Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-09
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Does Secession Mean CONQUEST :?


Does Secession Mean CONQUEST Z?
The murder is coming out; the valedic.
tories of the speechiiers of the Louisiana
delegation have disclosed the real 5olJiect
ot secession or, at least, dimly sludoWed
FORTH the next act of their grand dramn of
disunion. Davis, of Mississippi. who is
too much Of u soldier and, disciplinarion
TO unvet his plans 10 snborlimates, gave
snlemn warning, but no positive signs. 1t
was Il fatal slnisstep, however, to leave a
couple of vain aud talking lawyers behind
hIm ln the Senate chamber, too shallow to
concehl their purposes, and vain enough to
RISK the exposure of his darling plans of
conquest. Slidcll and Benjamin were in.
uiScreetly Open-mOuthed and the fox of n
future cabinet has proved to be Al goose
SlidelI is too communicative by halt lie
! hrst remarks; ''lFe hare no idea thuf Vou
ic'Et sper attempt 10 inrULe ou,t soil Irih your
armies :. - 80
Wequite concur with the distinguished
! gentleman; the northern States have no
thought of the thing; hut their curiosity
may be pardOned il they ask Mr.. SIideiI
why, without the slightest fear of invasion.
the Stale OF Mississippi is orgauizing
eight regiments of trOOps2 What Alnba-
Oama aud Georgia mean by theireuormous
.pAGlJAINklOlS vi WIlE earthly
service to tue sccGders are the fifteen mil.
lion dollars worth of rifles, cannons. prcn-
AIDES, powder Hnd munitions of war they
have have stolen from the general government?
w mat was Fioyd's purpose in all his many
/ ACTS oi treachery, continued for so many
llEohtlIsf WhatdispOsitinu are the traitors
| going to make of. all their dangerous ma
chimes; do they propose fighting among
! themselves; or hre.they determined To oet
up servile insurrections2
! Under ordinary circumstances so much
preparation and pomp of war would indi.
cate the shedding of blood somewhere :;
put 1t they do not expect to fight the
North, as we know the North docs not cx-
pect to. tight them, " hat the end of these
movements md the destination of these
soldiers Slidcll hints ut something evil
IDENTIFY, for he speaks of the military weak
ness OF the South, "umfH nee hare acquired
| bener ports for our mdFinen What ports
arc thesef what marine is to be created z
rs secession, after all, only grand fill
| clustering srhemc TO which this country il
to lend its mid, the federal government
granting snbmissively the outfit, the se-
ceiling States furnishing the men and pre-
liminary expenses, while the negro nucs-
tiOn serves as mask to the design p
There exists already II strong suspicion in
many minds, which is daily. ripeninp into
certainty of conviction, that the Palmetto.
the Lone Star, and all the other devices
pnd emhlems OF the Gulf States, will in
the end he appropriated to form one bril-
iinnt banner, which is to, he borne over the
plains of Central Americn, which is ia
wave ut the gates of the Mexican cnpital
and whiEh-is possibly to lead the way to
new torays, composed of sDme of the best
lighting talent of the Southern States
against Cuba. Thirty thousand men and
i.R1een million dollars worth of the imple.
3 s.ments of wAr ara indeed no .tlespicS6ic
IN
ions of Lopez and Walker
4 - Mithithe CAPACITY for cheating manifest
ed by these wholesale robbers, we shoull
not be surprised some fine April morning
II we saw heet of merchant vessels n
4 New Orleans, at Mobile. or at Suynnnal,
taken possession of uuder the inHexibl,
rule OF "the logic of cyents.''i Richl,
Iretghted with npostRteg army officer;
fIoyd, Cobb and company among them
they might turn theiripTOws towards Cubr
OF Central America, upon the divine mis-.
mission 0f protecting the African slave
trade, and of extending athe bnneicent
wise aud Just institution, ms O'Conor So
hnpplly styles it, to all the tropical regions
itisnotpieasant to think of the wretched
s'tuHLlOu oI thnse SOuthernets who will be
left ashore, and especially of the innocent
but mole-eyei statesmen OF the South
who nre the victims and dIpes of one oi
| the boldest and most gigantic conspiracies
ever generated by the ambition of man,
The varions inrtiicess resortcd to bv these
conspirat6rs are almost too shallow 10 dc.
ceive any one, and yet they have been so
adroitly managed that large majority 81
the people Of the SOnth have been drawn
into the trnp. They have been Induced ia
believe that the cotton States have been
working for an object common to all the
slave States, when they have in reality
been carrying forward scheme OF Their
own, Gnderthe pretenre that the whole
South was in dnnger, they have gathered
conventions, raised nm army, appropriated
money, aud seized the varfons federal for
tlticdtions and nrseaals but time will
show their rea: purposes. The boldncss
4 or indiscreiion of SIidell wonld seem to
show that the time had almost come for
Icasting aside the mask, aud issuiuy fortl,
on the career of tropical conquest.
Tue border States will consider the en-
tertainmentto to which they are invited.
RENAREABLE FAcT.-=Th day after Christ
mas lust lady in this city became mother
TO n fine and healthy girl child. There is
In0thing startling in this fact, nor caIcula-