Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-05

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thought that If John Bell had been elected
they might have got along four years long
er. They c0uldanOt bear to go up to
Washington and see the poor Back Re-.
publican Lazaruses, who had SO long beg-
ged the crumbs, clothed inspdrple and fine
linen and faring sumptuously every day;
with old father Abraham at the head of the
table. And am going to break up the
Government of my fathers to please these
men2 Why. there are exactly fifteen hum
dred men in the Southern Coafederacy
who think they ought to be President of
the United States. These very wicked
men, foreseeing, about the time of the
Baltimore Conventi6n, that Mr.. Lincoln
would certainly be elected, entered into u
regular conspiracy signed and sealed to
overthrow this Government.
This conspiracy was in the pocket of one
of the Peace Commissioners at the very
time when he was ssnding to secure 4
lpeace2 Do you ASK tie pgosf3 Let the
friends of the lamented Judge Douglas do
Justice TO his memory and give Ihis pa
pers to the country. You have traitors
my shall appear on the banks of the Ohio
you viii find traitors amoug you thick as
blackberries. Cries OF "Thats so.
What wish 10 say now will have pnr-
ticular reference to the leaders in my own
State. wish to show you the means to
which they resorted to accomplish their
wicked ends. Their first step was to make
even the last Office holder among them per-
jure himself. 2. They flooded our country
with the biggest lies the world ever heard.
The te-lie-graph brought them every
day, not even excepting Sunday. Itwould
take n book bigger than the Bible to hold
the half Of them. 3. In order to pass off
their lies the better, they began to rob our
mails long before Tennessee seeded,
though say she never did secede. This
was done under the dictation of King Har-
ris. For FIVE weeks before left home on
the first of July, was the most perfect
Know Nothing you ever saw, tEough I new
er Joined the order. Every morning the
newspapers had u big fight at HNrper's
Ferry, 1000 Union men and 200 Confedcr-
ates killed. One day Seward had resigned
because Abe's administration was so cor
rnpt that he couldd't stay in it. The next
lowing it would all be denied, and Lincoln
would have them alliarrested for treason
But the biggest lie of all was that Lincoln
intended to free all our niggers and make
our daughters marry them.
have heard these lies asserted as truths,
by intelligent men, nntil Iwas compelled
to stand up and tell them to their teeth that
they lied.
Fellow citizens of Ohio, the masses of
our people deserve yonr pity, not your
hatred; they have been deceived by those
upon whom they have been accustomed TO
rely for instructions.
They next set at defiance our own State
laws. suppose that the Legislature of
Tennessee was tile worst public body that
ever assembled. 1t was sotsisfthlt il was
ashamed to ask our friend TO 90 there
They tranplcd our UrgauleInw under foot.
That law requires voter to reside in the
county in which he votes at least six
months, but they let them vote wherever
they happened to be. In the next place
they Deliberately disregnrded the Constitu-
tion, which forbids any State to make IL
treaty with another State, and didn't they
make a league with the Southern Confed-
eracy, before they even claim to have Sc
ceded
3. They denied us the freedom of speech;
they disturbed and prevented our meetings
by armed bands of volunteers. You say
we are free, because we have free speech.
That is true. But we got free speech by
taking our Iitles on our shoulders and de-
ied them to disturb us. We kept the
peace by being always prepared for war.
G. They denied US the right of free SUI
frage. They claim that they had mnjori-
ity of $4,000 in favor of secession. That
majority was made up in this way-the
whole vote of Nashville is 5000; there
are there 700 Union men who did not vote,
800 Union men and 1000 volunteers, who
were away, reducing tie voters to 1000
yet the full vote of 6,0O0 was polled. In
n1f
majority in nearly every precinct, yet we
never prevented secessionist from yot-
ing.
They have imprisoned our men. There
are other men in prison there than Thomas
a. Il. Nelson. There are simple Captains
of companies in prison, who do not pur-
chase their liberty by treason. There are
two men here whom they would imprison
if they could catch them. CGov. Johnson
spoke up, saying he hoped the day would
yet come when he could go back aud i'm
prison them.
King Davis-I don't call him "Your Ex-
cellency," as Mr.. Nelson did-hNs put II
wall of bayonets around the Cumberland
Pass: or ten thousand men would make
their escape, aad be exiles like US. They
would away 1t they could. They would
come to Kentucky to get arms, and hay-
ing them in their hItnds would sing "Home,
sweet home"
Get on the train and go down to Camp
Robinson, where you viii fad fifteen hum
dred or two thousand men-men who were
rich the other day-without cent in their.
pockets, men who were reared in every
comfort and luxury-without change of
raiment. lean showyou men among them
who have travelled over hard and rough
roads fifty miles in single day, to escape
their pursuers. Has any man of Ohio trav-
eled fifty miles on foot, to volunteer IN de-
fence of the fig? These men have done
it. Every man of them is sworn to sup
port the stars and stripes. Snme of them
were shot down by The pursuing cavalry,
and died in the Cumberland Mountains.
But, thank God, the Cumberland Noun
taius also contain the bones of some