Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18
The War.whoop from Missouri.
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toric clothed in highly-colored imagery decor
ated with metaphor and capped with majestic
! figures of specific stir the souls of American
citizens, and send the rubescent and consan-
guineous fluid whirling and babbling through
our veins. Therefore the editor of the Lex
ington Caucasian puts it in this way:
Americans! Countrymen! The sovereign
| State of Louisiana is no more.
| Stiff and stark, but royal in her ghastliness,
| her mangled and outraged form stares with
stony eyes to the bleak, mid-winter heavens
that sent her to relief"
! We take it that no reader of the above par
| agraph with single grain of sand in his giz-
zard will care to go any further before he
whips out his revolver and bowie-knife,
! shoulders his shotgun, and goes cunning for
| the wicked men have thus outraged this SOW
| ereign State and left her in such pitiahle
plight If he should stop to consider mo-
ment or two, however, he might possibly
doubt this statement and hesitate about rush
ing so frantically forth at this inclement sea-
son even to avenge such an injury. He might
also ask to be shown the stiff and stark form
royal even in her ghastliness, and claim the
privilege of seeing with his own eyes that same
form staring to the mid-winter heavens that
sent her no relief. But if the reader went on
for few lines farther could hardly hesitate.
He is told that
"a vile, january guarded pashawlic rear its
hateful head where she, the proud, beautiful,
the benefcent, once sat enthroned amid par
adisean domain"
That ought to settle the business. If there
is any one thing which the American people
despise more than another it is 'avile, january
guarded pashawlic.' A pashawlc is bad
enough of itself, but when it is vile, jani-
zary- guarded affair, it becomes too offensive to
be tolerated. To hold such monstrity rear
ing its hateful head where she, the proud, the
beautiful and the benficent, once sat enthroned
amid paradisean domain, reared her head, is
enough, it would seem, to wake the very
stones to mutiny. But what has this vile,
january guarded pashawlIc' accompanied?
Sister freemen, and ye daughters, too, give
ear, while the painful tale is told:
''It has enabled the ape armed barn burner
OF the Virginia valley to place the booted and
spurred hoof of barbaric despotism on the
necks of 500, 900 freemen's sons" ti.-
Mighty janizaries Puissant Pashawlic! If
they can make an ape armed barn burner
capable of putting his foot on the necks Of
800, 900 freemen's sons at once, what under
heaven would become of the people if three or
four such pashawlics were turned loose?
Now what shall be done? Is it of any use
to resist such power? 1t is, and the 'Cau-
casion tells how it may be successfully done.
1t says:
''Sons of glorious rebel sires Arise. And
in tones of wrathful thunder, that shall shake
the very foundation stones of the White House,
head hellion's den, and topple down the gigan-
tic dome upon the mad, ruthless liberty y-cides
of the Capitol; swear by all the heroic memo
ries of the Republic; swear by the Constitu-
ton; swear by him who doeth all things; by
everything noble and sacred and dear in Amer
lean story, that Federal usurpation, President
ial outlawry and insolence and barbarian
shoulder strap State murder shall end now
We do not pretend to understand exactly
how swearing so much and by SO many things
is going to lift that 'barbaric hoof off the
necks of the 'freedmen's sons, or how tones
of wrathful thunder, that shall shake the very
foundation stones of the White House, head
hellion's den and topple down the gigantic
dome of the Capitol, fearful as such scream
would be, is going to do the business for the
vile, january guarded Pashawlic' Besides,
we have doubts, even if the sons of rebel sires'
should arise and lift up their voices to the
utmost, whether they could sake the founda-
tion stones aforesaid In fact, to be frank
about it, we don't think the boys could do it.
We have, it is true, great confidence in the
foresight of the 'Caucasion.' Still it is some
times mistaken and sometimes its plans fail, as
we well know. For instance, when it got up |
that little plan for assassinating the President
and assured its readers that he would never |
be re-inaugurated, something must have |
gone wrong, for the President was re-inaugur-
ated. Its plans regarding Lincoln were full
filled, we admit, but even that tragedy was |
carried out without its active assistance |
Therefore we say, the scheme proposed may |
not be an infalble one for restoring the proud, |
the beautiful, the benefcent,' to her halls and |
palaces and, by the way, what is the use of |
doing so if she is mo more, and as we are as
sured in the opening paragraph, lies dead at |
the doors of the Mississippi?