The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-20

from, yop your, homes and your property
and drive you out without shelter in the
world. This cannot Be called war mfss-,
ure, because Tie property Of people can
moths cenfscated un.i Gyou can lay your
hands omit Laughter) tits nots measure
TO help our armies for the threat Of coD6s-
cstion renders the resistance to them more
determined and desperate.
- But itsmay be said, when wc achieve VIC
tories then weintend to be lenient. But
if you intend to. be. lenient after victory,
why did you pass these laws to hinder vic.
toryQs But they have done more. They
have said, 1--WE will mould their Institutions
We will place them under'a military govern.
ment. Mr., Sumner would reduce the
Southern States to the condition of colo
mes; but Mr. Iiacoln says they shall be
admitted back as States when one tenth of
the population shall ask. it, and this one
tenth shall govern, control, and represent
the State. But if only one tenth of the
people are willing to come back, who is to
hold the otherinine>tenths in subjugation ?
Great laughter and cheering. AT whose
expense IS it to be doneP My friends Of
Pennsylvania, if you want to govern Geor'
gis, if you want to enable one tenth of its
people to exercise this extraordinary
power over the other nine-tenths, you
must pay for the privilege, you must give
up your sons to the work you must give
them up to die of lingering diseases, sick
ening and sad, FAR away from their homes,
without eventhe poor privileges which they
now have, Of knowing that they die upon
the battle field for the flag of their country.
Every intelligent officer Of our army will
tell you that the waste of life is not so
great during the most active service as in
periods Of inaction, when the men are herd.
ing together in the cams, when the mind
becomes stagnant, and the system becomes
peculiarly susceptible to disease. Then it
is that the work Of death goes swiftly on.
Are you willing, mea Of Pennsylvania, to
give up your sons to the slow, lingering
death Of Southern camps-in Gods name,
for whatf To inaugurate this monstrous
government of one-tenth, in violation CT
all the principles Of American liberty TO
allew the Administra ion this precedent,
dangerous to yourselves, that it is wise and
right to maintain military subsection at
this enormous cost Of blood and treasure.
If this plicy prevails, you are TO have Sc
ries Of drafts upon your population you
are to have increased burdens OF taxation
thrown upon your labor; you are to have
a perpetuation of that maxim, which men
are not ashamed to put forth, that mon
strous libel upon our institutions, that in
times Of war there are no rights which the
head Of our Government ia bound to re
spect. Read the Declaration of Independ-
ence; read your Constitution. When were
those great principles of public and private
security established? Where was it that
you had worked out for you the guarantees
that we're afterwards engraved in the Con-
stitution, that your rights Of conscience
should not be interfered with; that you
should have freedom of speech; that no man
should lay his hand upon your person un-
less be did SO by the SACRED authority OF
the law; that your home, though it might
be the Lumblest in the land, yet all blessed
as the brine OF domestic love and affec-
ton, should be to you tower Of streggth,
secure and inviolabls. How were these
great guarantees obtained ? They were
won by our fathers upon the battlc field.
Loud cheers. -f-J q. .-.t-
War does not extinguish liberty, We
fought our war of the Revolution TO win,
preserve and lperpetuate liberty. War
does not suspend the rights of men; ard
he who dares to sa, that Abraham Lincoln,
at the head of his enormous armies, may
rightfully do what George Washington
would not do in the darkest hour Of the
Revolution, does not know what constitu-
tional liberty is. Tremendous applause.
The Union cannot be restored under this
policy. 1t is not possible to hold that vast
ext, Mt of country, with its peculiarities ol
climate and condition, in military subjsc-
ton. .r rr-r se~ r.
1t is claimed by our Republican friends
that these are war measures, but that when
the victories are gained the Government
will be msgnanimous. | hope this may be
true. But what has been the teachings oi
the party2 Is it not true, my Republican
hearers, that after the news of some sigoal
victory won at the common cost Of oil the
citizens of the Northern States, you dis
play towards those who differ frem you
an arrogance that you did not display the
day before? af 1s'
las the policy of government been made
magp plnimous, national and patriotic by
ylcTory2 point you to the legislation o
last winter, after the wonderful success o
our armies. If you had visited Washing
ton you would have found thirty thousand
men lying in your hospitals. Day alter day
the dead were borne forth 70 be depos'
tied in their graves, and your hearts would
have been sickened at the sig Of pain and
of death. Thenif you had left the bospita
with its rade and humble appointments, a.
ter having seen the devotion Of these suf'
iering men whose eyes, perchancs, amidst
their deepest agony or in their dying hours
would light up at the sight Of their coun
try's flag, after having been impressed with
their virtne, their courage, and their pa
triotlsm; if you had passed to the Capito land
walked through its gilded halls, adorned
with all that art and riches could plac'
their, with every emblem that told Of oul
former greatness and liberty, and listened
TO the representatives, of the people assem-
bled there, yOu would have heard with as