Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-20
MARCH 20 1866. q

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1 SeMp,E oeF nsecial 4cnstoms, Qqr domestic
yoouta All idisappear.S We Wo1ld ha9ss ~
tights which 5he, conquaring race, would
i Pc eheppd oeg wppld choose to acknowledge:
l4eH tols MAJ is Wsged on US not to settle
i questions OF dispute and difference only,
out TO femqYe the, causes of difference, and
those causes undeElie and intermingle with
bonr Whole moral, Social and political sysLl
emeEonr being and nature as racs. aud
oar lGTs and polity as an organized com.
NUM- uni II fs impossible to contemplate
without sh1dd detipg the thoroughdess Of
the material and nbtat desolaiion that
would sweep over US, if our enemies should
succeed In -oSeFtuuhing and sdbjdgating dhs.
~ nat would they not do to hnmIIiate the
naughty and stubborn race, whose contempt
they have{so. il0Ag felttat6 aveUge +heiml
sel1es for the defeats And iisgraeeswe have
Pnt upon themt TO euptoot1andi 0bliterate
the distinctions Of blood and areari6g that
nave madeQus their mastersg With the
ee1ags thsti iha 4nesaud the memories thar
madaen thenli lot titaS once beebiasG5Sfj
masters and history does not tell iof con,a
quered race whose condition hWas so abs
jectly miserable as ours would be-. Better
The rocks and! caves Of the mou6taios.
batter exile ip the most inhospitable land.
better death and obliyion than.such stat.i
Other people go to war and fight till issues
are settled and then return to their own,
lapd and laws,i and resume their former
habits OF life; bqt, With US it is. different,
We are in a asstruggle that is no mere test
t9f proves, and resources, no mere contest
tor victory bnt one that involves everything
dear 20 rs. Should we lose, we lose ali
thatmRkes life valuable or even endurable
The only alternative of victory is utter
and irretrieyable ruin There eau be nocom.
promise, nqEeconcili listion, no escape; to get
,ottWe must go through; tosecqre peace We
'hdst nake-Rar, bloody -nnliring, inexor-
ebleLBar, till the enemy cease TO assail-aud
that let uadas sure ourselves will only he
when they areiuuAbles to assail longer. NJ
There ara people credulous enough to
believe that we might rely, upon the elem,
,ency OF the enemy for q recognition OF
lights and privileges sufficient to enable us
70 save Society from wreck and ourselves
from disfranchisement. We have from the
drst suffered from the inability OF many to
comprehend the mprderous intensity of
the mslevolence arrayed againstlussu Oar
people, II is to be feared, have not resliz ed
that literally all they have and all they are
is at stake. God giant they may never
have an opportuniLnity of jpractic ally as
celtaiping the, abaselessness of the dreams
they indulge; for should they, they viii
repent in unspsskable bitterness of soul
the tatuity that blinded them to an appre,. {.
hehsion Of the truth. A war that was
forced upon us without other cause than
the hate and greed of, the aggreesor, if it
endsby our submissiou, must of necessity
involve the loss of al we have, and our ut
ter dekredation as . peOple.i Nothing less
would appease the insatiGte ViudictiVeness
of the foe. Property they would claim as
the jast forfeiture for crime, as a rightfal
means of indehuieyito themselves, and as
something the retention, of which would
4eaye ps Rtill daogeEans. Political and so a
6ial-e4uafity they would not accord us. be.
cause this would continually offend their
selt.esteem. If they did, by a. sweeping
act of COT 6scstiou, at once appropriate sail
propffty, they would know how to reach
the same end by taxes, pains and penalties
1t they did not, By . general decree of
drive us forth, they would go
heap iindigniries and notifications upon
us that it would heLimpossible to remain.
War is frightful business, but We had in
fnitely better war on Whileltime lasts than
Secept the peace that would follow sub-
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