The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-01-06

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If it cannot save, ii must at least save as
from the Yankees. a.
~ SURRENDER TO GREAT BRITAIN.
We lately published from thought
full correspondent suggestion that, IN
the event of being unable to sustain our
independence, We should sursPder. IT.
into the hands of Those from whom we
wrested or purchasedit, into the hands
of Britain, France and Spain, rather than
yield it to the Yankees .f
= From the favor with which this sug
gestion has been received, we are sure
that in the dread event which it contem-
plates, our people would infinitely pre-
fer an alliance with European nations ON
terms as favorable as they could desire,
in preference to the dominion of the
Yankees We will not dwell upon that
subject now We speak of it not out OF
gloomy forebodings, but simply as man
in health speaks of hiswill
THE GREAT QUESTION.
What we ask now, in the name of the
people, is that the Government strain
every energy and develop every re-
source for the public defense. Remem-
Der that to hold back anything is not to
save it. The only question is, shall we
have the use of it, or shall our enemies
Such a question leaves no room TO hesi
tate Upon such efforts aud such devo-
ton heaven will surely send its blessing
But if misfortune should still pursue us,
and our hopes all fail, let us have the
election Of throwing ourselves into the
hands of those who are cold and inditfer-
ent, rather than to fall under the yoke OF
malignant enemies raising the VOLTS
howl for our blood
THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT.
We could not have avoided the strug-
gle into which the North has forced us.
Long ago Lincoln declared that the he,
public could not exist half slave aud halt
free In various forms the people OF the
North pressed the issue upon us. Our
enemies hodged us round and finally
drove us to the wall The worst that
can happen to us in prosecuting our de-
fense, is the best that they designed for
us in the beginning, and far better than
they will accord MS if they triumph IN
their aims. Providence has marked out
our path, and both led and urged our
steps. 1t has been to us the inevitable
path of duty.
GREAT CONFIDENCE IN PRoyIDESCE.
If in pursuing it we fail, this were to
fail as nations never failed before Prov
idence will not suffer Us to go down II
we show proper devotion, proper Wis
dom, and proper courage. Let our wise
men plan, let our brave men fight, and
let our good men pray. God will open
up way of escape for us, and will dis.
appoint our enemies Let our talth fali
not"
The Richmond Enquirer. in a column
of editorial review of the above article,
concludes as follows A decent respect
for the opinions of mankind required our
ancestors when about to dissolve their
political bands with Great Britain to de-
clare the causes which compelled them
TO the separation That high, noble pre-
cedent was not followed by those States
when in the course of human events it
became necessary for Us to seperate from
the United States"
THF CORNER STONE OFTHE CoNEFDERACf
The absences such declaration has
enabled our enemies to misrepresent our
cause, aud to place us before the werld as
nation seeking, not lselfgovernment,
but the perpetuation and extension OF
slavery why" said Mr. Golden, in his
recent speech at ROchdale, lis there no
such declaration, because they have but
the grievance that they want to consol-
idate, perpetuate and extend slavery"
Thus the occasion of the war has been
misunderstood and misrepresented, for
its causes and the righteous noble object
of selfgovernment, for which we are
fighting, kept out of view, and slavery
perpetHally paraded before the world
as the cornerstone of the Confederate
States.
OPINION OF MANKIND NOT TO BE DIsRE,
GARDED.
Can we any more than our forefathers
affect to disregard the opinion OF man
kind. The opinion of mankind as enter.
tanned in France and England and
throughout Europe, is that of anti-slav'
eTy; and was it to be expected that that
opinion would revolutionize itself merely
to divide and dissever the United States
REBEL CAUSE MISUNDERSTOOD.
The right of self-government was as
much at stake in the denial OF our equal
rights in the Territories as that OF oul
forefathers was in the tax on tea. But
the enlightened opinion of the world does
not so understand our cause. The vlo
lent anti-slavery discussion that has fol
thirty years preceded the dissolution OF
the Union, aud which as often predicted
civil war, very naturally led the world
| to understand our war a. solely underta-
ken for the perpetuation and extension
of slavery.
BILL OF WRONGS AND GRIEVANCES.
Perhaps the time has passed for any
such declaration of grievances to bt
either proper or profitable but mani
festo of objects and purposes, setting
forth clearly the reasons that induced II:
to resort to war, the manner In which
that war has been conducted, the decia
ration and acts of vengeance leveled
against our persons and property, the con
| 6scation of all estates, the establishing
of negro superiority over ouT people by
the enemy, the threat of their Congress
through William L Chandler, to wag'
the war for determination" and the be
ginning Of that determination, as evl
| denced in the devastation ordered b!
Lieutenant General Grant and executed
by Major-Generals Sheridan and SheT
man, together with an avowal that slay
ery shall not be permitted to prejudie'
our recognition as a nation, would, WI
believe, secure our recognition and, per
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