Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-10

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Government and its enemies cannot both
be right. Aud if the City Council and
the Mayor expected me to come here and
pray 70 God to split the difference between
them aud take part with neither, they have
made mistake; I shall do no such thing.
II shall prove that our Government is right
from the fathers of the Republic and from
the Bible, aud then l shall ask God TO de-
fend the right, if every man and woman in
Wheeling and in Virginia was opposed to
me. And let 1t be understood that this
momentous question, involving as it does
the freedom or slavery of yourselves and
lyour posterity through all coming time, is
not to be settled by an appeal to passion
and prejudice, nor by your opinions or
mine; but by an appeal to the facts of his
tory and the word of God.
Let Us not deceive ourselves we nre on
the eve of most sanguinary and relent-
less civil war, aud shall be compelled to
take sides either for the General Govern
tment or against it. The time has come
when you must choose sides, and this state
of things has been precipitated by the aC-
ton of your own convention.
You may shut your eyes d-stop your
ears, and cry peace; but there is no peace,
The clangor of arms and the tramp of
armed legions is all around ynn, and may
shortly be at your doors. You will be
called upon to make sacTifices-pecuniary
I sacrifices, and it may be the sacrifice of
life. War is an evil-N tremendous evil,
but there is an evil Thousand fold great
er, and that is the iron heel OF despOtism,
a cruel, heartless, relentless despotism that
| would supercede the baliot.bOx by the
cartridge-b box; despotism that would
plumber our property, peril our lives. and
1 RI. 4,
n curse, our liberty. Let US now and here
count the cost and ascertain whether our
| country and its institutions are worthy the
sacrifices we may be called upon to make.
Have we a country, fellow citizens n
| Have We country known at home and
abroad as the United States of America,
that has risen in eighty years from the
thirteen feeble, dependent colonies TO the
rank of one of the mightieSt nations Of
the earth A country whose Constitution
has been the wonder of the world aud
whose glorious flag has been borne over
land and ocean, and has been the shield of
the citizen wherever it Aoated in the breeze
of heaven, without inQuiriug whether he
was native or foreign born, or whether he
lived in Massachusetts or South Carolina
Had the God of Providence any hand in
Tending and watching over the young
giant empire2 Has he any designs to be
accomplished through its instrumentality
in the civil and moral regeneration OF the
world2 Did the noble patriots who erect
ed this glorious temple OF liberty, cement
ing it with their blood, and snuctifying il
with their prayers; 1 say did they design il
should, iu less than century, be torn to
pieces by the Naudnl hands of those yvhd
had enjoyed the largest share of it's bcne-
fits; or did they dig deep and lay its foun-
dations on the rock of immutabIe truths
so that, thoegh the rains might decend
and the floods come, and the winds oil
treason and perjury, fNlsehood and tyrau-
mics might beat upoa it, it should not fall,
being founded upon a rock? Did they
design that this nation should remain one
united nation, under one Constitution and
one government, till time shall be nc
more
shall now prove to yon by the most
conclusive evidence, that the trainers Of
the Constitution and government of these
United States did intend that the unior
of these States should be perpetual. And
that they did believe that division of thu
same would be their destruction.
The Reverend gentleman then proceeded
to quote from Judge Story, Washington
Jefferson, Jackson, and the law of treason
against the United States, and variou,
other authorities and statesmen bearing
upon the present condition of things. Ii
conclusion he said tina: he desired TO hav,
no fellowship with traitors or spies. II,
said he did not want traitors to set in hi.
church, and II there WAS SPY in the con.
gregatiou he wanted him 10 get up anC
leave.
At the Union Presbyterian Church. il
North Wheeling, discourse was delivered
by Rev. ]. T. McLure, founded on the Ii
verse, 18th chapter, Of lst Kings.
TheRevereud gentleman entered minute
~ into the Jewish history of the period
referred to in the text and showed a re
markable parallel between it and TIL
events of the present time in the histor,
OF our own country. He referred to In
secession of the ten tribes and the couse
iquent division in Israel, and showed con
telusively that from that day the JewlsI
people declined 10 power aud prestige unit
they have become hy-Word aud svoFf.-
And this would be the fate of our owl
country, unless We stopped iu our. maj
At The Second Presbyterian Church, tn
Rev. r, V. Dodge made some very patriot
ic remarks, though he didn't undertake 1,
deliver regular sermon. He read IN
18th chapter of Samuel, and in the cours
of his remarks, declared that in3Ihe CON
test now going on around US, the Govern
ment was right, and it was the .inty )
every good man and Christian TO sastai,
It with all bis might He spoke of IL
Southern people, and said they were NO
like ordinary enemies. he would revers
the saying, 1--WE love the treachery. bu
hate the traitor" and would say, We Low
the traitors, but detest the lreaehery. Il
his prayer, he prayed the Lord to chang
the hearts of those who are in opposite
to the Government; but it not, 10 6anEa
them .froN tie face Of he edrth.
3 THE Rev. q. Marlin a lireratl. Nhn anr,,..,