Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-21
Hard HITS At the Copperheads.

iyns Monday night, and John Vac Buren,
made one of his strong aud witty speeches.
Here are some of his telling hits at the
cOpperheads =
You hear remarks of gentlemen in the
discussion in which they are engaged,
their declarations aGaisr the suspension
OF the writ of hAbeas corpus, their outcries
in behalf of free speech. You would sun
pose they were never allowed to open their
mouths. And yet, if l judge by what
they do, instead of what they say, / should
think the difficulty was one tor which the
| government Was not at all responsible, for
they are never able to shut their mouths.
[Applause and laughter. met an old
fashioned farmer not long ago, who said
to me, esquire" Cin the country LAWYERS
are all squires,) esquire, who is this man
that is going all around the country talk
ing all the time aud insisting that free
speech has been crushed out by the gene
raj government" Great LauEhter.n-
well" said ], 81 don't know whom Won
refer to-" fWell." said be, she is a man
with very hard name; comes from the
state OF Ohio; says that he got beat when
the democrats carried the State: | don't
remember the name" / said. 1Perbsns
you mean Vsllandigham" .That's the
name said he" Said be, Esquire, why
can't he be content with being beat at
bomeI without coming here to show us
bow we can be beaten here GGreat
laughter.l
ind d great many people tell me that
ne are right-that the rebellion is unius-
tihaole, and ought to be put down-but it
is impossible to su6jugate the South; that
they are six millions of resolute people,
perfectly united, and never can be put
down. say, with Col. Miller, of Erie, so
far as it is necessary to subiugate the
South, 1--WE willEtry." ] believe that the
people who say that it is impossible TO sub
lJngate the South are signing to be beaten.
ihey are people who seem to hope that " @
cannot overpower the South. Whenever I
md one OF these men who tells you that
you cannot su6jugate the South, always
think he is man who is signing to be
suodued and hoping to be conquered l
oeilVe we can overthrow the armies of the
!. South, and the intelligence that comes to
us now 10 calculated to confirm that con-
Viction. Applause. We do not propose
to suhjngate the South. We propose to
subjugate JEFF. Davis, and set the South
free. [Applause.l
A year and half ago all oser the Uni
ted States meetings were held TO declare
tue righteousness Of the war, and to invite
our fellow citizens to embark in the con-
test. did not take part in any of those
+ meetings, although my name was used as
an officer of them, and from time to time
contributed such small sums as it was in
my power to do. But if had been one of
those men who assembled in Union Square
, in New York; and denounced these rebels
and invited men to 90 forward TO the field
of battle and put down this foul rebellion
against the laws of the land and the right.
full authority of the county, it had sue.
ceeded IN that way in getting my friend,
my klnsman or my neighbor to abandon
nlS daily pursuits to go to far distant
land, to be exposed to the FIRE OF the enc.
my, 10 famine and TO disease, and if to-
! night when the question was whether these
troops, thus excited by me to go forward.
should now he furnished With supplies, and
now be reinforced by men, aud should be
, upheld by the arm of the government, and
the concentrated Yigor of public opinion
ssy, if then sat here aud cried peace,
while they were being fred upon and kill
ed, and provided for no reinEorcements and
y supplies to go forward to them, G cd might
forgive me, but l am sure man never
would.
suppose for single moment that a
friend of yours should be upset, and thus
injured BY a railroad, was carried to the
: nearest Hpothecary's, aud everybody should
u agree that he required immediate medical
:. attendance, what would you think of q
I man who cnme and said, "Now, if be had
done what told him he would never have
met with this accidents" or another man
who should say, care you going to bleed
e him Z" Eyes" "What are you going 10
p do after that" "WelI, am going to give
him BATH" DWELL, that is wrong:
know man you should see. If you will
wait until can send for a fellow that will
! be here on or about the 4th of March
/ next, he will treat him and make him a
4 great deal better" Laughter Would
It not be your first question on stepping
I 10, NV hat does he require Z" "Bleediug. j
Can this man bleed him" eyes, any-
e body can do that" "Then, for the love Of
. God, stop talking and bleed the man. or
ne viii surely die" Laughter. Now,
What Is required in this Contest2 Bleed
ing. Laughter. This Republic must
2 ole or be oled; and these men who are in
power are as competent to do that as any
, men, Applause. Do you believe that
on occasions like This would inquire as to
J the politics of the doctor? Or, when an
! army was ranged in battle, do you suppose
would go through the lines before the
firing commenced and poll the men to see
how they stood politically? Was that
done at Bunker Hill, as far as YOU have
heard? Do you think would look into
the muskets of our troops-provided they
were filed with powder and ball aud
aimed riRht-to see if the wadding was
made Of 7ribuHeS or Worlds? daughter I
Tho thing to be done now is that the
troops of the United States must be preci-
p''a'ed on the rebels. [Applause
On Friday evening last, Mrs. Levi, and