Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-01-16

masters extraordinary proof Of tidelitv.-
Z Lhey have, for some time been seryino
4 their owners steadily and with energy. mn.
DER many discOnragements. They have
iaoored zeulously to destroy the faith Of
thePeoPie in the Constitutional Govern
ment to break down its credit, to impair
a confidence in the stability of our political
institutions. Every disaster to our arms
every exhibition of weakness in our an.
lhorlties, has furnished an occasion which
they have improved by every art within
the means of maligpancy, so vile that il
i Is necessarily associated with something OF
! stupidity.
This class of persons cannot succeed in
/ producing in the public mind the condition
essential to their safety in making full
.texhibition of their purposes, without per.
:. version, of the sentiment of loyalty. and
ithe passion of national pride, aud the deep
instinct OF civil liberty, that belong to the
masses OF American citizens. Hence the
very men who are proposing to SO amend
tue Constitution as to make it pleasing to
those who have made war against the con-
FSHtntonal authorities, are making outcrv
about "thc Constitution as it is :" and the
very men who are willing to encourage the
right OF secession, to abandon the Union
and return to the old Colonial Confedera-
tion; the men who are proposing to throw
OUT of the Union half dozen of the most
enlightened and prosperous States in il.
/ are the Identical individuals who are yocif
erous on the subject of the Union as it
! was" The same class of persons tell us
land this is the most insidious and pois.
onous of all the traitorous lies afloat-,hat
war will not restore the Union, but that
compromise and conciliatiou will-that it
as the olive branch and not the sword that
Will su6due the rebels-that the South
would be glad to return to "the Union as it
was" The country was nssured-mAuy
belteved-that allthat was wanted to teach
The South the error Of her ways, and pro
duce an ardent desire to return TO the
Union, was u few Democratic victories in
the North just TO show that "Abolition"
administration was not fixed fact.
We have bad those victories. The reb.
els know if they would throw down their
arms and return TO the Union, they could
, do so with majority of political friends
In both Houses of Congress, larger than
they had when commencing the bloody ex.
pertinent of secession. And COW what are
their propositions for peace? What recep.
ton do they give the project for the peace.
abte restoration of ''the Union as it was?"
Fortunately we have the means of answer
log these interrogatOries with authenticity
and precision. The Jackson JHSSissippign
reports portion of JEFF Davis speech at
that place on the 25th of December, as fol.
lows:
"The President spoke ofhis love for the old Union.
to alluded TO IT, however, of regret that
the oest ansetinnS ot his heart should have been be
slowed upon an object So unWorthy-that hs shonId
nave loved SO long Government which was rotten
was emphatic in his declaration that under no cir
cumstAnces would he consent TO reuniou.T
AT R'chmond, Va, on Monday night. the
9th, Jet. Davis was serenaded and made a
sPsseh. The Richmond EHquirer thus re-
ports:
Maj. Wood introduced him to the audience saving.
"Fsllowcttzens, let mS introduce to you the Presi
dent Of the United Sta:eB-fhr Confederate StafesI
ask pardon" tLaughlsr.l
President Davis ssaid--~Friends and felIowritfyr,x
OF the title. As corrected, l am proud-Ahs Other ,
t0ouId seorn to hold. tAppiausel II the
question wa. proposed to you whether you would
co bine with hyenas or Yankees, trust every TiE
gilman would say give me the hyenas" ICifcs Of
'-ooodi good = and GppIause.J
The chief Confederate conspirator is, we
presume, good authority on the question
whether it is the policy of the Confederates
to restore the Union, if the olive-branch
should be well shaken. He regrets that he
should have loved so long ia Government
| which was rotten to its very core" md
"under no circumstances would he consent
to reuuion." In making this declaration
he was ''very emphatic" Again. he would
"scorn TO hOld' the title "President of the
United Statos." And he trusted every
| Virginian was ready to combine with byeuas
rather than Yankees. The smallnesS and
meauuess of JEFF Davis has lately been
much beputfed as ''a gentleman" were
never more vividly presented for public in
| spection than in his late speeches. His
poor. spirited vanity and rank malice,
which he is petty enough to imagine great
qualities, are an exhibition in all their dis
gusting littleness. But this son of horse
thief, who assumes to be the head of an ar
istocracy, this low conspirator with pro-
vincial politics and inflated pretensions TO
statesmanship, expects cooperation in the
purposes that he cherishes most from ;he
North-aye, from the Northpest. And is
this cooperation to restore the "Uniou as it
wasF No, but to destroy it foreverl He
said at Jackson that if Yicksourg could be
held:
"The North-west would grow rssuve and ces,. to
SnPpOrt war IuinOus to them and beneficial only to
| New EnSiand contractors. Pom the NorlI-soefi he
| looked for the. .fTSt gLeom Of peace"
And at Richmond, undek the impression
at the moment, that Rosecrans had been de-
teated at Murtreesboro, the President of the
rebel States said.
cont of this victory is TO conc hqi
in The NorthI IreSt lveh tbH rire the poUsr Of LIaf
EsetoH and taus ice see in the tutarH the dion
frSt separation in the Nortt-c from the E1stsrn
&Gtsi then discard among them, trticI ,oiU pardl-
y;e hc poI7sr Of 6Oth; then for peace aud pros.
perity."
Have we among US men who are prepar-
ed to second this programme of disorder
and civil war among the loyal States, for
the security of victory and peace in the
4 disloyal States, involving the cousummate
overthrow of the Nation2 If we have, they
are the worst possible public enemies, and
the enmity we have toward the traitors in
arms in the section where the rebellion has
made law, is tame in comparison with that
due those double traitors. We are, how
ever, inclined to believe JEFF Davis as much