Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-20
one OF the Best speeeIles OF the war


Some few weeks ago, We published and
dedicated to the attention Of the wheeling
Prsss, the speech of Col. Leouidas Met
calfe, wealthy and influential and pssri.
otto citizen of Nicholas county, Ky. Our
readers will remember it as the celebrated
speech in which the characteristics of Sc
eessiOn eympathizers were defined The
Colonel said yOu could always know Sc
eession sympaihizer, be bis sympathy ever
so latent, by one ear mark and by one
word, and that word WAS, "Aboliuonist.'
II was always on their tongues-it WAS al
ways in their eyes, their ears, theirtbroats,
and everywhere else in them and about
them.
We now have the pleasure of publishing
for the bene6tof the same paper, and alt
of like principles and sympalhies, the fol-
lowing remarks from General Lowell n.
Rosseau, another gallant and PATRIOTS son
Of Kentucky, made at the Gait House
banquet in Louisville, on Monday night
last:
81 wish TO say a word Of the stsituatiou,''
as it is called by the reporters Of the day.
propose TO advise nobody. l pretend to
NO extraordinary foresight But desire to
state that this rebellion is y lie from the
beginning. There was never any cause for
it. To begin and keep it up system of
wholesnlc lying was adopted, and Is pur-
sued industFiously to this day. It is the
only stock in trade they have. They could
teach the devil himself much he never
knew before about lying. Wherever the
army has gone it has met this fell spirit of
fAlsehOOd. We have taken none of their
property; We have excluded their slaves
from our lines; when needed We have
placed guards of our soldiers around their
houses to protect them,- yet they per-
sist in calling US AbOlitionists and negro
thieves. And in spite of our disclaimers
and our soldiers observations to the con-
traTy-Of our words and Our acts, they
have insisted that oHr object Is to liberate
and steal their slaves.
Aud II we tail to restore the Union, ttthe
! everlasting Niger" will be the cause of
the failure. They know what they say is
| false, yet they never cease repeating it
Behind aud before Us this has been the cry
of the enemies of the Government. Now.
the army Of General Halleck is cminentIy
conservative. believe there is not an
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there is one of either faction. ! do not
know it. So orderly so patriotic and SO
conservative body Of men believe new
er before assembled together That army
| in its intercourse with the secessiouists
has pleaded and is still pleading for peace
under the old Government, offering to our
Southern brethren all they ever had, aud
claiming nothing except in common with
them They want to take nothing from
any one, but desire that their Southern
brethren shall enjoy all their rights uuim-
paired. But the negro is in the way, in
spite of all that can be done or said.-
Standing before the eye of secessiOnist,
tue negro hides all the blessings of our
Government, throwing black shadow on
the sun itself II il had been any other
species of properly that stood in the way,
the army, provoked as it has been, would
willingly have seen its quick destruction.
But the negro they did not wish to inter
tere with in any way. Yet, with ali its
conservatism and patriotism, the army has
grown weary of this insane cry of ssaboli
tionism" as cause for breaking up the
Government.
have warned our Southern friends Of
the danger of continuing 1t much longer
and tell YOU tonight TINT, if this war
continues year from this day, there will
not be slave on this continent The great
revolution will take care Of itself-the dead
Will bury its dsHd-and those who are
causing all the blOOdshcd and desolatiou
around us aud uudcrthe false pretcnsc thai
we desire TO free their negroes, will, If they
persist, one day find slavery snuiTed out at
you snuff out n candle. Slavery is MOI
worth our Government. 1t is not worth
our liberty. tits not worth all the precious
blood now being poured out for freedom.
" Is not worth the free navigation OF the
Mississippi river. No, we must still have
our Governmental not as 1t now is, with
slavery IN 1t, still we must have our Gov.
Fernment. We cannot be slaves to JEFF. Da-
Wis Il Go. We must aud will be free. We
must have the free navigation of the Mis-.
sissippi river; and il slavery gets in the
way of any OF these rights, why slavery
must get out of the way. That would be
the last resort, aud should be sorry to
have recourse to it; but am for the Cow
crnment OF our fathers against all things
and everybody. Whilst the liberties oFithe
people are secure Under IL, AS they ever
have been, would allow nothing but dcatl,
to prevent my unfolding it. And, 10th as
you may be to decide, you will soon. Rs Il
believe, he called upon to do SO. In apite
of your entreaties, the issue willbe cruelty
thrust upon you, and You will be forced 10
decide between slavery and your wiveR and
children. As for me, am ready for the
responsibility. A Southern man as / am,
born and brought up in the South, with
all my sympnthies with the South, / could
not hesitate one moment wlIsn the issue IL
presented between the nigger and the Gov
ernment of our fathers. am for the Gov.
eminent of the United States against all its
enemies. / hope and pray that our Soulll.
ern friends will not force us to extremes on
this sensitive point. We deprecate such n
result; for we want our rights under the
Constitution, and We are ali ready 10 fight
for theirs under the good old old Govern
meut. IwOuld day most willingly grid
on my sword and fight for any right belong.
lag to them, slavery iRelIdRed; bnt they must
notpntslayery between me aud the Govern