Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-19
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I Prom tic PhfadelPhia Prusl
The persuasive power of speech aud the
sophistry OF the pen must yield In the ex-
tremity of nations 70 higher umpire
hesEord, mans oldest appeal, has found
in this war its original dignity, and the
master men that led in debate, and were
/ FIRST at the council, have come at last to de-
I eide the issue with arms.
/ State rights and Federal rights have con-
tended a long while upon the stump, and
! in the Senate; for in the eloquence of the
I Trainers Of the Constitution our present
| troubles began. After eight years of agi-
tation, their final adjustment must be left
! 10 generals rather than orators or writers.
We now present the attitude of continu-
Gus armies extending across the continent
between the sea and the prairies-three
hundred thousand men on either side-to
| fight out these rival issues. And, apart
| from its terri BILE consequences, and the i'm
mediate sin in which it was bego.ten, this
war is noble and sublime spectacle, 1t
demonstrates the heroism and strength of
both sections. It has resolved race of
civilians into q race of soldiers. It is a
struggle of ideas that do not finch from
deeds, aud of principles that will be yield
ed but with life. 1t is demonstration of
practical independence worth more than
the eulOgies of century. These armies
have been voluntarily gathered, and they
arc greater than any that tyranny ever
brought into the field. States that,
united, maintained standing army SMALL
er than the present garrison of Paris, have
separately enlisted forces greater than
the entire armies of most Of the nations
of Europe. Citizens whose wealth ana in
4 fueuce would have placed them, under ty
/ af1 of r0UnrPihFinn
are enlisted in our volunteer armies, side
/ by side with the toiling and obscure, feel
] ing common devotion in common cause.
| Not men alone, but money, is freely sub
scribed to the Republic. The great man
ufactories are altered into armories. Those
who do not WELD the spear are beating
out the sword, and wives, the reward of
1 whose sacrifice is widowhood and want,
place the steel in the soldiers hand and
cheer him on to battle.
\ The whole country is brfstling with
!. bayonets. When the echoes of Sumter
had reached New England her children
were on the march, and before the sound
of hostilities had broken upon Europe,
troops from twelve States had rallied on
the border line. In any cause but this, we
would have hailed the spirit Of the South.
If bold, bad men, can thus stir up the
people of section, what could we not ex-
pect of the whole country, contending for
a common rightl -'I
The Northerner, quick in bargain but
slow at blow the Southron, indolent but
when impelled by passion, will exhibit in
this contest their several individualities.
1t has commenced with few slight sue
4 cesses in favor of the hoe blood and fierce
courage of the South. 1t will end in the
greatest victories of modern times, achiev-
ed by the sagacity and indomitable perse-
yerance of the North. The latter brings
to It's aid resources of art, intelligence,
and persistence the former an animal
courage that every reverse will cool, and a
J common malevolence that defeat will
change into feud and INSTRUMENTATION.
Upon one side are engaged good instincts
perverted, power without order, and q
; principle in itself subversive and rninOus
on the otherIs elements of discipline, en-
durance, and integrity, that, having for
their motive the welfare of the nation, and
! the common good of man, will neither be
iutimidated by losses nor unduly flushed
by success. Going steadily forward, with
/ good conscience and resolute hearts, civili
cation will go with them, and the heresy
and incidence that slavery has begotten
will resign beautiful and fertile section
to free industry, free Gospel, and free
thought.
The cruSade we wage mas nothing OIL IA
naticism about it. And while the results
that we predict were not the objects foT
, which the war was begun, greater hand
: than ours, that is guiding the elements for
/, the welfare of mankind, will make them +,
/ if not intended, not less inevitable.
Our motives have changed, since the
3 commencement of the war. We are al
: most prepared to accept any instrument
tally or advocate any reform. Constitu-
tional obligations have restrained Us, but
the most prudent begin to assume that
:hose who break all laws deserve little
e protection. Each event will r1dicalize this
contest, and enlist new motives, so that,
: to the philosophic eye, these
H Espirits ~
Ofgreat events stride on before the events,
l And in to-day already walks tomorrow"