Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-29
propos1T1oNs oF PEACE.

Extract from the Magnificent Speech
OF Daniel $. Dickinson MT Brooklyn
New York, on last ThursdRy--
Words which every man Ought to
lay to his Heart.
Let those who cry Peace peace" trace
the history of rebellion from its origin to
its development. The conspiracy which
produced it had evidently been nursed by
some of its actors for more than q quarter
of n century, but must have swollen its
numbers, aud gained its full and formida-
bic proportions, within year of its devel-
opment. 1t sought the occasion OF Mr..
Lincolus election and Inauguration rs tue
best suited to its reasonable purpose; Il
sine and occasion upon which it evidently
supposed it could better arouse Southern
feeling, stimulate Southern prejudice, and
awake sectional hostility. But while it
had this advantage, it, unfortunately for its
sincerity or success with the loyal South
cru mind, chose Il time when the South and
its sympathizers had majority in both
branches of Congress and in the Supreme
Court of the United States, and a time,
too, when the law concerning fugitives
was more thoroughly executed than it had
been for years, and when Congress was or
ganiziug Territorial Governments without
restriction, for which Southern rights ad-
vocates had so long contended; and, more
over, when majority in Congress, tor the
sake Of preserving peace, reconciling sec
tional differences, and quieting sectional
irritation, stood ready to give any
further reasonable guarantee calculated to
secure to the Southern States all and Any
rights to which they were entitled, and of
which they could reasonable show they
had been, or reasonably fear that they were
about to be deprived. There had been no
time within twenty years when they had so
little just cause of complaint as in 1851
The masses of the Southern people are hon
est, sincere and Union loving. But it is
/ clear that the leaders who shaped the pol,
icy of this rebellion, were IN pursuit of
| lscIf.Advancemeut aud the Unions trrOngs,
and not of the Southern rights. The robber
! les they had practiced in the Government,
| long before the election of Mr.. Lincoln was
decided, show what was in cOntemplhtioui
\ the disposition made of the army and navy,
and the arms and munitions, proves the
same thing The haste with which some
of the States sought to rush out of the
| Union, and drag others after them, the
| haste they made to violate their cOuutry's
flag; their cold-blooded assassination of
soldiers on their way to the defence of the
nations capital; the rude, and robher, and
bandit violence with which they seized
ships, forts, and other public property, and
the public revenues within their reach; the
brnzen comrlacency with which public of
| fcials, sworn to support the Constitution,
brought perjury upon their guilty souls in
endcnyoring to subvertiti the inhdelity oil
naval and military commanders, in fore
! swearing themselves, and betraying their
trusts to enemies; all go show that they
had resolved to rule or ruin; and were not
II Of
peace.n Upon all this followed the organ
| ization of their bogus Cnntederacy; their
attack upon the Star of the West, their as
sault upon the starving peace garrison of
Sumter; their organization of Il system of
piracy in stolen vessels; their outrages up
on and murder of defenceless UniOn+lov-
| ing citizens, and the destruction Of their
property, their burning of peaceful dwell
| inps and towns, and driving from their
homes. in destitutiOn, innocent women and
children; their weakening of railroad
bridges, that passengers might be destroy
ed by hundreds OF MANNED for life; their
cmpiovment of sayages to help on rebell-
lion: their raising numerous aud powerful
armies in furiherance of their neftrious de-
sions: and. in short, their whole action
proycs that, for butchery and atrocity in
modern times, those who have conducted
this rebelliouwiIl bear the palm, for when
i "Matched with them,
The rudest brute that roams SiberiRs wild,
\ has feelings pure, and polished ms n gem; j.,
The bear IS civilized, the wolf is mild.
And vet we are told that a rebellion. orig
mating without provocation, deliberately
and murderousIy contrived, and stepped in
a depravity as black as the bottomless pit
| in its origin, now thati has added to the
commission of treason every other crime
in the catalogue, aud only escapes the hal.
liter because it is at large; should be nnrsed
and Fostered, aud treated tenderly, with
Liberal propositions of peacel Rather say
Ethe peace its authors deserve Is universal
execution, and its peace apologists universal
4 erecrntion. The latter are already reuping