Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-21

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INDIANA. 5s
Meeting at IndianapolIs-speech of
Gen. Dumont.
AT an ent husiastics war meeting in Indi-
annapolis, on Saturday evening, Gov. Nor.
ton and Gen. E. Dumont. made stirring
addresses. Gov. Morton urged the neces.
sity of reinforcing Mcclellan, believing
that when the rebel army before Richmond
was destroyed and the rebel capital taken,
that the rebellion would receive its death
blow. He had faith that the people would
como to the rescue and save the Govern
ment. He appealed to the men of wealth
and to those whose business was prosper
ling TO reflect upon what would be their
condition should the country be destroyed.
He considered that their private rs well as
public interests demanded that they should
give their services to the Government to
any sacrifice.
Gen. Dumout's speech was full of incl
dent He told the following story regard
ing an occurrence which transpired a.
Nashville during his rule. a brother of
| HlSs' \ JIM WIG Olf buG ldG5 EGSluCul1 uuu
been arrested for some trivial offence, and
Mrs. Polk herself came to intercede for
him. General Dumont thus sketched the
/ interview:
"She said her brother had taken no ac-
| tive part in the rebelliou-that he was no
public ma1-had never held an Office in his
life-that he cultivated his farm in quiet
way, and bad no disposition to be trouble
some or obtrusiye; at the same time, how
ever, she could not deny that he had been
Somewhat affected with the ePreUailing sen
tnIeHt of the eouRtry.'
Madam said /, u am aware that not on
~ your brother, but also yourself, are
somewhat affected by the prevailing SEN
timent of the country; heard it in your
own mansion the other day. Your hus-
band was once the honored head of the
American Republic. You are to-day un-
der greater obligations to be devoted aud
loyal to your country than any other wo-
man under Heaven" 9ssls
There was another lady present during
the interview, a neighbor of Mrs. Polk,nnd
she seized the opportunity to go off into
what the boys sometimes call the high
strikes.' Mrs. Polk, however, did not lose
her self-control, but straightway began to
explain she had been unfortunate in ex-
pressing herself, and she hoped would
overlook it. l then took up the same
strain, and explained and apologized as
profusely as she Ind done, Aud so Invent
on, she taking all the blame to herselfnnd
/ taking 1t all to myself, until everything
was most satisfactorily arranged, and the
lady took her leave. She went home, and
in less than an hour had the glorious
privilege of looking upou the Stars and
Stripes of the Republic floating proudly
above the dome of her dwelling. She has
been a staunch UniOn,woman ever since
LIQUID cheers.1l
Gen. Dumont set forth his views on the
negroquestion as follows:
SIN the South every man has gone to
war. The CONSUMPTION takes everybody,
and yet it takes nobody at all. In the eye
of the Almighty, nobody is worth as much
as red-headed woodpecker unless he
works. No recruits who enter the South
ern army go there with sun-embrowned
foreheads and hands hardened by honest
industry. The demand for troops takes
away ~ set of pampered men-yery good
men for the purpose -men who are a sort
of walking arsenal, not devoid of courage
or talent; bnt it takes away nobody from
the producing classes-in other words, it
takes away nobody at all. 8 =
q 4ah9 Asbuo huAS0 aDlnhhAOl1
lying Immediately around Nashville. Go
among the people there and you will find
that at nearly every house you come tothe
lady is a widow, and she seeks protection
for herself and property, by repeated dec
larations that she is lone widow, left
with a large number of negroes to look
after. Butiwhen you come to investigate
the matter alittle more closely, you will find
and, almost without exception, that the me-
groes belong to men who are in the field
with the gun upon their shoulders aud the
knapsacks upon their backs; men who, for
getful ofetheir most sacred duty 70 their
country, have taken up arms against the
best Goyernmentt the sun ever shone upon.
Well,lwhycan these men goto war while
you cannot2 Simply because they have
the negroes at home to work for them, and
you have nothing TO depend5upon but your
own honest industry. Besides, when, as is
most generally the case, the wife herseIfis
the better man of the two, the property is
as we'll taken care of in the absence of the
husband. as when he is at home, and thus
these men can go into the army and stay.
there until the last starfalls from Heaven,
and their wives and children be meme the
worse off by it. Within the territory / have
mentioned there are LOG, 600 slaves, toiling
day after day, cheerfully and uucomplaiu.
fngly for the support Of their masters, who
are in the rebel army. Now, suppose you
give notice to all mankind, and the human,
family in particular, that every man who
shall fail to return to his allegiance within
given time, bring forth fruits meet for
repentance and give suitable guarantees for
his good i6eh SSipr in the future, his negroes
shalt be aconhscated. Don't you suppose
there would he a terrible skedaddling
among these men about that tlme2 They
would soon learn by a mysterious intima 1
tiou OF Divine Providence that they had
got their rights already, and that the best
ching they could do was, to go home and.
enjoy them. Happened to.meet one day
in the road near Nashville a young man
whose appearance was wretched aud sor.
roWfuI enough. saw by his clothing