Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-01


they had sown through so long series of
years.
lint there may be those who may say,
you have animated at least your opinion of
the causes OF this war aud the nature of
the disease which now threatens the body
politic-now what of its remedy In re-
ference TO its remedy woald say this =
would not prescribe for it; would not
look At it through the glasses of constitu-
tional quibbling, old fogy politicians; hut
| would look at it purely as military
question; aud would say to the victorious
soldiers of the national army struggling as
they have been for the past year aud still
will be, on Southern sOil-that wherever
they 90, carving their way over that terri
tory and find the slaves of the rebels en-
ployed by them in digging their eutrench-
ments and Notifications, or carrying on
their agricultural vocattons whilst the re-
bel is engaged iu his hellish work of muir
dering Union men and soldiers would
say to tnsm if you can employ them profit
ably aud seryiceably in digging your en-
trenchments, in throwing up your defenses,
in taking care of your horses, or driving
your teams,-I would say to you, take them
aud use them as you lcould use the rebels corn,
his crop, his mules, his horses, the cattle
on his fields, or his treason accursed aid
forfeited life. need not be told that the
local laws of these rebel States recognize
the right of property in this particu-
lar species of chattels. Those same
laws equally recognize the same right
in horses aud mules, in cattle and corn.
If you cannot touch property of this de-
scription because it is protected by local
law, neither can you touch the other. They
boosted at the initial point of the rebellion
that slaves were an element of strength to
them. If they are such why should they
not be to US. 1t is a poor rule that will
not work both ways.
would say this word in the hearing of
these soldiers-T would say it by way of
admonition: never even for moment en-
terrain the idea that this Government can
peacefully die. The verdict of 100000
of the loyal people of this land has de-
cIsred that but one government shall bear
rule on the American continent. That SOL
emily recorded verdict the loyal people of
this land will Yindicate and maintain at
every sacrifice of treasure or of blood
They will maintain the integrity of this
land and its Government through the
pathway of the national armies, be 1t over
the ashes of deSolated cities and through
blood to the horses brides. Guard too,
! ever against any Inference that concessions
| by the Constitutional Government of the
land to the reasonable demands of these
hell hounds can ever secure peace. Rend
asunder this land by the shock of couvul-
sion, aud civil war with its long lines of
| inter-locked territory, and with all the
antipathies of feeling and deep hate
| engendered thereby, and pence could
not to be maintained for a day GA hour,
otherwise than through the Intervention of
immense standing armies and of forts all
along its frontier. The history of the world
attests this great truth, that governments
which have to sustain their national ex-
istence by large standing armies in time
of peace, in short time degenerate into
despotisms. 1t is but question of time.
Soldiers of the Republic, upon you pri-
marily devolves the responsibility of main
tanning our national integrity, of preserving
our constitutional government as founded
by the fathers of the Republic, and which
these rebels now aim to raze from turret to
foundation stone, and leave its foundation
horror of deep desolation. The eyes not
only of those you leave behind you amid
the hills aud wales of West Virginia, under
its clear blue sky, and around your family
| affairs arc upon you, but the eyes of the
| civized world this day rest upon you. You
stand as living wall between tue horde OF
bloodthirty rebels, seeking the lives of
those you love best on earth, and your
country's ruin. Your success is our sue
cess; it is the success of all you hold dear
on earth. Your defeat is the loss of all
which men living can hope for, or dying
regret.
1t was the boast of the ancient, proud
and warlike Goths, that if the heavens
were to fall they would hold it up on their
spears. Eight stars have already fallen
from their place in the blue of our nation
al escutcheon. You eau raise them up on
your bayonets and restore them to their
place. Will you do it? TLoud crios of
ayes Yes Yes" That's the talk.
In the darkest hours of the RevolutionR-
ry War. when the mind of Congress and of
the nation was Responding and in doubt,
| Washington uttered these memorable
words: "Leave me but banner and give
me means to plaintiff on the mountnins of
West Augusta, and l will rally round it the
men who will lift their bleeding country
from the dust and set it free.'
You can do that. VIII you aid IN the
endeaTor to do it? raves! Yesl We will ri
The Greek mother when she accoutered
her son for the battle, handed him shield
with these words: "YouI father fought
under this shield. Take it and return with
it, or return upon it," In the name, and
on behalf, of the good people of Marshall
county, and by direction of their Commit
tee, present to the Twelfth Yirginin Reg
iment this flag. Take It. It is the flag of
your fathers. tits true that in its mechan-
ical execution it is imperfect. tit lacked
nothing but the frtnge.-REpoRTRR.l That
will be remedied. It is the ensign of our
nationality Take it and bear it with you
over mountain and plain. Take it, and in
the fierce WhirlWind and shock and conflict
of battle, when sword clashes with sword,
and rally around it as the Roman looked to
and rallied round his eagles. Cling to it
as the shipwrecked mariner on the tossing
waves of the deep blue sea cliugs to tho
last plank ofthe dismantled ship;-cling to
it as the dying Christian clings with tena-
cious life and hope to his God. Applause