Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-06-22


stances and the history of the past that
has brought your New State into ex-
lstenee-that has formed@yo0 into dis
tlnct community: Aud my fellow citizens
would to God that ! was announcing to
you that the rebellion was crushed out and
that you cOnld repair to your homes and
engage in the peaceful yocations oflite, in
developing the resources OF your New
State, in cultivating the arts of peace, and
doing that which will be calculated to
raise her to her proper position as n proud
young republic among the republics of
this nation. Bat my fellow citizens can
not congratulate you that any such pros
pect lies before you. The same conspira-
tors who inaugurated this rebellion for the
purpose of depriviug the workingman of
his rights in this nation, for the purpose
of carrying out the great idea that the
workingman was only on an equality with
the slave and ought not to participate in
the Government of the whole country,
! those same cuuspirators are to-day with
their armies on your southern border, even
threatening your neighborhood and peace
ful city, oVerrunniug, carrying fire and
sword, scourging the citizen and his prop.
erty and appropriating it to their uuholy
use. You still have to stand forth and
bare your breast and face The storm in
subduing this rebellion for the purpose of
peFpeiuating the institutions of Washing
ton, of jefferson, of Adams, of Hamilton,
of Madison and of Marshall, won BY the
strong arm Of your worthy revolutionary
! sires, transmitted to you as legacy-the
| legacy of freedom-the freest people-the
happiest people on the face of God AL
mighty's earth.
Now my fellow-citizens, the question
arises before every one of you, are we to
bow like laggard towards before these
men who have drawn the sword to deprive
us of our rights, or are we going to rally
round that old time honored 1ag-(ap-
Iplause) these stars and stripes, and swear
upon the altar of our fathers graves that
we will defend the stars and the
stripes and the institutions of our revolu.
tiOnHry fathers as long as we have breath?
Freemen of West Virginia! take from us
that flag, which represents our rights and
the rights of the American citizen through
out the nation, tear 1t down, substitute
the bars and stripes which repre-. ent sla-
very as the foundation of their govern
ment-that deprivation of the laboring
man of his rights, and what has the world
left worthy freeman's ambition. TCheers.
My fellow citizens should like to con-
linue this strain of remark-but | do not
want to weary you Time admonishes m e
that have perhaps detained you too long
already (cries ofnO no go on go ONLY
You must pardon me, my birth place-the
birth place of my father and mother are
all here in West Virginia. All my rights
and oil my interests aud all my assOcia-
tons and all that have are here with you.
God, in his Providence, has called me to
another field of action. 90 to Virginia,
for the purpose OF doing what can do
there to suppress this rebelliOn-to restore
law and order-to secure the rights OF
freemen in that sacred soil. Relying upon
His merCy-upan His kindness-I shall do
NIL that can whether that be much or
whether it be little, to encourage my fell
low citizens, and suppress this uuhoIy re.
bellion. leave with yOn. my friends, all
my relatives, all my property, much or
little, for your care and protection. If all
these are destroyed in the conflict, they are
gone, and let them go, so only that the
| you is, lose not your SucreH liberties! Ap.
plause. Fight rs long as mountain pre-
sents site for n battery-or grotto re.
mains to serve as rifle pit, Never ubau-
don that flag (Poiutiug to the splendid
banner that overriding the street.l Never
yield the right of a freeman. My prayer
now to Almighty God is that he may give
you wisdom that He may give the officers
who have been elected by YOU to conduct
the State of West ViFginil wisdom and
knO wledge and courage TO do whatsoever
duty demands of them. Que consolation
IhaVe In lenVing you, that you in casting
among You have chosen 81 man earnest, ca
Pa6ie, faithful who by your support will
guide you better than have guided you.
That is my consolation; and my fellow cit
liens, ask you for loug forbcarance aud
for determined support, and under his
banner or under your own banner of West
Virginia, rally, rally, and never give up the
ship. Make your motto like that Of the
Immortal Lawrence, who, when his body
was pierced with wounds, with his dying
breath cried "Dou't give up the ship!n In
my official capacity | must bid YOU an af-
tectionale farewell TO day, assuring YOU
that my heart aud all the sympathies of nv
nature are with you, and hope there is in
store for you glorious and a hapDy fu
turc. My desire is to see West virginia
tree from nll the shackles that shackle man.
May she from this small beginning to riay
grow TO be the Proudest State in all the Clio
nous galaxy of States that form the ma
ton. willnow introduce to you the Gov
ernor elect Qeading Mr.. Foreman to the
front OF the s'age.) citizens now
Arthur l. Boreman, the elected Goyernnr ~
the State of West Virginia. Three cheers
were given for Governor Boreman He ia
man worthy Of your confidence, 1 have
known him from his bOyhood. lie is in
this cause ms true AS steel. A voice
That's the kind we want."] 6espeak for
him yourardent support, and ask that God
may bless him. and direct him in his nd
mlnistratiou.
Three cheers were proposed and given
for Governor PeirpOint, who, as he retired
to his seat, bowed his acknowledgements.
Gov. Foreman then, the tumult of cheer
ing having subsidized, spoke as follows:
GOvERNoE nORKMAN's INAUGURAL.
fstiO'o Citisens.-To be permitted to mar
Iicip";e in the most humble capacity in
the Organization of the State of West VIZ
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