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

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Congress will not, however, be dictated 70
| By the pro-slsyeEyites Of the new State,
and on account of tEeir sOphistic elaaiors
made to do anything which they believe
dangerous rs precedent. The whole
grounds will be eanyassed in debate yery
soOn now. aad every citizen Of the new
State may rest assured that all that PARTIAL
ity for rs can suggest viii be do ne.
P. s. Since writing the above, We have a
private dispatch Informing rs that the
COmmitte on Territories had q third meet
ing on Monday at which fye of the
seven members we're present. Their action
was united Ia favor Of a report for the adj
mission OF the new State. They viii have
a full meeting again this week, after which
their deliberations viii be submitted to the
Senate.
Ths NSeesslty fer Summary Dealing
With BeeeSSIOn.
Some people are fond of debating the
question Of Union and secession in the light
Of party question. Seeessionists claim
that they hGTe the same right TO express
their opinions that Democrats; Wings and
Republicans ever had, and that 6Gy law or
any force that restraints Them is simply an
unconstitutional tyranny. This Is an ar
gument, or an appeal rather, that hiss been
made every day since the war commenced.
The freedom of opinion aud of expression
has never been so much Landed OF quoted
since the United States we're nation as 1t
has been since the war for their dismemb-
ermsnt has commenced. In Wheeling here
We have heard 1t, just as we have every.
where else where there were secessionists.
We propose to briefly ask attention TO one
or two points Involved In such a view Of the
question of liberty Of speech.
This war is not political campaixu.--
There are no sides 70 1t, except an made
and an outsids-in other words. there is no
issne except the one of National existence
or National distraction. 1t Is not con-
test between two or three or four parties.
ali Of whom are endeayoriug to do what Is
hest, il their patriotic judgment, for the
good Of the Nation, as has frequently been
the case in times past. 1t is not contest
Wherein the Consultation, the laws and orr
form Of Government is TO be supreme
whoever may win. No such thine4-
It is simply a contest on one side for
the preservation of our form OF Gov
ernment against another side who are
aiming By armed force every way in their
power to overthrow and wholly destroy it !;
to wipe it ont Of extstence-diyide ii, and
make the parts OF 1t, heretofore united,
hereafter discordant and antagonistic. This
is what this war means.
To the Intelligent and patriotic mind,
then, the cant of secessionists about liberty
of speech, and their quotations about their
rights under the Consultation are sfmbIy
.nOpstrous absurlities. And when they
claim sympathy for their arrests and i'm
prisouments, they claim just what a crimi-
nal coveted In any Of our courts could Just
as well, and even better claim. The man
who robs, or steals, OF murders, 70 the az
tent Of any one OF these crimes, ie6es the
law OF the land. uproots and en-
dangers the peace of society. and for so
idolng be is phuished.-is arrested, confined
iand deprived Of his equality with law.abid-
ing citizens. It's no excuse 10 any good
mNa for the criminal 10 plead his conyic-
lions of right oF-WrOng as TO the nature Of
society: The Judge and Jury scout all
such staff. They do mot for 4 moment toll
crate the idea of allowing such pernicious
pleas to coEe between them and the stabili-
" of law and good order, and social and
personal security. Neverl oigas ar
This, then, ON small scale, is the whole
ground Of secession. We have in the
country men who are In arms against the
Government who are moving heaven aud
earth to destroy 1t; to infraCt not only
some one Law, for which criminals are
punished, but to destroy every particle and
Vestige Of the Government that made all
the laws. And We have here and there
men who are in secret sympathy and conn
sci with these armed traitors-Who are
hoping aud helping in every possible GOV.
ert way for their success. who openly ex-
press their sympathy with them, and who
would welcome the consummation Of ali
their fell designs, And all their aid and
sympathy e expressed, TOO, strange to say.
under a claim of constitutional tight Z I'M.
der claim Of protection from the Oonsti.
tuition of the, Government which they are
seeking to destroy, and which they iguore
as their Government, - -
Fhisis the case that ia presented 70 our,
attention in W. ,ol;v,. -, 4,