Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-09-03

| ri OUT the resolution OF tue pldllOTm--
| That is, that he, if elected President,
will treat these acts, and, as necessary
consequence, all that has been done un-
der them as nuU undz UOid. General
Blair, who, it is said, led the house-burn-
ing wing of Sherman's army through
Georgia, and who, if elected Vice-Pres-
| ident, would have but the brittle thread
| of Mr.. Seymour's life between him and
the Presidency, tell US how these reso-
| lutionS are to be carried out. 1t is to
| be bone by the use of the sword. By
compelling the army to disperse our
| State governments, and to trample the
| reconstruction acts into the dust. What
does this mean? 1t simply means that
! they intend, if elected, to set aside these
| State governments by force, regardless
| of consequences.
Let US see how it will work in practice.
| The reconstruction acts were passed by
Congress in the mode prescribed by the
onstitution-vetoedb by the President,
| ard again passed by consti tutional
| majority. The Supreme Court of the
United States never has, and / predict
never will, declare them unconstitution-
al. The question is political one, and
in conformity to their decision in the
Dorr rebellion case, they will leave it
with Congress to say what is a loyal
State Government. The law of Con-
gress now ON your statute book declares
the present Government of Georgia le-
gal. GeneI u Blair admits that it is
lmpossibl- to repeal that law, as the
Republicans have the Senate, and in
case of the success of the Democracy
in the election of President and ma
jority in the House, the Senate would
still be a par which they could not pass.
In word, the law which establishes
the present government of Georgia, is
upon the statute book, and he admits
it cannot be repealed. Now, there are
but two ways of getting rid of gov
ernment. established by a law of Con-
gress. One is to repeal the law, the
other is to tear it down by revolution.
General Blair sees the dilemma in which
he and his party are placed, and he meets
it like bold man, and tells us that he
intends to compel "the military to dis
perse these State government" !" by force
by the sword. As he cannot repeal
the law in constitutional way, he in
tends to destroy the State governments
formed under it by revolution. How
will this work? If Seymour and Blair
are elected, they will order the army to
drive out Governor Bullock from his
office, and disperse the Legislature and
destroy the Judiciary of the State. This
would be a bold usurpatiOn of power,
which would be resisted by Congress and
by Governor Bullock ,and every South
ern Governor. The Democrats, un-
der the excitement, would generally
rally to the support ofthe President, and
the Republicans, regarding him as
revolutionist and usurper, would rally
to the support ofCongress and the State
GnNQrnDnnnfc This uyonlh 1nht ho
torch of civil war, in its most horrible
form, from Maine to California. Not
such war as we have just passed
through, which was a war between
States and communities, in which there
was front and rear, and all behind
the armies was comparatively safe. But
civil war in the fullest sense of the term,
i'll which there would be contending
parties arrayed against each other in
every State, and in every county, in
deadly. hostility, cutting each others
throats, laying waste each others homes,
and destroying each others property
No war on the pages of history has been
more cruel or more destructive. Not
only will Deighbor rise up against neigh
Dor, but brother will imbrue his hands
in brothers. blood. May the Almighty
Ruler of the universe aveIt this dread
full calamity, and spare our sincursed
land from this horrible doom, by the de-
feat of the guilty instigators of the plot,
and the success of the great man, Cen
eral Grant who says: LET U.s. have
peace.
THE SOUTHERN LEADERS MEAN WAR.
Not only the Democratic platform,
Mr.. Seymour's letter of acceptance and
General Blair's letter to Broadhead,
threaten the fnture peace of The country,
but the action and the speeches of the
Southern leaders of the disunion party,
styling itself the Democratic party, in
dictate revolution beyond a doubt.
In 1860 acted with those leaders. /
kuew their cOunsels /; / heard their Ian
guage and there appeals to the preju-
dices of the people. They touched the
popular heart and they moved the mass
TO action. L hear the same expressions
now, the same artful appeals to popular
prejudice, the same key-notes to re-
volution; and see the people who have
lost heavily by the war, and whose pre-
that account, the more easily moved,
shouting the war-cry, and moving for
ward like sheep to the slaughter.
Disappointed ambition drives the |
leaders forward. They once stood high in |
the national counsels. They were in
deed masters OF the position. They rode |
upon the storm, and directed its fury
Excluded from the Cabinet and the |
Senate, like fallen angels, some of them
now prefer to ''rule ia hell, rather than |
serve in heaven" If they cannot gov
ern this country, they are determined to |
destroy it. Andas they are disfranchis- |
ed ON account of their rebellion, and see |
no hope CT early relief from their disa-
bilities, and have no assurance of popu- |
lar favor if relieved, they feel that they |
have little to loose, ,,and,ma have some |
thing to gain by another appeal to arms. |
Who that heard, or has read, thespeech-
es delivered in this city, at the late |
Democratic Convention, fails, on sober |
reflection, to see the animus which |
prompted those speeches?
BEN. HILL.
1 do not refer to the rawlings of that |
poor political maniac, Ben. Hill, who is
the scourge of every political party with |
which he acts, and whose popular adj
vocacy of a cause never yet, in single |
instance, failed to produce its defeat. 1t |
is simply the misfortune of the so-called |
Democratic leaders that Ben. Hill has
obtained fellowship among them, and
knows their secrets. If they could con-
troll his judgement, they might turn his
diarrhoea of words to account in exciting
the populace. But men cannot impart
judgement, common sense and moral
honesty to those upon whom nature
failed to bestow them. If they will only
let Ben. canvass the State thoroughly, |
he will unfold their secrets so fully that
Grants election can, 1 suppose, be ques-
toned by no one, as all will discover
the revolutionary purposes which lie at
the bottom of their movement.
COBB, TooMBs AND OTHERS.
But 1 do refer to Howell Cobb, Gen.
eral Toombs and other lesser lights who
revolve around them. They are repre-
sentative men of their party. Their
utterances have Specification. Who
has not known Howell Cobb, an original
prefessed Union haters from the daY