Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-08-29


TO vote, and turning these men out with
out protection. Are they not entitled TO
something at our hands? The man who
says they are not, has not the soul of a
man in fIis bosom.
AS to their intelligence, do you not
know that all over the South the colored
people are organized into schools, anfare
doing more to advance themselves in
education than any other class, yea,
more rapidly than any other people In
the history of the world. And let me
say from personal knowledge that unless
the "poor white trash In that region,
as they are called, hurry up their cakes
mighty fast, and put themselves in q
course of training they never did before,
instead Of negroes being the ignorant
class. II blush to say itl, the men of our
own color will be the ignorant GLASS;
They do MT seem to be actuated with the
! same spirit of improvement. Therefore
hope no man will hesitate i'm the step,
this last clinching step in the progress,
! that the Republican party has had at
! heart all the time. We are making his
tory very fast, and the man who has been
| in the great struggle of our country for
| some years past, has most proud record
! If he has stood faithfully by the Republic
| in promoting its advancement in the just
principles ofrepublicanism, beyond what
any nation on the face ofGod's earth has
| achieved. We are looked to by all the
struggling millions of Europe. You know
| full well that in the war through which
we passed, the despotisms of Europe
all looked with great jealousy upon our
! course. Every despot and aristocrat was
! in harmony with Thurman, Nallandig-
ham and Ranney. They were feaful the
people, stimulated by our example,
would throw off their yoke. The Con-
| federacy was sending emissaries abroad
! to enlist despotism in overthrowing the
Republican institutions of this country.
| Where were Slidell and Mason? One in
England and one in France, backed by
hundreds of others, begging despotism
to aid them. Could disgrace and infamy
go further than invoking despotic pow
ers to assist i'll overthrowing the glorious
| institutions we inherited from our faith
ers?
TYRANNY OVER THE SOUTH.
AS to the tyranny they say we are I'M
! posing on the seeded States-frightful
| tyranny Ewing, / blush to say it of him,
wrote a letter to the Philadelphia John
son Convention, announcing the abomi-
nable sentiment, that at no time during
the war could these seeded States, by
their emissaries, be excl uded from Con-
gress. Poor old Tom! The only plea l
can make for him is that he is demented,
or he ought to be damned. Unmasked
rebels to sit i'll the councils ofthis nation,
while they were laboring and invoking
foreign powers to aid them in overturn-
ing its government. The man is fool
but no bigger fool than Thurman, for that
is his doctrine to-day. We are called
tyrants in Congress. We have dealt
harsh by these men. In the good old
principles of Washington who was not
thought to be much of Radical, though
If he was here to-day. he would stand
where do, Congress took into consid-
Grafton the fact that rebels might arise at
some period and passed a law declaring
death and confiscation for all men who
should levy war against the government
of the United States. Washington re-
commended Congress to pass the law,
and he approved it when passed. Sup
pose such men as Davis or Toombs, un-
der the provisions of that law, had fallen
into Washington's hands as President,
how much would you have given for
their scalps? We know what he would
have done. General Arnold undertook
to sell him out and go over to the enemy.
He sought for the traitor, and said to the
British Government, 81 will surrender
unhurt, Major Andre. do MT want his
blood so much; he is a foreigner. But
for this incarnate devil who raised his
arm against his own country, and sought
to betray it, DEATH" What would he
have done with Vallandigham, who went
as far in endeavoring to betray this ma
ton as did Arnold in the revolutionary
war? He did all he could do to promote
the cause of treason. If he had fallen
under the administration of Washington
the whole accursed posse of rebel leaders
would have lost their necks, and justly,
before God and their country.
A voice-That is just what they ought
to have had.
Yes, it ought to have been done, and
because it was not done the nation has
suffered. 1t has suffered as the Jews
suffered when the Almighty told them
to do certain things, and they failed to
execute His command. They never got
out of the difficulty, and were reminded
of it as long. as history lasted. You
saved those wretches who forfeited their
lives and ought to have died. When
men commit most fragrant crimes, and
the law provides for their punishment,
it is nothing but weakness tospare them.
How many innocent men have fallen be-
cause we did not execute the law and
the ctilprits at the same time. Men may
seem 20 act upon principles of generosity
but reuliy while dealing leniently with
these devils, bring death and destruction
upon thousands of Just men. But, v
say Thurman and Vallandigham, "you
arrogate a despotism over those men in
not allowing them to come into Congress
TO aid in the administration of the gov
eminent" Did men ever hear such a
plea? Is 1t not because the nation has
never visited the law upon the head OF
any traitor that now treason begins to be
respectable. and the accursed scoundrels
who have caused the loss of hundreds OF
thousands of our bravest and best men
are not only permitted TO go acquitted
but such men as Thurman and vallan'
digham extend their sympathy to them
and say they are tyrannized overg
know / use, as Quakers say, plain Ian
guage. L can'ttalk kgentlemanly,witlitr trail
tors who have caused the death Ofso many
of the flower of our youth. II you sym
pathize with such men L have no part ol
lot in your commisseration. Ii is the
depraved working of your old Democrat
ic heart that never was wholly given tt
the support of manhood and just prin
ciples / am not naturally cruel man
don't like to see human misery more
than other men. 1t was because coulc
not bear such misery that after inyesti'
eating the cruelties of rebels to the Union
prisoners under appointment OF Congress
/ introduced resolution into th'
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