Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-04-26
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SECTIONAL sTRIFE-NO. II

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| SECTIONAL STRIFE-NO. II.
Nessrs. EditOrs:-A few days ago, in
making an examination of some docu-
meuts, was struck with the Scdtious,
reasonable and wurlike language of John
B. Floyd, Secretary of War. Charles J..
Faulkner. our minister to France, of Gov
ernors Lctclcr, McRae, and Wise. of Scna-
tors Brown, Clingman, Davis, Butler,
Clay, of Alahama, SIidell, Toombs, Iver-
son, Muson, Wigfiill and Gwin; of McSsrs
iIonham, Crawford, Gatrell, Pugh, of
Alabama, Moore, DeJarmcttc, Leake.
Singleton, Curry, Pryor, Keitt, Brooks,
| Banks, OF Virginia, Baily, Barksdalc, Fitz-
hugh, and any number more; of the
Charleston .Kercwry, New Orleans De'ta
Richmond Enquirer, and other papers OF
/ the same party. y remarkable uniformity
! is found i'll the language of these men;
| gross, rude, rcpulsve, unrciined by senti-
ment unilluminated by genius. North
| ern fanatics: our enemies; enemies of the
| South: enemies of Southern institutions
| Never suffer a Bla, k Republican to be
! iuuugurutrd President March thirty regi-
mcnts to Washington, the moment we
| hear of the election, seize the capital, the
treasury, the arsenaIs, the armories, the
! dock yards, and navy yards. Never suffer
the army aud navy to pass into the hands
| of Il Black Republican President. Ripcn
! public sentiment at the South for dssolu-
ton. Seize Mexico, Central America, and
| Cuba. Slavery, black or white, is right
/ and necessary. Establish Southern con-
! fedcracy of exclusively .lavcholding States
! Get up an austcrc public opinion, which
/ will put down all objections to slavery, ms
stcruly as Louis Napoleon puts down OBJ
jections to his government, either by law
IL. -.
monition: then tar and feathers; then the
/ halter. Adherence to the Union is trca-
son to liberty. lie that dnllies lisa dustard,
and he that doubts is damned" And
other violent and intiammatory language,
j which SickcnS the heart, il is true, but
which TIT the same time fills the breast
| with anger far too intense To display itself
7 in words. O, here is specimen of thc
/ unhOEv ambition OF INSCRIPTIONS political
| leaders. They must ripen public opinion
at the South for dissolution. 1t is 10 he
/ the exclusive work of THEIR HANDS. If
the Sonth had actual injuries, real gricv-
nnces to complain of, they would have no
occasion to ripcn public opinion. Public
1 opiniOn would ripcn fast enough of itself
t But us no actual injury is either inflicted
or intended they must 6" to work to
manufacture public opinion; 20 create, to
tUmcnt, to intiame, 10 intensity anger,
hatred wrath, strife, malice, revenge. and
every other balcfnl, every other dcstruc-
] tive passion. and SOW them broad cast
! over the land in the hOSOms of those who
are brothers in origin brothers i'll blood,
brothers in history, in language, in laws,
in literature, in religion, brothers 10y every
holy tic, which ever promoted the reign OF
''pcacc upon earth and good will amongst
men We hear no more about penceable
1. .l.. ian
clap-traps. like the clap-trap of territorial
popular sovereignty. have served their
turn and are now laid aside. They never
were better in reality than madinan' $
dream. Why, If all other causes were out
of the way, the language of these men.
coarse, brutal and vulgar rs il is, would.
in case of u dissolution of the Union, secure
the breaking out of awar wide wasting, and
ONLY to terminate with the complete sub
jugatiou of one of the parties.
These men sometimes adopt 81 kind OF
lordly, pntronizing language toward the
Northern Democracy They evidently con-
sldcr the Northern Democrats US necessary
machines, useful puppets, which they
must employ for the present. But their
diStrust of their Northern allies leaks out.
:.No man North of Mason and Dixon is
sound or reliable on the slavery question:
And thew are right Within twenty-tOuv
hours after the cOnSummNtion of their
treason. in actual dissolution. the Northern
Democratic party will he nnnihlatcd.
| But as to us, the great majority, the i'm
mcrsc masses, the mighty millions OF the
the North they keep no terms. They call
us enemies, they demouncc us AS enemies.
and they compel us to assume the position
of enemies, whether We will or not. They
are right here also, for while they continue
their reasonable projects. they are oar
enemies and we are theirs We are begin
ming to be cordially willing to take up the
glove which they have so repeatedly, SO
0stcutatiousIy and so insultingly thrown
down to u.s. Bat. fcllow-citizens OF Wes-
tern Virginia ana Northern Kentucky, arc
we of Pennsylvania, Ohio, indiana aud
Illinois. yowr enemiCS? | ask you cmphat-
icnIIy, are We YOUR ENEMIES? Have we
ever injured yon? Have we ever manitcs-
ted any disposition 10 iniurc HouF Are
Won not as we'll assured of our friendship
and good will as yon are of the friendship
and good will of the neighboring citizens
on YOUR own side of the river? Is not the
gentle current of our ''beautitnl river an
ant emblem of the peace which reignS on its
banks? Yet, unless these men andtheir CO.
uliutors are false, beyond any known stan
dard of human falSchood, they are at this
moment preparing to make this very river oil
ours. the boundary of hostileand opVugnant
nations, wasting their energies in interne-
cine strife They are simply waiting for
a prctcxt and in the toues of HEcToR. they
tell us what that pretext is to be. If we
of the North choose to exercise the elective
franchise, according to the dictates of our
own Judgment if we refuse to elect to the
Presidency Il pro-Slavery prOpagandist,
whom they are very kindly going to point
out to US: if We vote tor the man of cur
choice in the forms of the law and the
Constitution, and agreeahly to the spirit
and intention of both, they will dissolve