Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-21


B arrived. The contest on the field Of battl
was the test of physical streagth and en-
o dHrance alone. God in His infinite mercy
Q has turned the tideIof battle in favor of th
9 brave sons of toll aud liberty. The victo
4 ries of the present month have demonstra
> ted the Weakness1of the rebels. Thei
strength is exhausted, and it will requir,
. only few of the remaining months ofthI
5 year to scatter to the winds their last army
corps. A short time thereafter will suficl
to disperse their rowing guerrilla bands
, when the whole South will be ready fol
the peaceful pursuits Of civilized life.
Already the poll ilieians are beginning 4
/ spread their artful pets with which to col.
lect the materials Tor another assault OF
our liberties. The men of wealth, who
tsympathized with the rebellion aud il
cause, ARE stepping forward and with oily
tongue are talking about reconstruction
receiving back our recusant sisters" with
their institutions aud constitutions recog-
MIXING slavery in ell it's forms-inViting
themto elect Senators and Representatives
as aforetime.
Fellow. citizens, let US visit the Surgeon
Generals Office in Washington, and look
into q book kept there, called t'The Regis
ter of the Dead, !" filed with the names Of
those who have lost their lives in this
| slaveholder's rebellion. In that book you
will find the names of more than $4,000
soldiers, who on the Let day of April 1861,
were living in the bosoms of happy, peace
fuI families. Go with me through the
country, visit the villages and cities,
everywhere we will see the weeds of mourn
ing, the grief. stricken father, mother, bro
ther, sister and wife. Mark, too. the sad
countenauces of the children, as they gath
er around the mothers knee, asking the
cause of her tears. when she tells them
"yoIr .father is dead, killed while fighting
for the liberties of his country, which were
sought to be overthroWn by the slaVehold-
ers of the South" and catching the inspir-
alton of her grief, the orphan mingles it's
wall for the father slain by the minions of
the insoIent slaveocrat. Such scenes are
to be witnessed daily, aye, almost hourly,
all over the country.
What, then, reader, has caused all this |
sorrow and suffering2 What is the cause |
of this sscruel warp Was it not slavery |
Was it not licentious power after which |
the slave owner was thirsting that induced |
him TO plunge the country into war2 It |
was not those who were "earning their
bread by the sweat of the brow" but those
who were living in luxury on the labor of
the slave,-thOse. who never touched the |
pIow or axe, and who secuted the idea of |
a laboring white man enjoying the right of
suffrage. They brought on the war, and |
after more than 100000 lives have been |
sacrificed, they, these shareholders and
their friends, both North aud South, step |
forward and cry ouS, etEnough men have
been illed,-wssAr6 whipped, ,-let there |
be cessation Of hostilities until we can
re-arrauge our plans. With our friends |
at the North better drilled, with riots in
all your cities, breaking out simultaneous.
" with our next rebellion, we will succeed
in overthrowing the libertiesof the whole
people, and in establishing a slaveocracy
over all the country" From whom come
these words of present submission and fu-
ture determination Who sing the syren |
song of "reconstruc.ion2" The smooth |
tongued politician Of the South, anxious
to retain his slave property and power, and |
his Northern sympathizer. Friends Of lib
erty! beware. Look well to the ground |
you occupy. Slavery and Democracy are |
antagonistic. They can never flourish on |
tho same soil. Slavery is aristOcracy and
despotism. The ambition of the slave
holder has made the land mourn. It has
drenched your fair fields with blood. It
has heaped upon you and your children a
debt of more than thousand millions OF
dollars. You dare not daily with it, or 1t
people, we have been disgraced by it.
England and France taunt us as the Phil |
istines did Sampson when they placed him
between the pillars to make sport for
them. France is laying her schemes to
seize part of your fair domatn-England |
is fitting out piratical vessels to sweep |
your commerce from the ocean. You pro- |
test they laugh and defy you. AS a |
nation, the STAKEHOLDER has humiliated us,
because we are compelled, for the present,
to submit to their taunts.
But you are ready to ask, is there to be no |
restoration 2 Nopeace. No representation |
from the South answer, Noj-not until |
the States in rebellion, one by one, hold |
Conventions and change their constitutions |
aud laws in reference to slavery, then only |
should there be berestoration peace and repre- |
sentation, and not before. And until the
Southern people are willing to renew their
allegiancet to the general government on the
terms proposed above, Whenever it is prac-
ticable 10 do so, conrts should be estah- |
lished in their midst,-rebels should be |
indicted, tried and hing if found guilty, |
their property coufscated and sold 70 pay |
the expenses of the war. Never, never, should |
thew be allowed q voice in the councils of
the nation until they "repent. and do their |
first works over again" and fgiVe fruits |
meet for repentance Anything short Of |
this win only be to inaugurate another re-
bellion, and be lending the energies Of the |
nation to secure the obedience of the slaves
Il NAV be affirmed to all this, that these
are yery hard terms, and such as will never
be assented to by our Southern brethren.
/ reply, that the punishment is in proper
ton 70 the crime, only, and that 1t Is none
too severel What would you place IN
the balance the value OF few millions OF
slaves, against the lives OF the msitphea
thonssnds of the very flower Of this cOun-
trv vino nave been slain In war against
those '.who reap where they have HOtsoEn.
and gather where they have not strown n
Nav, verify; let the slaveholder drink 20
49,, 80, j-s,,s t,,e rnp of woe he has, for