Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-09-04

III IS almost impossible II these days OF S'iiS anu
mlses,led refo;,us. to IorsSee with any degree OF
certainty what IS to be the final result OF pariy
ANAL anation OF whittier wIlt tend tue party iu-
si,li wnisi 4gsfy dar rise up 10 our view over
The county, particularly The North. Profess
Ing. as We haye ever done, the conservative. prn-
eip!es Of The country, principles ~-iih which
have ever believed the true mission Of the coun-
Try is m,.isSniuoly blended, il may be well inlag-
.ined thai wi: hqge looked with no snail degree of
soIlcttu'e at the lac Alterations os all parties,
winch pottentei SO much andpromised so little Of
permanent good to the country.
We have watched the abolition movement at
the North anI lie u;tra-secesson one at the South
the. K now Nothing movement all the country,
and that Of its opponents the same arrl, aud
we confess that we have seen but little to cmcour-
age and much 10 alarm US. We have seen aud
vet see the mad efforts of aboIiticnist, North, TO
Dissolve The Uniuu question which does not
concern them, while we have seen Southern Sc
(. cess0nists ready 10 burst asunder the raternal
cIrls without adequate cause; we have seen hno"
Nothings fighting The war OF castles and reiigonS'
and the Democracy opposing them with Their full
est powell while all have appear red TO us forgetul
of tTne aud conservative principles of union and
fraternity, of general advancement and national
prosperity, which once occupied the minds of our
f,tiers. They have ''paId tithes Of mint, anise
and cnmmnl, and have neglected the weightier
maters of the law
We could not but roresee that these things could
not continue. We well knew that as to the late
organization, it could not continue on its original
basis The innate principles Of the order, It's Sc
crrcy, the .,IiScorlant elements of which II was
composed, in the two sections, with variety of
other circumstances, convinced us that it could not
ne national organization; said that its nation
atty must terminate either its first convention,
its first Congress, or should il survive these two
contingencies it could not survive the first Pres-
DENTAL election. The first Of these contingencies
has occurred, and since the Philadelphia conven-
1cn, every Southern State is modifying its views
and dropping after the other the most objec-
tionable features, secrecy is put away while the
religious test has yielded TO the Constitution in
Louisiana, Alabama and, we learn, in Virginia.
leaving the party native American party merely.
coupled with prescription Of citizens who are fo-
reign born. This last feature will speedily pass
away, leaving them but the naturalization question
TO hang upon, one which the South will hardly find
herself sufficiently Interested in 10 contend about
Taken as party this will hardly survive as ma
tlonal one, simply because the principle which
they remain will not form or bear a national pat
ty. There is not enough in it, aud the people will
sUon have too much lnore important to claim their
attention. Wemuch fear that questions heretofore
claimed as national, questions connected with the
development of the country, will find themselves
too forgotten in the sectional contest which is be-
fore US. What is TO be the result! Will the
Moth persevere, and will the South SUBMIT
These are the questions upon which turnthe Union
Party politics. public politics are forgotten.
AMI the contest unfortunately is for power aud
domination on the one side, and protection on the
other. How must result this contest, ii unsietta-
ken as advised by Senator Sumner. 1t is easy to
ioresee hos- but not chra. The North contend
for what does MT concern them, Tor the subyer
soa Of our Constitutional rights, and assume Tie
power of absolute domination the South and
ner domestic institutions. Irish aesTesslon ana
viii never ue ulnIttel 10 by tine South. They
went iaio the Onion equals, and they VIII remain
IN 1t sncii, or no longer remain. Why dive them
10 tins! Have the Ncril cpoIEy counted the costs
of LiSuniou should i; be forced upon th: South!
Wh~ua- then Will CONF their cotton, sugar, mo-
Iassrs, and much else Tor which they .e-
pendant upon the South rs sole producer, inclu-
ding tohaccu2 Whit becomes OF the Mississippi!
1t can hardly be supposed that tia s,tcam will De
left free 10 Nortblrn conIeGeIacy, and whatthen
becomes OF the trade OF the Western States? WAo,
then, are the losers hy dSunlon? We ask the
question plainly, because Senator Wade is report
ed to have said few days since, in Speech that
the Union was ''r5rtEiesS and practically aiSSoi-
ued a!ready.'' This we understand 10 be the Chase
platform, in part, in Ohio. Now we asaln ask
who Will be the loser, the North South,
by disunion? II these gentlemen i'sist nj pom dis
union fear The South " ill but too readily gratl-
fy them,
We hope may be mistaken in these conc'u-
sions, and perhaps the next session witt Prove the
matter, The Wing, Democrat, and Know Moth
ing party South, are sound upon the Union ques-
ton, A-pottion of the Northern Democracy, some
WGgs.alll The fragment oil Northern Know No.l.-
ings who hold fast to the Philadelphia platform
are also sound while the great majority north are
precjmtating the slavery question. Is not the
present occasion then fit one 10 contemplate the
state of parties, and is it not well that ali men
should forget their minor questions of dile ence,
and band together TO stand by the Union, the Con-
Stituiion aud The Constitutional Rights Of every
portion of the country, to IIown upon fanaticism
Hnd treason every where, and to net with the COM
mon desire of handing down our institutions and
our common Union TO the latest posterIty.
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pBIackwoOHs Magazine says that there is an
abundance of exact paraIlelism between the pres
ent European war and the Peloponuessiun war as
described by Thucydihies. We have seen already
fulfilled the prophecy of the Delphic oracle, ''A
Doric war shall come, and plague with it;' and
lattery another striking similarly has occurred
The principal actors with whom the drama began
are not destined 10 bring it to an end; but even
while it is present they belong TO the past. AS
Perlcles and DemostheneS passed away 10 make