Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-10-16

try ONO no,D
Did be ever give dollar of money 4
any purpose Of the war, or the soldiers, o
do anything toward encouraging enlist
ments or sustaining the Union? "NeV
, er, never ~
Then he's traitor; [long cheerinG1 Sc
that dowp. He may preach peace unit
he's black iu the face; all the peace b.
wants TO know is that he has a majority. -
II he is elected, see IL Indirectly or direct
ly he doesn't como out broad for Jefferson
. Davis.
Did he ever speak well of your mo j
! Did he ever eVince any interest in the in
dustriAl classes? ["N0, never !" from every
lip visible from the stand. Then he Ii
your enemy, aud would bring you all futG
the thral10m Of JET Davis. Is the south
divided2 No; why should you be? They
expected great things too. They calculat-
ed upon the help of England and France.
England and France don't see Il in that
light. They concluded that King Cotton
would die, and it has died, What does
Davis do next? He joins the church, and
tries his hand at proclamations. He calls
upon bis subjects to ask God for victories.
Well. they didn't get them. Then he tells
them to thank God for another lot of VIC
tories. They never got any. Their last
hope remaining is that the peace party of
the north will help them, and they are
now looking to Pennsylvania to give them
the frst lift. [Cheers and laughter
am rejoiced to hear that New York 10
likely to redeem herself. She owes it to
herself to do it The election ofSeymour
did more TO break up this rottou peace
party than any other thing. The New York
riots told the temper of that party
(Cheers) West Virginia was organized by
forty six counties, aud gave majority OF
IS, 900 to emanciPAte slavery. There are =
few sympathizers left, but they are silent
ones. The rest are in Dixie. We went to
work iu earnest. No traitor wanted to
stay with US. We have no rebels there,
but we have places to put them 10 when
they show themselves. We formed vigil
lance committees in every county. Tho
minions OF JEFF. Davis don't walk our streets
as they do yours.
Talk about the freedom Of the press l.
Why whoever saw more freedom than they
haVe2 There IS not one of their lying
sheets that isn't living monument ofgov-
ernmental forbesrauce. Who ever saw
such scandalous lies go uupunished ? They
say that this war is for the abolition of
slavery. Why Abe Lincoln wouldn't let
Fremont or Hunter tree single nigger
when they wanted to. A year aud half
went on and then he issued his proclama.
ton. Law proceedings, ! believe, require
ten days notice. He gave them ninety.-|
They then said his act was unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court would decide that. l
took q through ticket for this war, and had
Rs leave beat out rebels brains with the
COustitutiOn 90 anything else,
In what has old Abe showed himself
othes than patriot? Why the angel Ga
briel from Heaven itself couldn't please
these peace traitors. did mt vote for him,
but will if he is pat up again, as think
he ought TO be, for | think he's had hard
time OF it. Why the poor man regretted
the necessity of every measure he has
adopted, lest he should disturb the equi.
librium Of the country, when his only fault
has been that these very measures, emau-
cipaIiOu and all, should have been taken
long, long before. lLOng continued cheers
and shouts.) Let that proclamation once
be carried out by our armies, and you will
never again hear Of the nigger. only
wish We had taken up that root of evil
long ago.
Are you going to fght, then, or prove
what the southern man said from the iirst,
that there is no fight in you-cowardly,
criuging Yankees, who care only about
dollars and nutmSgs! Are you willing to
become suPpliSnts at the feet of con
temptible oligarchy Oftraitors who despise
and scOrn you. ("Never, never" from the |
indignant crOwdl wish had you peace |
meu. Id put you right on the plantations,
and let you do your dirty lick-spittIe work |
there, not here. [Groansl.
You know nothing of what we know in |
Western Virginia. You're at war, and
don't feel it. You hardly know it, As | |
walk through your cities, can scarce help |
epvying your prosperity. You are rich |
and don't know it. Your people have
grown rich since the war began. Go to
my old home, Virginia, aud behold the
bitterness of its desOlatiou Its fields are
wastes; its houses demolished; its i'm.
provements are in ruins. Had you been
there you'd have gone either to Jefferson
Davis, or stayed to conquer or die. said,
as the immortal Patrick Henry, "For nae,
give me liberty or give me death" rLOud
cheers.
am the son of venerated sire. He
has passed away. Did you ever stand By |
the bedside Of dying father, and see the |
light fade out from his loving eyes2 did. |
am she only son of n venerated man Of
God. The effects of disease, contracted
while fighting in the swamps Of Norfolk In
1912, removed him to his home above. So
often had heard him declare the iuesti.
mable blessings of this Union, and the
sauctity of the duty of its maintenance,
that' What else could dor Sensation.
When thought of adhering to those
around me, and taking up aims against
the country aud the dag my fathers loved,
felt that l could not meet them in the
better world. [Applause.1
From that day 70 this have given to
my country the same ardent devotion tha I
you sec tonight, and from every noun.
tain aud vale in Western Virginia come
these sentiments. In Western Virginia
there is not drafted man, aud her people
In every quarter are ready to give their last
man, their last son, and their last dollar to
conquer this rebellion. We have given up
our negroes, or property, everything-ail
but the Union. We conidn't give up that.