Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-09-21
adopted by the seeding States at Montgom

cry, IN february, 1861. Had the rebellion
succeeded, Northern and non-slaveholding
States would have been offered places in the
new confederacy. The attempt to destroy
the old Union, and establish new one on the
confederate as opposed to the national plan,
failed after four years of costly war. The
same revolution, substantially, is now attempt
ed under the forms of general election, and
its success depends on the election of Tilden
and Hendricks. The election of these two
men, therefore, means the revival of the
Richmond Confederacy, with power and con
troll over the whole American Union.
Who will be elected with Tilden? In the
first place, there will be elected from the
II States which took active part in the Rebel
lion 90 Confederate Senators. Kentucky,
Missouri, West Virginia, Maryland, and Del
aware will elect 10 more. Here then, will be
80 members of the Senate, nearly all of them
ex-C0nfederate soldiers, and these 80 will
Necessarily constitute two-thirds Of the whole
body of the Democrats in the Senate. The
same States will elect like body of Confed-
crates to the House of Representatives, and
these will of necessity constitute large ma
jority of the Democratic faction, and to these
the Northern Democrats are as servile as they
were before the war. Having absolute con-
troll of both branches of Congress, they will
control the appointments Every judicial
vacancy will be filled to their satisfaction,
and, with times changes, the judiciary will
become as Southern aad as State Rights as it
was before the war. The Cabinet will be
composed to the satisfaction of the Confeder
ates, and thus, under the form of a national
election, the Government of the Uuited States.
in all its departments, Executive, Legislative
and Judicial as well as the absolute control of
the army and navy and of the Treasury, will
pass into the hands not merely of the Demo
cratic party, but of that branch of the party
which for four years, maintained the Govern
ment at Richmond, waging war for the over
throw of the National Union, and the estab- |
lishment of confederaey of independent
States.
Are the people of the United States pre-
pared to have that done in 1876 which they |
refused to permit in 1861? To avoid civil |
war, the North was prepared to concede much |
in 1860. They could not, however, and |
would not, consent 10 have the Union stripped |
of its nationality and a confederacy of indie |
pendent States erected in its place. Sooner |
han submit to this they met the threatened |
To praoaruo A ,,,oriaa,, ,,ot;1paIl&,, tl,o,,
'snt million of SONS to the ttle-fietd, and |
ourdened the country with enormous expeifd- |
lures. The Union was saved; slavery was |
and now, are the people prepared |
% surrender all the results of the war, and |
the Government to the same men
who, as Senators, Representatives, Cabinet
,fficers, Judges, and military and naval COM
handlers, erected and maintained the Soon
iederate States Government at Richmond? |
Is the Richmond Government to be trans
erred to Washington by the votes of the peo-
Die of Indiana, Ohio and New York? Are |
he people of the North, now in 1876, TO con-
ider that the South was right in 1861, and |
hat the theory of National Union is wrong,
md that after all the true doctrine is mere
of States, out of which any State
nay withdraw at pleasure, and to whose
avs no State can be subjected except with its
,wn consent?
The people of the United States emanci-
oated four millions of slaves. Are these peo-
'le to be remanded to q slavery even more
and inhuman than that from which
hey were released? Are these people to be
landed over to the merciless exterminators
Who treat negroes as less than the beasts of
he field? Are the people of the North pre-
,ared to vote that these four millions who
AVE been made free shall be externinated be-
,ause they are free?
This is the 'change" that is to follow the
lection of Tilden; this is the promised
hange which leads to the boast of an united
'outh; and this is the change which, failing
o be accomplished by armed rebellion, is now
ought at the ballot-box"
THE New York Herald has sent its
correspondents into every county of
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possible the exact truth with regard to
strength. Its summary of the
ituation is 80 important as to merit
ditorial notice:
In the course of his Investigations in
'ariOus psrts of Central New York,
within the past few weeks, your cor
has heard good deal said
bout Gov. Tilden, both in his favor
md against him. But the climax 10
he latter was reached when he met the
New York politician, An
ly Sheehan, opposite the American
Hotel, in this village, yesterday. In
anguage more fOrcible than refined,
'ut evidently earnest and sincere, Mr..
'heehan proclaimed the Governor to
,e guilty Of almost all the crimes in
he DecOlogue, and announced himself
. being ut work to secure the State of
New York against him. Mr.. Tilden
las undoubtedly many friends, but he
orfoiptx, hoe Gonna wary |