Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-11

shape the national policy as Mr.. CAlhoun
confessed at the time Of AnneXing Texas
and as became evident in the Ostend man
ifeEto, in which MessrE. Buchanan, Soule,
and Mason announced that We would steal
WlAt We could not buy. Il would destroy
the national rights of citizens of the Uni
ted States, imprisoning, shooting. hanging,
\ and burning them because of their color
or for the exercise of privileges secured By
the national constitution, as when AE.
HOar, of Massachusetts, 9 venerable and
eminent lawyer, went down By appoint
ment 70 Charleston 70 discuss in the courts
the question whether one State could AZ.
bitrarily, without crime alleged, ARd with
out legal process, imprison and sell the
citizens of another; for which he and his
daughter who accompanied him, were
mobbed out of that city, with the conui-
vance of the better classes While thus it
was refusing 70 remain q State Institution,
slavery was steadily threatening 10 dissolve
the Union if its national demands were not
granted, The fame, the honor, the consis-
tency, the character, not of the States bat
of the nation, we're constantly crEmbling
before its insolent Audacity, until this State
institution deliberately declared by the
mouths of senators and representatives and
stump orators ARd newspapers, that If its
Presidential cAndidste-not = candidate
for Governor of state-Eere defeated, il
would try to destroy the GoTernment-
That candidate was defeated, and 1t kept
its word.
Vow if Slavery, of whose national ag
gressions We have mentioned two or three
Instances, had been eontent to be what II
claimed to be-R State system-it would
have been tolerated, even with all the vital
crimes committed by it within the State
against the Nation. The moral sympa-
thy of the prosperous people of the free
States for a race held in slavery in other
States, whose suferings they never saw,
and with whose condition they we're taught
that they were eonstitutiouRlly forbidden
to interfere, would have protested, bat
feebly and ineffectively. When, however,
the State system spurned State limitations,
and, by seeking TO nationalize itself,
threatened the political rights and the ma
terial prosperity of the free States, as it
did by claiming that the owner OF twenty
blacksmiths should enter the common ter
ritory as the rival OF twenty blRcksmiths
who owned themselVes-sDd when this at
tempt was accompanied by the threat of
national ruin if It were resistsd-thsu the
long slumbering common sense Of the
American people accepted the struggle,
for four years has gloriously maintained
it, and will end II and its AuthOr together,
Thus the war is the direct armed aggres-
sion of Slavery upon the Government, be-
cause it had learned that it could not sub-
vert 1t peacefully. That the Government
had ever passed Al oppressive Law, such
as might justify revolution, was never pre-
tended. The complaint Of Personal Lib
erty bills as sn act of State bad faith is
long since abandoned. For what were
those bills? They were laws to secure the
liberty of the people of certain States
Could such laws be properly offensive TO
suy well disposed citizeu2 II the Law en-
forcing slavery upon part of the people Of
Virginia were q State right not 70 be law
faEly changed from without, was Law
maintaining the freedom Of all the inno-
cent people of Wisconsin less State right
not to be externally molestsd f-South
Carolina were 70 have the right to come in
to Vermont and seize a man as 3 slave,
was Vermont not TO have the right TO take
care that none of her citizens we're seized
under false pretenses7 Senator Iverson,
of Georgia, and the chief rebel leaders ST
the South, made no such feeble plea as
that. They LETT that TO class Of people
at the North properly called doughfaces.
The leaders said, frankly, 1t Is not your
pGEsOlAA 4AOGA GAAAIf a. - +-sA A--N 49, ~.Na-
rescue Of fugitive slaves; ii is the public
opinion of the North which is the diff
Guilty.
Moreover, neither President Lincoln nor
the party which elected him had the re-
motest intention OF touching Slavery IN the
States Believing il to be ultimately fatal
to any State, and consequently 70 the Ma
ton, they were yet sure that if II could be
made what it forever claimed to be, State
concern, the good sense of the slave States,
as Roger Sherman said in the Constitutional
Convention of 81, would finally extinguish
it They said only-and upon that saying
the people brought them into poEer-"We
oppose the naturalization of SlaTery."-
Then l will fight" said Slavery. I'VE
hope not" said the President: 1--WE beg you
to pause and reflect" 81 will fghtH cried
the State Institution, which, within its
Stste lines, Was entirely unmensced, ex-
cept by the universal heart Of man and the
indignant conscience ofciTilizstion. II hred
the shot st the Star Of TIE RsSf and 81 Fort
Sumter. Slavery attacked the nation with
the sword. For three years it has shed the
blood of the noblsst and the most precious
In the land. The sword has revealed both
the essential character aad political pUr-
pose of Slavery. By Gods grace, that
sword shall not be shesthed except in its
heart.
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