Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-02-14

uttered. They deserve obe Cngravcn on
every hcart.-NuSAgillc Union.
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am sorry that the negro wool is still
troubling you. We should not permit
anything Of the kind to disturb our low
atty in any degree. If men were to deter
mine that they would not follow any
cause whatever, unless the leaders were
lntalllbte, and the champions or rcspon-
slb!e governors Of its movements were
incapable of ever committing IL blundcr,
what think you would now be the con-
dition Of the world? And how are YOU
to determine that Mr.. LINcoLN's pr0cla-
nttion is blunder? How may YOU de-
monstrate that it is anything but consor-
yahye! Remember that in the entire
history of the human race, 1t has rarely
been the case that the wisest measures.
the best and most sagacious counsels
commanded Immediate support. There
are innumerable examples that show that
measures of this kind, which time proved
and maintained, were at first most fierce
~ assalled, and upon movements of this
very kind, party spirit has often expend-
ed the surges of its fiercest wrath. The
rebels have made free use of their negroes
in building Notifications, in aiding their
white soldiers In every conceivable way,
IN guarding Union prisoners and on picket
duty They have used them against our
lines as sharp-shOoters, and rs drilled
men and i'll every way that the negro
could be used in tearing the vitaIs from
our country, and destroying the peace of
the world. In bringing desolation to ey
cry heart in our land, the piratical traitors
have used the negro against us. Are we
to leave this vast power in their villainous
hands? If Mr.. LINCOLN had the power
to destroy, by proclamation, the Thrcdc
gar Cannon Foundry in Richmond, and ey-
cry powder mill inthe South would he do
his duty to permit them to stand?
The negro has been worth many cannon
toundries and many powder mills to the
traitors Are the lives of our men to be
devastated on the battle. field, or wasted
and destroyed in camps and marches; are
all our women and children TO feel the
crushing heel of these traitors Squeezing
out their livesi is every interest, everY
kind OF property among us to be bitterly
assailed by the licndish rebels and are
We to study their interests, comforts,
rights, or conveniences; while their de.
moulac rage and hcllish acts are exhaust.
ing us? say no, let the degrading IN
stitution perish, and if necessary the
South with it. Let their bands be broken
, In every justiiable way. Let the storm
OF a free peoples wrath break upon she
heads of the wretches in every .wav. IL
can be made to reach them. And I saw
to you in all honesty, that if the choice
were given 10 me, would rather see ne.
groes occupying high political trusts in
our Union, than to see such trusts in the
hands of'Jef. Davis. Judah Benjamin,
Thompson of Mississippi, Toombs, Nal
lOry, Geo. Saunders, or any of the rest
of the gang. would rather see the nc
groes turned loose upon the South, than
Ito see rebel prisoners exchanged and
turned loose upon us! You ask what
would have been the result if every en-
listed soldier had been asked to vote
whether they would sustain the procla.
nation. My dear son, war has never been
carried on in this way. The Constitution
has made the President the Commander
ia-Chief of the Army and Navy of the
United States. When these men enlisted
and were sworn into servicc, they well
knew that Mr.. LINCOLN was the SPresi-
dent of the the United States, and that
they had to obey such orders as he cousid.
cred necessary tOa successful prosecution of
the war. and they kew that they had
,nO, vote ius the mater.s The course vou
;ES ~ - S4u pIsHoq1d neither
give Couu.eG"uce OF quarter to anything
of that kind. Be for your country first,
last. always for your country. s If Presi,'
dents, Congresses, Legislatures aud Com
manders do wrong, remember that YOUR
country is behind them, and that she de.
mands every pulse of your heart, evcrv
throb of your intellect. Col. - wrote
J me letter azfew nights since, in W whicbSbe q
t utters thfssn0hle sentiment. al am for m r
country, despite Presideutsior Congresses, !,
: Let that besyour guiding light. aRrow n
down everything that breeds insubprdina-
ton among officers or men. Teach men
that the Constitution of the United States
makes Mr.. Lincoln 6ommander-in-Cbiet
!. of the, Army and Navy, and has not ma de-
the soldiers and sailors his Commander-iu-