Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-06-13

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dsnt9tto their twenty !four, thus controlling
! the Executive department. ii.i So of th
Judges of the Supreme oouHtt4we haY
had eighteen from thesouth, and but eley
en- from the north; although nearly four
ffths Of the Judicial bHsiness has arisen i,
the free States; yet majority of the C6ur
has always been from;tbe be south. Z Z This ! VI VI
/ have REQUIRED so as Is guard guard stkainst an,
inteEpFeftsti9n fss q Of the 999ssitution unfavor
able to ua. In like mannerlw have beel
Iequally watchfullt Ito guard our interests ii
the Legislative branch of governments
In choosing the presiding Presidents (pr
tem,) Of the Senate, we have had twenty
four to their eleven. Speakers of til,
J House we. have had tBeptythree, and the,
Twelve. While the msibfity of the repre-
ssptatiyess, from their gfsater population
have always been from the north, yet. ",
have SO generally secnred the Speaker, be,
cause he, to a great extent, shapes and
controls the legislation of the country
Nor have We had less control ngevery Other
department of thegeneraI governments
Attorney Generals we have had fourteen
while the north, have bad but Eve. For.
eigu ministers we have had eighty-six, and
they bat 6fty-four! While three-fourths
of the business which demands diplomatic
agents abroad is clearly from the free
States, from their greater commercial
interests, yet we have had the principal
embassies, SO as to secure the worlds
markets for our cotton, tobacco Fl and
sugar on the best possible terms
We have had vast majority of the
higher offices of both army and navy,
while larger proportion of the soldiers
aud sailors we're drawn from the north
Equally so of clerks, auditors aud comp
trollers filing the Executive department,
the record shows for the last fifty years
that of 5000 thus employed, we have had
more than. two-thirds of the same, while
we have but one-third Of, the white popu-
latiou of therepublic. Again, look at an
other item, and one, be assured, in which
we have great and vital interest; it is that
of revenue, or means of supporting gov
ernment. From official documents we
learn that fraction over. three-fourths of
the revenue collected for the support of
government has uniformly been raised
from the north. Pause now while you can
gentlemen, aud contemplate carefully and
candidly these importent items. Leaving
out of view, for the present, the countless
millions of dollars you must expend in
war with the north; Bflh tens of thou
sands of your sons aud brothers slain in
battle, and offered up as sacrifices upon the
altar of your ambitiou-aud, for what, we
ask again? Is it for the overthrow of the
American government, established by. our
common ancestry, cemented and built up
by their sweat and blood, and founded on
the broad principles of right, justice and
humanityl And, as such, L must declare
here, as l have often done before, and
which has been repeated by the greatest
and wisest of statesmen and patriots In
this and other lands, and is the best and
freest government, the most equal in its
rights, the most just In its decisions, the
most lenient in its measures, and the most
inspiring in its principles to elevate the
race of men, that the sun Of Heaven ever
shone upon. Now, for you to attempt to
overthrow such government as this, under
which we have lived for more than three
quarters of century-in which we have
gained cur wealth, our standing as ma
tion, our domestic safety while the eIe-
msents of peril are around US, with peace
and tranquility, accompanied with un-
bounded prosperity aud rights nnassailed
is the height of madness, folly and
wickedness, to which L can neither lend
my sanctiou nor my vote.D . .iia "a, ''.i, - ;,