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

free country. Else, the marplOtS ant
the theorists, who will do nothing bu
thwart the efforts of those who seek ;
different and peaceful avenue of escap,
through nationality and reconciliation
forever holt their peace. Let us do th'
one thing or the other, fight out of thu
frying-pan into the fire, or quench th'
fires of civil war by the process con
sistently advocated in these columns
the process of making friends abroad
and of keeping peace at home, of divi
ding the Radicals and uniting the con
servatism of the country upon sound
national and rational basis of pacifica
tiOn and reunion.
To Northern bigotry of the subjuga
ting sort we have to say this: "You
have US in your power undoubtedly. /
you think, howe, er, that you can per
Secute US to death, without entailine
on yourselves some of the consequence:
OF your malignance and your folly, dc
your work like skilltul executiOners
quickly and thoroughly. We hate you
certainly; hate you with justified and
cordial hate. You are not merely sci
of licentious hypocrites and cruel liars
but base add cowardly gang of polit
ical cut-throats, who, if you lived in
the South, would be torturing inoffen'
sive negro women and children-burn.
ing the cabins of poor people-adding
atrocity to violence, and teaching the
Ku-KIux lessons of cruelty only con-
ceivable in the theology of Plymouth
Church, in the journalism of the Gin
! cinnati Gazette, in the nastiness of the
cul-de-sac from which the Inter-O Ocean
is issued"
We are not writing under excite
ment. Every word that we put down
has been coOlly revised, and expresses
exactly and precisely the sentiment OF
the least impulsive section CT Southern
society. Matters have come to this,
people of the North, you hove got to
do us justice, or we will force you to ac-
cept third term and military despo-
tlsm. in order to secure your conquest.
This is as much our country as yours.
We love it as dearly as you do. We are
ready to unite with you on equal terms
in restoring a perfect union and a
splendid republicanism. But, if you
won't do this, you will have to expose
the clOven foot of despotism you have
concealed the last ten years, and, if it
presses upon our neck, yours too must
and shall feel the print of it.
If Gov. Penn does not want to hang
as an assassin, he must bear himself
like hero; and, if "another rebellion"
and civil war is the consequence, let
them come. The worst that can hap
pen is to make Grant an Emperor, and
the South is ready to do that now.
The Democratic party of the North is
gone; swept out of existence by these
acts, as it was swept out of existence in
1861 secession. fthe men at the South
who have refused our advice, and en-
gagged in this business in spi te of us, are
sincere--if they mean 'business'-now
is their time. They will never get a
better time. If they do not, let them
crawl away, cOnfessing that all their
assaults upon US have been mere windy
bravadO,---"sound and fury signifying
nothing"
In short and in fine, what we mean
is this: There is no use trying peace.
full agencies as long as the marplots are
engaged in stirring up strife; the mar
plots have now pretty quarrel as it
stands; let them fight it out or abandon
their senseless and reckless policy. If
it is fis ht,Iwe are with them; if it is
not, We want to know it. The South
is tired of useless sacrifices.