Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-02-11

~ cannot De uUuDttl inst lie Demo-
Gratis Of the North may very easily succeed
10 carrying their proposition for ConVen.
ton by the vote Of the Northern people.
But the impolicy Of proposing such inca.
sure is only the greater from the facility
with which they can cArsy it. Suppose
that the North should vote such PROPOSE.
ton, aud that the South, upon invitation,
should refuse to Gccedt to ii, rs she uu.
IOubtcdIy would do. hut very refusal
would produce u reaction against the con.
strvativrs more difficult to overcome than
any which they nov would lie likely to
encounter II proposing fairly md candidly
the measure OF psGce OHlhe buSts Of 5rpGra.
ton
There is in fact but one ground on
which peace party nj Ihe North can pro.
coed with chndOr aud honesty, tO.wit:-.
pracs and separation. Peace and reconstruc-
ton cur never he. Any Intelligent party
al the North must know that re. union Is
measure Ms impossible ~ the revival of the
Roman Empire aud the Caesars. TO 60 be.
fore the people with the cry OF peace aud
reconstruction, is to go before them under
false prstsAets. II by such IL cry they sought
10 obtain money. they would he liable uu-
dor the municipal law to conviction as
fslons, and to incarceration in State pris.
OnS The prcience Of reconstruction Is u false
PrE'snCt, and although tht ObtGiHmsHt Of UOtsS
upon Il may not Ge .tetonIOu'iy pHHiSha6h by
10y, IL is INrANors mM'We otmOraIS."
What is wanting in language here Of
scOrn and contempt for the practices Of the
Northern Democracy in the "0bIAinmenl OF
votes md now utterly ohtmse, shameless
and degraded, politically. must they be il
they do not tcel 80 cutting u rebuke. Ia
it not difficult TO imagine anything better
calculated to rrpeI every attempt II auy
merely political alliance? aud is it not
plain, MS we have sHid, That these scOrntul
WOrds--biuer, stiuging-have NJ length
reached semsibiities as cAllOus and hard
even as those Of these old political hacks
tue leaders OF the peace Democracy Of the
North Scanning what we have given aud
much to the same purpose recently put
afoat in the public prints from the South,
should not every loyal man congratulate
himself who is in no way vulnerable to
such assaults as this from the Richmond
press?
We cannot withhold one more extract
from the same Richmond production, cOn-
tanning, as i! does, the gist OF the rCbake
sought to be conVeyed:ko the abetters Of
treason thus doomed 10 catch il from every
quarter. It is this:
at is not for US TO give advice to any
party in the North, but in this case the
maxim is certainly true, that II may he wise
Tor them to learn FROM III enemy. The les.
sou which We would teach the Northern
conservatives is simply this: that hOnsIty
- The hest policy, Let them not 60 belOEe
their people with a delu,ivs.And false pro-
gramme. Let them not deceive their PEG.
pie into the belief that the South will unltu
in the convention which they propose"
Now, It the loyal men Of the North had
no, advanced single sentiment going to
rebukn this 50. called "peace Democracy"
what VIZ have given from prints issued in
tie very presence OF the rebel concIave at
Richmond ought to be sufficient tO cut
short all attempts OF the diSIUyal At tam.
periug with the rebels in arms. The lat
ter commenced with AVOwing their hatred
for the extremists vi tue North; and they
have worked themselves up TO that degree
OF fury that they will recognize none as to
he tolerated who stand in the way Of that
contamination OF their ambitious schemes
projected so many long years ugo, and, rs
they hope, yet to ba successful. Every
proposition Tor terms short of separation
brings back only MI Insane howl VI def
ance, only new manifestations OF hutred OF
the most malignant kind. What is the con.
cIusion Of all this?
Only this: That the loyal States must
unite again ms one man 10 crush the rebel.
lion by that law OF force to which the rcb.
Of leaders themselves were the first to ap.
peal. "SrparatiOn.' which, Of itself, At
ouce md forever destroys all those old eco
d'itiOus" hclwiXI the Northern and South
cru Democracy By which, Tor two.th;rds or
more Of our history, IL certain set Among US
managed to retuiu power, eau hardly be
tue contamination OucC wished so arIentIy
By those who have been foremost as me.
gosiators" Of IAte. Driven back in their
foolish quest then, what remains Tor these
men, il they would foster my hopes for the
future, but to drop forever their wild
schemes and cease to lawn upon men who
In turn spit upon aud spurn them? Sure.
y they have gone far CnOugh-even the
most reckless and prOIIignle OF them-in
this direction; surely they must now see
that, M hoped for "nrgOintOrs," their vO.
cation must be yielded TO those who, back.
ed by the armies of the Republic, can at
least insure durable "pencs"-one not re.
sulting in frOwnIOR batteries on both sides
Of the border, from The Atlnutic 10 the
latrhCs' conlnes Of the Republic in tue
West.
There is yet another and al encouraging
view to be obtained from the present state