Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-24

stand where they ever stood frm, true and
honest by their country aud their whole
,IcOuntry. A war precipitated ppon us by re-
l,heiliou & a rebellion significant of what
Significant of revolt of a single State /? a
civil war to, secure redress for, an a asserted
/ or proclaimed grievauce2 Nay, hay4 but
q Differentiation on the part of the whole
section and region of country to shake of
the yoke of Government, to proclaim inde.
pendence to itself-to disturb the course Of
Iaw-to avert the currents of commerce
to set at naught the institutions of Ameri
ca-to deny the laws aud allegiance to the
great principle of free and independent
tGovernment! 1t is something more than
rebellioni it is something more than civil
war (; tits a contest precipitated by rebels,
and in which we are engaged for the great
rights of humanity and maHkind. From
its very nature it knows nuseompromise.
From its very nature it cannot be settled.
There is no way out, except the way
through. There is no argutnent but the
bayonet ;--there is no voice that will con
.vey reason to those in arms againstus, but
the explosion of ordnance lin the field.
When our armies have reached yonder
Gult-when our soldiers shall reside at
home 10 the palaces of the rebels-When
YANKEE Doodle" shall be known and pro
claimed throughout the saVannahs of the
Soutb-wheu the "down-trbdden wood
and nutmeg peddliug Yankee" shall be the
lord of those plains-then, and not till then,
will this war be ended. Speak of compro
mtsel Compromise what and with whom?
Do you not know that when the misled peo-
pie of the South were Union men, aud were
anxious that the Government should be
preserved, that their political leaders were
enabled, in the faGe of the efforts of oou.
servative menus they proclaimed them.
selves, and honestly so too, 10 carry these
States out of this Uuion. Without arms
without experiment, in doubt, in gloom,
these men the vetruvinses of ruin
carried that country in the face of
this Government and do you sup
pose that they, having now no divided body
in their rear, carrying with them united
South, and having the experience of over
eighteen months Off not successful, at
least an equal war-Hill now consentto q
compromise, and to accept the terms which
they imperiously objected to at the first?
Mono; it is not that only it is that they
scOrn, contemn and despise the peddling
Yankee. They scorn and contemn and spit
upon the flag, which they pronounce to be
a rag, and exclaim, that when the war shall
cease, they would hold intercourse with
them, but they will do so holding their nose
Is there q man here who will accept the
issue ofthese men of the South, that they
will not meet with US. (Voice-t'No I'')-.
No; the issue is that we will not live with
them. Aud that issueis now in process of
determination. It is being determined and
adjusted by yOnder armies in the field. 1t
is being determined by these armies, at the
North. Give me a united people. Give
me devoted people who knowing their
rights dare maiptain them, ADJ viii ven.
ture their cause against every earthly pow
er that time can place against it. CLoud
applause.) 1t may be sooner, it may be
later, but the determination is fixed and
unalterabIe. Either now or hereafter the
time will come when this Government
shall be reunited, and the Stars and Stripes
be once more the emblem of a great aud
happy people. cloud applause Now,
fellow citizens and members Of this Ma
tional Loyal League, we'll recolleCt that
when to utter the sentiment that a people
at war should use every means to secure
victories over its enemies was pronouncud to
be Abolitionism-emanoi that
no person could speak even with bated
breath of the proprfety of employing those
means without being met with the stigma,
and of being impressed into the ranks of
the despised. There was time when you
dared not, 80 peculiar aud sensitive were tue
nerves of our politicians, proclaim that
even black mule of the enemy should be
used, much less proclaim that . black man
should be used. Now, the country OPEN
ing its eyes to the facts, announces that it
always believed that the masses had always
adjudged, aud knew to be true, that if We
are to pursue victory, the policy of victory
must be adopted. (Applauss.) Aud if we
would destroy our enemy We should adopt
every means of weakening his aud aug
menting our own strength. (ApplRuse.)
How stands the case? Let me give you a
few figures. They will not detain you
long they are as interesting as tropes on
this occasion. The figures are from our
skillful hand, and give you the results.
We have in these Northern States, or the
loyal States of the Union, four millions of
loyal whites between the ages of eighteen
and forty-five. And in the South. or dis
loyal States, there are one million and
three hundred thousand whites between
the ages of eighteen and forty-fVe. Thus
you will see that we are more than three
to one. Could we conquer-could we suo-
ject the South, even with that proportion
of men in our fayori It may be that we
could; it would be extremely doubtful.
however. In their own fastnessesth they had
allies; these allies were the blacks.
Now these blacks or slaves within
those disloyal States numbered three
and half millions of that
three and balf millions, two millions,
were laborers, plantation hands, mechan-
les, artisans, and others. OF those5tw two
millions, perhaps three hundred t.Ousand
were employed in domestic service, leav-
ing one million seven hundred thousand
of men to be employed in subsisting ,3OO,-
600 warriors. These men iandsWomeu are
actively engaged every moment in the day
iuprocuring the subsistence of the army of
t5e South. Thus, they have iu the South
some three millions of men consisting of
black leborers and warriors; or in other
words We have four millions Of whites in