Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-09


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And ioiIaS it to Death or Fame.
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The speech M Isx-Gov. brown, of
Teuueasees .-I.--fte.l-3 81
We printthis morning, ihc.speech of Ex.
Coz. Neil s. Brown, Of Tennessee. deliver
ed at Columbia, in that State, on Tuesday
last, TO a great Union gathering. The Ex-
Governef then and .tiiere made a pubic re-
cantation of secession-ienouueetl it as an
irrational aud unsuccessful folly, explain.
cd lis coerced ncquieseenee in it when the
frenzy becane epidenie in Tennessee, and
Avowed his sorrow aud regret for the par
tiaI success with which it had met:
To this speech VIC invite the attention of
or secession fellow citizens of Western
Virginia. What is good for Ex-Go1ernor
Brown, ought TO be good for them what
has proved satisfactory to hi1a, ought like
wise to be enough for them. His expert.
enee ought to be accepted even more than
their own, aud ongbt to work out even
stronger convictions of error for them than
it has for himself.
We ask the calm consideration of disaf.
feeted people in our midst TO the points of
tbesRt-GUvsrnoF We hope that they will.
50 far consult their ownt profit as % read
them. They are The deliberately EXPRESSED
convictions of a man who, like many of
themselves, went OF into this secession bu-
siness without weighing the issues of ii.
and without realizing the dreadful conse-
quences which it has entailed upon them
selves as we'll as upon their Union fellow
citizens. and upon the country generally,
both North and South. Surely, there is
great merit in sueh a speech. 1t took NOR
Al courage in man Of Gov. Browns posi-
ton to make it. The speech is full both Of
brains and heart. II swells out with a re-
RFesfuh and repentnnt patriotism. No one,
unless he be less than a man, however much
Of a secessiOnist he may. be, can read the
speech without feeling how sincerely it
wells up from both tue head aud soul Of
the speaker.
one can forgive the errors OF such man.
We all know that eighteen months ago the
paths of duty were dark aud tangled in
Tennessee, and in all the Slave States, aud
it is not surprising thn, many excellentiy
disposed men lost their way. In Western
Virginia twas the case. Tie heat of par
y politics. was great at tho close, of The
Presidential campaign, and political feel
ing was intensely bitter The willy
leaders of Secession knew This (;
knew their opportunity, and under one
guise and another induced, the people to
accept dOgma5 of party faith, the ineti
table Issue Of, which was dtsupign. The
pride OF strong party men lead them into
the embrace Of these errors, aud kept them
following %, when hundreds OF them
would have been glad indeed, TO have re-
traced theIr steps. ~ }5ste
In Western Virginia, as in Tennessee,
there were very few men who were essen
tally and sentimentally seeessionists. The
disease Of disloyilty was not natural 10
the climate of either State. 1t seemed to
conc, like tropical epidemies have come,
in violation Of nature, and to lay hold OF
the people in a day. The mountains OF
Tennessee aud Western Virginia or of any
other country, do not breed diaIoyalty OF
themselves, any more than they do yellow.
fever. Loyalty 10 freedom dWells alwoys ia
the mountains. 1t lives in Switzerland
when it lives no where else in Europe.
There Is, therefore, great appropriateness
i9 paPlilbihg this speech of "a Tenhcksean
10 the people of Western Virginia, aud vc.
have no doubt that it will. find response,
even though it be un-admitted, in tue
heart Of every man in our midst who has
gone astray altar SECESSION It csnuot be-
thai aHay mp here. more facts, moro cxpe-i
Renee, more morsels of the fruit of good.
nna evil, arc required than down in Teu-
nesses. 1t cannot be that there is less pa
triOtism among our people than among
those whom Gov. Brown Represents. 1T
caOnot be that his sorroWful, regreffai la.
ment over the condition Of the country that
Is e6mmon to him aud to all Of US, aud his
moving rSmembranees aud references. to |
the historic aud happy days of the past,
viii fall dead upon the embiltered feelings
Of Nuy amongst US. Can not NC all, as
well as him, stop awhile aud look round
and Ike him let our returning sober sec.
oud Thoughts have sway forah heur over our |
aipds; Surely the iGherita nee Of every man |
in. Western Eirginla in the glorious past of |
our government aud our flag, is notiless
precious than 1t is to this repentapt
Tenne89San. Aud are not our future hopesI \
iqitRS Just IfIf4sb{ tRpiF TsiIi Ithe +
hopes that are common to him aud TO all
A@ettc4qs. Why they shpula Flsa' to
persist beyond such kind and patriotic
co1nSels.asr those of Gov. Brown, in. Tho
work Of Destroying forever the noble gov