Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-24

above speech and reference, and edltorially
remarks:
The press Of the Confederate States would
have felt securer in its future freedom had
tho House ofRepresentatives, on yesterday,
seen proper TO have adopted the resolution
OF Mr.. Foote, Of Tennessee. against the
recommendation Of the Presdentto substi.
tute details for exemption. But the large
vote given for the reference to the Military
Committee cannot but be accepted by the
press as leaving its future condition uncer-
tain.
The construction put upon this recon-
mendation Of the President, was denounced
yesterday in Congress as that of a mad
man." II am not mad, most noble Festus,
but speak forth the words of soberness and
truth" We would have been most gratif-
ed if the honorable member who thus de-
nounced our constitution had supplied the
press with sounder views as to what the
President meant. This paper has never ex.
hibited any spirit OF factious opposition to
tho President, and we received his recon-
mendation with the deepest regret but we
have been unable to discover any other eff.
feet for this reco mmendation than the de
pendence of the press for continued exist
ence upon the pleasure of the President,
should the Congress substitute details for
exemptions. We are writing only of effect,
not of the motives, of the President these
are known only to himself and his God
But if he is seeking dictatorial powers, what
more certain way Of accomplishing his ends
than the unlimited control of the press,
which the power of detailing the editors
would give him IF the dictator scheme
has fiiends, what better way of advancing
it than the reference of Mr.. Foote'S reselu.
tion to the Military Committee, there to
slumber until the plot has been fully arran-
ged, and is ready to be sprung upon the
country.
Grardin tells his readers that scheme
Of making Patrick Henry dictator was talk
ed Of in the Virginia Assembly, in l776.- =
Archibald Cary, meeting with Col Syme,
the halfbrother OF Henry in the lobby of
the House, accosted him "Sir, am told
that your brother wishes to be dictator. -
Tell him, from me, that the day Of his ap.
pointment shall be the day of his death !;
for he shall find my dagger IN has heart be-
fore the sunset of that day. And III. scheme
,ods abandoned, for all kneW that "OM
Eon," ,could hare made good his threat
There are descendants of" Old Iron" HriNg
in Virginia get
NEGRO soLDIERs-DAvIs ADVISED TO MIND
HIS OWN BUSINESS.
The Richmond Examiner of the 10th has
the following significant article:
1t is truly astonishing and almost increli
BILE, that now, in the fourth year of orr in
dependence, and of terrible war waged to
vindicate that independence-aft break
ing up the old Federal Union because we
would not suffer the Washington Congress
to interfere with eur State institutions
President of the Confederate States should
Invite" the Richmond Congress to oonsid
er project for emancipating slaves by the
Confederate authorities and should at the
same time speak of this emancipation as
"a reward for faithful service" as boon
and a blessing as something which would
place those negroes in better position than
before. MIR. Davis thus intimates his 0pin-
ion, first, that laws of Congress or the &C,
ton of the Confederate EXECUTIVE, can lib
crate slaves; and second7sthat slavery is so
dire and hideous an evil as to make escape
from its horrors a reward and q boon even
to an old and worn out negro at the end Of
the term of faithful service"
Many worthy Virginiaus have long been
VI oPhhiOiIi ~ io VI THAI II WCIO uCttCl Ipt
the State if slavery were abolished and tihe
slaves sold off to the cotton States. 1t is
certain that but for the stupid insolencs of
Abolition philanthropy, such change
would actually have been made in the ia-
dustrial system of Virginia. Possibly, also,
hereafter, when the war shall be over, and
all pretense of coercion and pressure shall
be removed, the citizens Of this State may,
if they think rigbt-for their own benefit,
and not as boon to negroes-make arrange
ments for the gradual removal of their slaves
further South. This may one day come to
be a practical question; but it is no question
no,o; and oboUe aHit IS no question for Mr..
Dauis either Ro,o or in the future. We tcarn
him and the Confederate authorities to mind
their oion business We Invite their con-
sideraton'' to their own business; and their
most pressing business now is to execute and
enforce the military laws they already have;
to use the powers wherewith they are al
ready intrusted in order to keep the ranks
of the army filled up with white men and
free citizens, who ought to need no stimulus
to faithful service, and whose single and
sufficient reward will be the glorious indie
pendence of their native land.