Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-01-01
Fsderals fund tEeir Treasury Notes at tbs

HeueEais tluuus tnelf IfeaGury Notes at the
rate of one OF two millions per day, no. !.
body can be induced voluntarfly to ex
change Confederate notes bearing no iu.
tetest aud possessing next TO no current
value for Confederate 5Juds that are to
pay six per cent. Hefeupon Secretarv
Memmingsr proposes compulsory fund.
ing of one thoasand millious of dollars
by refusing to receive IL for public dues
and depriving it3Of al current value, and
issuing two hundred millions more, which
is to be kept at par by stringent taxation |
Ihe clever correspondent sees that this
will never -itis too lste-and talks of
Confederate waht of energy, when he
means failure of resources, aud Southern
lack Of faith, when he evidently has as
little faith as tue most unbslieving Thomas
among them.
The simple truth is that ihe rebellion is
'iplayed out" lIE tail may wiRele for
months yet; but this is not much man
ltestattou of life ias- the con lsive agonies
OF reluctant dissolution
Now, then, oughs the o U6iSn Government
to accept INSTRUMENTATION" with Slavery f?
we answer, No; because such recou-
structlon would at hes: be but "a truce, and
a truce, which would leave the friends of
the Union in half the States under the feet
OF It's and their implacable enemies. It
would place the Shareholders once more in
power IN twelve or fourteen States, and en-
able them to wreak their vengeance on the
Southern Unionists, whom they would re. |
gard as the authors Of their failure and |
humiliation What loyal heart does not
,eel this What open eye fails to see it 2 |
The Unionists of Louisiana, of North Caro-
ina, of Arkansas, of Florida, of Texas. are
Anti Slavery. Their record is made up,
md they must abide it. Make n peace
hat re-establishes Slavery ia those States.
md you put the heel of the Rebellion on
heir necks. No stipulations, no 0ssur-
!nces, would save them; they would sud
lenly quit the South or quit the earth.-
\nd, after dispOsing of them, the rebels of
G-day would commence their preparations
or the better provided and more success
ul rebellion of tomorrow.
For the South, for the country, there is
'ut one possible recompense for all the
7oes and sacrifices of this terrible conflict
universal freedom. Make free labor the
fundamental law of the republic, and the
'outh VIII, ten years hence, be richer, more
roduetlVe, more Populous, more prosper.
US, than she has ever yet been; and in
"enty years she will bless even the rebel
on for having delivered her, however un-
from her gigantic curse. With h
nlVersal freedom, the North can afford to |
emagnanImous, and even generous, on all {
ther points at issue. With universal free
ON, the South gains at once ten or twelve I
representatives. in Congress, and may make I
Iur new States out OF Texas within the
ext twenty years. With universal free
ON, we should be willing to indemnify
'yal citizens of the rebel States for their t
'sses OF property by the rebellion. Every
ing can be made easy and agreeable if s
e start from the foundation that ours is i
enceforth to bea nation OF freemen.
But "the rebel chiefs will not assent 10
lis" 5
Perhaps not. They don't aeem euamor- {
of the restoration of the Union on any
erms. No terms that President lincoln |
ould possibly offer would seem gracious to 1
lem. unless he should propose to divide t
1e Union, let them run the division line
hereVer they chose, and we pay them the I
expenses of the war. But the rebel chiefs /
ro no longer, If they ever were, the f
outhern people-not even the achite peo- q
lie OF the South. They will be the last to a
ssent to any terms of reconstruction, or to /
ronounce reasonable any that we may
ter. But our adVices from every slave t
tate wherein the Union flag now floats in G
lajesty assure US that nine. tenths Of all b
no are for the Union at all are for the a
Int0H WITHOUT SLAVERY And SO it will be /
ven in South Carolina when the rebellion {
suppressed there. Policy and justice, t
lerefore, unite in enjoining US to obey the I
lVlne injunction, "Break every yoke, and q
It the oppressed go free.' '
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