Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-13

nervous thrill TO the brain of the beholder:
anu made up picture, which, as we said
at = the outset, will never be put in print.
i.
EyEHr one knows how common it Is to
hear every vagrant and Ioafer on oar
streets, whoi is in favor of secession, de-
eI3iming abqnt Sour sights IIr. Carlfle
inhis speech at Richmond, in the ConYeo.
tton, hits of that clamorgwell. He saws:
.tBut, oh. our honor is at stake, our
| rights dre denied, ,''-We arc told by some.
Pray, gentlemen, wherein has your honor
suffered, or Is likely to suffer? Tell me.
| " you please wherein any tlinp ihfriDsing
upon Virginias honor has been ATTEMPTED,
much less executed? WlGe right has ever.
been dented2 Haven't you equal rights in
the territories? Has not this very Govern
ment, that you are going t5 overthrow.
declared that you have2 Haven't YOU
equal rights IS States, in the Federal
Government? Mas not the little State of
Florida, with its Forty-seveu tlonsand
white Inhabitants, and it's twenty.tbree
millions of property, an equal share in this
Government with the great State of New
I ork, with its three millions of white in
hHbitants, and its thousands of millions oF
property Has not the State of South
Carolinn, with a white population not half
as large rs the single city of PhiladelplIia
an equal voice in the control of this Gov.
ernment with the whole great State of
Pennsylvania, with her two million 1--WE
hundred thousand inhubitants2 Then what
has been denied you2 Put your finger
upon the right that has been taken away
from you. What right has been denied ii,
this Government Wherein does this in
nntIalftty tt-
men--and ask 1t with ali kindness-lnav
1t not be that you%haye mistaken party
platforms fOrithe Constitution of the Uni.
ted Estates, and tEsI action of individual
parties for the action of the Federal Gov
ernment2
The following Is, the conclusion of Mr,
C.s speech. It is eloquent and impress
siVe; aeiJaa4r si
Mr. President, with our extended frontier.
with our defenceless sea coast tell me the
amount Of money TINT would no reonIscS
SO to fortify the State, in case of reyolu.
ton, to afford the slightest protection
not only 70 our slave property, but against
those JOhu Brown forays upon large
| Scale And, by the way, let me here cSlI
your attention TO single fact, namely. TIM
ile was fourteen esthes miteide8,of dis Ser,s
Fetteral Government, which yOu want 70
destroy that took John Brown anrl bts
men out of the engine house. 1T was, nSt
taIt.this army that you raised In Richmond
and that We sent down from the border
! ltiwas fourteen marines belonging TO the
Federal Government which took. that i'm
surFeCtiouAFy party out of the senRine
house, delivered them over to Vour7civil
authorities. who Justly tried and Z bnng
them; and it was the GoVernoro our slst or
State of Pennsylvahia-for dehouncs me
as subinissionist If you please, apply what
everepithets twin, Pennsylvania is iour,
sister StAte-and 1t was the Governor of
Pennsyt ytVaniH whotdeliEeFed up to us Has
lit and Cook, and, in. Loingso, he behaved
as the Chief Executive -of a sister Stnto
should behave! ~ lliit - :
Sir, can any man believe that in case of
a dissolution Of the Union, we wouId eniov
innything like the freedom and liberty and
equality whichiws enjoy under the Gener-
IaltGovernmeuti Of ours? Could VIC main.
tain ourselves without strong military
force kept npiOt enormous aud exlInnsting
expense? We are nos, under tile Union.
and in the Union, Cfreest, the most inde.
pendent, and the happiest people on earth.
Dissolve the Union, and aimilitnry despot-
ism, the licentiousness Of the camp and
ragged poverty .will5be substituted in its
lplacc. laaa 81 air4 -.
And now Mr. President, in the name of
our own illnstrious dead, in the maine of
Pail the Irving, in the name of millions VET
unborn, Iprotest against this wicked effort
TO destroy the fiirest and the fTeest gov
ernment on the earth. And ! deuounce all
attempts to involve Virginia to- cdmuit
her TO selt-murder as an insult to all sren..
sonableg living humanity, and a crime
against God. With the dissolution of this
Z In1mn hhsitnfn5 Fr,'s