Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-09-11
Letter from the Hon. ~. q. Btown.


Letter from the Hon. w. G. Brown.
The following letter, addressed to
member of the Legislature from the Hon.
William g. Brown, is published by request:
KlNGwoOD, Sept. 8, 1863.
DEAR Sra received your kind letter
last night, informing me that it was ru.
mored in Wheeling, that had ON the first
day of this month at Phillippi, made a
copperhead speech, ''urging the people to
come out and vote at the coming election,
that the war could not be ended by fight
ing, but that the ballot-box must terminate
the war, and that denounced the Admin
istratiou." .'
was never more surprised in my life
than when I Treceived your letter, for If ever
made an earnest appeal in behalf of the
Constitution, the Union aud West Virginia,
1 did so on that day. The speech was
made in the presence of Spencer Dsy-
Clerk, Mr. Glasscock, the Sheriff, Judge
Harrison, and crowd of loyal men. 1
must have been very unfortunate in being
understood if it was taken for an unsound
speech. ] tried to establish the fact, that
before the rebellion we had the best gov
ernment in the world, in proof of which,
pointed to our unexampled prosperity for
the last seventy years preceding the war !;
the evidence furnished by nearly all the
nations of the old world by sending their
emegrants to settle among us to the In
Vulnerable fourth Of July speeches made
by our best men In all parts of the country
North and South, and particularly to the
celebrated speech OF the prince of rebels in
Yirginia-Henry A. Wise-delivered in
Richmond in May 1859, who said:
.Aud If any would array this country IN
parts against each other in sectional diVi-
sion and strife, let them have no inherit.
ance-in the whOle-the grand great whole,
but let them selfishly have single small
place for their safe keeping, a. home made
for treason, felony, or mania, prison or q
madhouse. They cannot destroy the Union
without destroying the States and homes,
and they cannot destroy homes and States
without destroying the Union. By strength
ening each part, We fortify the whole, and
by fortifying the whole, we protect each
part, Each ana all is ours, each and all
belongs to all equally aud altke in the part
and in, the whole all citizens, are seized, all,
all North and South, East and West, white
and black, native and naturaltzed, bond
and tree, happy here as never men were
happy elsewhere on earth, may say for the
whole union of these States as this toast
says for the blessed mother of States ::
gRreathes there. a man With soul 80 dead.
Who never 20 himself hath said,
This is my own my native iAnd.s
81 give you the Union and the Constitu-
ton Of the United States gs they aTs-tbe
country, the whole country my own ma
native land GsI is.D q
then endeaVored to show that no good
cause existed tor breaking up such Gov
eFument, aud urged on all good men, and
the great Union party in particular, to FaI-
" around the administration in its efforts
TO save such government, and pledged
myself to aid in giving it eDeyy eieHsgat Of
power within the reach OF the nation 70 ae-
complish SO desirable an end. urged
upon the Southern sympathisers OF Bar
bourI If any there were, 70 abandon fOrev.
er aud in good faith every disloyal feeling
of their hearts, and return and help sap
port the good old GoveFnment-tO join the
Union men in their efforts to bring back
those happy days when We ali could re-
pose In peace, and safely wOrscip @under
our own vine and fg tree, none 70 modest
or make Us afraid i 4
triedto discourage every dtsloyAl sen
timent by showing the hOpelessness of the
Southern cause. referred to the census
&c 80 ~, khaR oe