Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-09-06
These gentlemen in convention assembled

1 OulDf anu ulSO w thO INOBlO w ONSi1 ONhC
State in the Union, precisely the same issu
which these gentlemen who met in Colnm
bus, protessedly Democrats, but really john
son conspirators, presented in their platform
and that issue is the immediate, uncondi
tional restoration Of all the States lately il
insurrection to the right Of representation
in the Congress of the United State accord
ing to the existing provisions of tho Con
stitution, as they we're before treason free
its first gun at your flag Men may CLOS
this issue over as they please, but it can bt
made nothing else than proposition to re
store traitors, lately in arms against the Re
public, to the political control and power o.
eleven States in this Union, extending from
the banks of the Potomac to the banks OIL
the Rio Grande, and covering an area oi
territory half as large as Continental Europe.
| PHILADELPHIA LOYALTY.
know that some Of the gentlemen who
undertook to utter the sentiment of that
| Convention in the interests of those conspir.
| representation, but know Just as well
Convention-not one-who is an open,
honest, out. spoken supporter Of the existing
law upon your statute book, which renders
incapable of holding any position under the
Government any man who voluntarily aided
the rebellion. On the contrary, l know
that every man in that Convention who
participated in its business, and was in ac-
cord with its general sentiment, is opposed,
utterly and altogether, to that statute, and
the whole Convention declared itself oppos.
ed to the constitutional amendment, of
which / shall presently speak, and which
involves precisely the same principle.
My fellow-citizens, it requires no pro-
phetic vision to foresec that the same sor-
cery which influences the public mind to
consent to SO monstr0us proposition as
this, that rebels lately in arms shall have
the sole political control Of the eleven
States lately in insurrection, will inevitably
send to the Congress of the United States,
from the free States of the North, suffi
cient numher of men Of like mind and spirit
to enable them to control the legislation of
this country exclusively in the interests Of
treason--to enable them, in short, to
achieve by legislation what they failed ut
terly to achieve by arms-the overthrow of
American institutions-which will enable
them to secure to the rebellion itself the
fruits of that great triumph which was
achieved upon the field of battle, through
the sacrifice, the virtue and the valor Of
million of heroic spirits, that leaped at the
call of their country and marched through
the valley of the shadow of death, offering
themselves as willing sacrifices in the fire
and tempest of battle that the country
itself might live. Applause.
AN INCOMPETENT JURY.
The Congress of the United States is ar
raigned by these conspirators at Phikdel-
phia. I call them conspiraters, and make
good my assertion by this statement: that
in that Convention every one Of the eleven
rebelStates, was represented, and yet, from
these eleven rebel States there was not found
in that Convention single man who had not
been an open and declared traitor throughout
the four years of the late war. Not ono;
no. not ons. If there be man within the
hearing of my voice who has know dge of
the presence of delegate from single one
of the eleven rebel States in that Conven
ton, who was not declared traitor through
out the war. would be under great obliga.
tions to him to name him. Why was this?
1t was not because there were not loyal men
in any of these rebel States. Every, obser-
want man in America, at all well Informed,
knows that from the beginning of that great |
and unmatched struggle for the life OF, the
7 public to its close, everywhere in these |
IC \ OtdtSs WClC SOOu IHSu uuu iiuOi WV
kept their faith to the Republic, and who,
when. unable to render any other service to
their bleeding country, lifted their hands in |
silent prayer to God to give victory to the |
flag of their fathers; men who, through evil
and good report, clung to the tottering pill
lars of the Republic, and cherished the
hope of restored country as they cherished |
the hope of better life beyond the tomb.
Applause Yet no such men came up to
meet in this council of pretended patriots
10 Philadelphia. / have not time, neither
have | any taste, to engage in the task OF
reading over that long roll of infamy repre-
sented at Philadelphia, from the rebel
States of the Upion. 1t is enough for me
to remind this listening assembly ofthe fact |
that there in the very center OF that pande-
menium of devils incarnate, received with |
favor as one of the many chiefs of that syn
agogus, was Dick Taylor of Mississippi, |
who led the battles of treason throughout
this war, and who, having captured on one
occasion seven of the brave volunteers from |
the Green Mountain State of Vermont,
them to dig with their own bands
their own graves, and having accomplished |
that, shot them to death like dogs, and left
them there In the midst of that same as
sembly you find that lean and Cassius-like
Alexander III. Stephens, of
Georgia, not the neblest, but the meanest
traitor of them ala man who pretended, |
in the first place, that he was opposed to
secession, and when the truth was ascer-
tanned, was only opposed to secession by |
arms, because ho thought it would not win, |
but was in favor of conspiracy by legislation,
because he thought ii would win. Then
you had in that convention James L. Orr.
of South Carolina, man who, during our
four years of struggle, was Senator in that
Congress of cOnspirators, thieves. robbers
and asssssins, known as the Confederate
Congress of America, which met at Rich.
mond to devise the ways and means by
which to subject to the slow torture of fam
inc or of poison your sons and brothers,
captive prisoners in their hands. NJ |
A. JOHNSON AGAIN. at
And these are the men who appear at
Philadelphia to arraign the Congress of the
United States before the people Of the Uni |
ted States as being no Congress, because it
did not see ft to recognize the governments
organized under the direction of Andrew
johnson exclusively, by the cooperation Of
in ten Of those States lately in in-
surrection. Well. having agreed that the
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