Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-07

| = Is-'9!e SSi1AaSS anu very striking Pre-
sentHtiOn OF tho Issues Involved in
1. the present War for the Preserya,
ton OF the Union. gvss7 7ss-s -y-,s 7Ti
/ MI From HhEpsr,s wesklxy I . s
LETTER TO AM EEeLIsH:gRIEND
MY Y. DEAR De SIR,-7IAa.ltbopgh q you, have SC
clear a PERCEPTION of the scope of our civil
war, and SO sincere aAeympathy with the
cause of the Government, 1 observe tha,
you stillconceire some sort Of SEPARATION
to be desirable and feasible, If not inevita-
able, and Jon add that many Of our truest
friends abroad are of the same opinion
If however, you will look carefully at the
facts lam very sure that you will see, as
wetdo, that the only alternative of the
Government is the total overthrow of arm
ed rebellion and return to the constitu-
tional methods of settling differences, or
submission to its own ruin. ~ e.
III In the matter of disunion there are two
points to be considered: first, the conse
quences, and, second, the methods. -
If we make the attempt to recognize the
"Cantederacy," and succeed in maintain.
ing Northern unity, we surrender the nayi-
gallon of our great rivers to q treaty set
tlement. We abandon Chesapeake 5Bav.
which reaches almost to PhiladelpLia!-
We repounce all Southern coasts and forts
from the Copes of ofDelaware to and through
the Gulf of Mexico. Those forts command
the mouths of the rivers and the course of
our Pacific and South American commerce!
Your Thameslislan inconsiderable river. -
Would Great Britain relinquish the control
of its mouth to a foreign power for the
sake OF peace What would it's foreign
possession be but the sign of conquest q
Besides this, wemust establish an internal.
boundary line of. 1900 miles, to defend
against the most hostile of enemies. Tue
greatest wars have been the defense of such
lines. Such a lice with us would be always
festeringi for slaves will escape, and the
passlons-of borderers would have been
Wrenched asunder by civil war and couse-
quent hate are uncomfortable. Then the
NorthWestis.the granary of the continent
The Mississippi is its natural road to marss
.ket, and the Northwest must and will con.
troll it What conceivable treaty could
guarantee that control as the Union does I?
You; viii tell mo that the self-interest of
trade will suffice. But why should it keen
peace under treaty which it has broken
under Union There are other passions
| 4ulIC dS SGluSQ1e8S.-.. a.
But when, by the Jsuppositfon, we have
surrendered the coasts, and the rivers, and
the forts, we have done so to a power TINT
Ehas!and can have no naval resource. and
which must therefore at once seek msri-
time alliance. Disuhiou thus Immediately
establishes two Hforeign States upon our
soil. And blythe line which, in case of
peace accePted'by us, we must adopt, the
North is almost territorialIy divided be.
tween the lowest point of tho Lakes and
the highest of the slave region. And all
this renunciation of territory, NAVIGATION.
coast, commerce, Internal communication.
national honor, safety, and Importance
all this whiting down. of the imperial
United States to miserable cluster of
baked political lcommunities-when made
after war waged 10 maintain its pristine
extension aud power, is simply conquest
by The enemy aud an enemy that hates us
the more because he Was; part OF US. the
everready ally of any European or foreign
foe against US, tue willing and constant
aggressor of a power that he has humilia.
ted by arms. ,ls ss -ta.s 81 81 h4ta55se
This lsifupon the supposition that NE
ourselves propose an armistice and settle
ment..l II, on the other hand, the rebels
ask for peace, twill be infinitely easier and
safer for the Government to maintain the
Union upon terms that secure peace than
to liutrust the chanCs of that peace to an
angry and tsullen, although for the moment
defeated, foreign power. iEl
lFlIBut any conceivable method of dfsunion
is notices. disastrous than the consequences.
II is often forgotten by our foreign friends
thAtsunionsis anainstinct with the great
mass OF our people, because union is syn
onymous with nation. We perfectly un-
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and our success. It is this feeling which
has hitherto enabled the Slave Power TO
carry all its measures. It had but to
threaten the Union, and the country fell
lupou its knees in abject assent. It is the
same feeling which has made the word
4 lHAhOlitionlst, (which was Synonymous
with Disunionist, the most odious party
4 name In our history. .si,,als sss.i a,5f
lsl Let.us then suppose the attempt at dis.
l,uuion to be grayely made. First of.an the
separating line must be determined. Az
there is no natural division this linesmust
hbe purely Arbitrary Upon,Nhat principle
1then, will you establish it7 Davis WI
claim all the Slave States; as his nGtura
domain. But Kentucky doesinot Willingl,
Igo Bithlhims nor Missouri, nor even Ten.
nesse. Maryland has q strong rebellion!
tendency, but there is a vital Union ele
Imentiin8the State What Is 70 be done
10 be q Border State has been bad enougt
fphdsr, the old sytem Of one nation How
liWiIl it be when the border is to ''be that4o
hostile fGreign power2 = Who viii stani
: | IN the bfeach2 Evidently there can ab,
. but one solution. The question must g.
referred to the people of the States con
: serned. Let Maryland, for instance, decfd
: by popular vote whether she will 90 wit
t the South or the North. But If she elect