Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-06
TFrom the 1slchnond YhLL.1
An Appeal to the People the onlv
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Resort. ~,
We have all along maintained that there
WAS no hope of settlement of the mend.
ing controversy by the miserable politi
clans in Congress. Elected on obsolete
platforms and withoutrefetcncet to existing
issues, they are totally unlit}to graphic
Win the stern realities that surround us,
anu tney must therefore be set aside. and
others, better suited to,the times, and able
to comprehend The will aud wishes of Ibc.
people, substituted in their places vbrfIre
we can expect the adoption OF any, rM tInnal
and Observation-Disclosures of our section !
al dithculties. 1t should he recolIected that
al"rge proportion of the members of lhe
present Congress were elected fpo yegfs
ago last Fall, and elected on local and
subordinate issues, having hut little or mn
relation with the existing controversy
And consequently, as we have already re-
marked, the country had no right 10 ex-
pect any high aud disinterestEd act az
patriotism from these men-Inerei selfish
and trading politiHns, who look alone 10
tqelr own interests aud that of party with
out feeling tile slightrst concern for Inc
welfare aud honor Of the country =.
The proceedings in Congress, on The
Peace Conference settlement, slEficisntly
demonstrate the fdCtious temper aud cha--
acter OF tue wretched extremists of both
SECTIONS es6ndthatSumnerand Mason
wilson and Hunter. stand .'rheek nv iowf,i
and shoulder TO shoulder in opposition 10
any adjustment ofthe difficulties In which
the country is unfortunately involved -
While Crittenden and Douglas, and n nun
her.of other true patriots, are uohly exert
ing themselves to restore peace ito,5 the,
land, these Abolition and Secession ex-i
tremtsts are doing all in their power to
o6struet and defeat their efforts, and thus
Perpetuate that's ill-fctling aud strife that
perTade the two sections. For example,
no soouergF bad hlrCy yCrittenden sDFGsent.
ed the Peace Conference settlement In the
Senate on Fridayi than Senator Hunter. of
Virginia, Hrose in his place, aud offered n
substitute for that settlement, not in the;
hope OF procuring the adohIion Of ii better
adjustments hut, in our Judgment, OF de.
teatipG RnR6justmeut altogether. There
were but two days in which 20 consider
and dispose Of the subject; and, of course.
any motion that would lead to long de.
eate would pecessGfilY be fatal-to the
Peace Conference settlement OF To any
other settlement; And yet. with only two
days iep-'S9 Sepates lIputeS prOposed "a
stitdtesfo F@thesP sPenee CtjnEersbt.elnFNI;o I;o.
siuuu, .whiehll lellyto n discussion thai nc.
chpted Ihe3Whole of Eriday. aud the e61-,-
sequence WAS that no result was reached
on that day, nor is,there any probabitity
that any vote will be taken on this subject
at all ,at the present session of Congress.
IT'S clear, then, that the tesponsibility
for the uUu-adoption of the Peace Confer
enSe settlement viii rest on Senator Hun
ter and his secession eoatliutors from the
South, and on the abolition Senators fromf
the Nerlh. The people in both sections
are sincerely anxions for an adjustment
and It their Representatives in Congress
would afford them mn opportunity OF ex-
pressing their Will and wishes at The p6ils
all our diticulties aud troubles would
vanish, and the light btIrest0red peace and
coutidsnee'pe and blesB all sections of
the land Thete Is no doHbt-bot 4 nsrt; J
|cte-thAt Id every Northern State. S56f
even excepting Massachusetts. m over.
whslmipg majority OF the. people would.
to- dag, vote Tor taPy4 a5instTaent deemed
satisfactory and fair to the South. gB;,t