Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-06
WHEELING VA, FRIDAY MORNING,

those bright lands, blestAwith climate
the best of earth, and occupying Il soil Of
eXhaustless fertility, and living amid lakes
rivers, and mountains of grandeur and in
spiratiOn-they will lift up their bowed
heads, amid decentralization, poverty, and
diShonOr. and they will you it is Il delu-
sion. Cheers. Fellow citizens, Trejoice
to belieYe-may | not say to krow-that
the spirit of loyalty at this time dwells
richly and abundantly in the popular heart
of the North and West. But l do beseech
you, who have deep stake in the present
and in the future of our couutry-you
men of culture and of fortune, and cf
moral power, | do implore you, by all
means possible, add yet TO that power and
to the fervor of that loyalty. If it grows
cool amid the calculations of avarice, or
craven under the discouragements of DE-
feat, our country will be overcome.
What we now need is patriotism that
will abide the ordeal Of fire, Il patriotism
that is purged of all sefshness, and from
all fear, which is heroic and exhaustless;
whicS vows with every throb OF life, with
every pulse, that it will rally-if stricken
down it will rise again, aud that under the
pressure of no circumstances of defeat, OF
sorrow, or of suffering shall the national
country be compromised. Enthusiastic
applause What we need is patrotisni
which rises fully to the comprehension OF
the actual and awful pcrils in which our
institutions are placed, and which is will
ling to devote every power of body and
mind and fortune to their drliverance.-
[Cheers.l A patriotism, which, obliterat-
ing all party lines cheers long con-
tinued, and repeated again and again,
breaking forth in loud hurrnh Ia pat
riotism which, obliterating all party lines
and eutombing all party issues, says to the
President of the United States: Here are
our lives and our estates; use them freely,
use them boldly, but use them successfully.
For, looking upon the graves of our faith
ers and upon the cradles of our children,
we have sworn that though all things else
should perish, this country and this Union
shall live. Great cheering, the assembly
rising to their feet and waving hats and
handkerchiefs. 1t is such patriotism
as this, and such only, that will conduct
You to victory. And rejoice to belle
that this spirit has been everywhere
awakened throughout the loyal States.
The capitalists have come nob!y forward
Tchcer51, and, risking all, they have tx-
hibited n grandeur of devotion to the
country which, while it will astonsh the
people of Europe, has inspired the graft
tude and the admiration of every true
American heart. [Cheers.l All honor to
them! They have proved that if there is
much gold in Wall street, there is more
patriotism there. Cheers Not Sum
mer patriotism, which flOurishes amid the
pnans of victory, but patriotism which
struggles, and sacrifices, and suffers, and
is prepared to put all things to hazard,
even in the Winter of national adversely,
and in the hour of national defeat--
[Cheers.l
Unless this country can thus feel the
sun OF her national life, which is now OBJ
scurcd, may yet go down forever, amid
storms and darkness-if all our great ma
terial interests are crushed TO earth by the
shadow which is passing over that sun,
what would be our condition if that shad-
ow should deepen into the night of perrna-
nent defeat? Is there nothing to live for
but the gains of commerce, nothing but
the establishment of our estates of i'm
portance, and the furthcrance of our ease
and comfort? Are courage, and manhood,
and honor, and loyalty, and national fame,
and the respect and homage of the worll
nothing? Is it nothing to live without Il
flag, and without Il country, and without Il
and to stand forth the degenerate and des-
pissed descendants of illustrious sires. We
might lay ourselves in the dust, and be
stripped by traitors hands of all thai Gu
mobiles and sweetens human existence, and
still live on as do the cattle of the field,
but our lives would be more ignoble than
theirs. TCheers. IT, with all our vast
material resources, if with our known and
acknowledged physical super iOrity over the
rebels, if with our clamorOus and pr0fusc
uvowals of devotion to our institutions, we
suffer that rebellion to triumph over us,
do verify believe the American name would
become n stencil IN the nostrils of the
world, and that an American citizen would
not be permitted to walk the streets of II
European capital without having the 6n-
ger of scorn pointed at him. Cries of
Bravo" ard cheers.
Fellow Citizens, if might he permitted
to utter n word upon such a subject, |
would earnestly counsel forbearance and
patience in reference to those charged with
the administration of our Government
TGreat applause. Before criticising their
conduct we should remember that we may
not see all the field of action, and may not
be in condition justly to appreciate the
difficulties to be overcome. Applause.
No man can doubt the honesty and loyalty
of the President of the United States; I I'm
mense applause, waving of hats, anu cries
of 'sNo,'l or his determination to suppress
this rebellion. To him, under the Con-
stitution the popular voice has committed
absolutely the fate of this Republic. His
hands are emphaticaIly your hands, and
in weakening him, you weaken yourselves
and you weaken the struggling country
that we are all striving to save. He is too
at this moment overwhelmed with n noun
tain of responsibility and toll such as ever
rested ou no public man in our history,
and he is fully entitled to all the support
and all tue consolation which q generous
and warm hearted patriotism can give him.