Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-09
INC soutn alone Responslble.
Edftors Intelliaeneer:-

Editors Intelkigencer:-
As far back as 1921 the dissolution of
the Union was threatened by the South
Her motto then, as now, was "Rule or Ru-
in;p to the Union she gave the terms, sue
cumb or die. Never in the history of this
people was the danger of national corrup-
tion, and consequent destruction, SO immi-
nent as at this moment. We have heard Of
devil of more than usual malignity-the
most devilish of all theldemon crew other
devils retired with dignity when hidden
this one sought to kill, threw down his
subject and rent him sore, leaving him as
one dead. Such was the devil that took
possession Of the Southern wing of the De-
mocracy, and controlled the Cabinet of the
retiring Administration until the force of
public indignation ousted the traitors from
their place of power. After the result of
Mr. Lincoln's election was known, there
was innugurated system of chicanery and
fraud, the parallel of which the world new
er witnessed. There were traitors in the
Cabinet, traitors in secret conclnve with
our Chief Magistrate, traitors in our legis-
lative halls, traitors in the army and in the
navy; secession, revolution and treason
were concocted in the Capitol and inaI-
gurated all over the South, and thieving
and robbery became the order of the day.
Forts, navy-yards, ships, arsenals and mu-
nitions of war were stolen; United States
mints and treasures were robbed, and war
with all its banelnl concomitants stalked
abroad.
but who are the transgressors in the
present war TINT now distracts the nation,
and threatens the destiny of the fairest her
itage on which the sun has ever shoue2-
This fair Liberty Tree whose branches
l..oo o,1,- DarSEts n tho Atlantic aRn6
proposes to shelter by her boughs, and pro-
tect by her ceautiful and crescent foliage
thousands who may seek an asylum in her
shades. Who, ask, are trying to demol-
ish this fair temple of Liberty, and deprive
all classes in community of the blessings
SO richly inherited by US from our worthy
ancestors. Examine the history of the last
four or five months of our nation, and there
we can see that it wasnOt national pam
ic sprung upon the abettors and plotters of
the Southern Confederacy by Northern
usurpation, as some would say. 1t did
not spring up, like Jonah's gourd, in one
brief night. That dominant and ever as
piring office seeker, who has been called
the father of secession, Mr.. F. A. Quitman,
when he first advocated the principles in
Mississippi, they were regarded as fanatical
and revolutionary. Now they are the ba-
SIS OI DOlllIEul uplulOuo Au uAA kLS oGSNuiAE1
States of the South. When he was elect
ed Governor in his own State he declared
in his inaugural, that the people should
submit to no measures on the part of Con-
lgress which should weaken or restrict sla-
very, this was January 10th, 1850. or
even express the convictions of the North
ern conscience against its nationality but
rather destroy the Union. Again he gives
his views of the Confederacy as follows I:
mFor the sake of convenience, certain por-
tions of this sovereignty are delegated
federation; but, in exercising its powers,
merely represents the States, and derives
all its authority from them. Each State
may at pleasure resume the powers thus
delegated, and then become an independ-
ent nation" Thus as early as 1850 these
measures were consolidating themselves
into an organized plan to break up the
Union. Afterwards he wrote to Gov. Sea-
brook, of South Carolina, that he intended
to propose the call of a Convention "to
take into consideration our Federal con-
nectiou, with full powers to annul the Fed
erAl compact. My views of State action
will look to secession" he received the
consoling reply thai "South Carolina was
lready for such action, and only waited to
be assured that she should not stand
alone"
Calhoun and others, first secretly, then
publicly, laid schemes for this same pur-
pose of destroying the Union with the null
LITIGATION ordinance of South Carolina
After the election of President Lincoln,
commissioners were sent to James Buchan-
an from South Carolina. he declared 1t
the South had not received their constitu-
tiopal rights Mtbey should have them. ~
Afterwards Mr.. Lincoln said, tthey have
had their rights" This was the only diff
ference between the two high officials on
this point. Soon ordinances of secession
lwere passed, as the fruits of conventions
held by few political aspirants and slave
holders, who were not willing that all
should have voice in their proceedings.
Next jeff Davis elected President of the
Southern Confederacy, but not BY vote oi
the people, and Palmetto Rattlesneke Flag
begins to take the place of the time-honor-
ed Stars and Stripes; the pillows of disuuiou
agitation rises higher and higher. until
nearly all the Southern States are forced
out of the Union, and are engaged in the
same unholy warfare adopt the same po
litical errors, and glory in their shame, and
in the language of Holy Writ, "Say the
evil shall not overtake nor prevent us. -
God has endowed all men with certain in.
alienable rights, among which are life
: liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
the main pilInr of Freedom. The South
ern Confederacy stands not upon that rock
they have built upon the curse of Ham
they carry the mark of Cain; they AFRO
gate TO themselves God-given right, tc
trample under their feet the children o.
Africa, into whose veins the best blood Of
the South is being transferred; these, too, tc
be held in bonds forever. The Vice Presi-
dent of the Coufederacy proclaims SLAVERY
TO be its main pillar, and for supremacy o
that political heresy, they thirst to delngt