The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1862-12-04

bFbisld'uIe hlht upon 'ht buVjeci II ll
comes to anything, I'll let you know,
Yours &C.,
R, MOSES KGNARD.
Joseph Holt on the war.
W. tabe the loilowing eloquent o1.
trad from letter wfiaon by Julgd Hol,
TIE aBbIe Kontuctiap, 10 Hiram Barney.
WcFkiorita careful pcrusol by our
raadgfs, Mr. Hol was a Commissioner
oEPMals under Buchanan, and subso
qle6$ Secretary of the Interior, lie
wpSFilemocrat Of the oil school and took
undikfbing stand for the Uoion History
@ill'd honor to lemocrqts as he, Dix,
Saqan unl Batter. all Of whom let no
hppsa institution. no earthly interest,
weiskinlhe scales against the lie ofthe
counsy
M foithinthis matter Is simple and
brisas stated ltis his: For all things
that 4re for the Union -agginstall things
that Are against it. lam for the U Oion
as ~ eeondiionally as lam for protecting
myself, at every cost and hazard, from
the knife Of tho assassin, No humanrin.
slltuSion, no earthly interest shall ever
byns 10 weighed in the scales against
tbe9le Of any country. Leas. Of all will
,EsN fgstshsaith zpaaailelled. feet, or
perniil'1o be tiiis weighed an insfiiu.
lion,'the feeding fountain Of whose be
ing --the african slave trade the laws
Of my county haze Tor more than forty
years denouocgi q cnmo worry Of dealIt-
a crime mol against any particular code,
or any parlioulsr form Of civilization,
but h.niIst the very race to which we BE-
long, H0:t's bmiGai generj. is the des
ignai5n which The Christian legislation
olthe United States has given to tue Al
rjc.n slaye,tnier
iyieia 30 20 man in yenoralion lor tbo
col5i,lt.on, or in determination lhl. Us
blessings shall DO extended 10 those who
respect AMI obey It. The door to oil
these Slessings is widely open. TO the
!. .soalherp people md they are earnestly
.int9isd By tie President to enter in and
eu|Sf'thsm.
FheeinsLi.udons and their Ovory In.
tqt6st are in lbeir own hands, and can
behaved not only from ruia, but from
thsslightest injury, by the utterapce of
single @ori--a word ofdaty and Of
honor. But, if in lheir passionate pur.
suit ofsepera,e empire, and ia their
bind rosentments against brethren who
have never wronged them, they refuse to
speak that word, and prefer 10 perish
themselves, rather than that the Ioyo
states shall escape destruction - be tso.
The world will Judge Alright, and history
will record its judgement. Bgt, il IL
NOT childish ptauIc to say that tho South |
can cIaimto be at the sama momsRtNho
Pr0bgeand the destroyer of the conatim-
ton ? Does it not require an audacily |
absolutely satanic, to Insist that boneG- 1
oiOnt provisions ofthat hailowod insru-
ment shall bo secured 10 Stateayand pao
pie who are hourly spurning upon It's ou.
.iRQriyg. ED swb9, aEa i2gd.as ,Sase&Ns4
vast armies to oyotwhoim il, oni with Ill
the homes and hopes Of al who are raj
lying inits deiepve ? War. certainly |
one Ike this, in self defensa--s clearly
constitutional; but, ifsuch o war has its
rasHaials ithGs also is lights and bu
uGs, prominent among which Is the right
and duty of weakening the enemy By all
possible means, and thus abtidging the
sanguinary conflict. Never until now
had it entered into tho imaginaIions Of
men to conceive that among these duties
Is that Of seeing that's enemy is cloth.
ed and fed and armed before ho is struck
In prosecuting the war while t1erciing
our light to weaker the enemy, We may
destroy not only ships upon the sea, and
torIresses urd cities upon the land, but
human lie upon tho battlefield, But
what institution, what material interest
is there belonging to the enemy that we
are obliged to spare, oven throOgh by so
Holng VIC perish ourselves? I? The con.
sutuiioh isa character OF uutionNl lie,
and not ot national death, Al move.
ments which seek TO tend to the disso.
lullon OF tho Government created by it,
and OF which tits the soulare il cQo0cI
tffNl, Ia a..sa