Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-04-21
A speech by DR.. Br.ckinridge

I
ed Presbyterian divine, made q speech at
Lexington, KY, on the llth inst He took
the most decided ground against the Chica-
go Copperhead National Convention. We
present below some pithy extracts from his
address: .-. .. .... ....t r.tt
For my own part, / believe God, who has
giton to us, and all mankind, this threefold
precept: That we fear him, that we honor
those who have authority over us, and that
We n,eddi, not toah those toho are gtoen TO
change. More than three years ago, upon
this very spot, forced in manner by you
to utter my views to you, when few were
willing to do so, l openly avowed that l
would live and die q loyal citizen. of the
United States that would stand by the
nation as long as there was any nation to
stand by. thank God there still is a ma
tion to stand by. lGreat applause. They
who think they are loyal, and seek some
better way to serve her than by being faith
ful to her, or who love anything earthly bet
ter than they do her, and forsake her for
that, no matter what it may be; or who
imagine they can serve her in such times as
these by sympathy with her armed enemies,
and hostility to her only representa- tive,
namely the Government she has establish
ed all these, and beside them, all the enc
mics of the country, whether open or secret,
whether honest or hypocritical, let them
run their course and reap tie fruits !
CHICAGO CONVENTION REPUDIATED.
] have an adherence of all aliases.
never knew man who was detected in
using different names at different times and
places, but on analysing his case you found
something wrong. once read-for some
times read bad books as well as the rest Of
people-Dumas' novel Monte Cristo," the
peculisrity Of which turns on the history Of
four aliases, whose several names have
forgotten. The author of the book was in
tensey Frenchy, and therefore not very
sound as moralist. The moral of the
book, SO far as. there was any in it, purport-
ed to show how suffering always and neces-
sarily made man better, and more than
this, to show the sufferer was. always used
by God to punish the fellows who made
him sufferer.
Now when I read about this Union Of the
fore end or hind end, l don't care which,
of Union party, with the fore end or the
hind end of this other Union party at
Chicago, and both of them give themselves
an alias, run my mind back over the num-
Der of aliases this party has had. l can't
remember them all, but they have been
Jefferson Democrats, Jackson Democrats,
Free-Soi Democrats, and as many other
names as the msdceds of which they have
been ashamed required, finishing up last
year with Peace Democrats; and now these
same Democrats are to meet at Chicago
under a new alias, in which they propose to
leave out the word Democrat altogether,
and call themselves the National Conser
vative Union Party and this because in
their last alias they did that Of which they
are now ashamed, Or find it irpracticable
TO defend.
have little grand daughter, whose
mother is the wife of clever gentleman in
Morgan's forces, as all his forces no doubt
think themselves She tries to make that
child secesh Then have another daugh-
ter who is very strongly Union she has no
child, and is very anxious to make this lit
tie girl Union. | have said to those daugh.
ters, You are demoralizing that child. |
would not say that of the gentlemen poll
ticians referred to, but may say it of my
grandchild would not say to those gentle
men that their changes, frequent as the
change of the moon, tend to make them
shifting and unreliable as the winds. But
| said to my daughter she must stop, or she
would ruin the child. The child heard what
| said, and took UP the idea that was on
her side and a day or two afterward she
ran up to me, saying, GRANDPA, | amt
any Union, and amt any Secesh. well,
what are you, my child?" II am Abolish" I"
was the reply. Laughter and applause.
Well, she very soon found she had got into
worse box than ever, because all sides
were against her; Applause from the other
side Of the house and in the course of q
week she got tired Of that, during which
time she heard another name, and then she
said to me, II ain't Abolish any longer-I
am Conservative Union" Laughter from
all sides. "Well," said I, my daughter,
stick to that, for it is as near being nothing
as anything can be-" And so | say to you
who have no principles of your own, 60 into
tha National Conservative Union party,
where you can be nothing long, and accom-
piish nothing good. But if you are. truly
Union, don't be afraid to stand with the
true Union party; and IL you are Secesh,
he honest, and say so. Let us be true to
principle, and diein our tracks like men, il
necessary, that our successors may respect
US as candid, fearless men. ID,
col. wooLFoRD's SPEECH.
4 4 H.. n.
Ihaye nothing to say against Col. VOL
ford, He is a gallant old gentleman, and
reckon if ] had been President, or Genera
Grant, I should have seoidod, OF if in the
habit of cruising, should have cursed hin
! a little, given him sword, and told him tt
! 90 and fight. But he has no business GO
| ing through Kentucky making seditiou
speeches, or using violent language agains
| the President. And It is the highest proc
that We live in the finest Government o
the world, when an officer holding q com
mission in his pocket, can go about callinl
the President tyrant-using Language 70
which ruler having the thousandth par
of a tyrant in him, would not have left hi
head on his shoulders moment. And j
any of you are his personal friends, woul'
advise you to counsel him TO dssist. for j
is not Certain how long be will be allowe'
such freedom, i. ..7 .arih s.saq fdT