Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-23

have no otheI termtn Afpn c0mpattbl 10 with
the permanent safety qid welfare of the
country; but the COMIC destruction Of
the military power of,tle enemy. have
on other occaSions, attempted TO show thai
4 ft6syield to his demands and ackpoWledge
his fndsPehd deuCe, thu resol living the Union
+ at otce into Two h0stik Governments, with
a certainty Of further isiutegr alton, would
ahnihilate the strength and ihhuence' oi
1.-The country, as a member Of the family Of
fnRttons; afford to foreign Powers the op.
A Iportupity and the ten ptatiUn for disas-
4 ttous and stlumiliatihg nterterence in our
affairs; wrest from the Middle and We1teFr
States some of their great natural outlets
Ito the sea, and Of tpetr most important
EllnSso OF int dsgl com tpttatipn; deprive
the sc6thmefce aud ney gation Of the c0un-
try 6f two4thitds OF 6lr seGcOast and Of
the fSFtresseS which pt0t q It; not only 50,
but would enable sash Individual State,
ssssAs ssss., :; Z ygliite IaralatieS2 e
Irather the dormant party IN each state 70
cede its territory, tts harbors,i its fortresses,
1.-THE mouths Of It's Fivers, to any foreign
lpower. It cannot be that the people OF
the loyal Statss-thRt twenty millions Of
Tbr6Ve men aud prosperous treemen-wtll,
for the,temptalion OF . brief truce 10 an
eternal border war, consent to this hi1eous
national suicide.
/ Do not think that exRggerats the con-
sequence Of yielding 10 the demands Of the
leaders of the tebellioh. undefstate them.
They require ol us not only all the sacri-
fees have named, not only to cede TO
thgm- foreigp and hostile poWer-all the
territory 1fthe United States, Of present
occupied by therebelf lforees, but the aban-
donment to them Of the vast regions We
IA ht,
land, OF a part Gf Eastern Virginia, and the
whole of western Virginia, the sea-coast
of North and South Carolina, Kentucky
Tennessee and Missouri; Arkansas and the
largref portion bf Mississippi and Louisi.
ana, in most Of which, with the exception
of lawless guerrillas, there Is not rebel
in arms; in allSSf whichithe great major
ity Of the people are loy6t to the UniOn.-
We must give back, too, the helpless COLI
ored population, thousands Of whom are
perilfng their lives in the ranks Of our ar
mics, 10 a bondage rendered teu-fold more
bitter blythe momentary enjoyment Of free
dom. Finally, We must surrender every
man in the Southern country, white or
black, who has moved q finger or spoken a
word for the restoration OF the Union, to q
reign of terror as remorseless as that OF
Robespierre, which has been the chief I'M
strum6nt by which the rebellion has been
organized and sustained, and has already
filled the prisons Of the South with noble
men, whose only crime q they are not
traitors. The South is full Of such men.
/ do not believe there has been d day since
the election of President Lincoln. when
If an ordinance of secession could have
been fairly submitted 10 the mass OF the
people, In any single Southern State, ma
iority of ballots would have been given in
It's favor. No, not in South Carolina, It
is not possible that the majority of the
people, even of that State, f permitted
without fear or favor, to give ballot on
the question, would have abandoned
leader like Petigru, and all the memories
ofgthe Gadsens, the Rutledges and the
CotesWorth Pinckneys of the revolutions
~ and the constitutional age, to follow
the agitators of the present day.
Nor must we be deferred from the Wig
orous prosecution Of the war, by the sug-
gestion continually thrown out by the re-
bells, and those who sympathize with them,
thats however It might have been At On
earlier stage, there has been engendered
by the operations of the war, state OF
Evaporation and bitterness, which, tnde-
pendent Of all reference to the original ma.
ture of the matters in controversy, viii
forever prevent the restoration of the
Union, and the return of harmony be-
tween the two great sections Of the eoun.
try, This opinion i take 70 be entirely
without foundation.
No man can deplore more than do tho
miseries Of every kind, uuavoidably Incl
dent to war. Who could stand on this
spot and call 70 mind the scenes Of the 1-3
Of July with any other feeling sad
foreboding of what would ensue II war
has haunted me through life, aud led me
too long perhaps to tread IN the path Of
hopeless Compromise, in the fond endeayor
to cenciliate those who were pre.deteEmtn.
ed not to be eoaeiIiated. But 1t Is not
true, as pretended by the rebels and their
sympathizers. that the war has been car.
ried on by the United States without en-
tire regard to those temperaments which
are enioined by the1Aw of nations, by our
modern civilization aud. by the spirit of
christianity. Il would be qbite easy TO
point out, iuthe recent mil iaFy3 history Of
the leading European lPoWers5 acts of YiO.
lence and cruelty in the Prosecution OF
their wars TO which NO patatlel can be
found among us. 1nsfact when We. con.
slider the peculiar bitterness With which
civil wars are almost invariably Waged, We
NAV Justly hOast Of the manner In which
the United States have carried on the con.
test. 1t is of cohrss impossible 70 prevent
the lawless acts OF stragglers and desert
ers, or the occasional unwarantable pro-
seedings OF subordinAtes on distant sta.
| tions: but i do not believe there Is In all
history the record of q civil war Of such
gigantic dimensipus where so little has
Ibeeu donein the spirit OF vindiGatiOn as In
| this war by the Government and COM
i manders Of the United statesi and this