Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-23

NAeANS Soutn carolina 60 Out
Aessr'.. Editors People may ia k about
the Personal Liberty Bills, new Constitu.
u 1IoaaL guarantees, and equal rights in the
4errltorlesi but the cause of the secession
OF South Carolina, aud other Cotton States.
ls not to be found in any or all of these
| things. South Carolina, and those Stntes
which have followed her trnitorous or.
ample, went out of the Union for either
one or the other of the following causes.
and 1t makes no difference which First.
Ceedu's BreeIinridge tVos defeated or, Sec
ond, 6tcIESs Lincoln trdS elected. am
wiling 10 rest my reputation on the truth
| OF this assertion, and history will even.
tHally make this record good.
Ihe argument so rife now, and which is
SO luduslriously circulated by dtsunionIsts
anu tnose who symPathise With them, that
tue ennctment OF. or the neglect to repeal.
tue personal liberty laws of the North, is
tue cause, or one of the causes, of all our
troubles, is as false as the hearts OF those
We use 1t. There is not a word of truth
IN 1t. ANY man who will advocate such a
doctrine in this country, to sustain the
sinking fortunes of Southern ConFeder.
/ hcy, when every reading man knows that
IN the South Carolina Convention. 'lentlino
nembers denounced the Fugitive Slave
law Hs unconstitutional, is unworthy tho
name OF an honest man, md is either a
knaYe or fool, and may he both. Why,
sirs, it was solcmnly decided in the hearts
| OF the Breckinridge Democracy, Il mean
the leaders long before the Presidential
! election, that If they could not rule. they
would rain. They have only carried ont
the policy laid down for them by Wm. L.
! Yancey, in IL speech ut the Cnpital of
South Carolina, nearly year before the
tonConventIOnmet. In shnt speech
he said:
ITO obtain the aid of the Democracy in
this contest, il is necessary to make coHtesf
IN its Charleston Convention. =
The State Rights men should present in
the convention their demands for approval,
and they will obtain an endorsement Of
their demands, or n denial. II Ifendorsed.
we shall have greater hope of triumph in
| the Union. If denied, IN nlv opinion tL.
State Rights msn s6oRd secede from The con- ''-
rcntiOn, and appeal TO the aDhole people
gf The South, t0thout distinefion of ,jariics.
aud organize another cOnrentiom upon the
basis Of their principles; and 30 into the eIec-
ton lTith candidate nominated 6y IL, as a
| grand Constitutional PARTY. But in the
Presidential contest Black Republican
may be elected. If this dire event sbouId
happen, in my opinion, the onlv hope Of
sGttLy for the South Is ucitGdratvak from fis
Union before he shall be inaugurWied, and
the s,rOrd and The treasury Of the Federal
GoUcrnment shGik6s placed in The keepiny of
that pariy."
This was prophecy. The Breckinridgc
party have literally enacted the policy OF
Mr.. YNncey, their master. He told them
what to do, and like nutomNtous, they ex-
ecuted the tnsk, aud tile result IS before
t.tfJO Seven sStntesshave withdrNWn
from the Union before the inauguration.
lYHncey is prophet, and his followers are
dupes.
Visions of Southern Confederacy, like
those which dazZlel the Imagination of
Aaron Burr, have been leading captive, nj
their will, the minds of the wild secession
lists, until they have become mad with tho
vagary; and some good men, infatuated
by Eancy, rs BlenncrhMssct was infatuated
by Burr, are following his reckless lead
and will dOubtlessTblaSt their hopes and
end their treasonnble career in the bIuck
ahysm of disunion, where civil war alwnys
carries those who begin the revolution
leaving their wi es aud children, as Blen-
nerhasset left his, to the cold embraces of
the winters storm, and the colder charities
of an outraged Government.
Mr.. Editor, we either have a Govern.
ment or else we have-not. am for testing
| the strength of ii; not by coercion, MS i'm
| trrpreted by disunionists, but by making
| F'wP the people" who formed the Union,
obey the laws. II the Government has no
strength. ], for one, desire to know it, II
we are living under IA rope of sauh,p
which must give way Mt the bidding of any
State which has been defeated in any
election, and we are all to he involved in a
war, tho like of which hns never been
seen, TO crafty the whims of that State.
for Gods sake let us know it now, so that
we may seek safety in flight, before the
| pillars give way, of their own rottcnness.
and bnry us in the ruins of the temple.
A strange contradiction ia in the months
of many men. They are opposed to seces-
sion and also to coercion. They tell you
that State has 20 right to scccds-tbat
secession isrevolution--hut that the Federal
government must not and has no right to
cocrce; that is, she has no right to exccnto
her own lHws-nO right to do what her
| Executive head has sworn to do, aud what
the unPrcjudircd judgement of every man
who loves his cOuntry, says he must Do
Aye, sir, this is the argument OF traitors,
and cannot he the argument of an honest,
intelligent, lAw-abiding man.
think thousands of good men have
been dragged into this revolution, as the
unthtnktng horse rushes into bIttle; hut il
IS because their love of party predominaies
over their love of country; or because the
wrongs of the South and the Injustice of
| the North have been mAgnitied and misre-
Presented, and their sectional attachment
has swallowed up their love of the gov
| ernmeut
went into the election OF President
against Mr.. Lincoln, AID exerted all nv
powers to defeat him, with john Bell. II
had not intended to abide the result, /
should never have entered the contest
Lincoln should take his seat and execute
the laws. and have no doubt he will and
in doing so, he shall have whatever sun
port can give him. may be called an
aool.t'onist-I have been already lit is