Year: 1863

bay We commend to cur Democratic
friends who HOWL SO much about Aboli-
tionists and Anti-Slavery Despotism, and
who have ridden to skeleton the hobby
of the Union as it was" the following
sensible article from the Wheeling, Va,
hteligencer. 1t will not take them long to
read it, and may do them good The Ed
itor, though living in Slave State, sees
clearly the object Of the Northern trait
ors, and reads them a very instructive
lesson in few words:


There is nothing on this earth, and
never was, InUIU f.iov aud uttorIy hollow
hearted than this hypocritical cant about
is-this pretense that the leyal Northern
les, and are going to DESTROY it-this ap-
prehension of ''Anti-Slavery Despotism. y
What is an Anti-Slavery Despotism? 1t
is term mp'oyed by those who sympa-
thize with the pro slavery absolutism now
warning against the Democratic Govern
ment What reason is there to say that
the Northern people are enemies to the
Constitution None A few of them,





all their lives, but in Republican Govern
ments the liberty of speech and opinion
is tolerated. But even they have never
taken up arms to assault it. They do not
oppose physical force to the execution of
its provisions They do not kill the SOL
diers it calls into the field They make
no war against it but with their tongues,
and have never done much damage, as vet
And yet the curators par excellence of the
Constitution can see nothing more crim-
nal in the levying of a terrible and crit..-
iaal war against the Constitution, than in
the idle and Ineffective sneers Of few fa-
natics There can be but one explana-
ton of proposition SO monstrous it is
as already suggested that they cry "Lord'i
Lord y when they mean .Satan 7" Satanl''
They lose sight of every provision of the
Constitution except that which protects
rebel masters IN their negro property =
They want no other provision enforced -
They are willing that all those sublime
declarations that are embodied in the con
stitution. upholding this fabric of consti-
tutional liberty shall be sunk in The bot
tomless abvss, SO that negro slavery be
preserved in all its prestine beauty. This
is the Alpha and the Omega of the pres
ervation Of the Union as it was The I'm
ion ncyer can be restored as it was = no
more than man can call back his life
and live it over The past is irrevocable
the mischief of the past is irrevocablc
Can Won restore to life, TO their families,
to society, the thousands of generous, no.
BILE souls who were murdered and mangled
afterward, BY armed traitors becanse they
would not tarelv surrender their Govern
ment and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES free institn-
tions-their civilization Can vo1 re-
store the millions Of treasure that have
been swallowed up because the Uni5n has
been asSailed and must and will be pre-
served ? If voa cannot. then Won cannot
restore the Union as it was You may
sink conspiracy against freedom and hui
man right so deep in the ocean of infa my
that no bubble viii come mp to tell where
it went down forever Yoa may make
the Union better than it was, and stronger
than ever, more respected abroad, more
beloved at home, but YOU must first ex-
punge the last vestige cf secession other
wise it will linger like the dreaded. nox-
ious plague, and the war for our institu-
tions viii every few years have to be fou't
over.-Wheeling Intelligencer