Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-21


being made into the secret history of the recent
terrible and Remarkably outbreak, will, hope
and believe, be productive of good influences
upon the popular mind in. both sections of the
Union. It has two lessons, which, it seems to
us, thatsit may very appropriately teach. The
fitstof these is, the lesson whichit will convey
tothe North, teaching them to look even with
moro than their,wide spread aversion upon the
principles and teachings of;those visionary ia
natics among them, who, like Garrison & Co.,
claim that the Constitution of our country sis
a.coyenant with he'll" and that the duty of
slaves is to rise insthe night time and free them
selves from thraldom by cutting the Threats q
their masters, and helping themselves TO the
property accumulated by their unrequited toll
5 It will, we say, teach the Northern people,
when these fanatical abolitionists go about
through their cities and towns, holding their
periodical lSaturnalia, to look upon their prnci-
pies in the proper light and will inspire in
their minds more of deep-seated hostility to
their wicked and. disorga nizing rawlings In,this
way the results of these investigations will
affect the Northern mind for good.
On the southi thought likewise to make adeep
Impression. Here in this Harper's Ferry riot,
we have an illustration which both precept and
example have before told u.s. is altogether pos
sible contingency ina country inswhose midst
there exists large and 5degraded class of hu-
manity. We cannot take fire in our bosoms
and not be burned, the Scripture and our own
experience have taught US. Neither can we
have in our midst four millions Of serfs, whose
color, whose intellect, whose habits, whose
without liabilities to the same dangers that have
always attended society in every country where
such large: servile element has existed San.
Domingo has taught this lesson to the world
Southampton has taughti to the people Of this
country and this State. Scarcely more insecure
are thoselpeople who work by day and sleep by.
night underneath the craters of Yesuyius and
Rtna, and who are liable to an Eruption at any
moment of burning lava, than many communities.
in our Southern States where the slaves number
two or three to of the whites. These slaves, by
their constant and rapid iegitmate interming>
ling with the whites, as well as by thsvery con-
dition of5contact between superior and inferior
races, are becoming in each generation more in.
telligent aud consequently more the objects of
dread. They are soughing off gradually that
torpor and obtuseness ofgmind seemingly natur-
a to them, even faster than they are shedding.
their original dark hue. Slowly, but certainly,
they are acquiring more of the characteristics
ofIthewhite races and losing those of theEAfrican
Looksat the Frightened complexion of the race
inallour Southern cities and towns. In Charles.
ton, S. O., for instance, the mixed element i'm
measnrably predominates oyerthat the black,
and5is, Webelieye, equal to If rot greater than
theiWhite population. Look at many other of.
the South Carolina communities Look at
Richmond, Lynchburg, Petersburg, Norfolk
and other places in. our State We ought to
look these things all in the face now They
have aniimport3nt practical bearing on our sos
cial condition. When We hear men and papers
either openly advocating or coyertly winkirg at.
revival Of the odious slave trade, it is time
thatipublic attention was called to these things
1t is useless TO rail at wicked and reckless
Abolitionists, like Brown, who in their blind
fanaticism think-if they think or care at all
that they are doing God.service when they.
teach and aid slaves to rise against their mas.
ters There=will always be such men. They
8 are to be expected when wethink of the vast
amount of opinion, religious and non religious.
which exists throughout agreat country like
ours on the moral and political aspects Of Ma.
tional question like that of Slavery. Likewise
is it all useless and idle to expect that men
having minds to think-minds which must
think-and tongues which are free to speak,
will ever. stop having opinions or expressing
them upon either the justice or. the expe.
diency of slavery in the abstract. Our security
lies in advancing, not in retreating. We must
look to the future Of the two races We must
go back and read up. the opinions Of the fathers
of the Republic as to the probable issue OF.
slavery in this country. We must know that
the best men of that era busted themselves not
only with conjecturss as to what were to belts
results, butsalsowith ways and means .byzwhich
they might be able to provide against these
very Instructions Mr.. Jefferson, we should
remember, up to his dying hour, never ceased
stoiexPress his approximations, and to suggest his
plans fOrsexsmption. The possible contingencyof
q great San Domingo rebellion, he declared was
to5him continually like "a Ere bell in the night
He .'trembledn he said, "to think of .itp And