Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-12-01

Tia County, Of B~gsn-TAs banner Couni ~ Of De-
mocraoy, which has not spoh pondaxcript a. War
Democrat within Its borderL
State RioAs-May they not be forgotten In delrious
and bloody triumph of State wrongs.
The Abolition War for Disunio's-Lst those who
think it is right 60 10 it, and those who think ii 10
wrong stay at nome.
TIE only P6snbs Remedy for Secession and he Only
Hops of Ms UniOn-Peace, mutual concession and com.
promise.
"BLrsED Aak YHA PrAoknAKERa"
In response to toast complimentary to himself Mr..
Wood spoke as follows:
Whatever NAV be the secret or avoved grounds on
which prosecution Of this war is urged rest assured
my re dS II leads 10 results that viii sngulf ell alike
in one common maestrom Of destruction. care not
whether it Ia prosecuted for patriotic purposes or not
the objeov Of men Of the Government are nothing
in view of the fact that the effect tendency and catas-
Iopbe will of necessity be fatally dastrouz IL Is folly
to prAte OF moves however high and ennoblipg they
may ostansby appear when the results which accrue
from those motives are destructive and debasipg IL
may be as we'll said that Is justified in jumping
from an emine &C. fall from which 10 certain 70 break
his neck because he did not desgn doing any injury TO
himself Whatever hia intentions may have bees, he
perishes in the act, So with this war. Whether We
will or no. its continued prosecution Is certain destruc
ton There is 10 such thing rebellion under the in
sttutions upon which the Government Of this country
is founded. Suppose New York chose TO- secede, who
right as New York War il disunion and dlsntegraton
No man in his ssnses diputes thii Every man who f.
vors it. directly or indirectly, favors the dissolution Of
the American Unon-promoIes the establishment Of 4
centralized despotism aud advances The fortunes of the
mot cSp to and interruptions knaIes that cursed
countrJ. The advocates Of the may we'll be class
ed as the "evi.dspOsed" and the "simplemind,d."
TIE present decisions must subsids. Like the French
Revolution, the dreadful era CT carnage and f.n,cisn
must run ils course and have IL termination. All civil
wars founded social moral ideas have produce the
sans excitemtnu, been pregnant with the same popu
lar outbreaks and eliminated this will in the down
fall and extinction Of the men party which advoca
ted them. Rally this. History will repea. itself in
this Instance has in thousand othsrs-our nature
has not been change men are now rs in the dsys Of
Robsspierre and Cromwell-bloody trts,berous ianat
cal, sef'h and unpatriotic.
He believed that when the President called for troop
if only one Safe Executive with tran and nerve ID
done his duty under the constitution, the roul
have been ST pp,d before now With 100000 uDder
Lee threatening Washington, neither Stanton nor Lin
pcoln would have had courage enough and face
the Are they would have felt 10 the Il il the duJ
OF the people to Ieluss TO Give another
other dollar Tor the purpose Of carrying on tie var
refereuo % made by the speaker 10 M va!ac gha
rec eived with the most bolster applause.
EI Governor PRICE, Of New Jersey, 70 lowsd Mr..
Wood Hee ndorssd oil tie most ultra demonstrations
Of Oopperhead doc,rnism ated by his New York
eIampar He believed the city salvation Of the eoun
try Icy In the restoration 10 poSer Of the Democracy,
and he was not very scrupulous a. to the means by
which the Democracy secured the necessary lease OF
pc ..
Oher speeches we're made BY @. Chauncy Burr, Judg,
Van Loom aud others, and a letter from Hon. j. <.
Singleton Of Illinois, was read