Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-08

liz we have come well nigh 70 the over,
throw of the Rebellion; we know that,
with little more patience, a little more en-
ergy, little more courage, We shall soon
come to it's utter overthrow. The end ts
ear;gthe good and thatFne .end-i certain
II We are faithful to ourselves, even with
such tools as we have. The choice ts no
longer ours, whether we will throw them
aside and try new ones. Wa must do this
work with such as we have or not do Il at
all.
If We throw them aside and abandon the
work to other hands, where are we I
Alas! who does not knoWf The best that
can befall MS in q Oopperhead triumph 10
Disunion-Disuuion first between the North
and the South, to meet thereafter, as best
we may, the question of new boundaries
to be settled by new wars, the East and
the West, the Pacific and the Atlantic
coast arrayed against each other. Or, II
Union Ishdll be maintained, il viii bP q
Union that shall mean only annexatiop;
the North tied-=tied; hand and foot and
delivered over-to q slaveholding Confed.
eracy. the appendage to an oligaFchy 6l
slaveholders; Slavery made legal all over
the North and West, both States and Ter
ritories; the assumption of the Confederate
debt by the Federal Government; the un-
questionable National Debt to be liquida.
ted solely by ,Northern taxation; the right
of suffrage denied to Northern laboring
men; the extension of representation to
the owners of slayes;-in. short, anything
that JEFF. Davis and his felleW .conspirators
may choose to demand as the price of our
submission, as the terms on which they
will agree to grant us peace and pardon.
They may have as on their own terms; for
there, are none so exacting, none SO degra
ding, none so base, that their Northern
allies will not grant on a promise of being
admitted to be fed once more on the crumbs
that fall from their masters table.
Choose yel For our part, we have choen.
Better perpetual dinner of herbs, than
the stalled or in such oompany-though,
for that matter, but little of the stalled OK
would fall to the share of those who be-
lieved in fighting for the Union. Hence.
forth, we hy, the banner of Abraham Lin
coin for the next Presidency, choosing that
far rather than the Disunion and a quarter
of century OF wars, or the Union and
political servitude which our opponents
would give us. Let the country shake of
its apathy; let IL realize what is the price
of defeats price neither we nor the world
can afford; tit be understood how near we
are to the end of the Rebellion, and that
no choice is left us now but the instrument,
put into our hands, and that with that We
can and must finish It, We grant, from
our own convictions, much that can be said
in criticism of the present Admiuistratiop;
for the sake of argument, we will grant
anything that any honest AND, loyal man
canssay. And then this is Que rejoinder-
Mr.. lincoln has done eseven- -eighths Of the
work after his fashion; there must be vigor
and virtue enough left in him to do the
other fraotion. oThs work Is IN his hands:
if it passes out of them, it will be, as there
are no better, but far worse, to receive It,
to our utter ruin. We MUST re- elect him,
and. God helping MS. we WILL.