The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-05
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AS A NATTER of interest to several
Union friends we reproduce from our
files this morning a part of Senator
Sherman's great speech before the peo-
pie. of Connecticut prior to the election
in that State. In view of our own APP
preaching election Union men general
ly cannot do better than to refresh their
memories and invigorate their enthusi-
asm in the cause, by perusal of the
distinguished Senator's striking obser-
vations.
THEs Hon. william g. Brown, of
Preston county, in this State, has
written a letter 10 the editor of the
Bucihannon Republican, in the course
of which he makes the following re-
mark:
"The Union party was composed OF
two distinct elements, both earnestly
engaged in whipping the rebels and
driving their armies from the field. But
while the whole party united In the Wig
orous prosecution of the war one wing
fought for the preservation OF the
Union, the Constitution, and the great
principles ofciyil and religious freedom,
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government; whilst the other fought for
the overthrow ofslavery and the subju-
cation of the Southern States. The men
that composed the latter wing never
loved the Federal Constitution nor the
Union of the States as fixed by that in
strument."
Mr.. Brown is one of those gentlemen
who in a general way were Union men
during the late war-Kentucky sort OF
Unfonists-one of the kind that felt
nervous about doing anything very de
cided or war like against the South.
He was always timid, hating and hes
itating-often not votng-while in
Congress on very important questions.
Naturally, therefore, Mr.. Brown writes
such observations as we have quoted
from him above. And yet he is mex
cusably aware, II. he really is unaware,
that what he writes is very unjust and
delusive. Its true that the anti-slaye-
ny men of the country had their feel
ings deeply enlisted against slavery
during the war-as they had before
because they recognized that the root
of our trouble-the poison of our po-
litical system-was slavery, and while
1t is true that they fought for the over
throw of slavery" it is not true that
they fought for ''the subiugation of the
Southern States.n The anti-slavery
men of the country were never the do
minion seeking element-neyer the
fllibusters in any sense of the word
but, on the contrary, they were the ell
ement that ON all occasions believed in
andinvoked the higher influences ofour
civilization. - - {
Mr.. Brown belongs to that class of
incorrigible partisans that have never
forgiven the anti-slavery element for
coming into power in 1860. During the
war he affiliated with il. in much the
same spirit in which the Pharisee went
up into the temple to pray. He was
but indiferently persuaded that he was
not more wrong than right in siding
with that element in preference to
espoustng the cause of the South. AS
lifelong servant of pro-slayery
party-as an habitual defender of that
party-as hunter after place and pre-
ferment at the hands of that party-he
never once during the war rose to an
appreciation of the disinterested con-
victions that actuated the anti-slavery
. element of the country. To him the
element was what nthe primrose on
the rivers brimv was to Peter Bella
primrose and nothing more.n 1t was
an element opposed to him and his for
Years. and that was all Mr.. Brown ever
cared "a. know about il. So completely
did his preiudicesl possess him. and so
completely do they possess him even
now. Such men MS him. to whom pro-
slavery democracy is a second nature.
can not even now that siaty,er-y, Is aboi1
ished get rid OF their cant about the abo-
slitionists. Nothing but death win de
liver the country; from; his class They
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