Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-01-26

separation, II they did seperAte, would
hreed that hate whichwould lead to fvuds
and contests as bloody and protracted as
was the war between the houses of York
and Lancaster. Separate, break up the
Government, and let the central States be
| lreeipitated into this revolution against
tue viii. Gof the people, and ten yenrs
would not go by until the two sections
! wunld he harrassed by rivalrics leading TO
to hostilities. and finally to the subversion
of the weaker party. If this would not
prove SO, then NIL history and its teachings
was fnlsehood. With regard to the fear
excited in the Southern mind, with regard
to discrimination on the part of the
North to give equality to the negro in ev-
cry respect, he proceeded to show how
| uutonhded the charge was, and noticed
that in New York Mt the Inst elecfiSny tint
Issue had been submitted to the pcoplc
Who refused hy majority of twenty to
Qne, to extend universal suffrage 10 the
negro, and continued; sit was charged
against the North that it was from their
midst that the John Brown raid came: but
| lie would ask his seeding friends
tbat in. case of ltsdnion, would Car!
1 oltna be better -sable to protect
herself against ersIids then dthnn, she
had been in the past.B Now, when
every mnn was true to the Cnnstitu
ton, when every man was judge and ex.
ecutloner ofithe law, and every convenient
Tree was gallOWs upon which to hang
every man who violated the Constitution ia
tue manner John Brown and his followers
had who should teach every man that they
had u code torithe punishment OF traitors
as stringent as il could he made. 1t was
matter OF history that it was the men of
liennsylyVnia who were the first to yindi-
cate tue outraged laws, and TO offer sup
port and succor to Virginia against the
attack OF John Brown; and when the fol-
lowers OF that man had escaped from Vir-
gina, 1t ought to be remembered that they
we're arrested in Pennsylvania, brought
back to Virginia by their captors. and
handed over TO the authorities, by whom
they were tried, and being adiudged
guilty, paid the penalty of their in.
vasion by their own death. The peo-
pie OF either section had been enstrhnged
ana provoked by Misrepresentation aud
calumnies, and thus pcrversions and
talsehoods Ind done their, work. lie
would accept their charges in the most ag-
grleYed form, and yet he would tell them
that they were all false. He had said that
he would make any sacrifice to save the
country He would even accept James
Buchanan foranOther term, and allow the
"old public funotionaryp to administer
the government for four years more. He
hoped this WAS giving Il sufEic ent evidence
of his fidelity to the Constitution. He
was ready to lend his sanction to anything
that would heal those difficulties. Vnri-
Gus propositions had been offered. let
them accept the rest. BE would go for the
report of the Committee of Thirty Three
rather than go out of the Union; but,
failing in all, he would so home, and would
there meet disunion with torch in one
hand q sword in the other, and SO help
4 IIll.ias ltyat lhiini at5 III State. Id W6nid
\ never yield TO dfsunton. 1Genetal ap-
pIanse from the densely crowded CALLER
4 les. lie asserted what was matter of his
i tory. that every solitary net of the Consti-
tuition was ordained after public discus
sion, and was voted for by statesmen of
hle' South and either passed by them or
4 fSceiyed and approved OF their States; and
tue very policy under which Lincoln should
! be tnaugnrated WIS the policy of the DEM
! ocratic party of the South, and which
theygNy to the country and demanded I'd and
received their approval. The House knew
that when the government was ordained,
i when tue Declaration of Independence
was proclaimed, that our western boun-
Diary Was the. Mississippi river, and he
asserted that from that very day, at the
Instance Of The South, at the instance of
shareholders, the area of the government
| had been enlarged and expanded. Every
/ foot of soil TINT had been acqUiredR MT the
1 Instance OF the South, the North, with its
numerical power and strength overshadow-
tug the South, has willingly Yielded
| Florida and Louisiana had been thus pur-
\ chased Mt n Nc0Stoftw enty e ve millions, and
at a Gostot fifty millions more toremovO the
saTaScsi millions more to build fOrtifica-
| tions and towns along the deep to guard
southern commerce. And after all this
little FtoridH, with less than hall the poDu-
lation he represented, goes out of tile
/ Union, with the Qualifications, with the
public lands, with untold millions, and,
worse than all, carries with her :he prestige
/ of the unity of theses States. Little F0rida
SecelleS, tChich could not at this moment pro-
| teet herself from Me diiigators acithomi The
| aid 9fthe Fedsrat oUsynplent-t tlaughter)-t
this very Florida, purchased at he instance
| Of the South, tVith Northern money and North
erH blood. lie then noticed the annexation
OF Texas, also ut the instance of the South,
ana paid an eulogy to Governor Houston
of that Sthte. In 1850 tho South demand.
| ed q fugitive slave law. They had got hat.
| They first demanded the Missouri compro-.
mise. They gdt IL They then demanded
kits repeal. They got that. They had de-
tf1dnded AotFiHg ,Vhieh they had moi got But
! no ey-uetnanuedt ttl1t slavery sh0nld=be
protected in every inch of the territories
of the United States. Bui Nat question
tcGs oeeided Gyanst them, IN a most unDis-
taxable manner, at The bgllot-bo1: /: aud eDen
the lSouthe StGteF themseIrfs lad pronounced
! 0gatasI thai deEadad. Tie government lad
been IN operation nearly eighty yedrs, and az,
to tbs hour no member Of Congress hud ecea
80 much as INTRODUCED a G,ll 10 protect slaeesy
in The. he.teftitories Bnt now they proposed
TO dissolve the Union, because a majority
of the people bad replied to their demand
for protection OF slaves in the territories,
that all they should ever have was non-in-
tervcutiOn. And that was all they ever
would obtain. One disuuionist said that
hc wanted protection for slaves. for the
purpose of expansion, that slavery was in