Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-27

"Dear region of silence and shade" q .aE.
in reference to the Democratic party,
(laughtcr;) and then Mr.. Yallandignamr IN
his softest notes of affection, would take
up the strain ld
Soft scenes of conteutment and ease, :
Where have so happily straycd,
Since nauGht in thy presence could please.
Now, it is pleasant to see them TINS
dwelling together for it is impossible for
such man rs I am. mnch as | am op-
posed to their doctrines, to fail to sympa-
thize with men when see they are per-
fcctly happy. Long may they live: long
may they live; for if they were to die sud-
denly, they might die in their sins. Great
laughter.
A very curious question is this thing of
life, and what a man may do in a lifetime.
In 1s4s the Demcratic party, with their
eycballs bloodshot, and the perspiration
dropping off their noses, like one of our
sugar trees in February, upon the south
side of a hill, cloud laughter,l with their
resolution in one hand and the torch-o
abolition philosophy in the other, marched
through the country, proclaiming uniVer-
sal liberty, and the final advent of that
day when slavery should be no long
was what they did in eight short years,
between l64O and ls4s. That is
but IL short time in the annals of this
country. Suppose any had been gifted as
it is supposed the Wandering jew was;
suppose Adam had been cursed with q con-
timed existence up to this day, and had
started off with this doctrine i'll the be-
ginning, and had changed every eight
years, how many times would he have
changed? (Laughter.) Threescore and
ten years seem to be the allotted period OF
man in this age of the world; and in that
time he might change seven or eight times.
Now, my Republican friends, do not be
discouraged. Ny Democratic friends, up
on the other side of the House, do not let
me make you unhappy. Do not fatter
yourselves that your church is well found
ed, and that you can go through another
Presidential election as you went through
the last. Besides man is given to change
mutability is stamped on all things
''Man is few of days and full of sorrow,
daughter "comcth forth like flower, is
cut down, and Accth away like shadow
every eight years. tROars of laughter
DIssoIvING THE UNION.
A gentleman upon the other side of the
House called out to us the other day
"Disband your Republican party, disband
it; you threaten the peace of the Union
IOlT, am lIOL uIIdIt4 VI tulS GHIOA- SSS
plainly enough that can save it in the
last extremity just by letting Democrat
be elected President. (Great laughter.
Ever since | found that out, have cared
little what you say about the Union. The
gentleman from Mississippi Mr.. Barks-
dale1 declared also, that his State would
go right off out OF the Union, in the event
of the election of Mr.. Seward. The peo-
pie of the State of Mississippi may walk
out; hut the State never will. Why, sir
have heard of this thing ever since have
heard anything in public affairs. In 1888,
South Carolina was determined to go out
of the Union, because of what she deem
ed an excessive duty on foreign goods
Pennsylvania was going out because we
taxed her whisky in 1874; and MnSsachu-
scttS thought the Union was endangered
when Louisiana was purchased. Each
and all of these States yet remain, and
are, trust, loyal to the Union. ! have
lived through three dissolutions of the
Union myself, (grcat laughter.) and the
Union is stronger to-day than when its
dissolution was first observation-disclosures
than it was in the beginning.