Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-01-30
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IL TfIFs = - iI AAoAI SoLhery Blair
The Postmaster General, Montgomsr,
blair, delivered speech on Friday tbI
22d. before the members of the AIaryIand
Legislature, at Annapolis, of which We
present the promineut points. ala +
he commenced by quoIing from the
residents Message, and cordially npproy.
ing his views in regard to cmaIcipation
aud the proclamation of Amuesty, saving.
"tIis ts more than parduu; not only does
the President spare the lives of the uufor.
tunate dupes of conspirators, but he re-
STORES them their property" The invita-
uon Of the President to the people Of the
reoelllOus States to participate again in the
Government on assuming the relations Of
loyalty, he regarded as another indulgence,
which they should appreciate. Another
step OF the President looked to the perfect
restoration of State rights by reGogniztug
'nelr old Constitutions in allrespects except
slavery, which made the war. He explained
thepolicy ofthe President to be The reference
OF the whole subject of Slavery to the peo
Pile for their disposal.
he said that the President was no Crom-
well; Congress no military council, but
felt that the suppression of the rebellion
and the elimination OF slavery from this
country was the herculean labor before il.
de then pointed out monopoly, as the cause
OF our difficulties; monopoly by an oliaar-
chy Of the labor of others. II was this
/ monopoly chat constituted the severest
charge against Great Britain in the DecIar
alton OF Independence. He continued:
s"ls il not amazing thatihe Slave States.
| having up 10 The hour of pronou noed iude.
pendence made war on rhe slave trade and
tue, power that compelled submission 10
it its aggravated misehiefs. should reGoil from
It's Recommendations II, Thut great State paper
written expressly TO sum up the grievances
sunered under the Government it was de-
signed 20 renounce as the only mode of de-
liVerance from Ihem2 The whole Soutb
soon perceived that an oligarchy of slave
holders could easily personate the King and
profit blythe lessons of fmouopyly he estab-
lished. How we'll they have applied and
improved upon the precedents of their roy
al master to which we have ad dVerted, their
course after they had expuuged from our
Magma ChartG the passage provided to in
sure the extinction OF the slave trade and
slavery, will show.
The first step of the Shareholders after
assuming the royal prerogative IN reference
TO slavery, was the demand TO set aside the
Congressional interdict against. the slave
trade This was enforced by, threats OF
dissolving the Union SO necessary to the
establishment of our free infant institut-
ions. ..'5i -. -
He continued to describe the ambition of
the Southern oligarchs, and their success
in substituting :he North to its will, culmi.
mating in the pledge which Attorney Gene
raj Black made the South, in the name bf
bis master, James Buchanan:
- Whittier thou goest I tOiH go IOheie
thou t0dgest, I tOilI lodge; Thy people shdHbsI
my people, and thy God my God" l1I
"The conspiracy against the Union wtsi
we'll understood BY Mr. Buchanan lo49
before this vow was made to its princithi A
authors. It's decisive overt act, in yio4
hon of ihe Missouri cotapact, aud tie
seizure of Kansas, was then fragrant, aid
this scripturaI adjuration was to mak,
with signal force, his adhesion to he
treason; and he was not found falseto dis
Fellowship" .... ~. ....'.,a '..''iis as--
Mr.. Blair traced the movements of dis
last Democratic President in assisting he
traitors TO the Contamination of their rsr-
Posei aud concluded on this point ~
Slavery was to become the slfs foan,
II dation of their Republic, and il is,5 We zee.
the basis of the despotio militIry Fnie
: " hiCh subjects the South under dictitor.
, aud sheds the blood of the Moth in tor
} rents to defend itself and the whole Union,
against the frouEied ambition Of tba)ahivI !
airy that hoped 70 make cotton, kim over
the cabinets Of Europe, and the negro in.
stitutiou the throne or a king over this
continent. 1t was 10 this spirit, thar II
! sent out its tillibusters. into Cuba, In 0tn.
tral America, and sought an alliancs viii
: revolutionary party in Mexico, % n
;, store the reign Of slavery in that Repnblis
. it was in this view that Toombs, viii
4 apes the eratoryl OF Mitabeau, in convul.
e sing the South, announced that it wouit
!. Z make "the Gulf of Mexico its dmare eiap,
. SUN, and "call the roll of its slaves ot
Bunker HILL" The maniac is now fst,
tered, but if he had broken our armv 4
: Antetam or Gettysburg, could our m,
b armed farmers and citizens have ARRESTED
him in his way to PhiladeIphia, Baltimor,
andNeW York With an army flushed viii
victory aud bearing the arms and spoils q
oursf Might he not have bribe63mob III,
s that which heldiour emporium for tbre'
days in terror, to take the arms won froa
us IN the fields of battle aud join him R
! the plunder and copaagration of our cities
81 have not made this Tecapitulation q
the causes originating and the eonse
/. quences flowing from the bloody rebellion
. that shakes our country to smbitter ami
4 mosities on either side. Ny effoft is I,
u expose to view that rooted eSiIWhfgh INNS
- be extracted IL we would relieve tte ma
tion frpm its conyulsions. Slavery, ,as 5I
great element of society, makes SLAVES q
.alllAssoeiatedzWiths it by the passfons
inaames; the masters by the ambition
inspires, the masses With which it ri6gIe
i.I By. The daily coplagiou it spreads ia
thousand forms. Is it now. when II .bs
been poured with. She nations blood IN ~
a fratricidAI war II forced on, the COUNT
y again lobe admitted into the .Syslem "