Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-04

not in arms to endeavor 70 tie the hand that
was protecting then-to place uitbes on its
Limbs, sid u eveI posslbI Wy to tei,ar,
and Cd stu ii ADA drew e Oh Is Rul.rd,
IS to sliowsthe armed trai.eF to live hs5me
% its hearsthe dagg in is hsaI.
And yet because the foyeFament has
now At last. through weatihsss shd worn
out magnanimity, resolved TO withdraw
that arm hitherto thrown, ont around all
its childJsuAttie .dtsloSh III IS val asTths.
lOyalzaRds pRt GRdar.r essraint .thoss. rho.
would gladly see it not only restrained but
destroyed, we hear anew the. Disgusting
cant Of constitutional pVoteetisH. The
day 6as gone past when such cant has
any effect on the loyal miud of the copGtry.
It has been SO exposed that allthe dsyilish
purposes that lie concealed under It have
been seen. Breckfnridgs did great deal
in the last session of Congress to open the
eyes of the country People saw. in him .
PRESERVATION of Delflah, industriously and
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hypocritieally endeayoring TO bind the
arms and limbs Of the Government BY
pleading the constitution. in order that
JEFF Davis and his traitorons followers in
arms might gain allies pnder false prsten-
ses in.the loyal States. Thank God, for
Overwhelming of the people, say. We. In
Baltimore and In every other infected
place but one policy Is now being pursued.
These who claim allegiance 70 another
government and dag than that Of The.
Cni0uiare RENTED 70 their allies for pro-
teetioa andconsolattop, and treated as enc
mics, aud no longer as friends. The cline
Of distinction so long needed is being
drawn deep and wide betWeeu those who
are giving their fathers aud brothers and
husbands and their means to perpstlats
our noble Government, and those who are
secretly giving and openly hoping for its
destruction. AS TIE Philadelphia PSess
well says in its last issue, this Government
.;is now in Its photographic With re-
mOrseless and savage adversary. Both
are cOntending for theirlfyes.. There can
be no peace until one or the other is sac
ri6ced and su6jugatsd.P ~
And neither eau there be any peace, ei-
Their in communities or Ia the nation, udtil
Union or Secession goes to the wall. Ri
ther the Uaion men or the seeessionists Of
places like Wheeling and Baltimore, Lon
iSVille. st. Lonis, and ether border cummu-
mites, must desist and give up. Two ale
giapcies, involving as they do all the diff
fereuces Of physical aud social life, can no,
exist together. It is irrational 70 think
of such thing. Union men cannot shirk
the Issue it they would. Their all aud
that of their children afterthem is Involved
in it. It isia petsonaI question. and one
of so all-pervadipg = nature that no man
can separate his individuality from 1t. 1,
is great, wide, deep issue, that reaches to
everything in cttizenships that goes be-
yond business mad livelihood, aud that ef.
fects every mans' social well being just as
health or disease effects his life. He can
not treat it as whigeFy, or Democracy, Of
Republication. However bad no may
think any of these policies, and however
detrimental TO the public good, he knows
that their ascendancy can in the nature Of
things only be temporary, provided only
the government remains. The country
rights itself when it goes astray, but once
Its form Of government is annihilaled that
is the End of its ability to,sdo so. Its
scattered fragments are scattered for all
time TO come. No nation everrecoustruct.
ed itself. The thing is as impossible as to
divide the living body aand then put i,
together againg aud breathe iato 1t the
breath of life. Once destroyed It is dead
and gone from US forever. g
Is this no, then question Of sufficient
moment TO Warrantthe government ia. put
ting under restrictions every citizen who
.abjures his allsgtaIee and aids aud dbets
the great eonsPiracE 20 take away, not tenn
pOrarily but forever, ,our liberties. There
is not a maUin theGtEy of Wheeling, be he
loyalittfor secesstonist, who has mind
euough TO appreciate the question, but who
Wa ~ y eSsstlns MIS- y eeEt- ANY sympathy
that conflicts with the stern determination
Of the government to henceforward make
Its lland felt heavily on secession aSett6rs
in private life,sis o false and pernicions
sympathy aud one which every true Union
man should set his whole influence against.
+ ~. FROM NEW GREEK. a5.s
5 NEW CRERE, yAoi May 81, 1862.
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pleasing task Of communicating for yonr
readers, such intelligence as is Interesting
and Veraclous, connected with misplace
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