Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-25
From the N. Y. Tribune. l
The Talk OF t.Treason--Brown orfus-
Cated.

| From the N. Y. Tribune.l
The Talk of Treason--Brown Orfus-
! Gated.
Brown, who plays at governing the un-
governable State of Georgia, is, we sadly
| suspect, nm ass. Why do we suspect this?
| Because, in his inaugural, Brown says
'Sooner than submit, let the last man in
the Confederacy did nobly at the point of
| the hayonet, and let our wives and chill
! drcn, and all the property we possess, per-
/ ish together on one common funeral pile;
and let the winds that pass over our graves,
and chant our funeral dirge, tell to other
generations, in other climes, that we lived
| freemen and we died freemen."
| The folly of this tustian will be apparent
| to all who seriously calculate the chances
thut, in case of the return of Georgia TO
her constitutional allegiance, Brown will
commit suicide with bayonet Who be-
lieves that Brown will do it'll If Brown
had 40 legs, Brown might do il; though
then it would remain an open question
whether Mrs. Brown would consent to
mount, with her little Browns, the ''com-
mon funeral pile;" especially as Mr.
Browne with bayonet through his vitais,
would not be in n condition TO enforce his
! igneous requests, and compel Mrs. Gov.
/ Brown "to perish" with his other ''pro-
I PcFty."
/ BY the way, Brown, for q mnn bent upon
| such uncommon exit, shows IL singular ig-
I norAnce of suttee. Brown says, "Let the
Union pass over our graves Now we
F! hope that Mrs Brown will fn'ly understand
/ that if she does mount the "common fune-
raj pile" she will be reduced 10 ashes, and
! though she may in her Condition OF cin'
| ders, be preserved by her friendsin IN urn,
| vet if all her friends are also, according to
/ the Brunonau plan reduced to ashes. with
the exception of George Brown, who will
! have buyonet through his midriH, who
| we should like to know will bottle up the
remains of Mrs. Brown aud her PulveriIed
progeny? And though the winds may he per-
I fectly willing 10 passSoVcr her rt4tcS, stId-tO
| chant the funeral dirge of the family, yet,
| in their pulyerized condition, the Browns
| may get mixed up with the ''niggers who
I are also to be burned-so that the hest ln-
tentioned wind in the world will not be
able to tell to other generations whether
| this particular dust was that OF a "trce-
| man" or not. On the whole we think that
Mrs. Brown had better not burn, and we
know that the little Browns will fully agree
| with us in this opinion, and if Brown him
self could be persuaded to give up his no.
tion of dying noble ut the point of the
bayonet, it would be better for his family
and perhaps for himself, if not for the
State of Georgia. Still, if worst comes to
worst we hope that nobody will hold him.
The Governor SENS to take it for grant
ed, that if the arms of the Union prevail,
il will be all up with the Browns. He sees
ahead, in such an event, burdens, ulXHiI0n,
military despotisu, standing armieS.2in
lence. insult, bondags, degradationl No
wonder that he is bent upon suicide (wlth
IL bayOnet), and is determined to calcine
| his family. But does he not, after al, take
too dark u view of his beloved GeorSlh
To be sure, the Browns might commit tsLo
de sc-1hat. perhaps, is settled-but then
the Smiths might not, and even thejoneses
might be persuaded to live. Personally
we should prefer to have them step out,
and so no longer break our peacei but viii
they steD out? Willfunera piles be erect
ed all over Georgia2 Will suicide with a
bayonet) and suttce become epidemical in
that State?
"Were wedisposed to yield, says Brown
sit is now too late to calculate the cost OF
submission" 1t being thus "too late, OF
course Brown falls as we have seen, TO cal
cnlaling, and that, too, in rather = blue
way. We beg of him to cheer up lIttlei
for we do not really think this Sorrows
of -Wertcrf style just the Thug ID q Cover.
nor. The particular injuries upon which
these Rebels are mounted we do not to this
day know nor do fWe expect to know I'M
ltiIthe Governors und Editors of the Fugt-
tive States suspend their general ejacnla-
tions, and treat the world to n bill of par
ticulars. Brown tells us Of the aegraya-
ted cruelties which the General Govern
ment, should it seeure5aD opportunity, 'o't'
lcommit; but Brown dosn't tell us what
,rDugs this same general government mas
committed. This puts ths loyal States IN
nice predicament, for how can we plead te
the indictment before hearingit. Wedo moi
think it, at any rate, fair to try us, not tol
what we have done, but for what we may
lido. fit will be at all sedatiye TO Govern
lor Browns nerves, and if he will promise
not to kill himself with bayonetl we be:
lieve that upon the return of the State to
her legal political position, the President
will so make easysth final settlement, thai
Mrs. Brown and her children will not feel
obliged to perish upon tone common tuner-
al pile" with Browns "property." In al
seriousness, when one reflects upon the
horrors of this wicked war-the money II
cost-the morals it will lde6auch-the ter
ror it wilIinspire, and then read Brown!
inaugural, sosntterly fimsy and meaning
lless, one is tempted to ask why Providence
did not inspire Brown with the idea OF as
ing that bayonet upon his person a great
many years ago. Aud so much for Brown