Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-11-02

proud record Of the past, about burning and
tearing the fsgs yeur soldiers bore on the
battle.felds. Shall it be the men who open.
y and hnnby apollo gized to the people Of
the South because they ceula not assist
them with men and srms2 Immense
cheering. Shall IL be Horatio Seymour
Kisses, who, in the city of New York,
called mob bis friends when they we're
numbering your women and children, burn
ing down your towns and dwellings, who
told them to 70 home that they had car.
red the joke far enough" Is it to be from
men who called a convention and declared
the war failure, and said VIC should have
peace at once, and demanded an armistice.
Now | say to Gen, Socu,u. and to John
Van Bnren, and TO Horstio Sey ymour. and
to Godfrey Gunther. that all the good Dem.
ocrats that Almighty God permits to live
are in the Union party Of to day. Vocit-
erous cheering There was young lady
who taught school which was to be visited
by some eminent divines. Before they came
she taught the children what to say, inform
ing one Of the Children that when asked
who made him, he must respond God "
The next one was instructed when receiving
to reply: To glorify Him." When the
ut'uIcS Dhuc tHeH uppedidnCo, tUo uttlt
boy drilled for the first query had obtained
question Of who made you" was put to
the next boy, he accordingly answered, ''fe
glorify Him" The question was repeated
over and over again with no better result,
when at last, another youngster at the foot
of the class eucidated the position by say
ing "Please, sir, the hoy whom God made
has gone out of doors" Laughter. Now,
this. said General Fitzpatrick, is the case
with the Democratic party. Aud so it was
with the North, when the first shot struck
the walls of Sumter. Laughter. When
came. continued the General, to read the
resolutions in which the Democratic party
made deliberate attack upon the credit Of
the Nation, ] made up my mind that the
conversion of that party was not real. The
Democratic party will repudiate the plat
form which they have now gotten up, as
they have repudiated their former plat
forms. Their object is different in different
States, over here it is proof plan. 80 far az
John Van Buren is concerned, he stands
at the head Of that clique Of German Jews,
who, when they were going to elect Little
Mao, invested their funds in Confederate
bonds. The idea is simply this, John Van
Buren, now discovers that Government bonds
are going to be at par; Belmont buys up
all of them he possibly can from weak wid.
ows and orphans, and there is new speou'
lation. Laughter and cheers. But say
that Gen. Slocum, Horatio Seymour, God
frey Gunther and John Van Buren are tri
hing with the best interests Of the State.
tell them, they had better sacrifice every
political principle, as we'll as personal in
tersst, than do this. Say to the South, il
you will, "Desecrate the bones of our
slaughtered braves curse and abuse the
memory Of Abraham Lincoln, and defy the
homes Of John Wilkes Booth let Captain
Wirz and JEFF Davis cross the world iu
freedom hut do not sacrifice tho nations
faith" They strive to degrade the negro
with filthy epithets, but tell them that
10000 negro soldiers did more for this
country than all their Copperhead followers
in the land. Tremendous cheering. II
ismeaa, 1t Is contemplate to kick a poor dog
much more mean and contemptibte to hick
poor negrO-ioho, beside, has fought for his
and yourcount,,y. lGreat applause We
are willing to leave that question whore
| If New York wants her negroes to vote. let
her say so; if Nerth Carolina doesn't want
her negroes to vote, let her say so. lCheers,
mingled with hissesl. OF all the soldiers
who went out to fight the Rebel flag. the
New York soldiers deserve the highest
praise. Go, ask Gen. Slocum. he will tel
you it was your own born who wophis battles.
Go, ask Grant. Sherman and Hooker. Go,
ask Gen. Barlow, tremendous cheering,
and you will receive even greater assurance
of tue gallantry and worth Of New York
troops The speaker here referred, in elo
auent terms, to the pemory of the lamen
ted Wadsworth, Rice and Ellsworth, anC
then addressed the soldiers, of whom there
we're large number in the hall: Soldiers
ask you tonight to stand firmly to the
memory of your fallen comrades, and thu
principles for which you fought SO nobly
Men of all parties have only come here to
night for amusement. If you have no re
ca d for the welfare Of your State. let mt
ask you, in God s name, to stand by thu
Union party Of the North In spite of al
you can do, those who have persisted in thu
war will be Immortality gloriied, though
"Lightly they talk Of the spirit long gone,
And DER heir cold ashes upbrad them;
But nothing they'll wreck il they let them sleep on
In the grave where their valor had laid them"