Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-28


gate to themselves those feudal habits and
those ditioualexemptions aud those gov
erning attributes which harecursed the Old
World. Hence Thomas Francis Meagher,
one of the most gifted of all of Ireland's
unhappy children who have sought our
shores, knowing, as he SO well does, the
history Of this despotic conspiracy, well
says that ithe 1rishman who is not with
us in this eontest-With rs heart and soul
let him never utter anothersyfiabIe about
the liberty of Ireland"
More pointed sentence was never pen
ned. That Irishman, who forgetful of
all that his race has suffered from the
'hear.lessness Of 8 great landed aristoeracy
from the heartlessness of those Who
were born to n condition of life, of eduea-
ton, Of wealth, of Office, to which neither
he nor his children could ever rise, be
their merits or their talents what they
might, full surely ought never to
mouth the wordltberty again, after turn
ing his back upon the last hope Of man for
free Institutions. 1t follows as night fol-
lows day, that he who is false to human
liberty and advancement in America, never
could appreciate it in Ireland.
MOI The only hope that the masses
Of men, be they foreign or native, have
now left to them is in the success of the
arms of this republic. The great God
shove, who has appointed once unto man
to die, has likewise appointed once unto
nations, and il by BY our own hand, in the
very morning and vigor of our free exist
enee, long before our time, We cut short
the great experiment that is making of
mons capacity to govern himself to retain
form Of society in which the son of the
humblest is peer to the son of the proud
est-in which the road to distinction and
preferment and wealth is open alike to
him who was born in cabin and to him
Whoiwas born In the marble font, then We
die without no pc Of resurrection Allhis-
tory shows that wherever free nation has
gone down the eraelest of tyrannies has
succeeded; and in proportion to the liberty
that was enjoyed has been the despotism
that followed. No nation ever yet dqpii-
Gated itself Just as you cannot gather
grapes of thorns or figs of thistles, you can
not succeed the destruction Of free ma
ton with the birth of another free one
Either anarchy or despotism must follow
low. God save rs from choice between
the two.
FellOw.citizens of foreign birth, we have
made this appeal to you, to do what you are
able to do, to preserve the liberties which
you aad all of MS have SO long aud which
you yet enjoy. Let each one do as he is
able. He that can enlist, let him hasten to
do SO he that cannot without such sac
riice as he could NOT as yet justify, let him
give money or whatever he can spare that
will be of service to the good cause. Your
welfare is bound up in the success of this
great cause. You have nothing to expect
from the success of those who are fighting
simply to make the Constitution and the
policy Of yonr adopted country a slave
Constitution and slave policy. Surely
it is a thousand times better to err on the
side Of liberty, than to risk SO much rs a
hairs breadth against it. And not man,
who has an appreciation Of the freedom he
has enjoyed in years gone by, can say that
he expects that it is any part of the inten-
tion of the Southern aristocrats TO enlarge
that freedom. Mol w-citizens-oncc
you part with the freedom of our reVolu-
tionary fathers, you part from it forever.
This aristocratic Southern conspiracy-be-
gotten in the same brains that conceived
the opprobrious term of "mudsills" for
those who labor-that invented the theory
that "capitaI should own labor'-that the
normal condition Of society was. class
born to rule and class born to work
that has ridtcalsd free society as u con-
glomerate of "hnrd listed farmers and
mechanics striEiugto be senteeln-prom-
Uses no hope to you, that you should have
one sentiment or one sympathy towards 1t.
THE New York Herald gives a table of
the Union and Secession voters of the IF
teen Southern States. as exhibited when
the people of that section were first called
upon, to decide between loyalty, and rebel
li6nl ID some Of the States no direct vote
has yet been had, and We are, therefore,
(says the Herald forced to estimate the
strength of the tive parties: at
,..s1s, sls4.Is Union Secession.
North Carolina........ 47,26s 46,672
Virginia ,536 45,l6l
Tenn ssoe............... 81 $50 Il ~ 81, 1856
Texas ....................tI2,l72 Al 500
Arkansas ..........!...} 10 ,s26 27,412
South Oarolina......4 ~ 10000
Georgia. $4,000 5T,600
AlabamA. 27,60O $4,000
Mississippi. ............. $4,000 Sc, 900
Louisiana. II, OT6 20.44s
lorida....,.............. 1900 6,1OO
Delaware ............... l2,4OO 5000