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

take the amnesty oath. He Is sun on
the war-path, as his speeches, which are
almost Identical with those of 1860,
clearly indicate He is still the enemy
of the Government, unless he can en-
graft upon it his own policy. Seeing the
Democratic platform, and the published
utterances of the Democratic nominees,
he does not hesitate to array himselfwlth
that party and to assume its leadership
i'll Georgia, as the most successful mode
of accomplishing his object. Whatever
he may say, he certainly can not COM
plain, in view of his past course, that the
Government has dealt harshly with him
since the surrender.
These, and others like them, are the
leaders of the Democratic party in the
South, who, charmed with the declara-
tions of the Democratic nominees that
they will trample the reconstruction
acts into the dust by force, in defiance
of Congress and without the sanction of
the Judiciary, spring to the front, grasp
the Democratic standard and bear It
Why the necessity of another revolu-
ton? ThatambitiOus men, now out OF
power, with no prospects of promotion
in any other way, may again be clothed
with the robes of office! Here lies the
secret of this reckless movement. Fol-
low ambitious revolutionary leaders,
who are all disfranchised by the consti-
tutional amendment, and they will ele-
vate themselves into office or sink you
into bloody graves.
ORIGINAL UNION MEN. '-
/ am aware that some who were origi-
nal Union men now act with the DEM
ocracy. They labor under a delusion-
they lead astray by name. What can
they expect from Toombs, and Cobb and
Benjamin Hill as leaders. Union men,
you may disapprove their sentiments,
and think you can control the party over
them. You are egregicIsly Mistaken
BY following in their trSin you only give
them power, TO drag you, chained to
their erratic ear, down the steps of revo-
luton and ruin. They do not follow,
they lead their party. If you act with
them, you must follow them Their po-
litical fortunes are wrecked, and as they
have nothing to lose, they are ready for
bold adventures. War may again give
them position Peace leaves them in
retirement with none to do them rever-
ence.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM MEANS AN
ARCHY.
We have passed through four years of
bloody war. We have since been three
years in a transition state, between war
f1agrant and peace, without any recog-
nized State governments. We have,
within the last month, organized a
State government that is recognized by
the cOnqueror, and we are again repre-
sented in Congress. The wheels of the
new government just put in motion are
now moving off smoothly. If let alone
it will afford protection to life and prop
erty, and peace and prosperity will
speedily resume their ancient sway. at
this moment, which has been so anXi-
ously looked to by the sober, thinking
people of the State, the Democratic plat
form and its nominees declare all that
has been done absolutely void. What
is the effect of this? If it be true, your
Governor is a usurper and every act he
does is illegal and void your legislature
is an illegal, self-cOnstituted assemblage,
and every act it does is void your ju-
dietary is unauthorized and powerless,
and every Judgment it renders is null
ity.
your nelghbor for a Debt, IL Is VOID, anu
the sheriff who attempts to sxecute it, is
a trespasser. If the murderer is put on
trial and convicted, the Judgment is a
nullIty, and if executed, the judge who
passes the sentence, and the sheriff who
executes it, are alike guilty of legal muir
der. In word, if this doctrine be true,
you have no Governor, you have no Leg
isture, you have no judges, no justices of
the peace, no civil officers of any sort
You are without government. You are
in the midst of anarchy, and the law of
force is the supreme law of this
State, and the weak and the helpless and
the peaceable are at the mercy of the
strong, the powerful and the violent.
Will you sanction this doctrine, and
stop all progress, all development,
all prosperity, all peaceful pursuits, and
hurl the country down to the level of
Mexico, with no government, no stabil-
ty for the future 2
Negro suffrage cannot be destroyed
without war. You may fatter yourselves
that, by this course, you will rid the
of negro suffrage. You cannot
10 it without a war of races. The ne
,roes have been enfranchised by act of
Congress, and by the convention of your
,wn State, and of a number of other
Southern States. They have exercised
lie eleCllNt ludH OIlc
They now regard it as their
light, and they will never yield it with
)ut struggle.
When, in the history of the past, did
you ever know 100000 of people with
he ballot in their hands surrender it
without bloodshed? ? 1t cost revolution
% give it to them, and nothing short of
bloody revolution can take it from them.
If you will allow them to exercise it
without disturbance, they will do it
If there are any outbreaks
md disturbances, they will grow out of
he attempts of the white race to de-
)rive the cOlored race of their right, or
% interfere with its free exercise.
warn you, my friends, to be cautious
III both sides how you put your lives in
and your homes and families
II peril. And especially warn my own
ace of the extreme danger to them in
,ase of collision. The colored people
lave but little, except their lives, to risk
n the fight if it should come. The
white race have the same to risk, and in
addition to this, they have their proper
y to lose. Your homes, your villages,
owns and cities are all pledged to peace.
REPUBLICANS ARE FOR PEACE.
1t is the wish of the Republican party
o conduct this canvass fairly, quietly
md peaceably, relying upon the weapons
# reason and the good sense of the peo-
lie alone for success. They will neither
listurb nor in any manner interrupt any
Democratic meeting. They will intiict
10 injury upon any one for opinions
AXE. But while they make these con-
SESSIONS to their opponents they are de-
to enjoy the same rights, and
hey will neither submit to be driven
rom the field, nor will they allow others
o interrupt and disperse their meetings.
They will stand upon the defensive, but
hey will stand firmly, and in case of
woe be to him who strikes the
irst blow.
REPUBLICANS OF UPPER GEORGIA.
The white Republicans in upper Geor-
ria, who were the original Union men
# the State, have stood firmly by the |
,arty in sunshine and in shade. They |
owe aonrpaI tba tbrantS and Snurnnd /