Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-04-16
THE CRISIS.
A Fervent spPeal TO the Patriotism
0RIhe Peoule.

Al 4hSG q QihuleG issue Is pfe&enIeQ 10
the American PeOPle-at last broad line
tS drawn between the friends and tue foes
Of the country. The end mat be WSr. Dat
Il not EGe iasVitG6Ie at any ruteP II the
Government Is to perish ia anr case, at
least let It not 90 down without an effort
70 preserve Il on the part of its real friends.
I have pleaded Rhd imPortuned our people
and their representatives. in these letters
70 make ali Sacrifices for the-sake of our
country. have called upon the Republi-
cans 70 give up .eSOrtls and platforms for
the common good. have addressed in
dependent Democrats 10 forget old feuds,
and to come forward and Join any party
that Atood willing to yield anything aud
everything for the purpose OF recalling the
Cotton States 10 the UEiou. and of retains
ing the Border States IN the Union. il is
not only that the appeal Of men in my POI
sition have been IN vain, though answered,
Us Jon will perceive, by tile last great
speech OF Judge Douglas, in which he
showed thar the Republicans IN CongreSs
lad conceded e6eEgtAiEg that the ISoutk had
Oay right 10 deIaaHi. Il Is not only that
these appeals have bceu in vain, as adj
dressed 70 the Southern couspirators, but
the fact that they have heen made has
given new CouraEe TO these conspirators,
I who, while regarding all oilers of concilt-
/ alton rs evidences Of cowardice, have, du-
! ring such magnnuimous Manifestations of
/ the administration and the free States,
T! 6esa lHeEedsfHg their preparations to 6esiroy
1 the Union, and TO TEil hundredS and thous.
0AdS Of msH. White Douglas gaIlautIy
! teStitieS to the fact that there is no practi-
! cal cause for seeession-thAt everything
that bass been demanded by the South has
been yielded by the Republicans, and APP
proved by a Republican President-Breck.
inridge Border State leader, who prOFes.
ses TO favor the Union, rejects the cOansels
\ of the patriotic Senator from Illinois.
4 sneers At the wholesome legislation of the
last Congress, insists upon rniscOnstruing
President Lincoln's inaugural, aud de-
mands new guarantees 1t Re aud his Disu-
union confederates are to return to or to
remain in the Unionl And what saw the
DisUniOnistsOf the Cotton States? While
idenouncing Lincoln and Douglas in the
same breath chasing them together as
alike dislOyal, treacherous, and hostile
| they refuse 20 accept the uIfimaIlSH of Lheiy
O,cH hriLLiHg candidate for President last veor.
and declare htmSelpts iorereT out Of TIE
I URiOa! 1--WE shall never come back to the
| Union" says Howell Cobb. "The iden Of
a reconstruction is impossible" says Da-
Wis. 1--WE ran have no connection with
the free States" says SIidelI; and this
chorus Of contempt for the North and the
Northwest Is is fittingly followed by the
Charleston AeTeltry, which not only rrpu-
diates the free States as so many nests of
foes, but insults the Border States for dar-
ing to think of remaining in the Union Il
Such is the temper in which the proHers
OF peace Rre secuted by the Disunionists
IN both sections of the South But there
Is blacker page in this record. The
Cotton States insists upon capturing forts
and stealing the property OF the whole
people-aud doing this too. 10y force of
arms, and following Il by military prepara.
lions of the greatest magnitude; and mean
while, they demand that the Border States
shall insist that tho Federal Government,
so desTised and harAsSed by the Disunion-
lists. shall not protect itself from anuihila--
tom shall not eEen enforce the laws made
with the aid Of the Cotton States them
selves, but shall patiently stand by and see
the work Of devastation and decay vofn0
on, without raising a hand TO save our un-
happy country, In other words, the Sc-
Ceders ask, nay demand, that the Border
State shnH hold he Government, tphiie then
are cutting out its heart aud nutiIatinq lie
limbs!
This game has been played long enough.
The men who have Npologized to those
who should have apologized to them-who
have allowed themselves to be put in the
attitude oil offenders by traitors, with arms
in their arms-and whose earnest efforts
to solve the national tronbles peacefully
have all been laughed at by these traitors
have now duty to perform to their
country and to the Government
There is not n sympathyEer with Seces-
sion in the free Sta1es who is not regarded
as an enemy by the conspirators, unless he
breaks up his home, and goes over to then,
to aid in the destruction Of the Republic.
A Douglas Democrat is in their eyes worse
that an AbolitioniSt; and Republican Is
put beyond the pale alike of penitence or
Of forgiveness. His regrets are rs insoleu-
tly rejected, as his appeals for liberation
In his own opinions. Where then are the
men Of the North to go? What is the iintv
Of all our people? Clearly to stand BIZ he
Government.
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