Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-07-19

tniTty uayb run, blnce the W0rld was created
than this thing called State sovereignty. =
Great applause. And l freely and EN-
phatically deny that there is any such
thing as State sovereignty, or that ther
ever was sovereignty in State. Grea
applause. would like TO know what ar
sovereign powers. The power to make wa
this Union, unless it was Texas for the brie
time she claimed her independence. eve
the power to declaed war?
To make peace is a sovereign power.
Could any Of them ever make peace in tim,
OF war without the cooperation of tht
wholeI To contract alliances in sovereign
power. Could one Of them ever contract al
alliance with another power, either in stat,
OF colonial bondage, under the articles O
confederation, or under the Constitution Of
the United States? To coin money to cstab
lish postoffices and post roads, to emit bill
OF credit, to grant letters of marque and re.
prlsal, to raise armies and support navies--
could any of these powers be exercised by
the State of Maryland or Virginia?
THE UNION is CONSOLIDATED GOVERN
MENT.
Well, | boldly proclaim that this is con.
soidated Government. Immense ap-
pIause. 1t is consolidated Union for all
national purposes appause], and for the
exercise Of every sovereign rower; and do
you want any proof of it2 | have given
you proof conclusive that it is and was in
tended to be consolidated Union, and it is
consolidation for all national and foreign
purposes, and there is no State, and no set
OF States, that can interfere with it. True,
the people may alter, amend, or abolish
their form of government at their pleasure.
The sovereignty was originally in them, but
as there could be no divided sovereignty, it
was all transferred to the Government of
the United States, and there it will remain
until the people-not the people of Mary
land, or Virginia, or South Caroina--but
the people of the United States, in the form
prescribed by the Constitution, choose to
alter or amend it. [Applause.
Ideny that any State right has been swept
away. Ridiculous State assumptions have
been swept away, and thank God for it,
but no right that existed before the war but
which exists now. Certain rights, such as
representation, have been abandoned volun.
tarily and treacherously abandoned, and
have thus been taken from the people. But
whenever they shall make themselves fit to
he represented. and shall cease to prefer
Russian despotism to American freedom,
they will be admitted to the same represen-
tation again, and they have no business to
be represented before.
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
Some pretend to say that they went into
this rebellion on account of Mr.. Lincoln's
proclamation of emancipation. / think it
is Josephus who relates that after the world
was destroyed by water, Noah appealed to
the Almighty, and prayed that the world
might never be destroyed by water again,
and he promised that it should not be-
But he also replied: "It was not that
brought 6p the flood. 1t was your hard
headed stiff necked people that would not
obey my constitution and my law that
brought it on" [Great applause And |
40 Abraham Lincoln, if he were now alive,
might say: "It was not that brought on |
he emancipation proclamation. it was your
hard. headed, stif-necked, rebellious people |
applause that brought on the emancipa-
ion proclamation. [Appause.
The question had arisen between the life
# the Union and the existence of slavery.
And, for one, whenever that question did
rise, said then, and say now, as South
'rn man and a STAKEHOLDER, was prepared
o declare, as did declare: Lot the Union
i've and let slavery perish" Tremendous
applause. If this Union had never con-
erred but the one. tenth or the one hundredth
,srt that l and my children and my fore
athers have derived from it--that Of secur-
ng my liberty against the world--I would
lot have forsaken it for all the slaves that
'ver existed on earth. Enthusiastic ap-
,lause.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THE
FREEDMEN?
And the question now arises-one of the
most interesting connected with the present
,olitics of the day~what is to be done with
he emancipated negroes2 There are some
'eople who believe that they are to be in
admitted to the right of suf.
rage. am not one of them. Whilst /
m not one of them, l am not a rebel--I
IN not a secessionist--but if it is forced
pom me. l will not resist it; for when the
ountry becomes so obnoxious can't live in
!, will find a homo elsewhere. But put
q the constitutional amendment that when
hey vote Union ticket they will be per-
1itted to do so, but when they offer rebel
cket it will be refused. A voice-"We
ont want negroes to vote; we want them
. favor of it to be put out of Congress. ~ +,
peaker-You had better go there, my
riend, and attend to that yourself; can't
O it. The Southern people will make the
reedmen believe that, as they of the South
aused the war, which brought on their free.
ON, they are their friends and ought to
ave their votes. They will tell them that
he Yankees will put them into slavery
gain. Yes, they will eat with the negro,
rink with the negro, and sleep with the
egro, and take them to the polls next day |
nd vote them. Laughter. You may
i've the negroes the right of suffrage, my
lends; will not resist it, But you must
OF ask me to advocate it, will not take :
ne responsibility. {
THE NEW PARTY.
In the present condition of things there !
to be great effort made to get up new
arty, and Convention is called to meet in :
some time next month, I be-
eve. 1t is an embarrassing question for
le to know, not as Mr.. Webster said, where
m / to 60, but how am to vote? No, it
not an embarrassing question. That was
slip of the tongue. shall have ne en-
arrassment about it. shall vote for the :
Unconditional Union party Of this nation. {
Immense applause. There may be great Z
cal Of radicalism in it; but never saw a |
arty in which there was not radcalism. / /;
0 not object to little radcalism. Radi-
ilism is sometimes little too fast, and .
,metimes conservatism is little too slow. I
tut you have medium between the two | I