Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-02-16
Thoso Peaee Re.oIntlonn.

ThoSO Pence Revolutions.
The Wheeling Press publishes in eai,o
rial type, aud under flaming and conp.n;al
mead iIneS' the so-cnIIcd peace resolutions
OF the CopPerbeads of tho Illinois Lepis.
Iature. We have no further comment to
make at this time on this disloyal NANTES.
t"t'on than to ask the attention of our
readers to the following remarks of the
conservative and excellent and potr;o,ic
Baltimore american on the tenor and spirit
of these resolutions.
Says the American:
We have not space for the "peace reso.
Iutlons'in ull,irecently Introduced into the
Illinois Legislature; but, it is enough To
say of them, that Aey bear small familv
likeness to the whole nonstrous brood Of fall.
0''"HptioHs upon t0ticA tie attempt TO de,froy
the Government is based. OF course, a vast
amount of regret is manifested for the mis-.
SIko made by the Government in suppo-
ing coercion oNn have anything to do in
indicating the integrity of the Govern
ment, not South Carolina herself having
just at this time, when Charleston is threat
ened, greater dislike to that doctrine. But
We are constrained to give a "specimen
BRICK or two out of his stack of secesh
rubbish. Here is one:
Whereas, the Constitution cannot he
maintained nor the UniOn preserved in on.
position to public feeling 6v the D,.ro .r.r-
else Of The CoERCIVE POWER confd.8 IN n.
General Government, and that in the case
OF differences and conflicts between the
States and Federal Government. too pow-
erful for adjustment by tho civil dennrt-
ment OF the Government, the appeaL II not
to the stcoTd, by the State or the General
Government, but to the people, peacefnIIv
assembled by the representatives in con.
Yention."
What loyal man now has words of scorn
sufficient to brand as it deserves this nc
cursed NttempttO iuaugurate trcacbery and
disloyAlty, under the guise of patriotic
tenderness for the safety of the Consti,u.
uOn2 Aud who are the men, the party, the
SymPathiEers with treason, who propose to
loyal men to fan back tornado with slins
of p"por7 Who is it that tells the Gov
eminent to expose itself unnrmed to the
deadly assaults of traitors, returning for
their shot and shell and bayonet tbrusts.
songs OF pcsce2 Let us inquire here
who first inaugurNted war, fred III.
hFst cannon, threatened ruin, burnipcs
bloodshcd! We're they not these same sofr
spoken Compromise" aud ,'armisticen man
who, deprecatiug the use of the coer-
Give powers ooutided to the "Geueral Gov.
eFnmOnt,' proposed in the very act of ma.
King tho frst assault, to fiauut their pir,,i.
ca flag over the burning ruins Of the Can.
it"I OF the nation, over Faueutl Hall? O.
no, thrashed on so many Eelds, chokod Off
from their anticipated prey, sitting down
In grief aud rage to contemplate their own
Ioily' well may they raise cry of "peacer
from amidst the pestilential miasma At
KiShmondi well may they call on Vallan.
ham and his treacherous copfteres scs,,..
ed throughout the loyal States-tolers,ea
in their dislOyal teachings by mistaken
leniency-to make a diversion IN their f..
Vor; to divide, if possible, the patriotic
sentiment of the loyal States, if so be
they may thereby escape rCtribu,iou. viii
these "cOPPerheads" of the Illinois Lsgis.
latuFe-this miserable pack of traitors to
patriotic principle, who are in the field to
0etray the brave men who have gone to
fght for their COua,ry, will they succeed
in their vile aims2
Aud these men affect to fear-,bOv d.
pr00ats a consolidated military dsspOt-
iSmr : -.
They are blind to the facts that come to
rs from the other side of the border; they
have no eyes for the snOrmitiss of daily
occurrence in the region under the tyrapie
sway of JEFF Davis They have not heard
through the sullen complaints of Governor
Vance, of North Carolina, that in the pris.
on at Salisbury, where some hundreds Of
Union men are incarcerased to die of rot-
ten food and accumulated aud awful bard
chips that, rs 10 the case of the lions den.
the tracks of the victims ''all turned in
wards" They havenOt read the long list
republished by rs recently from the Rich
mond EzamiStr, of men from tho State