Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-01

tive, sectional and despotic. There has
been no freedom, in the broad, repub-
lican sense, since the war at the South.
There has been merely the pretense OF
it. Betwetn n the negro and the Dem
Ocratic party, tie scheme of a peaceful
aud equitable reconstruction of society
has fallen to the ground. The North
has been misled by the negro. The
South has been misled by the Demo
cratic party. The result is passage OF
arms. in which we find the great city
of New Orleans arrayed against the
Federal Government, the whole South
and half the North, ardently SYM
pathiziDg with the revolntiOnists,
the army and the navy, comman-
ded by dominant political fac
tion. siding with usurpation and cor
ruptiun, and organized to suppress an
honest, conservative, commercial Ele-
/ tropolis.
The end, as far as the passage at
arms is concerned, cannot be DOUBTED.
1t is scttled in advance, by the simple
law of force against force. The power
which put down fifteen States will not
balk before one; the letter of the law is
plain; the Radical party not merely
has legal pretext, but it has malig-
nant inclination, and a partisan inter-
Is, in measures the most vigorous, no
I matter how arrogant, destructive and
unjust.
IF Gov. Penn and his advisers and
followers proceeded under the idea
that the full power of the Federal Gov
ernment would not be put forth to
crush the revolt in which the people of
u i 10 n
wOeful mistake. If they understand
this, the logical consequence of their
movement must be bold and resOlute
resistance, by which, if they hold out
long enough, they can force the addi-
ton fat least fifty millions to the ma
tional debt, and may, in the end, pre-
cipitate general civil war. They have
nothing TO lose, and everything to gain,
by carry ing out the measure of revolu-
tiOn they have begun. If they do not,
they are mere rioters, exposed to viI-
dictive prosecutions for murder. In
the meantime the honest men of both
parties know that Penn, as the repre-
sentative of the people of Louisiana, is
right, and that the Kellogg usurpation
is worse than any of the villainies prac-
ticed by European despotism in Ire
laD'l, Poland, Hungary, or Venice the
last fifty years.
IfGov. Penn backs down, and if his
followers disperse in response to pro-
clamatiOn which was certainty in ad-
vance to their movement, and which, if
they have any fitness for their work,
they must have considered beforehand,
what will it imply? twill imply that
all future resorts to violence are not to
be cOuntenanced, and that the South
must cOnfide in legal remedies, conso-
ling itself with patience and forbear-
ance. This latter policy we have
steadily advised. We prefer to advise
it now. BIT, if we are to act on diff
ferent line let US act together, forcing
the North to recOnquer us and give us
military government or else to do us
jnstice. The government we have is a
farce. The whole South prefers an en-
pire, a king; therefore, let us, if we are
not going to be governed peaceful sug-
gestions, compel the North by state
of war, which its whole energies will
be required to suppress, to change its
form government; to hold the South as
a vanquished province; to relinguish
the revenues drawn from our prosper
ity, and to turn us over to the negroes, |
bag and baggage, body and breeches. |
Let US crush out the miserable lie !
which Radicalism keeps before the !
country and the world-that this is a