Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-03

/ man. ! know his elements. l Know the
| ingredients that constitute the compound
called Isham G. Harris. King Harris to be
my master, and the master of the people
that have the proud and conscious satis-
faction of representing on this floorl Nlr.
President, he should not be my slave
[Applause in the galleries.]
GOVERNMENT IN sELE-PRoTEcTIoS.
Senators talk about violating the con-
stitution aud the laws. A great deal has
been said about searches and seizures, and
the right of protection of persons and of
papers. reckon il is equally as important
to protect a goUernmsnt frGm seizure as IL is
an indiUiduaE. reckon the moral and the
law of the case would be just rs strong n
seizing upon that which belonged to the
Federal Government US it would upon that
belonging to an individual. What belongs
to US in the aggregate is protected aud
maintained hy the same law, moral and
| legal, as thattha belongs TO an individual.
These rebellious States, after commencing
this war, after violating the Constitution,
seized our forts, our arsenals, our dock
yards, our custom houses, our public build
ings, our Slips, aud last, though not least,
plundered the independent treasury at New
Orleans of Sl,000,O00. And yet Senators
talk about violations of the law and the
Constitution. They say the constitution
is disregardel and the government is about
to be overthrown. Does not this talk
about violations of the constitution and
law come with beautiful grace from that
side of the House? repeat again, sir, Is
there not to be more toleratiou to viola
tions of the constitution for its protection
and vindication than there is 20 violations
of it, in order to overthrow and destroy
the Government We have see1 instances,
and other instances might occur, where it
might be indispensably necessary for the
Government to exercise a power aud to
assume position that was not clearly legal
and constitutional, in order to resist the
entire overthrow and npturning of the gov
erument and all our institutions.
Mr.. JoHNsoN's DEMOCRACY.
In the last Presidential contest am free
to say that took some part. L advocated
the pretensions and claims of one of the
distinguished sons of Kentucky, as DEM
ocrat. am Democrat To-day; 1 expect TO
die one. Ny democracy rests upon the
/ great principle have stated; and in the
| support of measures l have always tried to
I be guided by a conscientious conviction of
right aud have laid down for myself, rs
IL rule of action in all doubtful questions,
I 10 pursue ulu III LuG Vi
Il great principle can never reach
wrong conclusion. | intend, in this case,
to pursue principle. am Democrat,
believing the principles of this government
are Democratic. 1t is based upon the
! Democratic theory. belieTe Democracy
can stand, Notwithstanding all the taunts
and jeers that are thrown ut it throughout
| the Southern Confederacy. The princi-
. Piles which l call Democracy-I care not
I by what name they are sustained, whether
| by Republicans, by Wings or not-are the
/ great principles that lie at the foundation
/ of this Government, and they will be
maintained. We have seen that so far the
experiment has succeeded we'll and now
we should make an effort, in this last or
deal through which we are passing, to
crush out the fatal doctrine of secession
and those who are cooperating with it in
the shape OF rebels and traitors.
VIRGINIA THE battlefield.
** The Old Dominion has got the
brunt of the war upon her hands | SYM
pathize with her most deeply, and especi-
ally with the loyal portion of her citizens
who have been brow-beaten and domineer-
cd over. Now the war is transferred to
Virginia, and her plains Nre made to run
with blood and when this is secured,
what do we hear in the far South? How
ell Cobb, another ofthese disinterested pa
triots, said not long since, in speech in
Georgia:
"The people of the Gulf States need
have no apprchensions they might go on
with their planting and their other busi-
ness as usual; the war would not come to
their section; its theatre would be along
the borders of the Ohio river and in Yir-
! ginia"
She ought to congratulate herself upon
that position, for she has got the war =
Now Ihey want to advance. Their plans
and designs are TO get across into Mary
land and carry on n war of subjusatiou--
There is wonderful alarm among certain
gentlemen here at the term .subiugate." u
: They are alarmed at the idea of making
citizens who have violated the law simply
conform to it by enforcing their obedience.
If majority of the citizehs in State
have violated the constitution, have tram
pied it under foot and violated the law, is
it subjugation to assert the supremacy o
the constitution and the law? Is it any
more than the simple enforcement of the
law? 1t would be one of the best subju-
cations that could take place If some oi
them were subjugated and brought back to
the constitutional position that they occu-
pied before. would TO God that Tennes-
see stood to-day where she did three
months ago.
THE OPPRESSED UNION MEN is TENNESSEE
Since left home, having only one way
to leave the State, through two or three
passes coming out through Gumberland
. Gap, | have been advised that they had
even sent their armies to blockade these
passes in the mountains, as they say, to
prevent johnson from returning with arms
and munitions to place in the hands of the
people, to vindtcate their rights, repel in
vasion, and put down domestic insurrec-
tion and rebellion. Yes, sir, there they
stand in arms, enyironing a population o
three hundred and twenty-five thousant
loyal, brave, patriotic and unsnbduei peo
iPle; but yet power!ess, and not in condi