Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-02

4 Gov. j. said II +epddiate the doe1rif55e
I'm for Union; Eintend to ,standr bv-it. an
if necessary the last, drop. of nv bloo,
l'shalI he sprinkled ,onlthe altar,for its mas
ervatiop. ''''.asiill b .<.liiE go
But we are teld, we cannot subiupate
State Can 1thefeSbe any society 2or9eiviE
cation without enforcement gof the Law
The organization of party, on old mart,
tPrej1dices, under the cry OF Ithe Union 4,
it was, aud the Constitution as it is. p. ia Z,
gigeaid and comfort to the dead ~ enem;s,
of both. While they, like you to ftalk wiz
them about peace and an armisdce, and III,
Northw west coal sscing with the South. the,
are laughing gt you, aud tell yon tbey
want no compromises that do not recoe.
nize their indeheadenee. While the bow.
els of your syppat thizers are yearninp fo,
them, have yof forgotten the Union mer
down there do1not come aa a begpa,
to you comS with aths Constitution ol
the United Stat aud demand that trait.
ors and rebels. shall be put down, The
Constitution SAYS the United States ~
not may, "g6aHnIee to every State a Re.
publican form of Government" ."iI call
upon your sym thizers to fulfill that OBJ.
legation, and4g antee to the UnIonrmeb
of the. South sneh a form of Government.
demand your sympathy for loyal men men
east of the CSh6erlahd Mountains-the
most loyal people in the United States
where they have dared ito be loyal.
you've some hre who, because they are
IN loyal Staei dare not be, otherwise.
Compromise, Indeed. Yoprisympathizers
must want to Se me hung. The redemp-
tion of that people has beeniput off Iohp
II
will come to Illinois, Indiana and Ohio!
and plead with you for a chosen band of
men to redeem them. Voice, we'll give
you $4,000. There is a fearful responsi-
bility resting upon those who have pre-
Cipitated the country into civil war. They
have caused all these new made graves, ali
this suffering aud sacrifice, You sympa-
thiSers and all, et meiask you to lift your
hand to Heayef and see 'ifit be not red
with blood. Dd you talk of being tired of
war; If it costyour fathers seven long
years to establish this Government, how
much ger.ouEht we to fight to preserve
1t Z So far 90 am concerned, would
carry it on nctdnly seven, but thirty years.
What is thirty years in the life time of
nation, in permanently founding Govern.
ment, that my revolutionize the civilized
world Wepa my life spared seventy
years, woult fight on-=as long as the
Moors agains the aSpaniards-and, like
Paul Jones, when his ship was sinking, ia
reply'to the 6mand to surrender, answer.
"Surrender-teverl We are only getting
ready to 'fght..f BE believed the time to
makefA firm, United stand, was now. Open
the Mississippi, blockade Galveston. Mo-
bile, and othei ports, let Rosecrans move
on to Chattanooga, take Weldon, cut ofFsthe
Southern railrtad, aud the coufederacy will
fall. Suppose you compromise, or declare
AN armistice. Tpey don't twantcompromise
they want you 10 talk abont, divide upon it,
quarrel ngtYourselves, and then they.
win conquer IN detitff; IL you COM,
promise, whatgill you put in it? The
right of secessionl he would show them
that that was SPURIOUS coin, and to be nall
ed to the couutG-that the right to secetle,
was pretensein the absence of all cause
for its exercise. He entered into the his
tory of Congressional action. The adop-
tiou by Congress of a proposed article
amendatory of tie Constitiou, guaranteeing
TO slave States perpetual constitutional
assurance that tileir right in slave property,
should never bedIstnrbed, and the passage
of territorial bills covering every inch of.
territory, in which wasincorporateda pro-
vision that the rights of private property
should not be impaired, or any discrimina-
ton used in. taxation of property. They
rejected both these guarantees, determined
not to enjoy rights fully guaranteed to
them This shows that they want no com.
promise. They lost confidence in our ca ;
pacitY for self. government. They wanted
an aristocracy based upon the negro,sa
Southern empire, with Jeff Davis for mon-
arch; and propose to- divide and conquer
you, and make you supply men and money
for its maintenance, with JEFF Davis, Tsham
Harris and Toombs, to be your masters and
mine. Instead of Harris being my master,
1 would not have him for my slave. He
had spent his life in the South, picked
cotton with his own hands, owned slaves,
obtained through his own industry, and
had them appropriated by these fellows.
his family turned into the streets, and his
house converted into barracks, as bis por-
ton of Southern rights; aud although be.
didn't approve of the policy of employing
negroes in the army, yet he was for the
COnstitution5 with or without slavery. If
the negro gets in the way of car of State
let him; be crushed; and if not, let him re-
main where he is. Slavery, as compared
with the eiGovernment, is dust in the ball
ance; and as for cotton, the world existed
nedrIy SIX thousand years without its be-
ing An articleof prime necessity, and if a
little more wool, Hdx and hemp is grown,
the world will scarcely feel its loss. The
Government will go on, whether we have
negroes or cotton. Stand firm for this
great fabric of human liberty. Ii it
stands, the time win come when the uni
ted States will be the great.eenter of the
civilized world, impartiug to tits ideas of
government, religion, literature, art and
scieuceyi Isn't it worth I'm effort 20 lay
broad and deep the foundations of such a
Government Itstendency WAS to. elevate
man, and SO blending political and moral
progress, that the day will come when both
viii be united under ii, and the millennium,
of peace and good will to man be ushered
in. We cannot compromise with treason
any more than truth with error. or virtue
with vice. Would you have the almighty
compromise with the devil Had he,
Haa