Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-28
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The recent Elections have decided the
Previous Questtou-thRt the Republic is to-
live aud the Rebellion be put down. There |
may be treverses yet before hs-disasteFs,
eyen-pecuniary emharrassm6nts-tran.'
siept popular discouragementS-bat the
Nation stubbornly refuses to die. Itspf
fers, il bleedsj its wealth may be still
further wasted aud the future industry
mortgaged; but county known 70 man.
kind asItbe United States Of America will
be known as such hereafter, with the
game boundaries aud the the same general
GhaTaetertstIcs Rs in the peacefal years
gone by. GS0muOh We regard settled by
the Military and Pol ittical events Of 1853
But h0iO Is the Union to be reconstItnted7
Wa Slaves, or itVithOut 2This Is the re-
naming and momeutons issue.
Victor Hugo, in his "NapOIeon the Little, p
says:
dThIs stfussls between Man and his Maker a
EHuItless In eatastrophes, That witch ought 10 30
will be; that which Ought 70 dow WIN hpW; that
which ought 70 fall Hill tlll that which ought Is
spring up wll spring up; that which ought o grow
VIII grow; buts 6bstEnet these Natural laws, then
confusion felloNs. and disorder begins
STREAM and the water pReEOws3 Obstru6t the future
and revelations break out
aIt youl persist n pfeaetVng an0nE1t you, a n
Il we're living thug, the past which q dead, you
produce an tnexritoAble moral chaleras c0fFBps
easfs Rssas es..ss 8 m 3 ss 5 ss s5s
retain the bodies u your houses the plague viii
burst uponYQus III ~ s slEs af
scures their mtndRt Those men WhQ dub themselves.
statesulen do rot lindestan tlat t1ey themselves
have ulaes with thef own hands and viii the SWeSt
of their broWs, the events they depores and
that TIM FeFFe phei which cftfnhl6 81 fkam
were 81 thsm odsi 3 constrlcfsd.''
1 We know that Slavery ought % die with
i its child the sRebelliOns There is NOT an
tpveiligeas frtend OF eps eoantry 10 TIE
Old World who does not feel and know
lthis, We know the South viii have reason
Ito lhless even the rebellion tfit fesnlfs
In fidding her utterly and. fotevet
II Of her giant curse We know that our
i whole people should the Rebellion thus
result In the destruction Of SlaEeEyi will
look back upon this war Rs D feartdT dream
and sayJs tstt has entafied 4oR ts terrible
sacrifices, but It's fruits are worth al they
4 cost" a.Isiiit tIl.,ls -
q Firmly believing thts-betfesfng that It
tts nobody FfGt INTEREST," that Slavery should
lsuHVigeBthe eebelli0ni aud that very few
& except our Nofthern CoppeFheads Z who
!. Sigh for the heshpnts thar long rewarded
I their servile devotion 70 the Slave POwer)
Z lteally tgaRf Slavery PER- psthafed 1--WE pro-
I Ipose ID leave our GoTeFnment utterly un-
u Embarrassed by any d6guas, any tteeries,
any eEOehets on our part in ifs dealings
with the Rsbeilipn and dts cause. We do
/ lnot endorse Mr. Summers, nor Mr. Whit
& ing's nor Mr. Anybody > theory of sEtate
/. suicide Tor state sovereignty Tor ant thug
; else that nigh impede an early restora-
/ ton OF Peace. We do not bold that the
/ Government must Do this OF that oI
refrain from one thing 0r!tEe other Eavl
that it must, with the peoples help ppi