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

compelled to leave my home uader ciFcum-
stances painful at any time. The Angel of
Death has just passed over my house. Bnt
why should be allowed to remain and
weep with my wife over the tomb OF my
little daughter-I, an old wretch who dared
to tell my neighbors that the solemn oath
had taken to supportthe Constitution Of hhe
United States was still bindingl had done
too much to be permitted TO live peaceably
at home. Ihad robbed no man in the laud;
there were those who At times bad fed,
and they were first to cry "Crueify him,
hang him." In Mexico there are now 500
men who left as left. They are ID the
mountain fastnesses, hunted like wolves,
Are they to have help2 Give them a
chance and they will bleed for their eouu-
try, die for it, redeem it; aud there are men
enough there to-day to redeem it il they
were organized aud had arms in their
hands. Let no man be permitted to live in
the Government who will dare again to
preach treason to his fellow-man. Zap
Plnuse.l Restore the Government, its
Consultation, aud its laws to all, fellow
| citizens. With all my heart. Restore the
Union as It existed for the year just preced-
ing the rebellion2 God forbid. GLoud,
prolonged and repeated applause Am
to be remitted back to the soil of Texas, to
be hunted by assassins the little remnant
of my life2 ["No. nop1 Am 20 go
there to teach my little son that the chief
blessing of his great future is to run from
street to street and from man to man, and
insist that he is as sound q man upon this
subject of Slavery as lives? rCheers l.
| Am ! to see my friends aud neighbors hung
by the neck because they have doubted
that the chief business Of the Great Ruler
of lhs Universe is not in directing aud cou-
trolling and maturing aud perpetuating the
institution of Slavery. [Cheers.l No,
| fellow -citiZens, If cannot 90 there and
strike hands with my friends at home; if
cannot be again united with my family, ex
cept upon the terms that am to live in
such society as existed there, hard as it is
to utter, can find it 10 my heart to say,
let me never see them. But if you mean
| by the restoration of the Union as it was,
restoration of that Union such as our
fathers intended it to be, then With all my
heart, let me have it. (Great applause)
/ The issue is simple, it is plain. The way
fariug man must read it as he runs, though
he be a fool: Slavery on the one hand, and
| Liberty on the other. (Loud applause.l
Aud yet, fellow -citizens. for three brief de-
sultory words honestly spoken am yet to
be farther tried. Friends, doubtless, who
have stood up for me hitherto, will say
am not prepared for this yet. But fear
not for them; they will arrive in due
time where / stand and will add even
Mt the expense of being considered
arrogant, ii you please, that what have
said tonight, all uninteresting as It may be
to you, will strike chord deep in the
hearts of my people. know how the peo-
pie feel, their modes of thought, to what
conclusions their minds have always been
brought. 1t is your negroes, my children
| love my children best, do not intend to
part with the hope that have predicated
upon my little son. He has, or ought TO
have, he did have until you took it away
from him, the right to aspire to the highest
honors in his couutry's gift. he shall have
it will Hght that my son may be free,
even at the expense of fleeing your negroes.
LCheers.l Let me, then, feilow.citizens,
Indulge the hope that If it shall be ms for
tune again to visit home aud friends, can
say, and say it truthfully, am a freeman
II am not merely theoretical freeman
/ have the Constitution Of the United States
guaranteeing me my freedom; but have
what is dearer still-I have countrymen, /
have society, have brethren, felIoW-cit
zens, all over the State without an cxcep-
tion, who intend that I shall practice as a
freeman throughout my life. They intend
that shall indulge the noblest right that
and Of impressing my thoughts, humble
though they be, upon the minds Of Others
II l can go home with that kind OF freedom,
want it; less than that shall never be
satisfied with. [Cheering.1 Hundreds Of
men have perished because they bad
thought, because they had loved free
dom, and INDUCED occasionally 10 spec
ulations as to how freedom was best
to be preserved they have been
hung like feions. want that to
cease. want the Government of the
United States 10 treat every man ia the
land as it's enemy who will attempt to inn
pose further restrictions upon the right of
a tree people TO think and talk. TCheers. I
When see that, then can lift my hands
and say Blessed, indeed, is this Govern
mentl Then can accept that dag as the
emblem Of freedom, really uuquali6edly
having gained new luster by the very
struggle in which its citizens have engaged
to-day. will indulge the hope that vic
tory upon the lield may not only perch up
on the standards of our arms, but that
moral halo will surround Il from the con-
sciousness of those who are fighting that
they are struggling to sustain liberty aud
to crush the last remains of slavery. En-
thusiastic applause. Let then our last
thought upon Government and society be \:
Am yet a citizen of free Government;
still occupy the position of a recipient of
largest rational human liberty; am yet on
Freedoms soil, with Freedoms banner
floating DER me. loud aud continued
applause
orrTcrAY