Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-09

l. hIui1GsS AOticesOI nnerHlH ana announcement
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EDWARD EVERETT ON sEcEs-
SION.
Extract fromhI SIagniHcent Address
1 ia New ! Ork on the Fourth OF Ju-
wIY SHOULD VIZ NOT RgcoGxIzE TIE sEcED-
ING STATES?
! And now let us rise from these disrc-
\ gardcd appeals TO the truth OF history and
the wretched subtlelies of the secession
school OF argument, aud contemplate the
great issue before us in its solemn and
! practical reality. why should we not"
I 1t is asked, admit the claims OF the scced-
( ing States, acknowledge their indepem-
= dcnce, and pat un end at once to the war. =
1 why should we not?' Ianswer the ques.
! tiUn by asking another, "Why should wcP''
What Lave we to hope from The pursuit of
( that course? PcaceT B't we were at
now? The North has not wngcd the war;
! it has been forced npon US in self. defence !;
/ and if, while they mad the Constitution
and laws, the Executive, Congress aud tue
! courts, all controlled by themselves, the
South, dissatisfied with legal projections
: ami constitutional remedies, has grasped
! the sword, can North and South hope to
I live in peace whru the bonds OF Union are
! broken, and umicable means establishment
. are repudinteG? Peace is the very last
| thing which secession, it recognized, will
! give us it will give us nOlhiug but hOl-
, low truce-tine TO prepare the means of
new outragtS. IL IS IN its very nature IL
I perpetual CaLse Of hostility; an eierual,
! never cancelled letter of niarYue aud re
4, prisal, an everlasting proclamation of bor-
der war. How eau peace exist when ull
! the causes Of GisseutiOn are indefinitely
multiplied; when unequal revenue laws
shall haye led to q gigantic system Of
smuggling, when a general stampede Of
slaves shall take place along the border,
with no thought of rendition, and all ;he
thousand causes OF mutual irritation shall
be called into action on u frontier nf 1900
miles not marked By natural boundaries,
and not subject to 1t common jurisdiction
or mcdituting power? We did believe in
peace; fundly, creIu!ou-ly believed that.
! cemcnted 10y the mild umpiFage OF the
Federal Union, it might dwell forever be-
meath the folds of the star-spang!ed BAN
mrr, and tue sacred shield of Il common
nationality. This was the great arc1HuRl
OF policy; that was the state mystery into
which m.n aud angels desired to look |;
hidden from ages but revealed 10 us:
Which kings ani prophets waited for,
Aud sOuGht but never found;
family oF States independent for local
concerns, united under one government for
the infringement of common interests aud
the prevention OF Internal ieuds. There
was no limit to the possible extension OF
such system. 1t had already rompre-
hruded u..it of North AmericI, ana il
might, in the lapse ot ages, have tUldedthe
continent III It's peaceful hrueticcnt Gnu
bruce. We toudiy dreamcd that, in the
lapse of ages, il would have been eXtrIld-
eu lill iiuiI the western hemisphere had re-
aiized the vision u universal, perpetual
peace. From that dream we hnNe uecu
rudely stnrticG by the array OF ten thou
send armed men in CharItst harbUr, and
tue roar vi eleven batteries r:Ilmg Il storm
of iron haii Oh one poor siege-wUrU COM
pany, because, in obedience ~ Hwin, uu-
thOrity, Ia the i.ertJI nance Of sworn duty,
TIE gallant Anderson resolved to keep Ills
oath. That brave ana faithful band, by
remaining at ;heIr post, did not hurt 1t batr
OF the head OF IA CHTO!Iuiuu, bond or free.
/ Tie United States proposed not to reia-
force, but to feed thrm. But the Gonfed-
eraIe leaders would not allow them even
the poor boon OF being starved into sur
render; and because some laws had been
passed somewhere, by which il was allegtd
that the return OF some slaves, mot one
from Carolina had been or might be OBJ
structed, South Carolina disciaiming the
protection OF courts and OF CongI eSs,
winch had never been withheld from her,
has innuguratcd u ruthless civil war. If,
for the frivolous reasons assigned, the se-
CT dug States have chosen TO plunge into
this gulI, while all the peaceful tempern-
ments and constitutional remedies OF the
Union were within their reach, aud offers
OF further compromise and additional guar;
antees were dnily rendered them. what
I poss ibility of peace cun there be, when the
I Union is brOkeuup when, in addition TO all
other sources of deadly quarrel, general
exodus of the slave population begins las
I beyond all question II will, and nothing
1 but war remains for the settlement of con-
\ troversies? The Vice President of the new
I gouIedcracy states that it rests or slavery
/ but from its very nature it must rest equal
| Iy on war; eternal war, 6rst between North
aud South, and then between the smaller
| fragments into which the disintegrated
| parts may crumbie. The work of demons
/ has Already begun. Besides the hosts
mustered for the capture or destruction Of
! Wnshingto:l, Easte n Virginia has let loose
! the dogs OF war on tue loyal citizens OF
! western NiTBlnh tueE are Str"lnlnS AT
4 the leash in Maryland aud Kentucky; Ten
/ nessee threatens 10 set price on the head
I of ncr noble Johnson and his friends n
civil war RACES 10 Missouri. Why in the
name ui Heaven has not Western Virginia
separated from Eastern Virginia 10y noun
| tain ridges, by climate, hy the course of
( her rivers, by the character of her popula-
: tiun. and the nature OF her industry, why
has she not as good :. right to stay in the
Union which she Inherited from her WASH
ington, as Eastern Virginia has to abandon
il for the Mushroou cOnfederacy forced mp
I. on her from Montgomery? Are no rights
sacred but those of rebellion: no oa'hs
Z binding hut those taken by men already