Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-07

tered your magnificent harbor but few
days past, for the first time in my life.
could but be impressed with the evi.
dence before me of the magnitude, the
progress, and the greatness of our coun.
try, as represented upon but one single
spot of its territory. But there was con-
nected with It a painful throb, aud it arose
from the reflection that all that wns now
being imperiled; and whatever you, fellow
citizens, may have supposed With regard
to the progress of this rebellion, or the ex-
tent, so far rs territory is concerned, or the
integrity of the people ofany section of the
country, satisfied as you may be in yonr
own minds that il could not go beyond the
States of the South, entertain different
opinion. mean to be understood, IL it is
to succeed where it Is already attempted, in
my humble Judgment, it will not stop there;
in short, that If the Government of the
United States as it existed before the rebel
lion is not maintained ia all its iategrity,
We may look forward to a period, perhaps
not 50 remote that some here present will
not see it, when it will give way here also.
Sir. Hamilton proceed to Investigate the
cause Of the rebellion. Had the theory
now advanced throughout the South, that
Republicanism was a failure, been put
forth at the commencement of the rebel
lion, it would have been nipped in the bud
But when the arms and the powder and
lead were all concentrated in the hands of
the Government, they raised the cry De
mocracy is failure. You perceive it is a
failure, because the United States Govern
ment has failed. We must get rid of the
people of the North because they are demo.
cratic. Slavery aud Democracy cannot
live together. Loud and prolonged ap-
plause.l The only reply which he made,
so long as he could make any, TO these
statements as to the weakness of De.
moCracy, was this .Gentlemen. by the
time you have got through with Uncle
Sam, you will fiad 1t strong enough for
common use." Loud cheers.1 He bad
been what was called a loyal man to the
institution OF slavery, but the moment the
old flag was torn dowu, he had told them
that they would make him not only an
Abolition sympathiZer, but an active prac-
tical Abolitionist. Enthusiastic cheer
ing He feared that there were those here
who still faucied that by some couciliatory
measures the South could be brought back
to the old Government There could be
no greater iallacy. [Applause. The 10y.
al men of the South were praying to get
back into the Union without any condition
or eonciliatiou. Would any loyal men con. e.
sent that JEFF Davis should ever be Presi-
dent of the United States. T"No, nc. ."1
Mr.. Hamilton continued: do want to see
the old Government when it shall have as
serted its power, make wise aud Just dis
cri Lination between the guilty and the de-
| luded. Cheers. want the really res.
ponsib!e traitors punished. [Applause I
want the down-trodden, the suffering,
the ignorant to be allowed to come back
like the prodigal son and be forgiven.
[Cheers. If we cannot conciliate these
men, what can we do? Shall history re-
cord it that tweuty-seTen millions of free
men, and women, aud children, have not
the moral and physical power to strauRie
treason in fifteen hundred thousand? Is
Republicanism to fail upon this con-
tiuent because that twenty'B6Yeu millions
are not sufficiently conscious of their duty
to themselves, to the Government of their
fathers, to humanity the wide world over,
to realize tue fact that this Rebellion can
alone be crushed by physical force2 I
have not o doubt but peace propositions
will come from the Confederate Govern
ment, but they will not come in the shape
of an unconditional proposition to assume
the Union as it was. We have already
seen some of the conditions or what would
probably be the conditions il hOstilities
were to cease. do not think that they
even would emauate from tho OAbiuet-if
1 may be allowed the expression--at Rich
mopd, The know that ii the Government
OF the United States should, in its mercy,
pardon their offenses, and restore them to
their rights ender the Constitution, their
own fellow-cttizens who have been their
victims would spurn them away, and they
are rs efectually cut of from prcferment
as If they had been convicted of high trea-
son. The very desperation with which
they are struggling ought to prove to you
and the world that they will never stop
while they can get men to bleed they will
never ceaset 10 fight as long as there is a
hope ofsuccess, because it is the only hope
of salvation to them. They do not feel for
the sufferings of the wives and the children
that are made widows aud orphans by
this unholy war; it never has entered
the mind ofone man in this rebellion who
understood its objects to shed a tear
for all the bloodshed, misery, and woe
which it involved. The war must be pnt
down by bayouets, by powder aud ball, by
brave hearts and strong arms. Cheers
do not say this because have suffered
II is because thousands of brave men are
suffering now. Il is true, had not suffer.
ed and witnessed sufferings, might not,
and probably would not, have been so ear.
nest in my feelings. We are all sufficiently
selfish, and am no exception. If seces
sion is an accomplished fact, aud the Gov
ernmeutth that has resulted from it an estab-
lished Government among the nations of
earth, do you believe that secession would
stop there2 Are there not men even in
the Empire State, 10 your goodly city who
would listen to treason. Wood, Wood,
Wood. There may be no such men in all
New York, bat tellow-citizens should
dislike exceedingly to think that my hopes
OF tha future depended upon the fact of
there being no such men. Laughter.l
say that do not question the loyalty of
the great heart of New York. mean that
man has not, even here In New York, at.
men doubtless here who would be will