Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-03-14

piication here. The Sibyl went 10 Tar
Quin with nine books. He declined to
take them and turned haughtily from
her, She returned with six, having
burned three, and asked the same price
for all. Tarquin again waved her from
his presence. She came again, but only
with three, three having been burned.--
These hepurehased and preserved, pay
ing her for the three she last brought the
price she had originally asked for all
>, 1.-THE fighting days of the South are
numbered, and our belief Is that ,pru-
dence now is the better part Of valor. /"
- The Petersburg Index, after leading
article on secret session Of the Virginia
Senate, in which 1t implores that body
to let the people know what 1t means,
and "if in its wisdom 1t seems best TO try
the stormy sea upon rotten raft, to fear
not to inform the wretched people, re-
duced to this extremity, of the truth, "
follows with another article, in which it
acknowledges that the "South will ac-
cept its chains"; f.., ,.... -
"No denial need be attempted of the
fact which four days of threatened trial
have developed. The South will accept
the slavery extended under Sherman S
bill. A thousand straws show how the
current is setting. No hazard Is now in
| the prediction, that ere sixty days have
passed, a majority of the Southern States
will voluntarily have confOrmed to the
new order of things, and we make it. u
In answer to numerous inquiries, what
had better be done, the New Orleans
Times says T.. r.i, .,., ..',','. 20.
sour uniform answer is to keep cool, :
restrainyour feelings, exercise the highest
philosophy and dpatience, and bide events.
|, Utterly pOwerless as our people are to re-
/ sist any wrong or oppression to which
they may be subjected, they will only
make their situation worse by vain OPP
posion, and compromise their dignity
and manhood by profitless lamentations
and protests. " r,.t ,...,. VII. ...
The Richmond Whig also begins to be
reasonable: t' u ."' 3 Go.
"The Southern States may not consider
themselves called upon any longer to
champion lost cause, which it is as
much the duty of Others as theirs to up
hold and defend. They sacrificed thcii
all in supporter self-government. They
may consider it enough for them now
| seeing empire in the new future, to adopt
such measures as will render its udcent
as little Injurious to them as possible. They
would, if they could, avoid forty years
of devastating wars among contending
I thieftains, such as have laid waste Mex.
! leo, and embrace at once peaceful empire
and a magnanimous and omnipotcnt
Caesar Perhaps universal suffrage, un'
der the tutelage of martial law, will sup.
ply the surest, the speediest and tho
safest means to that consummation."
The Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle
leans the same way: eaaa ..n,tf, D..
Under the provisional governmentw'
have the military and negro suffrage; i
admitted into the Union, we have negro
suffrage and get rid of the military
Pending the provisional government, the
men prescribed by the third clause o
the amendment cannot vote; they car
vote when the State is admitted. Ther
this is to be considered: the quicker w,
get into the Union, the better, there We
are State, and we can control our owl
affairs-changi,sg our State constitntio,
if necessary. There we are out OF tho
jaws of the beast that is ready to devoul
us. ''
""Again: the quicker this State consti
tuition is formed the. greater will be thu
influence of the whites in shaping it,
Postpone, and the radicals will organic
the negroes against us. And lastly, |
the legislature does not call convention
Bolts and the negroes will, by primar,
meetings. .'H
1--WE are not recommending either O
these courses. We are inviting the pub
lie to think"