Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-19

North now, to complete that returning sym
palhy and cordial good will, is to give the
South thorough drubbfng. loud cheers. ]
There Is nothing in the way Of that but
the doing Of 1t. Laughter.
THE ErEEcr OF THE WAR.
Allow me to say, therefore, just at this
point aud in that regard, that while looking
at it commercially or seutimentally. the
prolongatiOn of that war seems mischteV-
Gus, It is more In seeming than reality, for
the North has been educated by this war.
Like men sent to sea in ships halt built,
with Just bulwarks sufficient to keep out
the water, and having to sail on their voy-
age aud build up their ship as they went,
we were precipitated into this revolution
and war, and the process of edurattou has
been going on-in the battlefield, in the
drilling camps, at home among the people
while taxing their energies for the main
tenance of the War-and there never was
SO good a schoolmaster as war. Hear.
hear.1 Bat every month that the end Of
this sIruggle is delayed uuites the North
aud prepares The land for that union and
peace which require the entire destruction
Of slavery. COheers.l There is an old
pFoverb-"There's luck in leisure" Let me
transmpte that proyeFh, and ssyTT"ThsFe
is esanctpRtioa fu delay" Loud cheers j
And evety man hefe-eFeFy commercial
-tnAti inst take5a e6mpre6snstSe and long
sighted instead of q narrow view Of the
questfou-wilt say, "Let the war thus lin
ger until It has burnt slavery TO the very
root" Renewed cheers While 1t is,
however, great evil aud terrible One--l
will not disguise It'll will not pretend to
sympathize with those seeds Of war that
are so dreadful TO every Christian heart
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an uumixed evil. There are many collateral
advantages. While war is as great and a
greater evil than you have been taught to
think, you have been wrong tn suppostng
1t was an evil only, and that God could
not, even by such Servants rs war, work
out great moral result. The spirit OF pa
triotism ditfused throughout the North has
been almost like the resurrection OF man.
hood. [Cheers.
You can never understand what emRs
eulatiou there has been by the Indirect in
fueuce of Slavery. Hear, hear. have
mourned all my mature life TO see men
growing up who were Obliged TO suppress
all true devotion and sentiment, because
It was necessary to cOmpromise between
the great antagonisms OF North and South.
There were the few pronounced Anti-Sla'
very men of the North, aud the few pro.
uonneed Slavery men of the South, and
the Union lovers las they were called dur
ing the latter pesiOd) attempting to bold
the two together, not by q marked and
consistent adhesion to truth plainly spoken,
but by suppressiug truth and conviction,
and Saying "everythiug for the Uniou."-
Now take this ground. that II mUniOn"
meant nothing but tbis-Ru abandonment
Of National power to maintain Slavery
Union was lie and a degradation. CGreat
cheeriuE.1 All overNeW England, aud all
over the State of New York, and through
Pennsylvania, clear to the very banks Of
the Ohio, hisses aud excavations met this
doctrine; aud from 1880 to 1860 the cry
was, "Union is good If tits Union for jus
tice and for liberty but II it is Cnion for
Slavery then it Is thrice acCursed." Loud
cheering.l They were attempting to lasso
ati.s slavery men by this word "Un'on," and
to draw them over to pro-slaVeEy 9ympa-
thies and TO the party OF the South. by
saying "slavery may be wrong, aud al
that, but he must not give up the UniOn;'
and Il became necessary for the friends OF
liberty TO say: "Union for the sake of lib
eaty, not Union for the sake Of slavery"
GCheers Now we pass out Of that period
and Il Is astonishing to see bow men have
come TO their tongues In the North hear
hear, and Iaughterlj aud how men Of the
highest accomplishments now say they dc
uot believe In Slavery. II Mr. Everett
could have pronounced in 1850 what he
pronounced in 1860, then might miracles
have flourtshed again. Hear, hear. Not
until the sirocco came, not until that great
convulsion that threw men as with 4 back
ward movement Of the arm Of ompiPo-
teuce from the clutches of the South and
from her sorceret's breath-uot until thee
was II that with their hundreds and thou
sands the men of the North stood on theii
!. feet and were men again. CGreat cheer
ing More than warehouse, more thar
ships, more than all harvest aud every ma
j terial form OF wealth is the treasure Of I
j natfon-the manhood Of her men. CGrea
.applause.1 We could have afforded I,
have had our stores Of wheat burnt-lherl
is wheat TO plant again, We could hay
: afforded to have had our farms bprnt-ou
farms can spring again from beneath th
ashes. We conld have SINK our shiPpinl
IL timber to build new ones W
{ could have burnt every house-theFe j
j stone and brick left for skilt again 70 con
III struct them. Perish every material ele
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