Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-08-20

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ernmeut ever intended was TO protect its
own life from the stabs OF the rebels
And it might well ask to be saved from lis
friends If TallandighaD, Cerlile, Sauisoer-
~ and Wicklife were to be counted 10.
BE spoke ofsMarShall as the Palm County
thst it seemed useless to stimulate men
who were now all over in blaze OF love
IF country, and whose military ardor out
done all others. AT the close of his sd
dress he was greeted with loud and pro-
longed cheering.
Mr. A B. Caldwell next appeared upon
the stand. and was greeted With load
cheers. He showed up the deep and dam
nuble treachery of the leading rebels, sta
ted that it was not necessary to hate the
Southern country, but it was absolutely
our dutv TO hate all rebels He showed
plainly that the rebels never wanted the
Crittenden compromise, that they were
determined TO destroy this couatry in order
to build up an ObliRarchy, that the poor
laboripg man in the opinion OF these obi
garchists was not fit TO fill any position of
honor or ;rust, that they were mudsIlls and
that the elective vote OF the North was in
creasing so much faster than the South,
that they would not always rule as they
had done. Hence they stuck up the States
right doctrine and commenced 20 bully all
Southern men into their way of thinking;
/ stealing all the property they cou!G lay
their hands on that belonged 10 our Gov
ernment, and finally Gaping the climax by
firing on an unarmed United States vessel
and surrounding and firing on few half
starved Union soldiers under General An
dersOn st Fort Sumter. He c0lied upon the
young men TO rally for their country in the
words of Patrick Henry, GIVE me liberty
! or give ne DEATH He closed amid loud
{ aud prolonged cheers.
Fonta;u Smith. of Marion county, was
then introduced, he stated that be had all
/ his life been n Democrat, that he thought
he could see and detect any departure from
the meaning and spirit OF the Constitution,
/ had our Government done anything OF that
kind He then recUuuted all the actions
of our Government aud showed that they
| had all been wise and constitutional, that
! these constitutional! Union savers who harp
/ so much about abolition need watching,
: that old Father Abraham had done well,
/ that be would not make any rash Promi-
I ses but might vote for him next time.
! lie warned the secession sympathizers
! that the sixty days notice of the President
would soon expire, and that their condition
! would be horrible. All they have could
/ then be coufscated, and they incarcerated
I in lonesome priso:s, shut out from the
I world aud all its comforts. he told his
/ Democratic friends that he had laid all
politics aside until the war is over his
| bleeding country demanded his exertions,
and she should have it to the final pulling
| dawn of this accursed rebellion. He showed
the young men that they could make more
in dollars and cents by working for Uncle
Sam than they had been doing; showed the
strength of our government to be about
five millions of soldiers, and that of the
rebels one million; We blessed with plenty
they with nothing; we with an outlet tie
world over, they blockaded. He showed
that foreign powers would let US alone, be-
cause Eugland was afraid to come for fear
France would pitch into her, and both these
nations were afraid to come for fear the old
Russian hear would come crawling aloug
and attack them in the rear.
His speech WAS received throughout with
the widest enthusiasm.
The Secretary, Joseph McLane, was not
on the ground until about the close of tht
meeting. ). H..