Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-08

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Reported foT thsI Dsil3y Ints IGgenosF
From Riell1nond.
/ RIcuxosD, Va, Dec. 7.-Iutr response to u.
! rogue stof Nathan Tyler, Secrethry Floyd
! has written a letter to the giving
his views at length on theIpresent state OF
atfairs f4lhe Union. The Enquirer has
the following In regard to the letter:
Mi. Floydlsiletter derives additional IN:
!, terestifrom the fact TINT he is a mi mber of
the Cabinet from whose head has Just
temanated inc most remarkable and mis-
/ chieTons message Seyerlsent By a President
to Congress. Speaking of the slavery aei-
tation, he says:
The agitattontot the slavery questions.
I which has been SO! long and wantonly per!
sisted in by Northern men, has produced
the sectional alienation whirhsis aboutftoi
find its natural result inithe destruction
fof confederacy that vas voluntary iniits
origin, and can only be perpetuated by the
voluntary consent of its members
Again, speaking of the rights-of States
toisecedei he says:
1.-The States of the South have the right
to secede, not only from the very natureof
/ a federal compact, but by!an expressreser-
walton onfthe part of some of them at the
time of entering the confederacy.'
/ OF the present danger. he says:
"Ihe great danger at the present crisis
| consists in theHfact that5in our country ull
political action is by a popular movement,
and Gil popular movements during the
periods of angry excitement are, from the
nature of things, ultra and extreme. The
difficulty of accommodating the differ
ences of the two sections bile the present
animosities continue, is, therefore, almost
insurmountable. The election SIr Lin
coin is the result of the ultra and violent
popular feeling of the North against the
Soutln
On disunion, he says:
"Fcr one, am not for secession as long
as any honorable effort can he made to
preserve the Union on u CONSTITUTIONAL
basis guaranteeing equality, justice and
protection tozthe negro property of the
South.
In regard to both sections, he says:
Il believe, however, that the great Ma
terial interests of the country demand
reconciliation of the sections and the pre-
serSation of the Union and ! rely much
upon the slow but certain, the silent but
potential influence of this great agency to
bring about a settlement of our present
troubles. The main study of all should
be to prevent any collision between the
sections and most especially the shedding
of the first drop3or blood. If we can but
succeed in diyerting these calamitics., the
great practical business interests: of the
country may perchancc sooner or later
bring about a reconciliation OF, the Union
and u restoration of harmony between the
sections: slf this can be done, who can
doubt but alreturning sense of confidence
will be felt by the injured aud exaspernted
South and peace and the Union will be
trestored.n
Mr.. Floyd says, in regard to the Empire
City and England:
Twenty-Five years moro of Union and
harmony will concentrate the controlling
commercial power of the world in the
waters of New York. Then tho decline of
Englnnd becomes as certain as was that of
alexandria and Venice, for the same cause.
Instead of the first she becomes third
rate Europennpower, but let disunion take
Place-let civil war take pIsce-let civil
war and discord distract this country, and
England will know that the ships Of the
North must rot ut their wharves and the
busy hum of their manufactures must
case forever. Then, indeed, would Eng
land feel again that she was mistress oil
the sea, without q rival, secure in com.
metce that nopower could ever shake her
in.
Mr.; Floyd expresses his own opinions,
as follows
THE South can never count upon the
friendshipfof England, or upon her toIer-
otion of evils not her own. Once within
her power, she will fix upon us forever the
badge of inferiority, for which We are now
ready to destroy tho Union. It is a fatal
error to suppose that the interests of Eng.
land would prompt her to foster the plant-
ing interests of. the South, from the fact
that the Prince Consort sat silently bv and
witnessed the deliberate insult of an
American minister by British peer, be-
fore the congrcgated Intelligence of all
/ Christendonl, simply because slavery .ex-
listed in the United States..n
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From Washington.
WAsHlxGrox, Dec. 6.-aIr. Dundas, the
second Assistant Post Master General, has
been i'll for two months past, and is still
lying at home in n critical condition.
The commercial houses of New York
and other cities have already ordered of
the Post0f department, in advance of
their distribution among the post Offices,
over one million of the new ruled letter
envelopes about.to be issued, probably on
Monday, with the onee-cent stamp attach
cd. This has been done with the view of
taking advantage ofathe prestige of the
Inew invention, and the universal curiosity
respecting it, By enclosing their circulars
Il add dressed tn. the trade In II