Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-07-14
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The strange spectacle is every day
presented Of men, calling themselves Amer.
leans, rejoicing over every event tend.
ing to the destruction and dissolution Of the
National Government. A repulse Of armies
is to them God send They congresste
on the street cerners ia groups, and in the
fullness,of theirjoy they shake hands over
the glad tidings and separate, TO meet and
taunt the Union men by ironically congrat-
ulstiug them on Grant taking Richmond,
or Sherman Atlanta. Does gold advance
and Government securities deprcciste, it
affsrds them an opportunity Of getting of .
stale Jest about the machine being run into |
the ground. and the certainty OF national
bankruptcy. And yet these same men, at |
the opening of the war, professed them.
selves in favor Of its vigorous prosecution. |
They urged the soldiers over whose slaugh-
ter they now rejoice, into the field. They
then denounced as traitors every man who
counseled compromise, or who whispered
Of peace. They took their tene from their
party organs. and taught doctrines ike the
Cincinnati Enquirer which on May 22d.
| 1861, said: -t.. I'D. ,.~-f 5 a.sl
ftbere is . Democrat living in tho
North who has lingering hope OF bring
ing these seeded States back into the Union
I w
They can only be brought back by the over
whelning power Of tho Federal Govern
ment. We have been reluctant to come to
such conclusion, but must now look the
matter sternly in the face. cast 10 the winds
oil hopes of peaceful solution, and rely
only on the sword. 1t must now be our
destruction as Government aud people, or
that Of the seceders and Confeierat States
Government. We can not hesitate. nobody
but traitor can hesitate to cast all, life and
property, into the contest. There must be
no mawkish sensibility on the subject. The
reality Of war must now be met and endors-
ed IN every shape in which it may present
itself" % 400 sH"
W hat then has produced the change in
their sentiments2 What excuse do they Of
fer for their treason? What end do they
propose to accomplish by giving moral aid
and comfort to the South to enable it to
conquer the North? In the first place they
say the character ofthe war is changed. That
, it was waged at first for the restoration OF
the Union. and it has now degenerated into
war for the suhjugation of the South. -
May we not ask, how tho Union can or
s could have been restored after war was in.
/, augurated, except through the suljugation
8 Of the South? 1t is conceded that the OBJ.
ject Of the rebellion was, and Is, its total
destructien. and the erection OF y separate
= and independent Southern Government. -
Is this to be prevented? BY Cancellation!
\. by COMPROMISED The Cincinnati: Enquirer ol
). May 23d. 1861, answers this question when
:. ! it says. "As cancellation and compromise
: have failed-as the seeded States will have
!. neither, but are resolved on eternal separa
tion--and as we are for preserving the Un
> ion at all hazards, and at any sacrifee-wt
q arc for trying to preserve the Union by
a force. As kind words failed, as tufts o
n grass failed, we are now for cmployin,
r stones" Clearly then the government ha
n hut one remedy by which 10 maintain intac
the Union, and that is to conquer, to sub
% due, to bring under its dominion by force
Z or in other words, to- subjuga,e tho rebelli
i. Gus States Of the South.
a This was as well understood hy the lead
:. ers Of the Copperhesd party at The openin,
n of the war az il is now. Their patriotism
h in ,he first place was pretended, the NOR
effectually to enable them o ruin their coun
n try They profess 20 be Mortified ut tn
;. proclamation of Emancipation, when the
:. pointed out to he South as carly as tn
4 time of the Charleston Convention, that u
:. necessary consequence OF rehe llion uoul
"A be the overthrow Of the institution of sla
!. very, and IL is certainly stan 20 that IN
N party, which in lS4S. by series Of rcsoll
20 tions. passed in its Conventions in ever
ii one Of the Free States. resolved that SLAYER
;" was great social and political evil, and tha
=, measures ought to be taken for its cradles
j. tion. should make the attempt to eradicat
it by the government, aud excase for II
treason. ,.......y ... ........ ...4.
Bnt admitting al these pretended grie,
o ances Of the Copperheads to he true; tha
=, the formaion Of tho Rspublican party wa
" wrong; that il was q sectional party; that
n led to the rebellion; that thu oulamatio
T Of emancipation was wrong; that the wa
II, has been conducted wrong; that many
=. ne acts of the General Government hs
j be, Y outside Of the Constitution. Wha
a tnen2 Will the triumph ~ OF the Sout
: taina1Ie sn>rt of national humiliation
i. dissolutipuq Are not the rebcllious State
~ ~ in deadly earnest? Arelihey aiming to ~,
~ store the Union o. il WASP Have they 81
q. dured the horrors of three years Of civ
., war to restore tho Copperhead party
10 power2 Is it not notorious that they 81
"a warripg f,r fn1la and etsrna. SEPARATION? tb'
IS they recard their Northern synpsthizc
;s with more i.tred and contempt than the
IL Union enemies vii" bravely confront theI
AZ in the field. Ii the narse Of heaven, ther
:. what has the Northern man I'd gain by tt
N triumph of tho Southern causeY Peace :
!. Peace as the price of degradation. OF natr
70 raj ruin, of divided country, with the poe
re privilege Of seeing Southern despotisr
rs erected upon the ruins ofonce fee Statei
cemented by the rivers Of blood spilled !
NJ this unholy civil war, and having for il
10 foundation perpetual human bondage. Th
,e prospect is worthy Of traitors, is congeni,
As to the cold blood and white liver Of copper
I heads; but will fail Of accomplishing throug
or the heroism of our troops, and because
ID vast majority OF the American people hav
N not yet lost the sense Of public virtue.
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