Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-19

Liustify themselves in the efs Of foreign
States. to,inCuce usfat dpfh countries to
recognize them IS : Eelfieer nts2 In our
political convuIsions You may remember
that the parties who have sought to create
a diseuption tending 70 shAke the cornmu-
nifty and cause loss and ipeonyenience
abroad, hayei always pnt out. from respect
for the world, q programme ot their grieV-
ahcss; but where'is there any programme
in this. case2 ege -
. In the case of, orr civil yaF Cromwell
aud His Parti tiameht, who dsPess9 and de-
capitated Charles the First, pnt outa pro-
gramms Of fgrieyap which they publish,
ed in three languages t7a1d calculated
throughout alIiEurope, showing why hey
had, deposedI the kiug and Why lthey had
established the monWealth. What hap
pened when James the II, wssI detbFoped
and William the III. was Invited oybrI "A
declaration. of rights yas published-a
narrative of the RFieVanoesl against James
H., and the programme includes t5e con
,(litioi fed1ffedlfr0m the susCeediug king.
What did the Americans do when theyd
eIared ffhSiF (ihd sPe1dS Snce ihE 1882 They
put forth d declaration Of grievances, and
at tho present time no Engiishman can
doubt that they were justified in sepRra-
ting from the mothSrcpuntEY.
TIE present civil war has assumed far
moro gigantic proportions than oil those to
which have alluded. Have the oontede-
rates put forth any programmed know the
men, and know thatIpo one is more com.
petent to write such a programme than Jett
Daviss He could write it out as we'll as
Thomas Jefferson, aud the declaration of
I776-but why is there no such deolarR'
,ti0nP q B66ause they have but the gciey-
ance they want to consolidate, Perpetuate,
and extehdl slavery, but they cannot do 1t.
TLoud and repeated cheers. But instead
of taking a stfaightforward course, what
do they constantly say2 These emihent men
eminent, mean, for their intellect, who
would go WelIfsth their case If they dared
to speak the truth-What do they sayR
Leave usH Al6ne, all we want is to be. left
alone. That is the reason why the Conssr-
vative governments of Europe and so large !
a portion of the upper classes in Eogland
have consented to back the iusurrectIou.
Now how would they feel If Essex and
Kent, having been beaten on the subject OF
the corn lawsLhad chosen to set up an East
Anglia right Rcrsss the Fhamest as the So
oessionists have:sought to atte mpt to cut on
Louisiana from the mouth OF the Misstetp.
nj. and if they had said tive want to be
ieit alohe.. why can any government be
carried on, if section Of the people, when
they, are beaten at the poll at. peaceful
election, be allowed to secedeP ask,
whers il thesconservative among the gov
erhinR GLASS Of the CQuutrY2 j come TO
the, G6ucIusIon, that GfteF all, there is more
conservatism among the democracy. 81"
rHR, GRAND RRsuEF OF THE PREsIDEETIAL
ELEcT1oH, 4 se.-
We have heard news from America late
Iy whicn l confess has struck. me as being
one of the most sublime speetaeles in the
whole history. ofuIhs world ( You have
tWenty-three million or twenty four mil
lion of people, spreading over territory
some thousands of miles square, exercising
one day the right of suffrage upon ques:
ton respecting which currents Of blood
are flowing, and you see the result or that
peaceful election given without SO nnch
tumult as have seeu 10 that dirty little
Village Of Clone, or that little town Kidder-.
minister. FOheers Hnd lRughter.lS That 10,
an eveAt thar humanity may be proud .ot,
and it is Dot, the subject for the political
party to exult over or scoWl over. Cheers.
A people who can do that have given to
the world a spectacle such as was never
before presented. by any other people, and
what have, they dons2 They have decided,
after years of war, and after almost every
household has lost q relative or an inmate,
the contest that arose between General
Mcclellan, who desires to put down the
war without making the abolition of sla-
very condition, and Mr.. Lincoln who oe-
Bire5 70 put. down .tbeI WAr aud e4NTPate
slavery from the South N9tWltneta ndteg
that that was the appeal made to the whole
people, they have preferred acting in the
interests of huuGnftyIp for that can no
longer be auestioned, ,,ithey have lpreferred
the continuance Of war rather than the
coHtin6anee OF degrading slavery. Let ne
hayeIuo more Of the late talk that this is
not atwar to put d9wn slavery. Every
bodyidw admits that WI whatever is the issue
Of the struggle, slavery will DO abolished
D = siaHsEPARAT1oN IMPOSSIBLE.
Now, with regard to the issue itself, l
told you two ye4rsAs 9go that did,not be
lieye that L should live to see tWoindepen-
dent states ON. that continent Of North
AniefiGa. > IihaVei fSb Sbeated that assertion
siuce, and InoW come TO confirm that
opinion, but With far moro emphaais than
I have eyer expressed before i do not be.
lieys that that country in my day, VIII
ever be separated. look upon the gsogra'
phical difficulties in the way of SEPARATION
to be R0solutely i1suImouutabte. Take
thecaae of the Mlssissigpi:l thAf liver with
lts tribafadea saows b taigb -faehty thou
sand miles Of nayigable waters into the
Gplf,, of Mexico; and In order thet the
United States might hsye its mouths In
their own oeSpPetiOP4 P4tR4t they might, q
it were, have the, The keys, pt their oWu
i0ors ID their own pockets, they purchas
ed from the fret Napoleon the state o.
Louisiana, with the money Of the old
Onion, for three millions sterling. Well
now, some two or three hundred Thousand
peobIe could have squRtted there. Some
En- glish, some French and some AmeFicAnl
have taken iaE6 their heads that they will
Gerry OF this state, and place the mouths