Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-10-05
The Issues of this Election---A
Sterling Article.
N. JUDKINs,
j. w. DAVENPORT.

iheio was; III looO, hepuDllcan and a
Democratic party. The Republican oppos-
ed the extension of slavery. The Demo-
cratic favored such an extension. The
firing on Sumter created a new party. All
that remained of intelligent patriotism
Joined this new party, assuming the we'll
deserved name of Union party. The storm
of patriotic Indignation burst from the Pa :
cifc to the Atlantic Ocaan-the Republican
and Democratic parties were forgotten
dissolved and merged in the Union party
this party had the field alone for more than
year.
Doubtless the slave power did not 20 into
rebellion without making arrangements
with the Northern traitors to assist in the
villainy. But these secret allies of slavery
were awed into silence by the general rising
OF the people. AT length, after the excite :.
ment had somewhat subsided, these allies
began to hiss from their holes, and Vallan-
digham organized party in opposition to
the Union party-the man who had boast.
ed he had never voted a dollar to repress
the rebellion, Of course this party's de-
served name should be any name but Demo
cratic' 1t being In opposition to party that
was laboring to advance and defend Demo-
cratic principles, and maintain the Union
1t more properly deserves the name of Dis
union or Despotic party, if name were re-
qulred to express the quality of the article
on which it is bestowed. The wise Demo.
Gratis, Dix, Brough, Stanton and thousands
OF others, placed themselves in the Union
party, as being the genuine Democrats
party, no longer recognizing shareholders as
their leaders, who had conducted ne late
defnnct Democratic party astray from its
ancient principles ofliberty and equality into
principles OF despotism of the meanest
kind; and had, also, led the party into
what was very disagreeable, into a minority
in nearly all the free States.
We need no proof, though there is proof
enough, that the rebels would not have
commenced open war on the nation without
assurance OF assistance from their subordi
nate party leaders in the North-and il was
expected that some of them, both in civil
and military life, would prove to be traitors,
and the rebellion has accordingly produced
Vallandi CHAINS, as the Revolutionary war
produced tories. The people could not tell
who were traitors until they observed the
fruits and the fruits, often but dimlv seen
through mists of fraud,ia length revealed
the true character of many who had nos
sessed the confidence of honest Democrats
jeff Davis, in his1ast speech in the u, s.
Senate, had ground for saying that the
war would be prosecuted on Northern SOIL I"
The letter found among Jeff's papers in
Mississippi from Ex President Pierce en-.
couraging rebellion, tells him, in case of war.
the streets of Northern cities will be stained
with blood, and that the North will have
enough to do at home, &c, and the South.
eern rebels have often accused the Northern
Democratic leaders of trcachery in not
keeping promises of assistance. Bep..Wood's
paper, Daily Ne,os, of recent date, speaks
ofthls treachery as unparalleled in the worlds
history.
Behold, honest Democrat, the gulf in
which you came near being plunged because
you would not take the trouble to investi.
gate and think for yourself. Be thankful
to. your ,Breughs, Tods and other Demo.
Gratis, who, joining. the Unienists, saved YOU
from war on Northern soil You who have
principles should not follow leaders of no
prlnclples-the sorry tools of rebellious
arlstocrats. These unprincipled leaders are
accused OF treachery because they did not
arm and share the bloody. bones part of the
game; Did the shareholders not know that
ssycsphants, who mostly follow office hunting
Tor living, are not reliable in bloody ex-
tremities? These assisted to murder he
brave and increase the public debt by pro,
longing the war as far as their courage per.
mtted. From the nature of things they
were necessarily selfish, cowardly class.
who would have delivered their own broth
ers, chained and bound, over TO the slave
holder il they could have done il without
gun shot and sabre wounds 1t is strange the
rebel Davis expected them to do mere than
bark at q safe distance from danger; and
that on the promises of Northern poltroons
he should have drawn sword against the
nag he had sworn to defend merely to
found an empire whose cornerstone, a. the
rebel vice president declared, should be
slavery.
Though slavery nourished and created
the toiN to rebel against Democratic govern.
ment, or government welded by the people,
yei the means Of carrying rebellion into ef
feet was the doctrine of State sovereignty,
by which State may claim to Judge Of the
measure OF redress for its grievances, rea!
oI Imaginary. Put its hands into the
Union pocket and purchase Florida, Texas,
Louisiana, extinguish Indian titles, pay off
Texas scrip, &e., and then at the sugses.
non OF Its loafers and demagogues with
draw from the Union and close up the out
lets to the Ocean, or impose tax for the
privilege OF going thithcr, Well if
states grievances are real they shsud be
redressed, and the Constitution provides
tho Supreme Court for that purpose, among
others-besides, there is the tribunal of the
whole people, whose sense of Justice NAV
safely be appealed to- This absurdity Of
one OF Is or more partners judging in his
own cause was hatohed by some Virginians
in 1898, but no other States but Virginia
and Kentucky assented to it. John G.
Calhoun, Disappointed in not getting the
nomination for President in 1923, resorted
to secession and notification of the federal
laws. His pretext was an oppressive .:.;. ::;.s.
though ye.ee9a ye..ee9a tor Sy South Carolina mem.
bers . 2 Of Congress, Judge Smith, Senator
Y congress from that State, alleged that if
the Mouth CAROLINA memb had yoted
against the tariff pOmpiainea Of, instead Of
voting for II, the tariff would bhve been de- |
fsstsd by = votes This was the grievances !