Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-06
The Moral CowardIee of the Peace
Politicians,


From the Cincinnati Commercial.
Putting aside all political considera-
tions, and making due allowance for the
license of an exciting political campaign,
there is something absolutely humiliating
in the attitude taken by such men as
IIoratiO Seymour, John Van Buren,, Jas.
Brooks, and other leading men of the
conservative party" in New York. They
are absolutely whining for peace and are
not particular about the terms! profess to
be alarmed at the prospect of foreign in
tervention, aud when not 0bjectly SILVER
ing in their moral cowardice devote the
remainder of their time to denunciations
of the Administration, of its financial and
war policy, and talk eternally about the
constitutional rights of the scoundrels who
would rejoice at nothing SO much as the
destruction of the Constitution, and who
are now in arms against its authority.
They are not for c0nfiscation, because,
that is unconstitutional; nor for coercion,
because that is impolitic; nor for emanci-
patton, because that is not only unconsti-
iutional and impolitic, but barbarous in
its designs and ruinous in its results.
The only difference between their talk
and that of the Richmond Erdminer and
Enquirer, is the difference of living, the
other under the rebel Government. In
sentiment and in hostility to the Admins
tration they are one.
They tell the people that secession and
the war which it entniled are the offspring
of the Republican party, when Governor
Rhett, of South Carolina, tells them that
1.-THE election of Lincoln was not the cause
of secession" aud that 'diIuniou has been
"A cherished project for the last thirty
years." They hold out the hope of a union
by compromise and concession, when the
Secession Commissioners of Richmond as
sure them that "if blank page of paper
were offered US, we would not write out
terms of union;n when the Richmond Dis
patch, in response to John Van Bureu's
criuging and whining speech, simply re-
spends that "uniou with the North is i'm
possible" Instead OF urging the people OF
the adheriug States to aid in restoring to
the Ioyalists of the South the rights which
have been taken from them by violence,
these apologists of treason busy themselves
in discovering the rights which traitors
have forfeited aud are protecting them in
the exercise of privileges which they have
Voluntarily thrown away.
Never, since the foundation of the world,
was there seen such al exhibition of law
for partisan devotion and entire absence of
NGluRGGS Tue oOuLl,
men like Hon. A. ]. Hamilton, of Texas, T.
]. Boynton, of Florida, Rev. w. B. Carter
aud ParsOn Brownlow, of Tennessee, who
have Euffered every thing but martyrdom
in the cause of civil and religious liberty as
established under the government of the
United StateS-in vain do these patriots
tell them that "Slavery must perish, that
Liberty may survive" that the Proclama-
ton is the E'irrepressible and iuexorable
logic of events"-a military Measure, not
aimed at Slavery, nor the rights of States,
but at the Rebellion )" that, in their opin.
ion sit is emineutly just and Constitutions
al" and should be strictly enforced and
that "sny terms of compromise or peace
short of an unconditional surrender of the
rebels 10 the Authorities of the United States
would be degrading to its sovereignty, and
destructive of the rights and liberties of
the loyal men of the South" It is in vain
that these patriots plead that the war shall
be prosecuted vigorously, aud that all
means belresorted to crush the rebellion.
Seymour, Van Buren, & Co., like Vallan-
dighem and his partisaus in the West. de-
vote their sympathies aud their influence
exclusively to the interests of those who |
have committed the objectionable sin of
rebellion against the Constitution aud
laws OF their native land. Appealing to |
the prejudiees of the multitude, magnify |
ing the errors Of an Administration, whose |
very weakness only the more imperativeiy |
calls for the support of loyal men; beIit- |
tleing the great questions at stake upon the |
battle fields Of the Republic; aud doing all |
that partisan and personal influence can |
accomplish to divide and distract the
North, these men labor-not to save the |
nation, but to save party-not to restore |
the Union and the glory Of the Union, bat
the power and patronage of themselves |
and their eamp-folloWeEs. II We are not |
contemplate in the eyes of the world, il
will not be the fault of these miserable |
drivellers for a dlshonerable peace and A |
return to the abjeet serTitude Of Southern |
dicsation, TO which they yielded an uumur-