Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-09

Sumter, and of the determination of the
President to maintain that fearless officer
in his present position; and that we will
support the President in all constitutional
measures to enforce the laws and preserve
the Uuion.
The question was first taken on III 9 aus
pension of the rules-s test vote-when
Mr. Yallaudigham voted against the mo-
ton making the following remarks:
81 voted for peace aud adjustment mo-
ment ago: you refused it. 1 vote now
against force. No." Cvide Cong. Globe,
vol. l, page $50, I'd sess Beth Cong.
On the 18th of July, 1851, the bill to
punish conspiracies against the United
States, being under consideration. failed to
receive his support. II was designed to
punish by 6ne and imprisonment those
who should conspire for the overthrow of
the Government, and should seize any o:
the public property, but Mr.. Valandigbam
objected to it strenuosly.-[COng. Globe,
PIP. 1873, 100, 2ss1
Mr.. Valandigham offered instead series
of resolutions, censuriug the President for
his acts designed to stay the tide of the
rebellion. The frst one is specimen, and
is as follows:
Resolved, That the Constitution of the
United States confers upon Congress alone
the power to "raise and support armies"
aud TO provide aud maintain navy"
aud, therefore, the President, in the proc
and action, by his authority, of the War
and Navy Departments, increasing the army
aud navy, and calling for and accepting
the services of volunteers for three years,
without warrant of Law, usurped powers
belonging solely to Congress, and so viola
ted the Constitution.
On the 14th OF January, be spoke a
length on the rebellion, and from that
speech we make the following extract. He
recapitulated the resources of the Govern
ment, and said
"Yet after nearly two years of more Wig
| orous prosecution of war than ever record :
ed in history; after more skirmishes, COM
| bats and battles than Alexander, Caesar, or
the first Napoleon ever fought in any Eve
years of their military career, you have
utterly, signally, disastrously-I will not
say ignomIniously-failed to subdue ten
million "rebels," whom you had taught
the people of the North and West, not only
TO hate but to despi,e. Rebels, did | say :?
Yes, your fathers were rebels, or your
grandfathers. He who now before me on
canvass looks down so sadly upon US, the
| false, degenerate, and imbeciie guardians
of the great Republic which he founded.
was rebel. And yet we, Graded our
selves in rebellion, aud who have fostered
and fraterniZed with every insurrection in
the nineteenth century everywhere
/ 81, ,I1So
| make the word "reber' reproach. Reb
els certainly they are; but all the persist
ent and stupendous efforts of the most
gigantic warfare of modern times have,
| through yTnr inconpetency and folly
aVailed nothing to crush them out, cut off
though they have been by your blockade
from all the world, and dependent only
upon their own courage and resources.
Aud yet they were to be utterly conquered
and subdued in six weeks, or three mouthsl
Sir, my judgment was made up and ex-
pressed from the first. learned it from
Chatham: My lords, you cannot conquer
America Aud you have not conquered
the South. You never will"
We give these extracts to-day, in con.
uection with the Presidents reply to VAL
landigham's friends. in order to let our
readers see how entirely the former is
justi6able in his comments upon the record
of Vallaudigham. 1t is traitors record,
and nothing else, and all men, loyal or
disloyal, recognize it to be such. Never
was the sentence of Punishment more JUS
tifahly and even leniently put upon
guilty man. Ifhistory has any condemna-
ton for the act it will be that it was so
long deferred.
The GROWING points of the Presidents
letters are his propositions to the commit
tee, upr n the endorsement of which by
ihem or majority of them, vallandighan
is to be released. The committee have not
endorsed them yet, although they have
been in their hands several days, neither is
there the least likelihood that they will
Their purposes of war upon the admin
istration would be wholly defeated in do
ing SO, hence their silence. The country
will construe that sileace as it deserves,
especially will the good people of Ohio,
whose votes are sought for the traitorous
Vallandigham as their Chief Magistrate,
Let our friends over the river, in the can.
vass now pending, press the three PROPOSE.
lions of the President upon the Copper
heads and make them either endorse them
or declare themselves " hat loyal men know
them to be, viz, sympathiEers with the re-
bellion.
The COnAcrIption Layv-ProcurInx OF
substitutes.
Provost Marshal General Fry has issued
an order announcing that the Government
has. in pursuance of the provision of the
coascription Law authorizing the payment