Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-26

and you will see the statement repeated
thai, "it was q sense Of the delicaey Of th
relation between master and slave, the
Occsslonedl this war" Yet not one of th
crimes, which during the last quarter of
0 century prepared thsJway for this uuhol
contest had the least tendency 70 strength
I en- the Institution of slavery or to render
) moro stable. 1t was not strengthened b,
thepnhFi1gsf forts ofseifsh demagogq q
fhesthA S0uthe cart for war, 70 prepafl
the Southern mind for dissolution" nor ye
by the Brigaud wars so often renewed
against the weak states of Central America
'it0 spread Southern ins stitntionsn and teen
large the area Of freedom" II was mo-
RENDERED more stable by. Fe.opening the
African slave trade in defiance OF the IaWi
of this and all civilized nations and to the
horror Of All; good msnIin every land. III
was not strengthened or secured, by lynch.
ling, manning and numbering Northern cit
lizns, nor yet by seizing the national forts,
Iet0n, dissolution, the bombardment Of Fort
4 Sumter and open war, And no sane man
not crazed by the exsrbitant passions
which blinded the eyes of these turbulent
mens could haye,ifor moment supposed
that their Institution could be rendered
more safe or secure by any or all Of these
measures.
Let it be remembered, too, thatthe quar-
rel between the North and the South be-
came immedicable and incursble in some-
| thing less than nine years after we bad vo-
ted into the domain of slavery an empire
larger than all France; for all who voted
to elect Polk and to reject Clay, voted in
effect for. the anpe4ationI of Texas. And
that the immediate outbreak occurred in
less than two years after ninety. seven per
cent of the people had complied with the
utmost demand which slavery had then the
hardihood TO make, by agreeing forever to
ignore the slavery controversy and leaving
all things in their then present condition.
For all who in 1852 voted for Scott and
Pierce, in addition to those who stayed at
home, amounted to ninetyaseven per cent
of the people. And this immediate out
break originated in a perfdious attempt to |
Wrest from free labor large domain for |
which it had given full and valuable con-
sideration. Reverse the picture. Suppose |
the Free States, had perfdiously attemp-
ted to filch away part of the territory which |
o former generation had dedicated to the |
black demon God. What language would
have been sufficient 70 denounoe abolition
perfidy. What language could have sup
piled osths and execrations sufficient for /
the occasion. In addition to all this. we
had taken the weight of guilt upon our
souls, by making an act of Congress
TO compel our citizens to return to the
house of bondage, the miserable fugitives,
who had escaped from torture on the same
principle that impels wretched mouse to
get away from felon cat. And we tames
81 and weakly surrendered our undoubted
hight ID communicate with our fellew-citi~
Eens, in all things innocent and laudable,
By giving up the United States Tails, sc T.
olSompetent ohclaIsS AT tnelr uIsCEetiou'-I
And all this in order to satisfy the exac' Ii
ions of,men who, as late writer remarks,
,re othe most arrogant, the most inexoraoIe
nat aver encountered earth or affronted
1t is only natural that the breasts
THE American people should now glow
With that intense indignation 80 natural to
men who have made weak and unworthy
aud ind that they have made
Them in vain. nu 4sst
q One thing is certain. Such rivers OF
blood as this war has shed, haYe never
lowed without a great wrong, without
.normous guilt accumulated somewhere.
Now. the man who can believe that his
mild, moderate, unassuming, unamoITous
neinbbors here in Ohio, or over in Penn
sylSanis, could wautonly oontrlye TO Vlslt
the nation with snoha calamitiesl could pe'
lieve any STORY in EBaEon Mpnehausen' OF
Sinbad the Sailor. His faith is as easy as
that of the old lady who grayely told one
Of nv friends that.she could not believe
one half the statements contained in
Gulliver's Travels. Just think Of the in
considerable number Of the slayeholaers,
who. for their own selfish. sordid interests
have made all this disturbance amongst
thirty million of people, and have brought
ali these fearful Calamties. all these % u5ut- nut
terable woes upon the nation. They pear
about she same proportion % the body pol
tic that large wen or cancer bears to
{bs human body; and for the saks. of fu-
t1Ts ease and health, thepAtient must sub.
nit to the pain of excision. We have the
q me motive for destroying slavery that
We have for destroying pack of ma, mad
dogs running at large through township.
Aud unless we are devoted fools, unless
we are imbecile as those tnat oIlxei, ;tS
win make the "p1blest inatitutfon, ana ,S lts
crimes, experience tbe fate of Amalek = we
ill ;bIotit ont from under the whole Heay-
80 80 ~ I''''> CAvENDIsH.