Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-02-04
What the Abolitionists Have Done.

What the Abolitionists Have Done.
The ccpperhead press here and elsewhere
are copying and endorsing the following spe.
cifications against the 'Abolitionists.,'
Z "They have filed the land with widows
and orphans. They have transformed the
country into one Ivnst grave yard. They
have shed oceans Of blood and squhndered
mountains Of money. They have made the
air heavy with the cries Of the dying and
groans Of the wounded, and lamentations Of
the mourners. They have devastated the
fields and plantations of the South, and de.
stroyed the commerce of the North. They
have given q check to civilization and Dem.
-ocratic institutions fiom which twill take
yeats to recover. - - ,.itt 4
AYE, there's the rub" The Democrat
ic Institution has received a check in its
assault upon the life Of the nation from
which it will doubtless be more than several
years in recovering; and the Democratic
party in its alliance and cooperation with
the institution has also received check
scarcely less fatal. The rebels were checked
in their onward march to occupy Washing
ton, convert Pennsylvania into volcano,
and Cincinnati into backened ruins. True
it is that the fields and plantations of the
South are now what the conspirators de-
clared that the farms and cities of the North
should be--swept with the bosom of dcvas-
tation and destruction. In striking malis.
nantly at the people of the North, the reb.
els taught us the bloD,. and right strongly
and bravely have they had it returned
Hence it is that the rebels and their allies
are making the air heavy with their groans
and curses. .ol, ....... ....t" aH
But mark the above paragraph. 1t is the
gist Of coppcrhead clamor everywhere. -
They know, as oil the world knows, the re.
luctance with which the North was bulied,
insulted and finally in defence Of their very
existence, to say nothing of the honor OF
rights of the nation, forced into this war;
They well know that while the Government
was plundered at the point OF the bayonet
the loyal people Of the South we're hung,
shot, and stabbed for their patriotism, in
every State in rebedom Yet it is the 'Ab.
olitionists' who were the causes of the Lor
ror of the war The insult to our national
escutcheon was right, rebellion justifable
and the rebel buccaneers on the ocean and
assassins on the land are spotless heroes -
! Not syllable of condemnation for them
but every conceivable defamation of the de
tenders of the Union. Is there Fedora
outrage reported, these copperhead'
straightway herald it, magnify and color az
strongly as possible. But when Unior
prisoners are starved, Union patriots mur
dercd, or the dead manged and insulted al
at Chattanooga and Bull Run, the copper
heads are industrious and loud in apology
or denial of it. a.rr ... . ....
And who are :hose "Aboitionists" upor
whom the whole guilt of the war is charged
every man who stands up for the flag. ant
the Countrywide entire population of tn
North, save aud except the copperheads-
u small, and more contemplate than small
minority. Now VIC ask. how can any man
not possessed of the brass and assurance o
Luciler, utter the sentiments of which tn
\ above quotation is a specimen, and yet dc
ny that he is traitor and rebel at heart
u Newark True American