Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-03-28

nov whether THIS OF InAG rS1eft1 parry G5tttsF
the. Consultation shall prevail, whether Wing
construction or Democratic construction shall
predoninate in our Federal Administration, but
it n whether the constitutional selfor fauaticism
shall prevail, whether the Union as it was and
sfonld be, shaII Stand, or whether anarchy and,
1nadbess shan su6yert and prostIate Il, whether
all I4ae citizens shall unite for the Union and
the Constitution or, by lending themselves either
tofsnaticism or tO''an impotenteTOrt aidindirect,
ly The. enemies oftheir country.
WHO SHALL BE president?
II isnot a matter Of personal distinction or of
private friendship which makes this question of
the deepest moment, at this time The Unionis
st stake. He.who thinks that candidate with
negro sympathicz can he elected, to install negro
principles into the sctiop OF the. government,
and dis eonfedeIacy longer cohcre, has but lit.
tletee1sc for the appreciation Of Southern taste,
And.fSf less knowledge Of Southern +PTeiudiccs.
For myself, would not give the Union Of the
States eeunentedby sacred regard for the rights
Of tie rare who made the Constitution, who
won the AmsrieqH iibeFtiEs on which tits based,
and established the institutions and States which
alone can preserve all these-no, not for all the
negro blood on the continent. Mol 1t would be
batter that an inferior race should perish, than
that the balance of constitutional rights and lin.
itations, which are the evidences and the pre-
serving causes of our union and harmony,
sheuld DO DESTROYED, and division, confusion, Ii
rsnsc 1ization, internal discord, frontier
defenceS, and border reprissls should take place.
Ono racS, race Of bold, brave, lawless and ire
cIainIablc men, is disappearing before the on
ward sweepo Of the Angio-SaxOn march, and why
should a race inferior to these, with simply q.
greater quality or capacity for submission, and
by submission for usefulness in their subordi-
nate condition, be placed III false position OF
fictitious elevation which they can neither APP
prcc;ate, fulfil or maintain; but which ds8.ruc-
tire TIlsesooR can only be brought into practical
trial and existence by the overthrow of institu-
lions consecrated by usage and Affections; by the
disruption of States, which must guard the
rights Of their people; and by the overthrow of
.iSsl central government, which becomes tyrant
the .naomentait disregards the rights of the
ggs stRss.' Or e'''Pisz On 'ns 1A'i0s' u 'D'
Every eonsiderate patriot, who knows any
thing Of history, reflects painfully on the lessons
which are taught US in the present juncturc OF
our affairs Greece, the most polished nation of
antiquity is without freedom, and in state of
degradation untitled for freedom, alter an exis-
tsTlce Of twenty-five centuries. Rome is with
nut Tropress;-Egypt a foreign colony, in seryi-
tude and servility;-the Holy Land, where free
dom Was inculcated as divine principle, IS des-
olate; Tyre, Sidon, Carthage, the seats OF an
siert commerce, are without ship or sailor;
Nineyah. Babylon, and Balbec are desolate ruins
amid yagabond tribes: these all-the model ra-
css and nations of antiquity, have lost their
civilization and freedom buta large mass Of our
people, excited and melted by the ,ayHap1thy c}
ignorance, which prevents them from rejecting
on these solemn lessons, claim for the negro
mind a capacity for selEgovernment, a sense of
political obligation, and an individual standard
of morals, higher aud moro permanent than
thcse polished nationS This must be their logic
or IL IS vain and foolish The negro must be SUI
pcrior to these white men in these essentials OF
citizsa Of republic, or the controversy in their
behalf is worse thanille or illusory. The white
Tace has fifty centuries of experience and cram
iotogical growth and development adopting ei-
theF theory of Progress and the negro. less than
these nor so much as the Indian, and yet these
sytnpathizers; who ignore, equally, history and
reason, claim for the nnschoolcd blood of Africa,
q efnde above the white man. They act upon a
rule of conduct which they regard in the selcc
lion Of their horse, their cow; or dog. "Ilut
many persons" says the historian, DIR. Arnold,
.tib not clearly see what should be the true inn
partiaIitv of an historian. If there be no truths
in moral and political science butlittle good can
be-lFawn from the study Of either If there be
tr,,,hs IL must bs desirable that they should be
discovered ard embraced"
Il is insvain to say that they arc the friends Of
the slave and Of the Union! They are incom-
patible sentiments They stand not together.
Fhe success of negro-sympathy is to be realized
only in the destruction Of the sovereign author
ity Of the States over its own subjects of eXclu-
sfyc domestic jurisdiction. Ncgro-Sympathy
strikes at the Union, by striking down the
States
Butcould negro sympathy realize its vain and
uawl,ish sentimentalies by peaccably procuring
the freedom of the slave, and leaving him a
rnopgstsrs, the lessons Of antiquity would be as
hasTantly disregarded, as by any violent and un-
constitutional method which could be adopted to
place this race on the land ofconfraternity. with
The Anglo Saxons. That same history ofthe over
throw 81. nations teaches, that after the incor-
marathon of the slave into the political elements
OF ancient society, pollutions prevailed lin the
reeesses of Roman Palace, where the hannah
blood that was shed in sport, was sometimes
mixed With the wine which was split in dc
bSheh.'' H.
Nor would the action of such causes be less
destructive on the individual than on the States.
Freedom to the negro is his co-equality and con-
fraternity with the laborer and the humble me-
chanic, at once aud forever, Throw upon society
the necesSitons labor Of this immense class OF
liberated pauperS, and it can be nothing else, and
the -slinpfy viii DO moro than the demand under
wich circumstances, can take up, and the conseS
ottencs win be terrible and destructive to white
labor. Tho grinding collision will commence at
once md white labor, white morals, white in
teIlisence, household virtues, household dignity
and fTyside happiness Of the white man must
be DESTROYED and desolated in the contest By
the very fact of inferiority y'his very capacity
. fJr submission and mental dependence thcnegro
xiii he preferred and at lower wages and the
white man ruined. eTheday laborer now main
faii,s fair indcpendence:--the humble me-
chanic supports his family and provides for age
and, sickness and votes as becomes freeman;
but when this contest for labor and sustenanee
comes, and the eenegroes and homeless white
man md unpensioned female meet in grinding
fhe sTisfocracy of wealth will become supreme,
ludlow and degrading indcedw be the extreme
condition of Thousands, Of many thousands Of
tbuss win now the worthy and the honored
CITIZENS OF the great r pnhlic. II would be but
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