Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-14

rules of the ring, while its assaiIauts fight
with every means mature has endowed them
with, and strike foul" at every blow
There is nothing on this earth, and never
was, more false and utterly hollow hearted
than this hypocritical cant about pre-
serving the Constitution AZ itjs-tbis pre-
tence that the loyal Northern peOPlsapssaus
abUlitiOnists, are all tie enemies, and are
going to destroy it-this apprehension Of
ian ''Auti-5lavery DesPotism.' What is
an Anti-SIavery Despotism? 1t is a term
employed by those who sympatbise with
the pro-slavery absOluttsm now Wasring
against Democratic Government. Simply
that aud nothing more. What reason is
there to say that the Northern people are
enemies to the Constitution? None a
few of them, radical and fauatical. have
sneered at it all their lives, bnt in republic
can governments the liberty of speech and
opinion is tolerated. But even thev have
never taken up arms 10 assault: it. Thev
do not oppose physical force to the execu
tioR of it's provisions. They do not XIII
the soldiers it calls into the field. They
make no war against /; except with their
tongues, and have never done much dam
age, as yet. And yet the cu-ntors par e.
ceElsncs Of the Constitution can see nothing
more criminal in the levying of terrible
and Infamous war against the COnstitu-
ton. than in the Idle and ineffective sueers
of few fanatics There can be bu. one
explanation Of proposition SO mon
strous. Ii is as already suggested. that
they cry Lord Lord :" when they mean
Satan Sstan!' They lose sight of every
provision of tine Constitution except that
which protects rebel masters in their ne
gro property. They want no other provis-
ion enforced. They are willing thut all
those sublime declarations that nre embod-
led in the Constitution, upholdiug this fla
brio of Constitutional liberty, shallibe euuk
III tue bottOmless abyss, 80 that negro
slavery be preserved il all its pristine beau.
". This is the Alphu and Omega of their
preservation of the Constitution as it is
their restoration tue Union as it was. The
Union never eau be restored as it was, no
more than man can call back his life and
live it over. The past is irrevo, abIe-tbe
mischief of the past is irreparable. Can
you restore to life, to their families, to So
ciety, the thousands Of gallant aud geuer-
Gus souls who were murdered, aud mangled
afterward, by armed traitors, because they
would not tamely surrender their Govern
meut and Coustitutiou-tbeir free institu-
tionS-their civilization? Cau you restore
the millions of treasure that have beea
, swallowed up because the Uuiou has been
ssseiied and must and will be preserved +!
If you cannot, then you cannot restore the
Union as it was. But you may restore it,
! and make it better than il was You NAV
sink conspiracy against freedom and hu-
man right SO deep in the ocean of infamy
that no plummet can ever reach it. and no
. bubble will ever come up 10 show where it
went down forever. You may make the
Union better than it was, stronger Than ev-
er, more respected abroad and loved at
home, but you must FIRST expunge the last
vesuge OF secession, otherwise it will lin
ger like the dreaded plague, aud the war
for our institutions will every few years
have TO be fought over.
We have warned the people from time to
time of these constitutional Secessio uists-
r these wolves in sleeps clothing. They are
. labOriug to undermine the Government, by
weakening confidence il its integrity OF
purpose. Their arguments are specious
though superficial. They want to divide
the sentiment in the loyal States; to build
up resistance 70 support of the war; to
create faction and strife and distrust of the
Government and thus relatively increase
the chances of success for :he rebellion.
To do this they iterate and reiterate the
assertion that the war forced upon the
Government by the South is war of the
North for the adjustment of slavery.
Why, the greatest abolitionists OF the age
are tue leaders of the rebellion They are
} driving OF their slaves from every South
ern State. Stonewau Jackson in his last
raid upon Harper's Ferry drove 5000 of
them over into Pennsylvania, worth in the
prosperous times of the Old Dominion
$4,000, oOo-mOre than John Brown could
have run off in ten years Who was to
blame for that? The North2 No. II
this war abOlishes slavery the blame, if it
is blame, logically falls upon the South, for
the South began the war.
We have more than once taken occasion
to defend the North from these charges
The conduct of the northern people land
we include alike east and West) since this
war began is something their pOsterity may
be forever proud Of They have given their