Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-04
WHEELING. w, sATURDAY M0RNING

II was these conservatives who claimed and
owned James buchanan nt the tiule he in
numbered the chair Of State. ItIrecollccI
Alright. nearly If not quite all of these con.
servatire presseSHnd orators shouted al
the top OF their great throats, to PresIlen,
Lincoln, even before he was inaugurateJl
TO withdraw our troops from Fort Sumter,
and give 1t up and let them alone. And,
Oh! what holy horror they manifested at
tue very thought Of subjugatiug State
Stain quo was their doctrine, and guess
| It was James Buehanan's too aud some oil
the leading conservatives in the U. s. Sen.
ate, even after they had read President
Lincoln's Inaugural, pronounced 1t peace
measure, the true Union men all the while
laughing in their sleeve. These conserva-
tives explained the Inaugural to mean, let
the rebels alone, stdiW quo and Nnti.subiu.
CATION; 6utwhen they found that our pre-
sident was determined on crushing out
the rebellion at all hazards aud at eve v
cost, aud that it would be done Whether
they helped ornOt. Then they raised the
shoutl ITO armss1o REmg, oh my. bleeding
country. But tits satisfaction to know
that the President has looked over the
whole ground from the outset OF his admin.
istrotiOn, and that he bns aud does intend
to protect loyal men wherever he finds
them, in any of the Udited States, even If
they be in the seeded States. think the
President will be willing to cOnGisc0te uny
and all property found in the hands OF
rebels with arms in their hands against our
government. guess that the negro is
either property belonging to slave holders
or he is n human being; if human being
and entitled by the rules of war TO become
prisoner, he is also liable to military du-
ty, If he on the other hand is species of
property, he is liable to Coniiscati0n. But
II understand these conservatives the
negro is neither property nor human be-
ings, but according to their opinion they
are the southern mems rights. Well | nm
dcrstund their views of national affairs
about as the General did when he was or
dered by his cowArdly commanding Gen.
ercl to give up the battle and reIrcat-he
had but one eye that he could see with he
placed his hHHd upon it so as to blind It
and then made the remark, 81 don't see it,n
then rushed forward with his column and
gained n glorious victory.
This Island shall be our motto: "The
rebellion must and shall be crushed out by
any power and any means that the Presi-
dent aud Congress see proper to use on ac-
tual rebels" They have the power, and
the true Union men of our land call aloud
to them to strike with the whole force and
power of our GOVernment-and even strike
the enemy on his sore skin.
Let us away with all these dish water
politicians let this mewish, squeamish
conservatism be laid aside: let Justice
gird on the sword aud assume tho throne,
aud then this poor conservative element
which has never been, in my opinion, but
one remove from the execrated peace poll
ttcinns so recently crushed and run over by
an Indignant people, will stink back TO its
own native element, which is certainly in
the company of the poor, discarded and
miserable peace politicians. Oar Govern
ment will then, go on. and puI down this
rebellion by using all the means that will
weaken the enemy, and whip them by the
shortest and quickest route.