Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-09-22


test between your newly elected comproinise
President, and the same usurper, iu which
tho usurper must prevail or else a combi-
nation between them through which the
usurper or his successor, subverting your
Constitution and substituting his own, will
become President, King or Emperor of the
United States without foreign aid, ii be can,
with foreign Intervention il necessary. =
That's so. To be sure it is 80 I; nothing is
more certain than that either the United
States and their Constitutional President,
or the 80 called Confederate States, and
their usurpiDg President. must rule within
the limits Of this Republic. therefore
regard the pending Presidential election,
as involving the question whether hereafter
we shall have Constitution and country
left us. How shall we vote thento save our
country from this danger? Vote Lincoln
in again You have it exactly, my friend
We must vote Lincoln in again. and fight
him in at the same time. Ii we do this the
rebellion will perish, and leave no root. we
do otherwise, we have only, the alternatives
of acquiescence in perpetual usurpation.
or of entering an endless succession Of civil
and social wars. Upon these grounds. en-
tirely irrespective Of platform and caDdi-
date, consider the recommendations Of the
Convention at Chicago, as tending to sub
vert the Republic It's so, that's fact:
II will seem hard thing when imply
that party, like the Democratic party, can
either mediate or blindly adopt measures
to overthrow the Republic All experience,
however, shows that it is by the malice or
the madness of great parties that free States
have been brought down to destruction
You often hear alarms that party in pow
er are subvertng the State, and it often
happens so. But nine times out of ten it is
party out of power that in its impatiencs
or it's ambition cverthrows Republic.
The Democratic party, OF course leaving
off the loyal Union Democrats, opposed the
election Of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. In
doing SO they divided and organized in three
columns. One reasonable column Of
State Rights, disunion Democrats under
Breckinridge. A second. loyal Northern
column, under Douglas. The third. a con-
ciliatory flying column under Bell who has
since joined the insurgents. We thereupon
invited the two loyal columns to combine
with the Republican to oppose the disunion
Democratic column. They declined.
| On the eve of the election in 1860, told
the followers of Douglas and of Bell, that
when the election should have closed, they
would find they had inadvertently favored
disunion aud rebellion They persisted, and
the attempted revolution came. Disunion
then presented itself, in the practical form
of preventing Abraham Lincoln from as
sRming the Executive authority. Thus the
Democratic Party produced that calamity,
the Southern Democrats acting from design,
the Northern Democrats passive through
inadvertcnce. The disputed succession still
remains unanjusted. A new election has
come on. For time the Northern Demo-
Gratis, with notable exceptions, gave more
or less liberal support to the Government,
against the Democratic insurgents. OF the
South. = .....',. -.
THE REBELS IN 1860 AND IN 1864.
But the same Democratic forces which
figured in the election of 1860, now appear
in the political field with positions and pol
icy unchanged since that time, as think,
except for the worse. The Southern Demo.
cracy is still in arms under the usurper at
Richmond The Douglas and Bell columns
consolidated are found at Chicago, and all
three of the parties are comprising the re-
lection Of the Constitutional President OF
the United States. They agree not only in
this attempt, but they assign the same rea-
sons for it-namely, that Abraham Llncoln
is tyrant.
They agree, also, that the real usurper at
Richmond is blameless and rure-at least,
the Richmond Democracy affirm it and the
Chicago Democracy do not gainsay it, To
me, therefore, the Democracy at Richmond
and the Democracy at Chicago, like Caesar
and Pompey, seem to retain all their origin
al family resemblance. They are very much
alike especially Pompey. But it is not IL
mere externals that their similarity lies.
They talk very much alike, as have al
| L.. Il IL al,
among the Democrats at Chicago, the In
diana Democrats were present. who have
imported arms to resist the National au
thority, and defeat the National laws, anC
that all the Democrats there assembled
agreed to justify that proceeding. l think
YOU will agree with me that the Richmond
Democrats and the Chicago Democrats have
lately come to act very much alike.
ri l.U, THE CONSPIRACY.
{ shall now 20 further and prove to 7ou
that they not only have.a common policy
and common way of defending it, bu
, they have even adopted that policy in con
cert with each other. You know that wheI
! the Chicago Convention was approaching
in July last, Geo N. Sanders, Clement @
, Clay and j. 2. Holcombe. appeared at tht
Clifton House, on the Canada bank Of th
Niagara river. fully invested with the con
fdence and acquainted wirh the purposes o
jeff. Davis and his Contederates at Rich
mond You know, also that Chicago Dem
|, ocrats reserted there in considerable mum
! bers to confer with these emissaries Of JEFF
Davis.
\ Here is the fruit of that conference, an'
r no one can deny the authenticity of m
n evidence. It's extracted from the Londol
!. Times, tho common organ of all the enc
8 mics of the United States. The New Yor
3 correspondent of the London Times, writin
9 from Niagara Falls, under date of Angus
IS 8, says:
!. "Clifton House has become a center 9
: negotiations between the Northern friend
o of peace and Southern agents, which pre-
g pose q withdrawal of differences from tn
N abitrament of the sword" 9'oIr.
IF The correspondent then goes on to e.
IF plain that an effort is to be. made to nom
" nate candidate for the Presidency on
h platform of an armistice and a conventio
,e Of States, and to thwart by all possib
o. means the efforts of Mr. Lincoln fer re-sle
,e tion.
: Mark now, that on the 9Th of Angus
al 1864, Northern Democrats and Richmon
5, agents agreed upon three things to be don