Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-24
ERe IRiot &C HaIrI:pIerI,s Fer1.X..
iron thaIN.Y.l oonrIsr! nnd Enonlrsr.l

As;long as@weFare in possession Of self-conf1.
dence We tall atIonally but asEsoon asEWetloseN
confidence in Ives, we clutch ously at
every triflesonr speech:i broken, hurried and
DISTRACTED fsll@ into ntradictions, over.
Statements, kexagge rations, and blunders. Ina
word, We are frightened, and sc show it both
in language and gesture. Judging from the
Language of the Washing ton States, and some
other oTganssoft Southern opinion, the HaTper'ss
Ferry affair has thrown certain portions at least
of the Southinto the most abIect state Of terror
and dismay 6tling but tremity fsfears
could giyesrise 10 such ridiculous ilnaginingss
and wildss denunciations The freak of mad
Brown isHtreated asaSomezh uge conspiracyEof
the Repub licans party, and perfect, flood of ex-
ecratiou is poured out vi as little conference as
reason, uponk THAT party and upon the entiref
North. ltwould almost seem that panic had
driven. those people clean mad If they are
going to come to their senses at all, it is high
time they should be about5sit. "A mailman is
always fearful creature, and we can make
large allowance for the natural shock to tho
nerves occssioned by tho Ossawatomies sudden.
demonstration. We would say nothing about
the ridlcnlous exaggerations sent out by teleS
graph, multiplying seventeen white men and
tyeenegroes into an armed force of five to seven
hundred, nothing of the odd fact that
this contemplate little squad were able
to hold such place as Harper's Ferry in;
mortal fear for period OF thirty. six hours-and#
from Virginia and Maryland aud the Federal
Government, to fight a, handful thatSa single
company of our Seventh could have annihilated
in thirty minutes. We all know that sudden.
emotions often produce the strangest effects
but now that it's made certain that Brown and
MS armysot twenty.two strong cannot oyerrpn
and subjugate the t0ld Dominion now that
the terrible danger is over and Imagination has
had time borrower its equilibrium, there can
be no excuse for continuing to make this mattes
of such zmonstrous account. Common sense
has now right tosre-assert itself, and this
crazy abuse Of the Republican party should.
stop. That party had nothing more to do with
Browns attempt than it had with the battle OF.
Pelho. II does not appear thatzeVenz one SOLE
tary individual of the party had the most dis.
tant surmlse that such project was afoot. The
two men OF this State who are implicated Ger
rlla Smith and Fred Douglas, are as bitter
enemies Of the Republican Organization as can
be found within the State limits; and at the last
election Gerrlt{S Smith spared neither moneyfnor
effort to defeat the Republican ticket. This
Undertaking of Browns, instead of commencing
itself to the sympathy of the Republican party,
Is regarded Ey them with perfect adherence,
qualified only by a certain humane commsera..
ton for the victim Of .wrelched monomaIia,
All Of the Repub lican Journals that have fallen
under our eye, hold the same language upon.
the=subject.
The great majority of Southern newspapers
have always persisted in refusing to make any
distinction between Republicans and Abolition
lists. 1t perfectly true-and they see5it-that
tGerelS an almost universal dislike at the North
of their favortc institution, but this, they ought
TO understand, is no new thing, no lateithing.
l3ltmanitested itself even before the Constitution
was framed, in the ordinance ofS1787,s which
excluded Slavery from all the Territories North.
west III the Ohio It was not then confined to
tho North. Far otherwise Every man who
I0Cr Oft 11o .,e1S a.
country knows that Mr.: Webster, when he de-
clared in7his 7th tof March speech that s.Ehe
eminent men of4that day, the most eminent
men and.nearlY allsthe conspicuous politicians
OF the South held the sentiments: that Slavery
was an, eVlt,.a blight, ascourge and curse,
declared nothing moro or less than an Mdispn-
sable TACT. But thissis not Abolitionlsm; and
| AoolltlonlSm5 can no more justly boiMputedz TO.
| the North at this present day than it could to
the South then. 1t is one thing TO consider n
thing an evil and very different thing to set
TO work to abolish that evil; for there is choice
between evils, and the great body Of tho North
i yet agrees with the old belief of The South that
the only alternative to Slavery in the Southern
| states IS q thing vastly, not to say infinitely
worse to both white and black. This antipitGyi
\ to Slavery, this regarding Slavery to be an evil
cannot thenztake the form Of a6olitionisul, and
IT does not seek or desire TO interfere any way
With the system in the States where it now ex~
lists Its way of manifesting itself is not by
a:bolisbing butlby preventing; not by destroy.
ing,s but. by. combining; not by. making slave soil
Tree, but by keeping free soil free The man.
who is wilfpl enough not to make this distinc.#
ton must set down Mr.. Clay as an abolitionist.
for declaring as he did in his speech OF Febrn..
airy 6th,5 500, on the Compromise Resolutions.
FL have said that never could vote for. tnly.
sel, and repea t#that never will vote, antlsno
earthly will can make me vote to spread Sia.
very over Territory where it does not exist,
and Daniel Webster as an Aboltionist for saw
ing in his 7th of March speech, "Whenovcr
there is a foot Of land 10 be prevented from be-.
coming Slave territory, am ready to assert the
!Prnciple Of tho exclusion Of Slavery.'' These
are the principles which the Republican party
have maintained and intend to- maintain. If
Southern journalists will make no distinction
between these principles and the spirit which
would carry fire and sword into the Southern
lStates; if they think it worth willie. for the
purpose of inlimidating their readers into an
IunQnestioning support of the sham Democracy
OF the day, to represent the Northern masses
as possessed and governed by the mad chime.
5ras OF Abolitionism, VIC suppose there is no
help for it. No such misrepresentation will
turn the Republican party one hairs sbreadth
from their destined end and way. They will
take possession of the Federal Government. and
will administer it in nccort(o nCo with ST. aol.