Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-21

The man who can believe the affirmative OF
these two last questions, could believe
that Childers and Eclipse could perform
their astonishing feats of agility without
the aid of eyes or legs. These resolutions
were made in order to procure success, and
they did procure success. They may have
been honestly adopted at first. 1t is
to 0e hoped for the honor Of human nature
that they were honestly adopted TT first
Butthcman who breaks isVledSe and his
promise honestly mr de, peVtdoUs. and the
men who break their pledges and their
promises honestly made, are perhdious--
II is these recollectious tbut chill our
Southern symPIthies, that freeze them
down to the temperature of an iceberg.
Nor will wider survey of history afford
much qualification or consolation TO the
American Patriot. When in the reign of
Louis the Fourteenth, the Duke of St.
Simon told the French, that Kings were
made for the people and not the people for
kings, he was supposed to be announcing
some profound and recondite doctrine
1t WAS n proposition to Startle and
alarm Europe not only by its novel
ty but by its boiduess. But time
rolled on, mems ideas advanced. And in
l776 our ancestors were ready to declare
the inalienable right of all men to life. Ii
truth. They made no exceptions, they
asked no charter from q despot. They
were willing to receive, as a sufficient GER
tiGicate, the Hneaments ofhumanity traced
in the face by the finger of God. For
more than sixty years of our national his
tory, we stood out as the very pharisecs in
the church ofpolitical freedom, as the very
puritans in the communion of liberty,
equality and the rights of man. The ma
tions of the Old World, saw, admired, and
loved. We occupied high place in the
estimation of the world.
1t is true that human bondage existed
amongst us. But national public senti-
ment is indulgcnt. The existence of such
n state of things was excused, us 1t still IS
to some extent excused, by the extreme,
the almost invncib!e difficulty Of effecting
an alteration. Mere hereditary slavery,
not designcdIy introduced, or actively pro-
pagatcd, did not detract very much from
our prestige as the champions of liberty.
But melancholy "chunge has come over
the spirit of our drcam.''% OF late years
our national character, or rather cur ma.
tionaI history, has been reversed. We
have stood forth as the champions of
slavery, par excellence. My pen nbhors to
write the proposition. But it is impossi-
BILE to deny entertaining the most violent
suspicion that our national flag, bearing
up the glorious stripes and stars, is at this
moment the comfort, the protection, the
assured safeguard of the miscrcant slave
traders, whose admantinc hearts anu stony
ewes can look unmovcd on human tears
and human blood, upon the very extremity
OF human agony. Yet. instead OF making
our national voice potential in behalf OF
the oppressed throughout the globe, we
Al. ann M a
work OF cutting each others thrOats in
most iCuomirious quarrel, not about the
rights or privileges of men, but about the
privileges of the whip, the scOurge, the
chain, the fetter and the slave dungeon.
Unless like the stupid and imbecile Chi
nese, we shut our ears against the voices
of all other nations, we must be aware that
we are making n rapid descent in the esti-
nation of the civilized world. "Oh, could
encounter the GENIUS of my country,
whether rcposing on some beautiful hill
top or in some lovely wooded vale, or by
some silvery winding stream, would bid
him awake and arise, would say to him,
"Arse Ger yet your honored name
Is heard with scorn and breathed with shame"
Arise, and rcbuke the fell spirit of pro-Slave-
ry propagandsm. Arise, and inspire the
hearts of the American youth, throughout
every generous, every manly, every en-
nobling sentiment, that they may return
into the path in which their forefathers
trod, the path of true honor and lasting re-
nown.
o. if the South, instead of complaining
of unreal. of imaginary grievances, ct
grievances manufactured to order by their
trading, hack politicians, had real wrongs,
actual injuries to complain of, how many
ten thousand chivalrOus swords would leap
from their scabbards to render them as
sistance. The sight of a great nation
rising upon its oppressors and hurling
them from power, is a sight which no good
man can witness unmoved. After endur-
ing centuries of injury, insult and oppres-
sion, in 1899, the great and gallant French
nation everywhere rose upon their lgnoOle
tvrunts, and everywhere hurled them from
places of honor and power which they had
so much abused. The despots of Europe
saw and sympathizcd with the fallen
The nations sprang to arms. All Europe
seemed to be advancing on France with fix
cd bayonets The faculties of the French
were exalted to meet the OCCASION
in 1893 their National Assembly passed
a statute, perhaps the most extraordinary
that ever appeared on paper or parchment.
Few and short and expressive were its
words. Thus it ran, 1.-THE young men
shall go forth to war. The old mems ball
attend the sick and take care of the
wounded The women shall cook food
and make clothing, and THE CHILDREN
SHALL scRAPE LINT" Need pause to tell
the result. Oh woe to the tyrauts aud
woe to their myrmidonS, who encounter
nation in such frame of mind as this ! /!
Defeat, discontinue await them. But to
hear a people threatening civil war on nc-
count of some casualauimadversion on their
use of the chain and the scourge The
effect is sedntive, is sickening. Yet unless
almost every breeze that blows from the
South, comes loaded with f"lsehood and
fraud, our Southern ueighbors are prepa-
ring to do war upon sixteen millions of
the Anglo Saxon race, hccausc we cannot
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