Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-09-01

three thousand to another, ono hundrc
thousand 10 this State, and three hundre
/ thousand TO that; and thu, raising alarm
melting bitter and savage hate Of the negro
violent opposition to the Government, b
the friends of the Union, TO the suppression
l OF the rebellion; and thereby securing th
election Of the party candidates This is le
gitimate Democratic campaigning -
Then, when this magnificent party lie ha
been played cut. 10 another campsign, anoth
erpopular party lie is wrung from one end o
the country to the other, and reiterated I'll
1t viii no longer make party capital.
| 'miscegenation Yes-since the ne
groes don't come as promised and the mix
ing is being curtailed down South, this i,
thu. taiismanic, vulgar, lying party howl
Noble aud chaste women are not safe from
the party slander; except, as is the case,
they are above it. The political party lies
are too gross TO be believed by anybody, ex.
cept such as Fire Point Democratic voters.
Instance the lie that went the rounds of the
party papers 10 regard to the female teach.
ers Of contrabsnds at Beaufort. "Sirty-
four cases reported in one district in
which the whole number Of ladies were ~
less land several of these married ladies
with their husbands; and all these ladies Of
first standing for moral and religious char
acter. And all this monstrous and barbar-
GUS Democratic lying in the absence of one
single attested case of the kind any where
among the hundreds of ladies' engaged in
that benevolent and Christian missionary
work. No camel lie too big for these men
ster political throats. No lie too mean TO
be told by the leaders. or too monstrous to
he believed by their ignorant rank aud file
No-pardon me. you don't believe the half
ofyour own lies. u @ --H
And then how unblushing these party
liarsl They talk Of n,iscegen rtioni Iwon.
der, sir it this don't even yet make Dick
johnson turn In bis grave? Shame u
shame, where isthy blush! What other
party ever voted;to make honorable this ac-
cursed shamc2 And yet this case was hon
orable compared with the forced miscege-
nation sustained by your Democratic party.
And who nous are the practical miscegead-
tionists? They are Democrats. OF the Dem
ocratic party. They are your friends, the
slave masters, their sons and the "iohde
trash South Who breed for lust aud the
interest of the slave market. All well in
formed men know that niuety-nne hun
dredths of the mixed bloods Of the South
have colored mothers, whose wills are not
their own. All know that not one mulatto
out of hundred has white mother Why
this fact? Just because system has been
so long in operation, anl now sustained by
this base political party, whose consequent
fruit is loathsome misregenatiOn. Aud yet
these practical and political miicegenati;oa
ists and their political friends howl aloud,
MIsCEGENATioN
Sir-what decent man can now belong to
this fallen, degraded, apostate, ''ran,p par
g?"
must notice one more of your great
party lies out of which so much capital is
made. In the face Of historic facts, known
to all well informed men, and known to
your best informed leaders, you unceasing-
ly prate about ''Lincoia's abolition ,car."
There are t,oo .ftlsehoods here in one, and
told in three words. First that Lincoln
caused this war, which was actually inau
guratcd before his inauguration. Second
that Lincoln summoned his country TO arms
for the purpose Of aboishing slavery.
Permit me, sir to call your attention ia
brief outline Of frcts in the case. lst. Mr..
Lincoln's inaugural breathed the very op.
posite of a war for the abolition of slavery.
I'd. All the cabinet papers, touching this
matter, for Is months, repudiatcd war upon
slavery. Sd. Orders to all the Generals in
the army were prohibitory of war against
slavery. 4th. OIders of Fremont. and Hun
ter, looking towards affecting slavery as
war measure, Were pprempto oily counter
manded. 9th. Our Generals and armies
did guard slavery and slave property as no
other property was guarded; and thus
fought rebellion with one hand while sus-
tanning it with the other. 9th. Toward the
close OF the second year of the war for sla-
very, on both sides, under the inevitable
pressure of circumstances, some very won
derful brain made the discovery that slaves
of rebels, as rebel property were really con-
trdbdnd Of war, As well as mules, and asses,
and guns used to destroy the Union. This
Rubtcon once passed, trifing could not well
any longer be made the rule of ,oar. Ne
cessity dictated that common sense, states-
and the common rules oil war
should heuceforth obtain. ,..
Phe Presidents proclamation was a mat
ter of grace to the rebels He was under
no obligation to issue it. All itsends might
have been accomplished, perhaps, as well
without it. "a Rebellion and the laws of war
were the ineyitable emancipation proclalna-
ton. But the President, in view of this
stubborn fact, issued his, calling upon reb-
els in arms to lay them down, and States in
rebellion TO return to their places in the
Union giving them one hundred days
grace. at the ter:uination of which, if re-
belion continued, "slqDes Of rebels IN sece,
ded States should be free As "a war proc
a nation, thiS-as every statesman, every
lawyer. every we'll educafd general knows
was 10 more nor less than that this species
OF rebel property should be treated as other
rebel properly. 1t did not even touch the
L,stitution Of slavery, much less abolish it,
any more than it abolished the right OF hav
ing and holding hors Is in the slave States.
THIS state of things was Of the rebels own
election. They chose rebellion and war, with
their consequences, rather than Union and
submission to the laws. And now. my dear
sir, if the inevitable tide of war should bear
hard upon the anirnus of this .rebellion--if
war should strike its head and heart at this
late hour cf the csufct, Who but traitors
will dsmur2 4poy -: D., 'usy sas5,L q
Why docs your party ignore these
facts, and by chicanery impose falsehood
upon its ignorant retainers, to the aid of re-
bellion and the prolonging7 of tho war p
Your shrewd leaders know as well as we
that, had the rebels laid down their arms
returned to the Union, and submitted to
the laws, their State institutions, slavery
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