Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-07-19
New Series--Vol. 6. No. 25.

ious radicalism, than / find 10 the erea
Union party. Of all radicalism that wbicl
Is most obnoxious to me is the radicalism q
Democracy. Applause. And / will vot
with any party, don't care who or what
is, to beat il down and to keep il down. =
Great applause. Much as suffered, an
much as we all suffered 10 this war. / would
so help me God, ten times over rather y
through another rebellion than to see tha
party restored, and to see the great war ca,
ried on by the United States, the hundred
Of thousands Of lives that have been los
aud the millions Of money that has been ez
pended, all go for nothing to restore tha
party who are alone responsible for all this
! Immense applause. Get up another par
! tyl There can be but two parties in thi
| Union. and one is loyal party, and tn
other is a disloyal party. Great applause.
| lie who does not vote with the loyal part,
/ must vote with the disloyal, and vote tc
bring tie rebels and Cor orperheads into powe
again. Applause. know what the OBJ
ject Of this party is, for they attempted t
initiate me into it. What party do you
propose to raise, - l inquired, ste bring up
the old Democratic party, the rebels and
Copperhesds into power again "Oh,
no not at all; not at all. What do
you mean to doP Out of what element do
you propose to raise this party?" why,
the oldfashioned Jackson Democracy. -
The old-fsshoned Jackson Democracy
Why | have heard that much hackneyed
phrase of playing the play of Hamlet with
the part of Hamlet left out, but if ever it
was sptlv applied it is when gu propose to
raise Democratic party and leave all the
Democratic party out. And if you leave
out he rebels OF the South and the Copper
heads Of the North, the rotunda of the
Capitol will hold them all three times over.
If you do net vote with the loyal party you
are obliged to vote to bring that disloyal
party back into power, and am opposed to
all parties and to all measures that are cal
culated to bring about such an end. Ap-
plsuse.
/ have selected here two extracts from
the representatives of that party. Que is
from the New York News and the other
from the Mobile Register, the fairest ex-
ponents Of the public sentiment of the re-
hellious portions of the South. OF the
New York News gentleman from the vi
cinity of Calpepper. Va, told me recently
there are three hundred copies of that pa
per, published by Ben. Wood, that come to
that Court House by every mail That is
fair sample Of its circulation throughout the
South.
The New York News, speaking Of Joshua
Hill, says: Never can be represent there.
or elsewhere, the brave aud gallant men of
Georgia. They know better than to trust
the honor of their dead and the interests ef
the living to such as he Men do not trust
those whe have been false to them in the
hour of danger and darkness. The South
ern people never will, never can, confde in
those who, born among them, or living in
their midst during the dark and stormy
days of their grand struggle, prayed, or
sighed, at least, for the success of the foe,
and for the ruin and devastation of the
houses and temples and fields of the South.
and for that fearful oppression beneath
which people are now staggering and groan-
ing"
l hope Mr. johnson is not in favor Of
hat party. do not charge him with il.
10 not mean to quarrel with Mr. johnson
until l know with absolute certainty what
lie proposes to do in the end. l think his
% operation with the Union element of the |
country is of too much importance for us |
III to drive him away from US. But when |
'ver find that he is in favor of restoring
hat party to power, | am prepared to take
ny position against him, aHd against all
With him. But they would no more touch
lin than they would me, and they would
lot touch me with hundred-foot pse.-
Laughter.( They would not support me
or enstableship. (I4aughter.) The ex-
ract from the Mobile Register reads:
eve respectfully but very emphaucally
leeine the congratulations and compliments
# the Livingston Messenger. To accept
hem as merited would be unjust to truth
nd dishonor to us. We know of nothing
nore contemplate than for citizen of an
INVADED country to desert it, and savering
II the sacred ties of home, kindred and soil,
0 side with its enemies. To have been a
Union man at the South while the war
AIMED from the swords and brands OF Union
roops at our very hearthstones. was to have
cen an insensate brute, without spark of
he soul or due throb of the pulse of man.
he tamest of animals will fight for their
lirs and nests and young, and the man who
oes not is essentially traitor to the no.
lest instincts of human nature, whatever
e may be theoretically to any form Of hu-
ian government. We scorn the insinuation
nat the heroic men who fought on the
outhern side in the late war were traitors.
uo VI llCS utttIEu pdseT uc. |
they were, we share their guilt. Thank
+od we have no part of the guilt of those
ho, while the war ragged, were traitors to
heir hearths, neighbors, countrymen and
tates."
That is the feeling that pervades the en-
re party OF the South, and Mr.. johnson
as no more chance to get their favor than
have. He has more than one serpent now
, his bosom. But will call no names.-
Qm capa iHe tecit."
If they are restored to power they will
ever pay the rebel debt, because it was
Iade by the men that made the war, and
10 taxes have to come out of the people
ho fought the war; and the people who
'ught the war will never agree to do both
to figbt and pay the cost They will never
iffer themselves to be taxed to pay the
ebt thpt the rich man made for his own
eneft. But that is the least of the evils,
he question is, whether they would not
ldeavor to repudiate the national debt
hat believe they would do if they had ;
le power.
CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT.
Mr.. Bolts complained that Congress and /
le President were pulling different ways,
lat nothing was being accomplished for the
outhern Union men. He thought Con.
'ess was toe exclusively occupied with the
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