Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-08-07


possession of their slaves. -
say, therefore, that slavery can not b,
protected in general Without being nro.
tected in detail. But how can YOU pro.
tect it in detail7 By guarding fifteen
hundred miles of northern frontier anI
1.-TWO thousand miles of scacoast nm enemy
who is perfectly free in kis movements
and aided by an extensive railroad systpn
always able to concentrate his forces
! wherever he pleases? 1t is impossible
| the dullest understanding seesiit. 1t NAV
be said that it will not be necessary: in.
deed, for the free States it would not
they may, in order to concentrate theil
! forces, expose their territory; for the dam
j age done by an invasion is easily repaired
The retreating invader eau not carry the
! IloeFties OF the invaded country away
! with him. [Cheerz.
! Not so with slavery. A northern anti
slavery army, or even small flying corp:
invading a slavc-holding State would per
b"ps not Systematically liberate the
slaves, but at all events it would hardly
squander much time and health in CATCH
ing the runaways. The probability, there
tore, IS, that wherever a northern army ap-
pears, the slaves disappear, aud slavery
with thcm-At least for. the time being
Invade free State, and the restoration ol
liberty, after the attack is repulsed, re-
qulres only the presence of freemen. But
the restoration of slavery will REQUIRE can
ital; that capital consisted principally in
the slaves; the slaves have run away. and
with the capital necessary for the restora-
ton of slavery.
The slave States, therefore, cannot ex-
pose their territory without leaving unpro-
tected the institution, for the protection of
winch the war was undertaken. They
have to cover thousands and thousands of
vulnerable points, for every plantation is
IN open wound, every negro cabin a sore.
Every border or seAboArd slave State will,
need her own soldiers, and more too, for
hef own protection: and where will be the
u tHaterl"t IIor. Thousands Of miles without
the possibility of concentration.
Besides, the slave States hnrbor dan
geroui enemy within their own boundaries,
aud that is slavery itself Imagine they
at war with an anti-slavery people
whom they have exaspernted by their own
hostility. What will be the effect upon
the slaves? The question is not whether
the North will instignte slnve rebellion,
for suppose they will not; the question
is, whether they can prevent it, and think
they cannot. But the mere anticipation
of negro iusurrection (and the heated
imagination of the STAKEHOLDER will dis
cover symptoms of q rebelious spirit in
every tri1e) will paralyze the whole South.
Do you remember the effect of John
Browns attempt2 The severest blow he
struck ut the slave power was not that he
disturbed town and killed several citi-
zcns, but that he revealed the weakness of
the whole South.
They will not have men enough
to quiet their fears at home; what will they
hays I,ap Viii III want its home regiment, every
plantation its garrison; and what will be
left for the field army? No sooner will a
movement of concentration be attempted
than the lncrest panic will undo and frus-
tratc it forever. ThemistocIes might say
that Greece was on his ship; French gem
ernl might say that the republic was in
his camp; but slavery will be neither on
the ships nor in camp; it will be spread
defenceless over thousands of square miles.
This will be tLcir situation: either they
concentrate their forces, and slavery will
be exposed everywhere; or they do not
concentrate them and their strength will
be nowhere. They want war? Let them
try it They will try it but once. And
thus it turns out, that the very same thing
that would be the cause of the war; would
at the same time disable them to carry on
the war. The same institution that wants
protection, will ut the same time diSarm
its protectors. Yes, slavery which can no
longer be defended with arguments, can no
! longer be defended with arms.
AN AprEAL TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF AXE-
Shareholders of America, appeal to
you. Are you really in eArnest when you
speak of perpetuating slavery? Shall ii
never cense? Never? Stop and consider
where you nre and iu what days you live
This is the nineteenth century. Never
! since mankind has recollection of times
gone by, has the human mind disclosed
such wonderful powers. The hidden
/ forces of nature we have torn from theiI
mysterious concealment and yokei them
| into the harness of usefulness; they carry
our thoughts over slender wires to distant
| nations; they draw our wagons over the
highways of trade; they pull the gigantic
ours of our ships; they set in motion the
| iron fingers OF our machinery; they will
soon plow our fields aud gather our crops
| The labor of the brain has exalted to u
more bedding and controlling of natural
forces the labor of the hand-and you
think you can perpetuate system which
reduces man, however degraded, yet capa-
! bic of development to the elevel of soul.
| less machine?
This is the world of the nineteenth CEN
tury. The last remnants of feudalism In
the old world are fast disappearing. The
/! Czar of Russia, in the fulness of his im-
/ perial power, is forced to yield to the ire
sistible march of human progress, and
abolishes serfdom Even the Sultan o.
Turkey can~no longer maintain the barbar.
Gus customs of the Moslenl against the
ipressure of the century, and slavery dis.
appears. And you, citizens Of a Republic
/ you think you can arrest he-wheel o
progress with your Dred Scott decision:
and Democratic platforms? Enthusiastic
cheers.
| Look around you, and see how lonesome
you are in this wide world of ours. As