Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-12-25


d Let this reconstructed Vpioplh0ld ont II
I'll right hand with City millioRs Of dallaFs Z
It GaFibsldi, saying, Take possession OtlRome
8 and a hupdred millions % the Red RsPub
d licaus of Paris, saying, Make Napoleon 81
n uneasy; aud q hundred millions 20 Ger
: many, to make lings tEemble. W0uil
: answer Napoleon with his own weapons
O. II Europe leaves America 70 FepnblieaHism
9 Wellf II she interfeFes, We interfere. Ap
J plause, The right hand Of our resistanee
{. lis clasPed in brotherhood with the Rad
icals Of Europe to upset any throne % che
} continent. l have said that Lincoln does
not fear the seRth What GrRat has
mot done, be will do. Not now. Every
: kouuce Of food his men eat is brought to
them 10 miles over the hills, aud thatiarm
OF this service needs rest as well as the
others He may not b6 heard from for
sixty or ninety days. Bat be assured Of
this-he won't sit down and dig. lLoug
lcontinued applause When he does move,
it will be 70 see the South retreat % the
real Gulf States-( Georgia, Alabama, Mis-;
sissippi. They have. no means OF bringing
food 70 this army, and ihe army must go
70 the food. But when they have feafhed
Il ftsgEilen fVs or six millions Of men make
\ up their mipds that the f6riorn spot e
reached, then ba sure the war Is not ended
tyet. The South Is a brave people. -Four
/ years ago said to you under this roof,
''The South is no coward. !" and you laughed
OF me. You know now however that the
South does believe n lie, and is willing 70
Rsht for It.. The last torloFn refugees Of
such q people is bloody fght The war
does not touch its end, and yet is end is
certain, and we may not read Il ius the
light of our power and our own preservapee.
The Union is to be reconstructed with a
Daniel Webster said the cemeut OF the
Union was the Fugitive Slave bill. Sin
never cemented anything. The cement Of
this Union is to be the mutual respect -Of
the sections, bred Of that blood which has |
mingled on brayelY- contested fields. The
South thought of the Yankee as Que who
knew only how to cheat-she met hun at
Chattanooga and changed her mind.
The North thought Of the South as only
gasoohade-she has asstFuggled With her for
four yeaFs. and learned to respect her sin- !
cerity If not her intelligence. Out Of that |
mutual respect is to grow Union as in.
destructible aud as indivistble as the gran
ite that holds up the continent, The ques-
tton is here at the North, how far We will
go. All civil wars are ended by eOmprO-
mise. There never was civil war IN bis |
tory in which one party gained q clear vic. |
tory. The only question Is. what shall We
compromise on Once launched on the |
stormy. turbid waters Of politics, you Gan-
not tell. day the helm is 10 our hepdS, |
and you aud !, II faithful, can Say this 10 /
the Nation, and the future. You may com-
promise when and where y0u please, with |
enc exception, and that ts. that the top. |
root of Slavery shall be cnt [Applause.l
Let thirty Senators and Representatives |
enter Congress under the Proclamation; |
and what win be their iirst nttempt2 II
viii be, Geptlemen, fund 0pr-debt, Hsatlll
REPRESENTATIVES, will want Q taFtH % paY |
Alf. EhlsBs interest. The reply Of the
'coptl VIII be, 't9ranted, provided that you
laek on 70 u, by way bf rider, = tariff that
gili pay OUT interest too; only up6d thatl
e6nditton shall you have q policy that is
not tAntamounT to Fepndiation." Do yOu-
cay that & not possi6le2 uet me see-
Tho builders Of private chips In Eugland
have some $l00, 900, 900 Of this scrip
Suppose they come TO the doors of your re-
constructed Congress and say, "This paper
is not worth Ave cents on the dollar, but
we will give you $40, 600 600 of 1t IL yoR
will lmak6 the other $50 600 600 worth par"
Did you ever know a Congress that could
not be bought for $50. .OOOsOOO Do you
ever hope 70 see oneR The tiFst item Of
cOmpr6miss, then, will be three or four
thousand million dollars debt. I do not
uulGCS W lu4t particularly UulG9Us ~
the atOnement which God demands Of this
nation for seventy years Of ein. No sfnis
washed out in words. You eanhOt cheat
the devil Of his due. 0nr fathers sinneti
against that victim race, and God mOrt-
cages the hand Of every living mao, aud
every child thatis to be born for the next
hslf century, 70 atone for the nations in.
iquity. There will be other compromises. /
One is the 6rst element of Mr. EiueOID's
project of Eeconstruetion, which Is this
He puts his own act and all the acts OF
Congress at the feet Of the SupFeme OOnrt,
and says the South 10 70 SWEAR 70 support
the various acts of the Government 80 lar
as the Supreme Court holds them 70 be
valid. I do not say that he could say any
thing else. lam only telling you what be
does say What does his Proclamation of
January !, 1863, tnean2 Some members OF
the Cabinet say il means that any negro /
that can get hold OF Il is free. Mr. Chase
says thatseVery negro down % the Gulf that /
ever sees the flag is free. asked ftle
shfewdest member ofthe House gf Repre- /
ssbtAttVes what he would give for Ihe /
EPfoelamafion befOte the Supreme Court /
prominent New EaRIand Senator Sdia % 4
me the greatest danger TO the PrOelama.
tion was from the Supreme Court. Lad
ing Republicans 10 my State say there Is |
aoilaW init, that It is not worth the pa
per on which lie written. Mr. Lincoln |
says, ~ heOught 70 say, nOthieg. BE eeau-
not say anythiug, The meauing Of hat
Proclamation nobody knows uuJil the lSa. /
pFeme Court has decided it. 10 other
words the Proclamation Of JdnuaEyi 4, |
1868, is to be. filtered through the seces-
sion heart Of man whose body isiia Bal
timOgs, but whose soul, Il he has got OHe,
10 in RlchmOud. CLauBbter It is 70
pass the Ordsal0 Of Beueh Of judges who
made the Dred Scott decision, aud an
uouncsil5t thata negro has no Fights that q
white mao is bonAd % respect II e 70
pass EtIs UFdell'6f & SET OF judges, The ma
lf.sa., e Ilsi-.l lla llf III iEfclafll