Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-05-05


be done, as you say, by the present Admin
! istration; and whatever we may think of
the wisdom of some of the measures thev
adopt, it is our duty to support the war and
give confidence to the President We will
do so. ! have no sympathy at this time,
i'll this death struggle for the muintainance
OF the best government on earth, with the
! that are now in either party trying more
to save their party than their government.
What will either party profit if we lose our
country or government? Division of this
government is destruction. Separation is
ruin. We cannot, under any crcumstan-
ces, lose the power of the government, or
any part of our territory, without destruc-
ton to all now and to posteritJ. The sen
tlmeuts you express, that, while you live,
you will not yield inch of territory or di-
vide the government, is so in accordance
with my sentiments, that l only have to
say to you that | could not refrain from
expressing it 10 you. hope you will par
don me for the liberty. We have one COM
mon interest, and |, as a common man, feel
;hat may express it, have nothing to
add that you do not know on the state OF
the nation, but when l see a man who, |
think, can do SO much good as YOURSELF
talk to the people to encourage them aud
the country, feel as though | might have
'ue privilege OF expressing II.
81 have always voted the democratic
ticket, and hold there still, and think that
party may again do good in restoring the
fraternal feeling in the South hereafter;
but for the present we must use the ma
terial we have in hand to first put down the
rebellion. But, whatever party predomi-
mates in times of peace we can live under
it, aud it is no time now to weaken the
hands of the rightful authority in power
by finding too much fault for selfish ends.
am sorry that the political newspapers
of both parties are so weak as to exhibit so |
much bitterness, low epithets and foul
names, governed too much by passion and |
not enough by common sense and discre-
ton. Only word more; you may recol- |
lect of being at Centreville, in ST. Joseph |
county, with Gen. Cass, in the campaign |
of 1856, aud in the evening at Three Rivers, |
stayed all night, with Stephen Kelsey, my
sou-in-law; next day was driven to Casso |
polls by my son, along with General Cass, |
brought yourself and Gen. CIss from |
CeutreYille to Three Rivers in the after |
noon. You spoke in the evening at Three |
Rivers. have never met you since, but |
have always felt you a friend since |
that time. ] am now ffty-eight years |
old, and have retired to my farm, have |
been merchant, aud now own the mill in |
the village: have always been an active !
business man, but never Il politician have |
been in the state Senate, was in the consti- |
tutiOnNl conventional that framed the pres !
ent constitution of Michigan, have made |
what [ have, and have enough to keep me
and some for my children and now would |
give all the honor, all the property aud
myself for restoration of our government,
if need be, to bring it out of this dying
struggle, and will ifneed be, join my coun-
trymen in the ranks, and in the field, along
with those OF from forty-five to sixty, any
time that such recruits are wanted, if such
would be useful. beg of you to pardon
anything that may seem to be egotism or
want of discretion in this.
"Iours truly, L. S. MOORE.
"P. S.-You may judge men oftentimes
and better by the newspapers than they
read than by what they say. l would only
remark that | have taken the New York
Observer more than thirty years, and year
and half ago | subscribed for the daily
World, 1t professed to he independent,
aud never neutral. liked the paper very
much then, but latterly it is an extremist,
never seeing anything TO approve in the OPP
posite party, or the party in power, nor
ever anything to condemn in the party out
of power. At time like the present it is
not always wise to publish continually
complaints; it becomes distasteful to the
common mind and reacts. But be hopeful
and never give up the Ship and God, in
his own time, will bring us out.
"E S. MooR6"