Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-06
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! BulIets asd bayouets are got The OuIy
inpIemeats With -hSeh to var On the Gov
ernoenr Agsaeies by uhieh tbeuiads q
the masses are poisoaed are nseh more
dasgerons- THERE'S nothing Whiehso useh
eneourages the Soathsra rebels aad
Iengtbens out their hope, As the daily eri-
dsues they have through oar papers of az
ally At the North that spares not labor or
pains to foTvard their erase In ordinary
times tie freedom Of the press Is the bull
unrk Of liberty. Even then freedom Is no,
license. Ituss. nos indulge IN anything
that Is by geaeraI eoussut understood to Be
damaging TO the public welfare. In time
Eof deadly var this is changed Thea ne
leessity becomes The 6rst Law and must
override everything Wien the safety of
= people il jeoPardiled they are WilIing tor
ought 70 bel to aba.e some oflheir indiyid-
uAl rights and privileges until their safety Is
assured, especially ii . persistence IN them
would lesson the chances of deiiTeraaee-
Suck is the condition of things now in
this country. Everything aud everybody
is 10 dagger. Martial law has been de-
cIared- Men are deprived OF personal lib
erty and pat in the ranks by the draft for
the common safety. Aud shall rot the
vehicles Of public Intelligence tOo-the
most efficient agencies We have for the
Dissemination Of iHforaatiou-draE rein
on their privileges Necessity demands
It aud the war power acting for the whole
people has night TO enforce it We have
to submit To little despotism for time
it order that We may DOT be subjected to
it for all time 10 Gomez and what loyal man
will not DO it eheertully7 None.
Yetthis Eholesomerestraintis denounced
By those it pinehes most because it inter
feres with their purposes, as intoIerant
In,oleraut Indeed The allies of the South
eru Confederaey talking about intolerance
aud the freedom Of speech and the liberty
OF the press A goEerument-if We may
call it sueh-tbAt allows no man 10 its
power to breathe loyal sentiment above
his brsath-vbieh mauaeles its press as
thoroughly as ever Louis Napoleon did the
press Of Paris,-and which depriJes every
abIe-bodied man without respect TO rank
or condition of his personal freedom, and
forces him into the army to murder his own
loyal fsIlOu-eouutrymsn, and to siarve and
freeze and rot in filthy eAmpsI
Well we are intoleraat OF sympathy or
alliance with such q dark, repulsive con-
,Piracy. Aud who is not! The secession
lists wherever you find them. None others.
We would like our people to think about
these things. We woald like them TO scan
these pretence5 of loyalty which are min
gled with auAthemas on the men (Aud the
only meu) who are endeavoring TO saTe
the government. Are those VINO make
them your friends or your enemies Are
they the friends or enemies of the country
One or the other they must be, for there
are only two places for men to stand now.
We tell Jon, the government of the United
States is the only hope for civil liberty on
this continent, II it is lost through the
suPtueness of its friends or the treachsry
Of its foes then everything is lost for us.
More than that, there is no way to save il
At this crisis bat by cordial support of
those who now administer it. Suppose
you yield to the elamor of those who tell
you it is badly managed and urge you to
withdraw your support till change can be
mAde,-supPose the whole people would
do it-Ehere would We be at the sud Of
two years2 Eeh0 may we'll answer, where
Would the rebels wait till We got another
administration in power. Hardly, we
think.
No, the duty of the citizen is simple aud
plain. If he prefers our present form of
government to negro oWalng desPo.ism,
it's his duty to uphold It by word and
deed. If be chooses the latter, then he
ought to go over to his friends like an
honest man and not Turk among his enc
mics and play the tory sub fo,a-
There is no middle ground. There is no
third party. There are but TWO parties 70
the contest and cannot be more. ItfGa
consest not for boundaries, not for section
al Prepouderance, not growing out OF pet
y jsaIouSy-but half continent hangs
trembling in the balance, and a form Of
eaIightened christianized society, the rout-
growth Of four centuries is 10 be saved or
lost on this continent by the turning Of the
scale; for il slavery triumphs, the harbaT-
ism Of slavery from It's very nature must
OTerSpread the whole land like the breath
Of pestileuee.
RECEPTION OF me- PROcLAMArIoS IL
NIssounL-The Meas. published at Wash
ington, No, says the people have ii under
consideration 70 hold a public meeting for
recommending a call Of the State cOuven-