Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-10-10

oy TO the population they nave coerced anC
misled into rebellioH; aud finally, IL pavel
the way to the total extinction Of the grea
evil TO perpetuate and extend which the
planters plunged usinto war.
On the other hand, the election of Nc
Clellan and Pendleton commits the nation
to negotiation with the leaders and chiefE
thereby, rs civil power and under the
most favorable circumstances 1t puts upon
proud people the humiliation before the
world, OF advising with, and granting term:
to these rebel leaders who have never ask
ed for favors, and have treated us always
most hAughtily and seornfully. Moreover
it commits us to the perhdy of leaving
these rebel chiefs supreme In their own
States. and thus giving up to them such Of
the people there as have opposed and re-
sisted their measureS By that choice we
,s6Y 70 thas tanFsSss.Ssj Rul W9af Onion men
In the South-You are in the hands Of your
bitterest enemies, your faithfulness to the
Union, your sufferingS and losses we re-
ward with exile, or II you prefer, by still
further prosecutions.
By the election OF Lincoln and johnson
we guaranty protection to Southern Union
lists, who behold, as proof this. one of their
own number, the most faithtul and emf
nept, chosen TO the Vice Presidency. at
the same time we settle the one great and
i'm portaut point, that no rebellion can be
negotiated with, or treated
in any way, except npon the terms Of uu-
submission 10 the laws and re-
turn to duty, with the exile or punishment
of those who have stirred up the mutiny.
Let no American forget the supreme i'm
portanoe Of this.
RavaPANA lF
Breokipridge, said the other day:
"If Mr.. Lincoln was the worst Presi-
dent that ever lived, it is the duty OF the
American people to re-elect him; because
it is the duty OF the American people to
put final aud crushing termination upon
this idea that there is TO be faction and
insurrection every time man is to be
elected that a minority IN the nation don't
like. What is to hinder another outbreak
of the kindH If Mcclellan should be elect
ed, what Is to hinder faction from re-
peating the same revolutionary scenes2 II
is the ruin Of the country, this doctrine Of
state rights, that state can come and go
as il likes. They talk about a permanent
Of arms, aVoWedly to make peace,
with men who have had no other object
than that they would not have this PEesi-
dent to be their President"
The nation which negutlates with rebels
is lost. We have a significant warning
on this head, in the condition and history
of our neighbor, Mexico.
What caused the ruin Of that great re.
public7 What plunged it into anarchy?
What flung its unfortpnate people IRON one
civil war into 6nothef7 What made peace
impossibla 10 THANH = syrhaA- -ladsAA. -tLs d.
position d ruler alter ruler, until at last
the weakened nation fell prey 70 the fret
imperial highway robbcr who happened to
fancy a new empire2 Nothing but the
fatal fault Of dealing too leniently with
traitors. The Mexican people and their
rulers were too ready to
pardon the supreme crime of an attempt
to destroy the state. They neglected to
vindicate fully the organized laws; they
faltered and bargained, and negotiated
with rebels, and so they fell SO low that
their very name has become a synonym of
anarchy, and to be "Nexicanized" means,
everywhere, to be the prey of incessant
civil wars.
Nor is the present condition of France
less instructive upon this point, The
French people were free, but they suffered
themselves to be persuaded to admit to the
rights of citizenship man prescribed for
unlawful attempts upon the state; and
that man, returning with the humblest pro-
fessious OF good faith, is to-day the Empe'
ror and tyrant of France.
Dare we make the same mistake1 Can
We afford to trifle with the future of this
great, free nstion? Shall we not rather
take heed to the lessons of history, and
put away, sternly and wisely, all danger OF
the kind? Dare we, BY negotiating with
the rebel chiefs, tell the people of the
South, and the ambitious and unscrupu.
Ious politicians Of the whole nation, that
we condoue rebellion; that we dare not
punish the leaders of q great mutiny; that
Ss must buy safety from them? Is this
honorabls2 or, what may be of more i'm
portRnoe to many, is it sate2 II we bar
gain with JEFF. Davis and his confederates
do we not give them the best assurance
that they are formidable to us2 Do We not
encourage them TO new resistance, to new
schemes, to new plots against the peace
and unity of the nation? II we restore
Ihem to power In the South, which is the
lea 81 they can accept IL we negotiate, do
we not invite new attacks, new commo'
tious? Do we not prepare the way for
"Mexfcaniziug" our country For If south
ern rebels are treated with, why not northr
ern rebelsG II Davis may be forgiven aud
restored, why not vsllandigham, or Wood
or any other reckless mutineer, of any
pariy2 o. i..
If we want peace for our children, we
must vindicate the laws; if we want to re-
establish law and order in the southern
half of the Union, we must expel thence
the chiefs who plotted the great mutinyii il
we want to encourage aud reward fidelity
to the Union, we are bound to make nc
terms with JEFF. Davis and the southern
leaders, who have pursued loyalty to th'
Union with the most vindtctive cruelty
If we mean to pacify the Southern people
we must drive out from amongst them,
with a relentless hand, those wicked
schemers who now rule them with hand
of iron, and who have subjugated them al
they hnned 10 do US.