes, and the work was still going on.
He asked the great people of New York
how long that ought to go on? Men had
been dying for twenty months by way of
testifying their devotion to the Govern
mant He acSorta1 and h;otor,, ,uo,,lJ H.. I.
him out, that people never had borne
more by way Of testifying their devotion to
any Government that had existed among
men. AN
These horrible crueltics, which show how
inseparable the manners Of Ashantee are
from its domestic institutions, arouse no
feeling Of sympathy for the victims, nor of
indignation for the perpetrators, in the
breasts Of those who go about bowling for
the destruction Of the Government because
it arrested few traitors most of whom had
reason to be grateful that they escaped SO
lightly. What are all the arrests the
Government has made, compared with the
murder of single man for his fidelity to
to the Unioul Yet who ever heard of these
men; who go about to denounce the Gov
ernment as despotism, and to incite the
less cunning to violence, bleathing word
Of condemnation for the vast number Of
murders of loyal men in the South2 On
the contrary, they would introduce tho
same reign of terror into. the Free States.
If these Democratic leaders were honest
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at oppression, is it possible that they would
give their tacit Endorsement Of these horri
bic atrocities of despotism more cruel and
absolute than ever existed over q people
with any Of the evidences of civilization,
which is grinding out the lives and proper.
ty Of the Southern people2 Could any true
man look complacently on that reign Of
terror, and then turn, and try to destroy the
national power Of resisting it because few
persons have been arrested for treason,
when many more deserved hanging for it;
or because they say liberty Of speech is in
tringed, when their speeches are proof Of
the utmost license to reasonable and Sedi-
tious speech 2-(Cin. Gaz.