Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-09-13

navy only to make it more easy TO captur,
the Government;
That while declaring against the inius
tice OF leaving eleven States unrepresented
he has refused to authorize the liberal plan
OF Congress, simply because it recognizes III,
loyal majority and refuses to perpetuate the
traitor minority;
That in every State South Of Mason and
Dixon's line his policy has wrought the
most deplorable consequences, moral and
political;
1t has emboldened returned rebels tc
threaten civil war in Maryland Missouri
West Virginia and Tennessee, unless the
patriots who saved and sealed these States
to the old flag, surrendered before their ar
rogant demand;
1t bas corrupted high State officials, elect
ed by Union men and sworn to enforce the
laws against returned rebels and made
them the mere instruments Of the authors
Of the reb,l Hon;
Ii has encouraged new alienation be-
tween the sections. and by impeding emf
grafton to the South has exerte1 formida-
bic barrier against fiendly intercourse be-
tween the North and West;
1t has allowed the rebel soldiery to perse
cute the teachers of the colored schools, and
! to burn the churches in which the freed
men worshipped the living God.
That a system so bsrbsrous should have
| eliminated in the frightful riot Of Memphis
and still more appalling massacre Of New
Orleans was as natural as that bloody war
should How from the teachings Of John G.
Calhoun and Jefferson Davis.
Andrew johnson is responsible for ali
these unspeakable cruelties, and as he pro-
voked them so he justfes and applauds
them in sending his agents and emissaries
into this refined and patriotic metropolis to
insist upon making his reckless policy test
upon Christian people.
He forgot that the protection extended to
the l4th Of August Convention 10 Pbiadel.
phi. was not only denied to the free people
of New Orleans on the 3Oth of July, when
they assembled to discuss bow lest to pro
tect themselves. hut denied amidst the
slaughter OF hundreds Of innocent men.
No page in the record of his recent out.
RACES upon human justice and constitu.
tional W, is more revolving than that which
convicts him Of refusing to arrest the perpe.
traitors Of that savage carnival. and Rot only
refusing to punish its authors, but Of toll.
ing to throw the guilty responsibility upon
uneffending and innocent freedmen. The
infatuated tyrant that stood ready to crush
his own people in Tennessee, whom they were
struggling to maintain government erect
ed by himself, against his and other traitors
prosecutions, was even more illustrated in
bis savage policy, by clothing with the most
despotic power the rioters of New Orleans
Notwithstanding this cruel persecution by
Andrew johnson, the States of Missouri
Kentucky, Tennessee, West Va, Maryland
aud Delaware, imbued with democratic re
publican principles, which the fathers of
the Republic designed for all Americans,
are now making determined battle with the
enemies of free Constitutional Government,
and. by the blessing of God, these States
will soon range themselves in line with the
former free States and illustrate the wisdom
and teneGeence of American liberty by
their increasing population and prosperity
In the ten remaining States the seeds of oil
gharcy planted in the Constitution by sla
very features have proved q monstrous pow
er whose recognition thus wrung from the
reluctant trainers of that great instrument.
enabled these States to ;ntrench themselve.
behind the perverted doctrine of States
rights, and sheltered by claim of Consti
tutlonal obligation to maintain slavery in
States; to present to the American Govern
very or democratic republican governments |
without slavery. A forbearing government, |
bowing to supposed constitutional behest, |
acquiesce in the former attentive. The hand |
OF the government was stayed for eighty |
years. The principles of constitutional lib. |
erty languished for want of government |
support Oligarchy maiuredits power with |
subtitle design. Its history for eighty years |
is replete with unparalleled injuries End |
1t developed only the agricul. |
tural localities, geographically distinct from |
the free labor localities, and less than one. !
third of the whole with African slaves; it |
held four millions of human beings as chat |
tells, yet made them the basis Of unjust pow
er for themselves in Federal and State gov
To maintain their enslavement
It excluded millions of free white laborers
from the richest agricultural lands of the
world, and forced them to remain inactive
md unproductive On the mineral manuiac-
uring localities, comprising two-thirds OF
he South, and real undeveoped wealth.
simply because the localities were too poor
o perpetuate slave labor. and consigned
hem to unwilling ignorance and poverty BY
lenying capital and strangling enterprise.
L repealed the capital, energy and will Of the
rec States from free labor localities by
lnmitigsted intolerance and prescription,
'hus guarding the approaches TO their
slave domain against democracy; their
statute books groandsd under despotic laws
against unlawful insurrectiousry assem-
1lies, aimed at the constitutional guarantees
If right to pesceably assemble and petition
or redress of grievances. 1t prescribed |
democratic literature as incendiary; it nulli.
led constitutional guarantees of freedom
ind free speech. and free press; il deprived
,itisens Of the other States Of their privil.
ages and immunities in the States; an in
ury and usurpstion, alike unjust to North
,rn citizens, and destructive of the best in
erests of the Ststes themselves. Alarmed
It the progress of Democracy, in the face Of
,very Encouragement, at last it sought i'm,
nunity by secession and war. The heart
iickens with the contemplation of what fol-
owed. Forced loans, impress nents, cen
cription with bloody hands of the numbers
# aged men who had long laid aside the
Implements of labor, but who had been
anew to the field by the con
cription of their sons, to support their
hildren and grandchildren, reduced from
comfort to the verge Of starvation. The
Of noble youths and Of physical
manhood forced into an unhoy war, against
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