Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-04-19

position.
POr the Intslligencer
The American People have now q great
duty to perform. We must now see to the
complete pacification of the continent. Let
that great work now be done on true prin.
ciples and done so thoroughly that the tssk
will never have to be repeated. This gen.
Grafton OF men has, now, a better, opbor-
tuni'y to win the gratitude of the latest
posterlty than any generation, since Noah
stepped out of the Ark. We have, at pres.
ent, precious opportunity to remodel our
national institutions, let them be 80 re.
modelled as to cast out of them every thing
abhorrent to true morality, every thing on.
pugnaut to the law of nature. With one
oohsentaneous voice, the opposition press
calls out that our Southern Sister States
must be received back ints the Uuion with
all their rights and dignitieS, unimpaired.~
I es indeed, so say we +; let them come back
| and ENJOY with us, equal rights, equal &C.
curity, equal prosperity. Let them come
back, on an equal footing with the loyal
States, and We, the people are ready to re.
celve them with such generosity as will
stop the clamOr, even of their tory allies in
Great Britain, and If possible, of their still
more unscrupulous allies nearer home.
| We feel no thirst tor barren vengeance.
Il uC n LICAlShu pcOplc are dB moderate in
victory as they are brave and determined
in battle. But the returning States must
be contented with the same rights and die.
mites enjoyed by such great, mighty and
opulent Commonweslths as Illinois and
New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Other
rights and superior dignities will not be
Vouchsafed to them by the peoples con-
sent. We expect the numerous nud delpd-
| ed masses to be most leniently treated. As
| to con6sCation, we can be easily satisfied
If coufscation means forfeiture of landa
and goods, we must Cheerfully leave the
affair to the Government. If the Admins.
tratiOn choose to enforce the forfeiture
against the per6dious rufIiaus, who forsook
our flag to take part against US in the dia.
bolical war for the destruction of the Ma
tion's life, we shall acquiesce. Ifit choose
to treat them with contemptuous mercy, we
shall still more cheerfully acquissce. But
if Con6sCation means the emancipation OF
bondmen. then let the work be thorough
and ettectual. VIZ, THE PEOPLE, demand
| that much, and we will submit to nothing
| less. We, TIE PEOPLE, are determined that
after the termination of this struggle, no
bondman shall utter his groaus, or clank
his chains, under the wide folds of the star
spangled banner. We do not intend to
leave an inheritance of strife, and woe, and
tears, and blood to our innocent posterity.
| If the past teaches us any thing, if we
can know aUy thing, we can know and we
do know that the un6isSt institution breeds
ruthans, as surely as poisonous marsh
breeds blood thirsty leeches and hateful
reptiles. Such have been its characteris-
tics in every age, in every land, in every
nation. If we, Of this generation, leave
slavery unhGrmed, ns the curse and tho
| pest of our posterity, ds the fountain of
4 future brAwls and quarrels, as the sprinp-
head OF future woes and strifes, as the dire
source of new wars and contentious and
battles, we shall deserve and we shall re-
ceive mead of inf4my growing and in
creasiug as all future ages drag their slow
length along. But we will not incur such
penalty. The unhoIy institution has
committed crimes, which We, the People,
never will forgive. Those hordes of hun
CRY politicians who are now laboriug so
Eealously for its preservation, will find
their labors as vain as those of Mrs. Par
tingtOn, when With mop and pattens she
undertook to swnb out the Atlantic ocean.
Even if the Administration should now
falter in its work and attempt to retrace it's
steps, we, the People, would rise in the
majesty of our might sweep it out of our
way, and pass on In our. resistless course.
In this controversy more is meant than
meets the ear. The Opposition presses,
with singular uuanimity, demand that the
Southern States shall be received back into
the Union "with all their rights and
dignities unimpaired." The victorious
people say that they are not only willing
but determined TO receive them back with
the same rights, houOrs, dignities and i'm.
munities which they themselves enjoy
Where, then, is the ground for controver-
sy2 Youthful readers be not verdant be
not deceived The strife between the par
ties was never more fierce or irreconcilea-
| BILE than at this very moment. We might
even ask the New York Daily NesOs if the
"rights and dignities" enjoyed by New
York ought not to satisfy South Caroliua2
Impertinent question: A late number of
that sheet commands US in no very mild or.
moderate terms to suppress ourselfshness
and our fanaticism, and to bring no senti-
ment to bear upon the present posture of
affairs, which provoked this war. Eyen
when that eheet Wishes to DO eloquent and
persuasive, it continually uses language
which implies that it considers Us as all
baseness, all selfshness, all folly, all wick
edness, and our Southern enemies as all
| goodness, all wisdom, all perfection, In
this the News ia not singular. The whole
affiliated opposition press, whether loca.
ted in New York, Boston, Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Colum.
bus or any other city or town, exhibits the
same state of feeling. In the eyes of its
conductors the interest, the happiness, the
opinions, the feelings, the wishes of
the great northern majority pass for
nothing. We have no "rights
| which they and their Southern allies are
bound to respect" 1t can never be COL
Iected from any language of these democrats