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

their deserts in the omuipotenoe of opin-
ion, and with the former, thank Heaven, ii
is only question of time. The idea that
rebellion thus Designed, thus conspired
thus innugnrated and thus conducted,
while its heart is black with perjury, and
its hands stained with gore, could or should
be gently asked in dulcet tones, what kind
of peace it would please to dictate to the
Government it had sought to destroy, is
| alone worthy of the neceSsitOuS politician,
the mere party hack, who supposes he
can trade with rebellion as with n clique
OF corrupt associates, or who has no aims
or impulses above party management, no
range of vision beyond u caucus, no love OF
country, no pride in the glowing memories
of the Revolution. no trne contemplation
of the present, no just hope for the future.
Happily for our devoted country, the num-
ber of this class is small, and their influ-
ence less, and both rapidly diminishing.
The past and the future have been torn
widely usunder by the convuIsions of the
present. The political yesterday has been
buried in the lava that has flowed out
from the volcanic eruptions of to-day.
E-e% .I,Ae, new impulses, new efforts are
upon us aud before us. Those sho stand
in the way of the car of progress will lie
u uShGu oGlAGhlH llS pOHACAOuS NAOClo"
Those who hesitate to get on board will
be left behind and unheard of hereafter.
This Union movement is not movement
for individual mnn-it is for mankind 1t
is the first real struggle between equality
and privilege which the new world has
ever seen. 1t is an effort on the part of
individuals in the revolving states to tram
pie under foot the constitution of our
Fathers, and raise up a semi-nobiity, based
upon involuntary servitudc, upheld by
dcspo:ic military power, and elevating and
perpetuNtiug the rule aud reign and COnSe-
quence of families. 1t will be blasted and
overthrow finally and then it will be II
subject of universal wonder how so bold
and wicked an imposture should ever have
been conceived or attempted Above all,
how it should even have found advocates or
apOIogists this side of Bedlam, or Newgate,
or perdition. 1t will fade away suddenly,
but not like the "baseless fabric of Wis
iOn," for it will "lcave wreck behind
wreck of every crime which ever dis
grucrd humanity-a wreck of every ''woe
unnumbered" which the human heart has
ever expericnced-a wreck of burial fields
unwalled, of vacant firesides, of desolate
hearthstOnes, of signs, and tears, and lam
OntatiOns, of widows and of orphans, Of
manned survivors; and wreck OF tolled
trcachery and blistered traitors, who will
evade the society of men, and shun the
light, lest Scorn shall point her 'slow un-
moving finger" and exclam: ''Yes, he
was one and darkly whisper, "Traitor u
But rising above this ruin, emerging from
the cloud, fresh and beautiful as flowers
which spring up on the departure of Win
tcr's desolation, will be our Institutions OF
equality, refined and purified in the fur
mace of adversely and afEiiction, strength
ened and invigorated by trial, shining be-
fore the world with renewed lustre, aud
giving light and hope and JOY and promise
to all Gods children. see what lies be-
hind! 1t is coming-it is coming "Din-
ma We hear it---Iinnn yo hear it, Then,
again, in our glorious Union shall we
ssee truth. love and mercy in triumph descending
And Nature all glowing in Elen's first bloom,
On the cold check OF Death smiles and roses arc
blending,
Aud Beauty immortal a,valses from the tomb"