Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-18
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Lc0FFesPo Of the Philslflphis AInsFisen:l

Z
il the 3disln lists are allowed to haze
fdlEsWing aud to- develops slheirGewnspoli
Icy, they ii i'll do more to convince the
county of the danger and folly ofssuch
Ecounsels than all the arguments and rea-
/ soning of their opponents. No caase,s
ihowever good in itself, can stand the adj
Iyocacy we have heard in the last days
! from Mr.. Iverson, Mr.. Wigtall, and Others
lin the Senate. No extravaganza of the
French Revolution could have surpassed
1.-THE wild, reckless and visionary ideas
/ which they have announced as the guiding
principles for the new cohfederacy. A
| time for reflection must come, notwitll-
standing hefinsanes epidemic which now
RACES like plague; and when the prac-
tical sense of our people is applied as m
\ tonchstone1 to- tIese spurious doctrines q q
must be followed by a reaction ~ hich will
cxtinguish and crush out the desperate
idemagogues who have contriYed this cru-
lsade for the most selfish and unworthy
purposes.
Let. the secessionists rant and fnmes to
l their hearts content Every violent llar4-
iangue now is only nail driven into the
many months have passed. Dark and
lowering as the clouds IS hich now obscure
the political horizon undoubtedly arc
there is still5a CLEAN of promise beyond,
which will yetligh upsthe Ky nnd scatter
ITS gladstone rays over the land. There
are too many affections, aud interests, and
ties, and hopes clustered around and
woven into every part of the Union,, to
render its disruption finally possible
| Passions and prejudice may estrange aud
Iiseparatc our people for time, but the
great popular heart will yet swell up with
4 the old patriotic emotions, and menRwiIl
wonder how they3eyer came to healienatel
by such passing and unfounded causcs.-s
nthe angry discussions of the hour, is
often said that the present condition Of
things was never contemplated by the
trainers of the Constitution, and that the
great charter of our liberties made no
sufficient provision for this peculiar ex-
igency. So it was said on former occa-
.siOns, and with no better reason Mr.
Madison, in one of his messages to Con-
gress, remarked, with the ;forcefands felicity
which characterized nearly everything he
wrote, that the HGonstitution was made
stronger by every occasion which patsiit
to the test"
A Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press says:
a feud has broken out in South ,Caroli-
na,between the monarchial and the Demo-
ItGIA1IG 4uG4IOuSs ues=s4euuluH .uEGs6aLer4
belong to the former, as they know too
well that only by despotism aed force, de-
lpriving the citizens of free speech and the
privilege of self-governmeut, they will
make the people swallow their secession
doctrines, and submit tameIy to the inn
menss taxation which WILDE the neccs-.
sary consequence of the separation Of that
State fromFthc Union. Ifithey couldmon-
age to betsnpported by foreign bayonets,
which would keep down the spirit of in
dependence of the Democratic masses,
they may be able to carry on a separate
Government Its on that account TINT.
some of them have made overtures TO
European governments. Butthe Scceders
may rest assured that, though nothing
may be thrown in their way, under exist
ling circumstances, the Union on Monday
next, they never will he permitted TO sell
out theircountrY to England, France or
any other foreign nation. The Monroe
doctrine prohibits foreign colonization in
central America. How much less can we
allow aforeignz power to take a foot.hold
lin ourvery midst?