Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-01-30

tnls city two regiments to CO. operate with
the cecessionists with view to surrende,
this capital. The rebel emissaries ARR
about youi they may be in these very Halls
sometimes they come under one name and
sometimes under another. Sometimes the
Government is attacked in the nnme of De.
mocracyi sometimes fault is found with mr..
rests; sometimes the army is opposed: bu,
the result OF all these attacks results in thr
accomplishment of the same bad end, the
destruction OF the Government. say that
every loyal m"u and woman in this coun-
try ought to be protected: but | repcat
and tho honest Democracy Of Ind;oUa
Will sustain me in the sentiment, if there is
no other way TO save this country. let do.
atruct0n do its work among the enemies
OF the Republic, for the Government mus,
aud shall be preserved, coat what is NAV,
hetthe Senator, if he will come into nv
state and talk about the widows OF The
south will point him TO fresh made
graves all over my State. Indiana has lost
more than fifteen thousand men in this yynr
Eo-uay there are five thousand widows i'm
my State and fifteen thousand orphan chill.
dreu, made SO by this rebellion, by these
rebels tell you now that the peoDIe OF
Indiana are ready to send anOthe hund red
Thousand, and then another hundred thou
sand Of her brave sons before one inch OF
the territory OF this Union shall be wrcsted
from II. Applause in the galleries.
10 my tricud from Kentucky desire To
say, as we shall soon part in this Hall,
that, although | hope our personal asso.
ciation will always be kind and courteous
am politically for no man who ia not
for putting down this rebellion. He who is
not for the country, in this the darkest
hour OF lis trial, lie who is not for sus-
tanning the Government, is not my politi-
cal friend. Whatever other ties NAV be
| severed, do not mean to live in a coun.
try OF which kentucky is not a part; !
never intend, God being my helper, that
my motherless children shall require a
passport to go iuto Kentucky. | want the
Union of this whole country restored and
perpetuatcd, and for that purpose will
exhaust all resources, aud, with revolu-
tionnry sire, see tho last freeman OF INV
country expiring, not in the "last
ditch but upon the bleakcst mountain
o: Iiberty's home, with our starry flag
TINT hallowed ensign-the winding sheet
TOT his grave. | am ready to say to INV
children, rs Hamilcar of old said To bis
son. While thinking of the Romans, the
enemies of his country, his boy, twelve
years old, came to him aud said, "Fathpr,
let me go to SPAIN" and IINmilcar, it ia
salo' lald his hand upon his head, breathcd
upon him his martial spirit, took him to the
altar, badc him touch the sacrifice and
swear that if he lived he would be the en-
emy OF the Romans. That son was HIM
ntbal- would aay, let us bury the past;
let us forget all party affiliations, all purrv
names and distinctions, and then, upon the
nltar OF our country, swear by the eternal
God this Government shall be one; it can
not be ttT0: it cannot be three; it cannot be
Jour: ltmU't6e one, or.lt ia nothing. TAp-
PlSuse in the galleries.
ness. War on traitors they dcprcca;e as
harsh, and calculated to repel rebels from
future association. Would they then
counsel submission to traitors. ana weld
to their domination? They mean that,
or they utter the mutteriugs of idiocy..-
Rebellion mnst be crushed, or the fact
ion who have deluged the land in blood
Will become its masters, and exercise sover-
clgn sway. Do the party who deprecate
the war manifest zeal in the restoration of
peace by any personal sacrifices? Have
they contributed to the means that arc
requisite to coerce peace2 Has the blood
OF those near to them mingled in the rich
tide which has flowed from the hearts of
the patriots, who, with united breasts,
have made = rampant for liberty in a free
Republicl Have they not rather stood
aloof from danger, welding no arms TO
repel the assault on the life OF the nation;
distinguished only for an icy, shallow So
phlstry, whose end aud aim is to curdle
the generous current which courses through
the veins, nerves and arms of our brave
defenders. Emboldened by an apparent.
triumph, the cant of their patriotism is less
affected, and from high places they fullui-
nate their hostility to the honest efforts OF
THIS Government to remove the destroyers
ot.its peace. Tho keynote has been sound
ed in New York; it has been re.echoed in
New Jersey, and reVerbcrated through IIli
nois The General Government, SO we'll
adapted and designed for the protection OF
the whole, is TO be skorn of its power and
ITS riShtful authority, and the general peace
be dctenseless. The position taken, the re :.
Sistance intimated, the ccnsurc of Congress
and States SO freely uttered, cannot fail 10
create apprehension; and at such time,
under such circumstances, every man, cv-
cry true patriot, will renew his devotion TO
| the General Government; for we have .onlv
choice between that and anarchy, The
living history Of passing events has demon
Strated that tho Independent action of nu-
merouS State authorities, is inadequate to
the great work, and er neeeS1itGte rel re-
course must be had to the Federal power,
Such has hitherto been our policy. Mad
ison was sustained in its exercise; Jackson
bad the support of Adams, Clay, Webster,
and their illustriOus compecrs; Polk, in the
Mexican war, found the same cooperation;
and in war so terrible, a strife so bloody,
contest so vital as this, not to sustain
the Government that the people have Gre
atcd, is to encourage and foster the rebel
lion against constituted authority, and to
aid in the downfall of the Republic. With
out regard to party, patriotism will support
the Administrations in that alone have we
hope OF the national salvation.
repeat, the key note has been sounded
lately in New York under the speoious
gulse Of State sovereignty and State rights.
In the inaugural message of the Governor
Of New York this Senate is Nrraigned, the
war Department is "rraigned. That Gov