Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-10

4 HSAA44sS OulS III auelSuCeDA our RlOFlOuS lnaLl-
tltions, lam strongly tempted to make the
I appeal, and say to your bondsmen "Staud
forth invested in the rights wherewilh. g cd
Almighty has clothed you !, come to our
side; help to fight the battles of freedom,
and you shall be free.H Itiwould only be
righteous retribution to those who have
held them against common right. Sup
pose we should do it, what would become
OF you, my friends? Where would you be?
Talk to US of prosecuting the war in a
vindictive spirit You may thank your
God that we have been SO forbearing 5as
We .99,ll nave s..-iBif @ -
THE WAR NOT PROSECUTED TO ABOLISH sLA-
4ll- VERY. go gGgs gessIl
This war, you say. should not be prose-
cuted for the purpose Of AbOlishing slavery.
grant it, After we got into it-perhaps
it is not very honorable to make the nd :
mission, but it is so-we did pass a reso-
lntion here that we would not prosecute
this WAR with the idea of aboIishinp sla.
very. believe voted for that resolution.
did not care with What-Tiew YOU prose-
outed the war; knew slavery was gone,
whatever your views might be. warned
gentlemen of 1t in that famous committee
of thirteen. Twas a member of that com
mittees which contained almost every high
officer of the so.called Southern Confedern-
cy, with Mr. Davis at their head Month
after month we discussed this principle
| told these gentlemen, "I rely Infinitely
more upon you 10 abolish slavery than. upon
all the Garrisons and Fosters and Phillips
es on earth. They are. theorists; they are
right in theory, but they never will harm
. hair. Of your head; but you attempt this
Secession, and the first blast of civil war
is the death warrant of your institution. ~
1t was so. sissIf s-rlile SEQ 7
BUT THE REBELS FIGHT FOR ETERNAL SLAVE
RY.
Sir, if there WAS anything wrong in our
position, the whole tenor of this argument
would be changed but thereis not. What,
have we done? What have those of us
who stand here for the Constitution aud the
laws done that should provoke these scoun-,
drels to this position of rebellion? They
have made it incumbent upon us to de-
tend oufselves or die. For what purpose?
For no other or better purpose than to es.
tablish a Government founded on eternal
slavery. Sir, we have indices by which we
know what the traitors sought. 1t was
despotism against freedom. Mr.. Stephens,
who is the very brain of Southern rebell-
ion, in his inaugural address, undertook TO
set forth the principles on which this
Southern CoutederaCy was 10. be founded:
aud he went on, philosophically, TO state
that the purpose of it was to make slavery
the basis of their institutions, which would
be eternal. He. believed it was the will of
God and the order of Providence that some
men were born to rule, and some men to be
their slaves and their servants, He took
great credit to themselves that they of the
South had made this grand discovery,
which had escaped all men up to that Pc
riod. This, sir, is the principle upon
which this war is prosecuted. II you want
to know the organization of. that Govern
ment, and the principle on which is foun-.
ded, read that exposition oft as laid Goyu,
by their chief expositor and see for what
purpose they sought to erect, upon the ru.,
ins Of ourglorious institutions, this South, ,.
ern Copfsdsrnoy. They fight for, eternal
slavery, and | fight for eternal freedom.-'
That is the difference. knowing my cause,
to be Just, knowing that stand where the,
fathers stood when they framed the Gov,
ernmept, ] will stand here with a strong,
hand, end, with every Observation-Disclosures that
God Almighty has given me, / will labor to
put down this accursed rebellion and dc.
fend free Institutions, not only for our
selves buttor all mankind. - ,,.,,