Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-10-14

sent forward to Camp Dupont2 Gallant
and patriotic defenders Of their native city
they undoubtedly were but they had Ob.
posed the war, and their countrymeu
could never extend full forgiveness to
what they deemed an uupatriotic derelicl
ti0n. Let the peace Democrats mediate
on their preseutp0sitiOu, aud be prepared
for the national verdict. ast .-'s
lIOn-W hat He Thinks OF OOmpFO-
mise. aI ttfI a. atI4a 30
The following is an extract from truly
able speech delivered by Judge Hierstand,
Of New Orleans, at mass meeting Of 10y
al Young Men Of New York. II will ,,be
read with interest: r aai
AZ said 70 you in theioutset, the object
of the rebellion was success or utter fail
ure. Like the inVetefate gambler, they
have staked their all, even their PERSONAL
circumstances TO some ek ktent, upon the
hazard of the die, and they desire nothing
but complete success. With them life
Withoat Slavery is scarcely acceptable any
longer. When you see men with their
wives and families abandoning their COM
Portable homes which they have Inhabited
for quarter of a century, aud taking their
few slaves with them, aud leaving every
thing on earth else valuable behind, asa
have repeatedly seen it done ia the city Of
New Orleans since the arrival Of the Union
feet aud Union forces there, you need not
talk to me about compromise with such
people. [Applause. is-sa' -7 fz
The rebellion is based wholly and solely
upon that institution. The coast along the
line Of the Mississippi river has been lett a
desert-lands are abandoned, luxurious.
dwellings left behind, costly furniture and
everything else considered as nOught If
only the owners could make their escape
from the approaching army with their
slaves. As has been said by Gen. Hamil-
ton, of Texas, and as have heard plan.
tiers say in the city Of New Orleans, they
would drown their plantations aud escape
TO tue twUOas Win their BegroesI 0nd share
the last crust with them. Do you think
there is any c0mpromise in the hearts or
heads of madmen like these3 No, there is.
but one solution to this rebelliou,' and ihe
who talks of any other ID, q fool or mad,
man. That solution les to dig out fhe last
vestige of slavery . As long as you leave
the least root of it in the body polite. it
will again grow and tester in some future
day, and infict another wound upon the
county. .-.-, ti,.,,.,.,, -...-i. 80, :, I,
am not talking without my host, fellow
citizens. Three years ego, bali Of . little
fortune that have been able, through
many vicis=itudes, to qccumulate, which is
not large, consisted Of slaves, and so help
me God, as am q living man, whenever
they are no longer satisfied to live with me /,
as have already told them, they are vel
come 70 go, and were they ten times the
number that now possess, it should be
the same. All the slaves throughout the
Southern States, from the Potomac to the
Rio Grande, and from Missouri to the Gulf
of Mexico, would not compensate me for
eighteen months more of tribulRtion such
as have passed through in the city. oil
New Orleans when IL was under the rule Of
secessionists. Loud applause.1 Do not
me. suffered neither in
person nor purse; was allowed the libeF-
~ OF free locOmotion in the city of New
Orleans, the liberty Of expressing my
thoughts (aPplapsel u took bnF the sOliei-
tude of knowing that was at any moment
liable 10 be whipped up and taken before
Ia blood thirsty Vigilance Committee, and
transferred, as some of my telloW-ci iizens
we're, from my heafthstone, and my wife
and babies-yea, even more, perhaps never
again to hear or see them.
1t was a punisbment worse than death
itself, aud one which all the negroes In
Africa itself conld not compensate me for.
You, fellow citizens, who, reside here in
the great city of New York, and are sur
rounded by these tmmense resources Of
commerce, and see your argosles floating
from yon every hour upon yon magnificent
bay, bound to every port through6pt the
civilized world; you who have your civil
institutions; you who are as prosperous
now as you ever were, although the Seees-
sIonists told ds that after secession com--
menced grass would grow in yJ0uT streets
-[lapghterl lyon, eqnp9t aPRFeeiaie she
position of the few men in the S91thetn
States who have been true to the country.
And 70 see that there are men in the NOrth
Eho are trying TO embaErass the Govern.
msnt, who question the justness of the acts
OF the G6yerhment in opposing this rebel-
lion and trying TO assist it-thiS is 9 prob
lem that we cannot solve. lApplause,l
But It is only anOtherproot Of the bepef-
eence Of our institutions and the eoiidity
OF oqt form Of fGoyernment. and The. .saered-
ness with which the laws are exeented
among yon when YOU allow these men 70
bteaths, the same air with Yon and walk
the same streets. LTremendo1s aPPi4use,1
Had We, in the city oE New Orleans, eysf
hda The Audacity 70 have qpestiphed The
tesnlG even Of the rebelliot /. vi hoat Soy:
ing ahything abodt tIie igstness 81 the sc:
cessio9 eause, there would not have been. 8
U6fop man ia New Orleans TO have tee6g+
mixed the dag when Il was borne back
there upon the breeze BY onr glorious tafs.
Therefore 1t is mYsteri0us 70 ns, and Only