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


The Abolihonist and secessionists on this
point occupy the same stand there is NO
difference between them. The Abolition
istsi such as Wendell Phillips, Garrison,
and others, denounce President Lincoln as
worse than JEFF. Davis. From the hands
of these incendiaries on both sides the
people must rescue the Union There is a
great middle party between these two ex-
tremes who must maintain the Government
The work must be done by the people
p D5n't wait foe your leaders to guide You
II Know the people OF Nashville well, and
know the feeling which controls them, aud
Il know the men who have been your
leaders for have been with them for
years as a member of the Legislature, as
Governor, of your State, and as Senator
in Congress. You have relied on these
leaders MS oracles whose bidding you mnst
obey. You ask where are our leaders
the John Bells, Ewings, Neil Browns, and
the Union and American? You seem to
cease to act and speak for yourselves Are
you, Intelligent freenen, dependent on the
arm of a leader2 Are you incapable Of
acting for yourselves! tf so, then, you
coucede the very thing for which the tories
of the South are contending, and admit
that you are unfit for self.goverument.-
CAST of this degrading and unmanly feel
ing. This is the peoples Government !,
they have received itas a legacy from Heav-
en-, and they must defend and preserve it,
if'itis to bepreserved at all. am for this
Government above all earthly possessions,
and if perish, do not wish to survive it.
im for 1t, though slavery should be struck
from existence, and Africa swept from the
balance of the world l believe, indeed,
that the Union is the only protection Of
slavery-its sole guarantee; bnt if you per-
sist 10 forcing the issue of slavery against
the Government, say, in tue face of HeaY-
eu, "Giyc me my Government, and let the
negroes go 1sS 20 fti5s o5
These traitors who are perpetnally clam.
oriug about Southern rights and slave
property, as if therc were no other rights
or property inlexistencc, manifest the ut
most bitterness, bigotry. aud narrow
minded sectioualism. They are pcrpetUaliy
calling out Slarery,. 4boEtioHist, Yankee,
aud LiHcOLnite Hoto malicious and ingidi-
Gus are all these slang phrqses.. .tre zee not
all 4nltricdns, descended Of one blood, and
composing. one great ,faRiiy2 I recognize
no suchimtserable, narrow and selfish feel
ing as that which refuses fellowship to the
loyal and just of all sections of the Re
public. scorn the trammcls aud fetters
of sectional bigotry. / claim this world
as my home and every honest man as my
brother. | love my country, her Constitu-
ton, her laws, and her free institutions
love her history, and the memory of her
glorious deeds. love the precepts and
teachings Of her glorious founders. love
my State, and pray for her happiness and
prosperity, which must be found in the
laws and under the flag of the Union
Looking around me to night, say to the
gallant and patriotic soldiers who bear this
flag, WELCOME, welcome, thrice welcome,
defenders of the Union % On with your
glorious work, aud in the face of all oppo-
sttion, even at the point of the sword and
bayonet, and auIid the roar and crash of
battle, let the Government of Washington
be defended. We have heard these troops
called Northern invaders and Hessians, but
we have seen aud compared the rebel and
patriot armies. The first spread horror
ana desolation among US, tue latter have
been law.abiding and orderly, and haYe
been protection to tue people.
This rebellion is animated and controlled
by the worst spirit that ever filed the boz
som of man. With singular audacity or
ignorance, some persons pretended to com.
pare the rebellion of 1851 with tha: of 1875
How preposterous and absurd? There is
not the remotest analogy between them:
They were, on the contrary, the very anti
podes of each other. The old revolution
was to establish and perpetuate freedom,
butthis was to subvert and destroy it, and
make us the vassals of France or Great
Britain. The modern revolution would, if
possible, reduce US to the very servitude
from which the former delivered us. The
spirit of rebellion was fiendish, proud,
cruel and Iawloss. 1t was so from the day
when the Devil raised the standard of re-
vOltin heaven, and warred with Michael the
Archangel, for the supremacy of the skies.
We are told that the Devil was conquered,
aud chained in the Internal pit, but that
he was to be let loose for season. If eY-
kr the devil was let loose in the world,
believe that now is the time, aud that he is
actuating this Southern rebellion. Yet
men who had aided this diabolicaI rebel
lion, now pretendedto talk kof TYRANNY and
oppression How long hasit been since
you had your Minute Men, your Vigilance
Committees aud your passport OOmmittees2
How long has it been since men were driven
from their homes for the crime of loyalty2
J was driven from my own home, aad for
What? What crime, what offence had
dOue2 None, save my devotion TO the Gov
erRment, aud my attachment to the Stars
and Stripes. Yet men talk of, Oppression,
aud complained of the arrest of Ministers
Of the Gospel. Ministers oflhe Gospel, iu-
deedl Parionthe expression! Oh, it was
great outrage to 1rrest Parson Elliott,
aud Parson Howell, and Baldwiu-Arma-
.geddon Baldwin, What claim had these
traitors to indulgence? do not profess
to bea profound theologian; but reyer-
'encefthe teachings of the Gospel, and l
thought that the Gospel of Jesus arched the
whole circuit of tue skies, and rested on the
ends Of the Universe? WR0 are these req
ereld traitors that they sloHEligo snpunished
for their crimes ~
Tbooid that this GoSesnlmnnent is of divine
birth, ithdt 1t is a gift of. God himself, and
that neither. Parson Elliott, NOR Parsoh Sc,
hon, nor Patsot Howell, nor Armaged don,
have Alright to break it up. i punish these
men, not because they are priests ,Sbut be-
cause they are traitors and enemies OF So
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