Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-06-15

i yourselves as d party ana as individuals.
Let me say to you, young men, who are
fighting in the ranks of the Democratic
party to- day, beware how you tread on thai
platform. 1t is unsound, and the reproach
will follow you in all your future years.
You cannot wipe it out. 1t will be said ol
you, and to your children, and to your
children's children, that man was opposed
to putting down the most wicked rebellion
the world ever knew; and when that brand
is put upon you, it will mark you asan en-.
emy toyour country. Young men, let me
beg of you, turn back; go with that party
no longer which adopts such reasonable
policy. Let your energies go with and for
your Government in putting down the war.
Don't cover yourself with infamy, by tax
ing upon yourself the reputation of trying
to strike down the efforts of the Govern.
ment in suppressing this rebellion.
You must conquer this rebellion, or sub
nit to a recognition the Southern Con-
tederacy. You can do but one of two
things; it is folly TO attempt anything else,
for there can not exist slave Gonfederacy
and free Confederacy side by side on
this continent They could not live to-
gether. Nay, more than that, ferVently
believe that the great God himself intend.
ed but one nation should occupy this couu-
OOuuudEJt Auu 6u0 ElN0ES 6lEGbCuluR 10 Tue
seas, upon whose waters are borne our
try. He gave us the lakes for our northern
commerce to the nations of the world
while man has done all that canSbe done
by science to bind US together, by means
of railroads which extend like mighty
links over all the land. You must conquer
the whole country, or abandon tue whole
country; you must preserve this as one
Government, or see 1t rent into twenty or
fifty different factions.
have not proposed to. day to argue with
you the question of secession, BUT say to
you that that dogma, so destructive of
every principle upon which this Republic
is based, must be crushed out, or there will
be no unity or national life hereafter.
think old Jackson settled the question of
secession when he knocked Calhoun and
his argument down with his proclamation.
l think every man in this land will deny
the right of secession; but had talk
with an old friend this morning, whom l
saw here a few moments ago. said to
him: Do you admit the right of State to
secede 'tNo, sir, don't" Do you ad-
NIT the right of Washington county to se-
cede from Ohio2 No." Suppose she does
it? "I will try to coax her back" Sup
pose she won't be coaxed back2 "I will
use gentle force to bring her back" But
suppose she has stolen oil your arms and
asks you to come on and fight? 81 will
just tell her, 'wayward sister, go in peace.'"
These were John Van Buren's words, but
he repented of them. Now take that prin-
ciple and apply it to the State: How long
-but it would be folly to ask, how long
would the United States hang together
how long would there be two States pull
ing together How long before you would
be cut up into clans, with more chieftains
than the Roman Empire in the days of its
dissolution How long would you COM
mand the respect of other nations, or of
yourselVes2 When you talk to me about
not coercing anybody, L reply that we CO.
erce men for all the crimes they commit.
We coerce men to the Peniteutiary for
stealing horse; and why on earth shall
we not coerce man for trying to break
up this Government To say nothing
about constitutional argument, common
sense forbids the idea. Now you may talk
till you are hoarse, we have got to con-
tinue one Government-one united peo-
ple-or be divided into factions, each SUBJ
ject to danger from every other in the
land.
Then is there any doubt in the mind of
my man, as to his duty in this contest
There can not be. We must settle this
matter, and again build up this country as
God Almighty designed it to be, and as we
have been trying to make it.
This country, my friends, is the last hope
of freemen throughout the world. It is
the field upon which civilization has -four
ished, and science begun to accomplish its
great purposes. The nations and people
of the Old World are marking its progress
from day to day, as it enfranchises man
from every servitude. And are you go.
ing to give it up2 Young man, can you
afford to give TO your posterity heritage
worse than that your father gave to your
II you can, you are faithless, not only to
your own manhood, but to your God. You
are bound to have one country, one flag,
one destiny. Aud what country shall that
be2 What but the country you had be-
fore the rebellion raised its paricidal hand
to strike it down. That country, with the
incubus of slavery wiped away-a country
that, like weary man who has lain down
by the roadside to rest, has risen again,
and is marching on to its great destiny
What flag? What other than that old flag
which has given protection and honor to
your sires aud to yourselves, from the day
of the Declaration to the present timer
What flag but that which smiles on your
peaceful assemblage to-day2 Stand by it,
then; let it be the flag of the Union restor.
ed, reared aloft to float forever. Or when
il falls, if fall it must, let there be nothing
around it but crumbling walls, and nothing
above it but the angel that shall speak
the end of time and the beginning of eter-
nifty.
From the FInteenIh.