Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-14

and If We are true to them they will, en-
dnre for countless ages to come. The Pre-
sident, with all the dignity aud respousI-
bilities belonging TO his position, is but
pilot on the national ship for single watch
of the night. Who will be so insane as to
aid, however Indirectly, in seuttling the
ship, merely because he has quarrel With
the pilot from whose hands the helm Is so
soon to be Wrested Who is williog that
a savage shout, as of victory, shall go up
from that army Of fer0eious rebels whose
hands are dOubly dyed in the blood of our
PeoPle2 Who is willing that a thrill OF
joy shall run throughout the eutii Q South,
and that bOnfres and iliumiuations shall
be kindled in the city of Richmond, over
the triumph Of the opposition ia the great
Empire State2 If such there be let him
vote party ticket. The occasion demands
the development of the sublimest phases of
human character. IfWith the duties to our
land and to our race which are pressing
upon us, we cannot rise apOve 3 miserable
scramble for party spoils and power, then
the sooner We creep into our graves the
better,
Another danger which is threatened
| from the inactiOn Of our armies comes from
abroad. This rebellion is ubiquitous iu the
curses it scatters as il is foolish iu its spir-
lts Lue COuulCbt lEOm OUT CouUeIBlAl huu
| other relations, concerns the happiness Of
the civilized world Foreign nations, with
| EoFbearance that cannot be too much COM
mended, have without interference waited
patiently aud given US every opportunity
to subdue the rebellion. But unless some
/ decisive military demonstration soon takes
| place, and the South is occupied by our
forces, these nations will conclude that we
lack either the will or the power to re.es-
Lablsh the UuiOu.
Already member of the Euglish eabi-
net (Mr. Gladstone) has openly declared
that "DaVis has made q nation of the
South" aud such an announcement. from
such source, cannot but be accepted as
having a startling Significance. II the vast
army in whose presence, as it were, a half
beaten enemy is leisurely destroying one Of
the most important railroads Of the loyal
states, does not do its work speedily, Eu-
ropean governments must ere long yield TO
the clamor oftheir Impoverished aud starv-
ing populations, aud there will come inter
Vention, with all it's woes" Upon this
will follow at once intimate entAugling al
liauces with the South, to be succeeded by
hostilities With US, and, in all human pro-
liability, by the permanent establishment
of the rebel COnfederacy. What fate might
befall our own iustitHtions, amid the bauk-
Il EupbGy anu uHluOEAllAaklOh OEOhbuuEHs
Of spirit consequent on such dismember-
ment, will not trust myself TO inquire
We cannot hope to escape from this train
Ofevents by any exploits OfOu navy, how
ever brilliant, occupying the southern coast
and the cities upon the sea shore. This,
though we'll and very we'll, will be but
scratching the extremiIies of the giant, in
stead of dealing blows at his heart. That
heart palDitates defantly in the armies of
Lee and Jackson which have so recently
raVaged Maryland, and still iFan the banks
of the Potomac threaten the capital.
Ny faith in all this matter is simple and
briefly stated. Il is this: For all things
that are for the Uuion-aRainst all things
that are againsti it. I am for the Union as
uuconditiOually as am for protecting my
own body, at every cost and hazard, from
the knife of the assassin. No human in =
stitution, no earthly interest shall ever by
mo DO weighed 10 the scales against the
! life Of my country. Least of all will ap-
proaeh with unsandalled feet, or permit 10
be thus weighed, an institution, the feeding
fountain of whose being-the African slave
trade-the aEs of my country have for
more than forty years denounced as a crime
worthy of death-a crime not against any
particular code. or any particular form OF
civilization, but crime against the very
race TO which we belong. HoStis humaHi
SensTis is the designation which the Chris
tian legislation of the United States has
given 10 the African slave-trader.
yield to no man in veneration for the
constitution, or in determination that its
blessings shall be extended to those who
respect aud obey il. The door to all these
blessings is widely open to the Southeru
people, and they are earnestly Invoked by
the President TO enter in and enjoy them.
These institutions aud their every inter-
est are in their own bands, aud can be saw
ed not only from ruin, but from the slight
est injury, by the utteranee of single
word-R word of duty ard Of honor. Bat,
If in their passionate pursuit of seperate
empire, and in their blind resentments
against brethren who have never Wronged
them, they refuse to speak that word, aud
prefer to perish themselves, rather than
that the loyal states shall escape destfue-
tiOn-be il so. The world win judge
Alright, and history will record its judg-
ment. But, is It not childish prattle 10 say
that the South can claim to be at the same
moment the pTotegs and the destroyer of
the constitution Does Il not require an
audacity absolutely satanic, to insist that
| benefeeut provisions Of that halloUed in
strument shall be secured to States aud
people who are hOrTly sPurning and spit
ting upon its authority, and who are lead
ing forward vast armies to oVeEWhelm il,
aud with it the homes and hopes Of all who
are rRllying in iis defense? War-eertain-
ly one like this, in self defense-is clearly
constitutional; but, IL such a war has its re-
straints, it has also its rights aud duties;
prominent among which Is the right aud
duty of weakening the enemy by all possible
means, and thus abIidging the sapguiuaFy
conflict, Never until now had II entered
into the imaginatiOns of men to conceive
that among these duties is that Of seeing
that the enemy is clothed and fed aud
armed before he is struck. In prosecuting
the war, while exercising our right 70
weaken the enemy, We may destroy not
only ships upon the sea, and fOrtres-
ses and cities SPon the land, but hnmnn
life upon the battlefield. But what insti-
tuition, what material Interest is there be