Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-14
6LAVEHTi

The Fugitive Slave Law Is simply IAy
which We hold to be an outrage, but inOP
eratiVe, as having no power beyond thu
year in which it was passed. Il is just N
dead now, and has been the last eight oI
nine years, as the snakes skin that va.
lslOughed ten years ago. Il is said we
ought to have abolished il. When COn
gress came together they passed 90 many
refOrmAtOry laws that Il was thought seri
0usly they should abolish this; b1t they
said we are charged with eomiog together
1 for revolutionary purposes and 20 destroy
the local municipal power Of the States
and We must not do anything in Our ma
tiOpAl legislation that shall eOuntenanee
the doctrine that we arc reTOlutiOniEing
State Sovereignty. A gentleman asked
how the great religious associations re
gaFded che Anti-Slavery question. There
are two paFties-0ne Is very small and
0ble, called AbOlitiOnists; the other com
prises all the rest Of the North, aud d called
Anti Slavery. The distiEetiOu is not one
0f doctrine but OF method. ar. Garrison
aud M Phillips said the North must save
itself by disuniOn. The great body oil
those who hated Slavery said, ave cannot
consent 70 that" and was among them,
from frat 70 las; and that paragraph in
the newspapers which says / once said |
there could be no getting rid Of Slavery |
under the Constitution il n total and absO. |
lutte falsehOOd. [Cheers.1 II was like
b0Fning barn 20 get rid of the rats
[Great laughter. We have always said
the thing is bad enough. but not so bad 1
but We can cure it BY moral means; and
have said over aud over again to
Southern slavers, "You snail not 20
OF; we will hold you in the bosom Of
liberty until you are dead" EGbeeFs.
Those who thought decisive measures
tOO dangerous are called Anti-Slayery;
hose who were for immediate disruption
we're called AbOlitiOnists. But now there
here is NO distinction At all, and Mr.. GAR
lIsON has said in public that when he de-
'lared the Constitution involved Slavery
le never expected to see the Emancipation
reclamation Of Mr.. LINCOLN. [AppIause.
There IS now one overwhelming majority
n the North who say: "Sinee they have ;
aken up the sword, let Slavery perish
y the sword" and, then. there is a small
'arty that lives in crevices and cracks
There dirt breed vermin-a small Inalig-
amt party that are called peace DEM
Gratis, with that Catiline thrice-FOtten
Wood at the head of 1t, that the Times
eWspaper Is accustomed to hold up as
he exponent Of American peace doctrine
-WuOm naVe. uon0ieu IN the arms ana
raised by the lips of Christian men, who.
they could know his crimes and yiees,
nd inefably satanic wickedness Of the
ian, would blow him from your PariOrs
you do SepOys from the mouths Of. your
.nnon. Great cheering. In replying
rsuDsedunt questions, ar. Beeehef said n
-YOu must rGcnlleCS that in all stages it fr
as the opinion of every man who found =.
the Constitution thar Slavery WAS dy-i p,
=, and they did not feel ls you audI
ouId nave felt, -bHI BAiti. Ease IS up q
every way Slavery. was like B0mei
rigand brought into an Alpine convent, q
here he was given room and a place to y
repare to die in decency, and the old
rigand did not die, but called in the
and ruled the very hospital
here he was being nursed for Chris .
an burial Oheers ~
Mr.. Beecher's speech and answers to
nostiOns occupied more than two hours.
The meeting concluded with cheers for
ie Queen, Mr. Lincoln, Mr.. iBeecher,
Lrs Stowe, and ''Three cheers for the
nIfn6 Gf0Hna nN6 their EinO1 VTrOanaPStv - =,