Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-23
The Gettysburg dedication.
The Argumentatiye and Closing
Part Of Hon. Edward Everett's I.
4 Mastery Exposition of the
FallacY of Secession.

"A Mastery Exposition Of the
Eallacy Of Secession.
T1istoFieaI Parallels showing that
tine People or the North ana south
and Harmony.if5af la. "a ite't
And now friends, fellow citizens, as we
stand among these hohoted graves, the
momentousS question presents itself which
of the two parties to,the war, is response
BILE forallathis suffering, for this dread
full sacrifice Of Iife,-the lawful and con.
stitutionaI government of the United States,
OF the ambitious men who have rebelled
against it? I say nrebelle" against It,
although Earl Russell, the British Score
tary.iof State for Foreign Affairs, lin bis
recent temperate aud conciliatory speech.
in Scotland, seems to intimate that no
prejudice ought to attach to that word,
inasmuch, as our English forefathers re-
belled against Charles I. and James H.,
and our American fathers rebelled against
George III. These certainly are venerable
precedentss bnte they prove only that-it is
just and proper to rebel -againstT oppres-l
sive governments. They do onotproye that
Il was Just and proper forsthe son of James
II. 10 rebel against George i, or his grand
IL, nor, as it seems tome, ought these
dynastic struggles, little better than fannie
II qUarF6ls, 70 be c0npared 70 this mop7
strous conspiracy against tho American
Union. These precedents do not prove
that,it was Just and proper for the "disap-,
pointed great menD of the cotton growing
stateslto rebel against ''the most benificent'
Government of which history gives us any
account, = .,as the Vice President of the.
Donfederacy, in November, 1860, charged
them with doing. They do not create
presumption even in favor of the disloyal
bIayeholderB of the South, who, living unTs
der a government of which Mr.. Jefferson
Davis in the session of 1901, said that
it was ttthe best Government ever institnt
ted by man, unexceptionally administered,
aud under which the people have been too
prosperous beyond comparison with any
other people whose career has been re-
corded in history rebelled against 1t,
because their aspiring politicians, himself
among the rest, were in danger of losing
their monopoly of its offices, Whatwould
have been thought by an impa artial posteri-i
tyofthe American rebellion against George
Ill, if tue colonista had at all times been
more than equally represented. in PaEliar
ment, aud James, Otis, and Patrick Henry,
and Washington, and Frapklint and the
Ad4mses, and Hancock, and Jefferson, and
men of their stamp, had for two genera
tions epjoye edthe confidencefof the Sover-.
eign and administered the government OF
the Empire What would have been
thought of the rebellion against Charles /.
| If Cromwell and the men Of his school had
been the responsible advisers of that Prince
from his accession to the throne, and. then,
on account of the partial achangesin the
ministry, brought his head to the block
and involved the country In q desolating
war? What would have been thought of
the Wings of 1888, it they had themselves
lcomposed the Oabinetiof James IL, and
| lbeen the advisers of the measures and the
Ipromoters of the policy, which drove him
linto iexile2 The Puritans of l640 and the
IIWhigs of 1888 rebelled against arbitrary
Iipower in order to establish constitutional
lliberty. II they had risen against Ohafies
aud James, because those monarchs IA
IIyored equal rig hts, and in order themselves
is.for the first time inathe history OF the
Ilworld - to establ blish an 6ligarchy = tonnd-
lied. on the corner stone Of Slavery, they
ijswould truly have furnished a precedent TOR
lthe rebels of the South, but their cause
ItwouIdi not have been sustained by the
lIeloauenoe Of Pym oriof Somers; anofis sealed
ilswith the blood of Hampd den or Russell.
IL 4 i call the war which the AContede
slare ssyaping againsk the Union 'rebel-
Ilton :, because It is one, and In grave mat
lters It is best to call things by their rtghl
Thames. The Constitution oil the United
Estates puts tsrehellfon's ousa par with "tn-
Ivasion.i The Constitution aud law mo-
IoRly OF England, but of every ciyilizee
Iliconntry, regard them 10 the same lges,
or rather they the rebel liin AZ sEmss 1s.. e
far worse than the alien eneniy. TO lew
4 - ;,,st 'tI,a sTTyiffad SSkataa fRtthe con