Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-01-01
[From the \. Y. pos,l
WE ARE BETRAYED.

The President of the United States is IL
traitor to his country. We measure our
words when we express our solemn con-
Vlctlon that he is one of the parties to q
conspiracy to overthrow our government !;
to defeat the wishes of the people as ex-
pressed mt the late November election, and
10 transfer the city of Washington and the
federal property and archives to the hands
OF rebels.
He and his fellow conspiratOrs dare not
allow the government offices to pass into
other hands, and the public repositories to
be Inspected. They know that the revcla =
tons which the Official records would make
would cover them with infumy. No meas
ure, however desperate, therefore, will Ge
neg ected to prevent the hidden deeds of
this Administration from coming to light.
The cornerstone of this conspiracy was
laid last spring ut Charleston. The Pres-
dent and his confederAtcs dared not trust
even their own partisans to succeed them
the National Convention was then and
there deliberately broken up aud the train
laid which was designed to blow up our
republic.
This, we believe, is now the general CON
TictiOn of the country. Every day con-
tributes new proof of it, and the cOnspira
tors themselves no lougertake the ordinary
pains to disguise it. Even the President
himself has the atrocity to denounce Major
Anderson for taking the obvious and only
means of saving his brave little garrison
from n massacre.
Defeated in his deliberate purpose to
place the government property and fsrtif-
| cations near Charleston at the mercy of til
rebels, nc now, we are credibly informed,
contGmplatcs their unconditional surrender,
and with them all the national military de-
fences along our southern sea-cOast.
The time which belongs to his country
he spends in parleying with rebels who
come to him rocking with treason direct
from the insurgents camp, aud in his own
house is plotting with them for the armed
occupation of Washington by the traitors,
and the overthrow of the federal consti-
tuition.
1t is time for US TO look the awful but
indisputable truths fairly in the face, and
the quicker the better. If the government
of our fathers, or any government worthy
of the name, is to exist i'll this country at
ter the fourth of March, Abraham Lincoln
must be inaugurated on that day. and the
sooner the President and his confederateS
realize the fact, the better it will be for all
concerned.
When the people of the United States
once comprehend the dinboIical purposes
which animate the controlling members Of
the administration, and understand that
the government is to be betrayed in order
that their villainies for the last four years
may not be disclosed, there will no long.
err be any danger, though the President
were Il hundred times more trcachOrouS
than James Buchanan; and his counsclors
Il hundred times more corrupt that Floyd.
There is a practical common sense which
underlies the American character, and
love of the Union with all its glorious tra-
ditions, which is stronger than treason
and full CT resources. Before this, we
venture to say. every Governor in the nor
thcrn States has taken such steps as be-
came him to put himself in readiness to
vindicate the supremacy of the constitu-
ton and laws of this Republic, should that
duty in the course of Gods providence be
devOlvcd upon them, and when the people
realize the dangers which beset the Ark of
our political Covenant, it will be. we
are confident, as far beyond the reach of
actual danger as the eternal principles Of
truth and justice.