Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-10-04
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SIR-The events just passed seem to
show that Heaven designed the liberation
of the slaves. 70 effect this the Northern
leaders Of the mianomed Democratic party
gave encouragement to the South to rebel
hut failed to second the rebellion with blows,
giving the reNels hope with words, and thus
proonging the contest. A largo opposition
minority was necessary to feed this hope.
All were surprised at the numbers of this
minority while it's leaders were leading it in
the interest Of despotism favoring a Gov
ernmort whose cornerstone was to be hu-
man slavery ms its Vice President, Stephens,
declared Most persons who adhered to
tho marty, called Democratic, did so be.
cause they or their fathers had thought it
the party NEST favorable to liberty and equal
rights. They had boosted of the Govern
ment all the years of their manhood as the
very hest Government on Earth: Yet they
saw that Government attacked by rebels,
not because tho rebels were oppressed (ior
they controlled it) but because the rebels
wanted to establish a slave empire And
strange enough, while imagining themselves
Democrats, they gave to such rebels against
so good Government their sympathy. In
this tangement of the Democratic brains
we see the design of God to keep up rebel
hopes, by sustaining a large minority
to snarl at the best Government on earth
rejoice at its misfortunes, and glory in the
success of the rebels. Such insanity of
dred thousand voters in Ohio, after more
than twenty. 6ves years of good common
schools therein, if Heaven had not clouded
their minds with prejudice. President
Lincoln also was made blind for a long time
TO the defective generalship Of Mcclellan,
apparently for the same purpose. He said
all his Cabinet abandoned Mcclellan before
he did /; hut after Antietam he could retain
him no longer. Had any one of the Ohio
Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Rose.
Grams. Gilmore, or Mcpherson commanded
the two hundred and eighty five thousand
men on the Potomac in the fall of 1861, the
rebellion would probably have been ended
so quick that no negroes would have been
enlisted, nor an emancipation of them pro-
claimed. Mcclellan was Lincoln's marplot
but efficient aborer in carrying out the de.
SIGNS of providence, God inhicts punish
ments. and makes the wrath of man to
serve him. This nation may have deserved
punishment for tolcratng slavery, as much
as Pharoah and the Egyptians did. and the
punishment may not yet be Completed
The brains Of President johnson have taken
! q queer turn, though not very surprising,
when one looks at his head and countenance.
He, desiring reelection, makes love to the
Democrats ESQ called)-the hitherto chosen
| implements of the national punishment: !:
for TO them we owe the war oil rebellion !;
its prolongation, the national debt, and,
possibly, we are to owe 10 them the ascend
ency of rebel rule, the assumption of the
rebel debt, the compensation to masters for
slaves emancipated, the pensoning of rebel
soldiers, and compensation to rebels for
property destroyed in the South, amounting
in all TO not less than four thousand millions.
Still. one would think that the mis-named
Democrat, who looks on his dollars with a
tender concern, would not, by voting for
the Democratic party, wish to
draw down on himself such enormous taxa
tion, unless he were one of the class that
has much to gain by getting into office, and
little or nothing to be taxed; but nations
pay millions that knaves may gain office.
The nation may be further punished but
slavery will be extingushed in fact as in
name. Revolutions never move backward
but crush whatever attempts to hinder their
| progress. The imaginary Democrat will
therefore have to remain inconsolable for
the loss of his favorite institution of slav-
ery, for God DEGREES its fall.
Thos. Jefferson, JAS Madison, Judge
Tucker and others were ashamed OF the in.
stiution and sought to leave evidence of
| their condemnation of il, little thinking
that its evil communications would. in time,
corrupt the principles Of the party Of which
Jefferson was the head, and who. referring
| to IL, wrote that he 'trsmbled for his ooun.
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