Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-05-05
Tho Atiantic for May.

The following table of contents:
A Cruise on Lake I.adoga, by Baysrd
TAYLOR; Wet Weather Work, by TX Mar
vel; The Reaper's Dream, by Thos. Buch-
ansn Read The New England Revolution
of the Seventeenth Century, by John g.
Palfrey; Some Account of the Early Life
of an Old Bachelor, by A. NJ. Diaz; The
Snow Man, by Charles J. Sprague; The
Gold Fields Of Nova Scotia, by Arthur Gil
man Life in the Sea Islands; Gold Hair;
A Legend of Pornic, by Robert Browning
California as Vine Land To a Young
Girl Dying. with glft.of fresh palm haves,
by T. w. Parsons; The Rim. Part !, by
Harriet f. Prescott Types. by William
Winter; House and Home Papers, Part V;
Raking up the Fire, by Harriet Beecher
Stowe Re-enlisted The Presidential Elec'
tion; Reviews and Literary Notices.
"The Presidential Election" closes
as follows:
1t is sometimes said, that, if the Demo
cratic party should resume the rule of this
nation, the Conferates, Or Rebels would
signify their readiness to return into the
Union, on the simple condition that things
should be allowed to assume the forms they
bore prior to Mr. Lincon's election. They
rebelled against the men who came into
power through the political decision that
was made in 1860; and, the American peo-
pie having reversed that decision by restor-
ing the Democracy, the cause of thsir rebel
lion having been removed, rebellion itself
would cease as of course. Were this view
of the subject indisputably sound, it would
i'll become the American to surrender to the
men who assume that the decision Of an
election, this way or that, affords sufficient
reason for resort to arms. We should
hold our existence as nation by the basest
OF tenures, were we to admit the monstrous
doctrine that only one party is competent
to govern the Republic, and that there is an
appeal from the decision Of the ball lot to
{ that of the bayonet. There never existed a
great people so cravtn as to make such an
admission and were we to set the example
| of making it, we should justify all that
has been said adversely to us by domestic
, traitors and foreign foes. We should prove
that we were unfit to enjoy that greatest OF
all public blessings, constitutional freedom,
+ by surrendering il at the demand of fac
o., ton, merely that we might live in security,
/ and enjoy the property we had accumulated.
r Ancient history mentions people who were
:. so fond Of their ease that they placed al
power in the hands of their slaves on con
dition that the latter should not NEEDLE
with those pleasures to the unbroken pur
suit Of which they purposed devotDg al
;, their means and time. The slaves soon be
came masters. and the masters slaves. We
4, should fare a. badly as the Vol>inians, were
u we to place all power in the hands of slave
G holders, who then would own some millions
@ of white bondmen, far inferior in every
manly quality to those darktseed chattle
L from among whom the Union has recruitet
: some OF its hravcst and most unsel6sl
! champions. But there is no ground. non,
Whatever, for believing that the Rebel
: would cease to be Rebels, if there sh0ul'
V be Democratic restoration effected No
even the election of Mr.. Buchanan to
> second Presidential term would lead them t
If abandon their purpose and he was thel
! most useful tool in 1860, and without hi
assistance they could not have made on
j. step in tho road to rebellion, or ruin. Thei
e purpose is to found q new nation. as the
:, have never hesitated to avow, with frank
II ness that is as commendahle as the cause i
! which 1t is evinced is abominable. The
- w,uld he glad to see a Democrat chosen ou
next President, because they would expct
l. from him an acknowledgment OF their III
Is dependence but they would no mora la
:. down their .irns at his entreaty than the
~ would at the command Of President
y Republican opinions. Their urms can |
,. forced from their hands, but there exists u
,, man who could. ircn any position. indnt
u them to surrender, or come back into til
ii Union on any terms Th"v mean to abid
h the wager of battle, and are more likely t
= be moved from their purpose ny the Dol
Il actions of Gen. GraGt than by tbs blande
|. words of the smoOthast-tongued Democri
in America. To any mere persuadcr. T
plot fo
9; would turn an ear as deaf as that OF til
= adder,--reiusing to listen to the voice
the charmer, charm he never 50 wisely
J. As there should be no change made
s, tho political character of the Governmen
-, so there should be none in the men VIII
y compose it. 10 place power in new hand
l. at time like the present, would be as III
a. wise as it would be to raise new army fl
the purpose of fighting the numerous, we
4 trained, and jealous force which the Rebe
id have organized with the intention Of m
!, king desperate effort to re-establish the
affairs. There is no reason for supposr
30 that change would give us wiser or bstt
ot men, and it is certain that they would |
inexperienced men, should they all be
- many SolomoHs or Solons. As we a
he situated, it is men of experience that v
n require to administer the Government; ar
out OF the present Administration it is II
in possible to find men of the kind of expel
IN ence that is needed at this crisis of the n
tion's career. The errors into which we {;
50 in the early days of the contest were ii
n effect Of want Of experience; and it won
w. be but to provide for their repetition, we
J We to call a new Administration into exi,
OF ence. The people understand this, al
a. henco the very general expression of OPT
ion in favor of the reelection of Preside
Lincoln, whose training through four mo
ne terrible years-years such as no other Pre-
a. dent ever knew-will have qualified him
y, carry on the Government during seco,
~ term to the satisfaction of all unseltish me
ty Mr.. Lincoln's honesty is beyond qusstio
,r and we need sn honest man at the head
'n the nation now more than ever. Tbst I
or Rebels object TO him is recommended
it. in the eyes Of loyal men. The substitute
- of new man would not dispose them
cn submission, and they would expect 10 pro
de from that inevitable change Of policy viii
IN would follow from change of men. As
N "the one-torm principle" we never held
in much regard and we are less dispos
,ly tc approve it now than we should have be,
y had naaaa haan ,naintainad Wara .