Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-08-08

Indeed, there are asy people these times
ealling themselves thus Who are UnioH
people. He makes oas poia. especially
that every uAn ought to read aud rs.rsai
ualil bis mind fully eonPrshsnd' tie great
meaning iaToITed. We quote
For more tbsn = year We have been 60.
gagei 10 this Struggle, into which an AFRO.
ganl add dielof!ai slave oiigsrchy hss Idr.
ta /. free, happy and peaceful people 6gs,-
log iof the nEhtI Of all. With true brave.
~ sad iayiasibls patience our citizen
soldiers have stood % ;his groaal 10 tbs
pfeisnt moment agAiast VigiAl0rs Of The
laws Of war and humanity. Rsmaibinz
true to their principles, they have saii by
words aud ActioaI. 10 their isiiOu citizens
la the South, We light Tor common rights.
II We win, you win II "a, G0rsraasaiis
HaiAidiH,d, you ,slH dvsH pHisr ne protect.
ing shadgp a. frs,iy ai rs Ind ksy, NJ
Hghd. and mm ne sdy 10 dog.
Bat y he COgisdsr1isi yr,rai, fIy,r,Y
Peaes and Igf,iy 10 ~ yaTprsH trS,ion tor-
,ssr. Their principles aud leaders are
known 10 Us. They cheated us, crying out
40 eoefriOu holding out false hopes aud
deesitll assurances OF friendly regard,
while assassin ike, they were preparing y
destroy our Government aud reduce Us to
anarchy or seryituds The pat years III.
gai,Rss rsaitrs Il certain that IiAsy triuaDh.
blood aad d,i9iah1g, in, and srord. or ar.
5hrdry u5jseiiOA 10 their rH, alenn ,r,sy
ehIs man HhO AdI na1h00d shslgl 70 de-.
Ike hSp IgItcia Of iidVTy, tolefAble only as
a cruel necessity, but as principle hateful
10 God and man.
They will omit 40 meauJ, honest or dis
honest, to insure success. Msrrpressni.
log, eliminating our motives, ridicuiug
our honest Efforts to mitigate the horrors
Of war, and ildiming the passions Of the
populace by low epitbel5, are amoag the
mildrr and more ordinary mean. resoried
to by this pseudo "chivalry," tue mennest
ansIocracy that ever stood at the head 0l
a civilized society.
The above /. lo,eibly expressed sun.
mary Of the whole case. "If the Goyern-
meat is maintained, you THE seeessionists)
will dwell under the protecting shadow AS
freely as We
But" (mark the wordsl, ''if the coafed-
entes prevail, farewell peace aud safety to
Us; farewell freedom forever"
These words ought to go houe to every
Union mans heart They are living
text; something tina. we eau all feel aud
see and understand, for every days expert.
ence goes to eonirn them.
"The pas. years experience continue,
the General, "rcnders it certain that ii
they triumph, blood aud desolation, IRE
aud sword, or arbitrary subsection to their
will, awaits every white man who has man
hood enough to dislike their system OF
slavery
30 one here in Western Virginia will
dare to call Gen. Rosecransa fanatic, Er.
60 the seerssionists will not say 50. They
profess, as We understand it, to rather like
him than otherwise. lie is a man who
oagbt to command the confidence OF all
those who we're so ready TO express good
opinions OF him last winter. Do they be.
licyc what he says! We all know how Il
was in times past when the Southern COO.
spirators were in power at Washington
We all know that there was even then, as
Gen. Rosecrans expresses it, an arbitrary
subsection" to their will of every white man
who had "manhoOd enough to dislike their
system Of slavery" Such man for years
past could no more obtain prefermCut
at Washington than he could in South Car.
olna. 1t was only the men who swore by
Slavery-who were willing to swallow Lc-
compton frauds-Missouri compromise re.
peals-aud swagger about States rights aud
the rights OF the South, who could ever
obtain favor under the National Govern.
meut. These very Southern despOts, to
whom Gen. ROsccraus nlludes. bounded
Douglas down because after having gon,
with them so much of the road, he would
not 90 farther, but brancbed of when il
came to the LccOmptOn fraud From tina
day on they were his sworn enemies. No
only we're they, themselves, his enemies
but they made the national Government AT
instrument 10 their hands to punish him.
Mr.. Buchanan's entire patronage was ar
rayed against him. Douglas Postmas
tiers like Gray, OF Cleveland, wer,
beheaded because they wouldn't be,
come the serfs OF ToOmbs ( Co., ant
Douglas himself was removed from hi
place in the Senate as chairman OF com
mittee, a thing that was never known tc
be doue before, because he had dared tc
make an issue with men who have sinct
bOasted. that for years they were disuniou,
lists,
Who then can doubt what is 10 store FOL
the free people of the country in case these
Southern cOnsPira,Ors succeed. Will there
be any more liberty than there was? vii
Esitt and Pryor and Wise suddenly becomt
tolerant and allow Douglas men and all
others to oppose their slave schemes?-
Does any sane man deluds himself with
such an idea? Who eau think that after il
shall become fact that the slave eonspi.
ratOrs are able to Ovorturn the Govern,