Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-09

d PGeAAAuk ~ kug QlH CAA61E1s II
the spirit Of dire conflict arising ont OF
the antagonism Of these two classes should
ever present itself in my path, can say
truthfally, "shake not thy CORY locks at me
thou canst not say did it.H did NOT
seek to change the relations that existed
between these classes; but begged ear
uestly and heartily, before they catered on
this experiment, that they should not do
liz. / said to them, "GenLlemen, you know
not what you dO;-you will dig gulf, an
impossible gulf between yourselves and
the nou-slAVehOlders-yo must do it
Why do yOu think so2 Because you can
not make this u liberal Government. 1t is
impossible. The reason is obvious. You
never can, with safety to your new Govern.
ment, give the nom Shareholders the same
measure Of liberty and independence which
they enjoyed iu the old. They have got
sense enough, whatever you may believe
OF their want of Intelligence, to feel and
realize that their status has been lowered
iu Government and in society, aud they
will begin to make the pillars of your Con
federacy tremble about your ears. While
you want to use them for the purpose Of
placing the ehaias forged for them on their
wrists you talk differently to them; but
! when you get them once ia your power,
when you get the machinery Of your gov
ernment-at work, and all the arms Of the
country in your possession, you will begin
to unmask your designs. This is the way
I spoke to them. Aud surely enough. Mr..
! Spratt and Mr.. Garnett, of Virginia (this
latter, however, was preceding the reVoIu
tton,) have unfoided the peIicy of the new
| government. Ic every neighborhood, b
every town, aud every district of the c.uu-
try, the prevailing cant is that republican
ism is u failure. FelloW-citizeus, do not
stop to reason the question as to whether
there is a conflict between free and slave
labor; but one thing do know, that thr
STAKEHOLDER intends that slavery shall
flourish and be perpetuated If democracy
does perish; and il becomes the duty OF
every man who loves republicauism more
than he does slavery TO accept tue issue
rendered by the South. II you will not do
it willingly, yon must do it per force l
know that the city of New York has prov
ed her power to aid aud support the Gov
erumeut, as she has proved the enterprise
and activity aud power of her citizens in
the commercial affairs of the country aud
of the world. beg you, in the name OF
suffering humanity at the South, to prose-
cute this war vigorously. implore you
by (every motive that can actuate lovers OF
their race, to save them from themselves.
aud to secure the blessings of the govern.
ernment to that people, / invoke you to
do il, also, in view of the fact that your
liberties are inseperably bound up with
them. IL isnOt so apparent to you to-day,
yours are in jeopardy as il is to US of the
South who have already, for the time be-
| ing, parted with the blessing, and have
mourned In consequence. But ask WheIh
er there is one single mind in this presence
that has addressed itself to the task OF
reasoning on the probable future of this
. - NE.
ceded States shall have made good their
declaration that ther are, aud Of right.
ought to be, a free and independent
nation2 Is there man who believes
that secession or dismemberment will
stop there2 / grant that the North
will still have immense physical power, aud
| that your intelligence is not surpassed by
q like body of freemen on the habitable
globe; but still there is one thing that you
4 will not have. The prestige and moral in.
/ fuence of the United States will be lost
If the government had not the power to
prevent one dissolution how shall she, after
having her territory and population dimiu-
ished, aud her resources consumed in this
uuhoy struggle, be able to prevent aunth-
err The proposition might DO made that
the great city of New York should secede
from the Union and plausible arguments
i might be brought to hear in favor oft, aud
the people might be deluded with the idea
that the rest of the United States was hang
ing with the weight OF a miIIstone around
the neck of the enterprise of the city OF
New York. Now, 1 am not wanting 10 a
I proper respect TO a people who have honor
cd me SO much, but soy that there are
men in the city of New York who would
listen toeuch arguments. The great moral
power Of the Government being once bro
ken, the love and veueration Of the people
ofthe United States for the the Government
of their own adoption being lost, il will
be more assailabIe from without than
from within; and do believe that II Re-
publicanism fails 10 the South, It will fail
on'this continent. You must see to it that
: -at the hazard OF foreigu war superadded
to this cruel war at bome-RepubIican
is to be maintained even down to Central
America. CApplause. We must not per-
init poor, suffering Mexico TO become the
victim Of Louis Napoleon. rApplause I
The movement in Mexico OF that artfuf.
mysterious, ihscrutable man is foil Of
meaning to the people Of the United States.
Five years ago he would not baye dared 10
lay bis hands on that Government, be-
cause It was well understood abroad that
we had enunciated tho policy that there
was to be no interference by foreigu powers
; With the Institution on the continent ol
America Secession had not more than
developed itself. actual hosulities had bnt
just commented, the two sections had but
fairly graPpied with each other, when we
fnd England, France aud Spain uniting 20
interfere 10 the affairs Of Mexieo. Now tits
France alone. IfNopoleon is sending ont
eighty OF a hundred thousand more men
there, it Is not alone for the purpose OF
penetrating TO the capital OF Mexico; and
eoeretng the paYmsut Of moneys due from
that EoVernmeat 10 citizens Of France; huI
it Is for the purpose Of changing the insti-
tutions of that co untEy permeaenIIy rs the
best and surest means Of aiding in the
downfall Of Publieanism here. Mr. Ham
confidence ia the administralion and II.