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

Thus the all-Prevailing antagonism stands
before US, gigantic its dimensions. grow
ing every day in the awful proportions of
its problems, involving the character of
our institutions; involving our relation
with the world abroad; involving enr
peace, our rights and liberties at homv: in
Tolvlng our growth and prosperity; iayulv-
i ing our moral and political existence ms a
nation.
AS to
lGNoRISG TIE 1RREPREss1B1E CONFLICT.
There we encounter the so-called Union
party, With Bell and Everett, who tell us
the best way to settle the conflict it 10 ig-
more it. daughter.
(. Ignore i'll Ignore it, when attempts are
made 10 o,pluage thecountrSin into war aud
disgrace for the purpose of2Blavery extern
sion! Ignore it, when slavery and free la
Dor wage their fierce-war about th. nos
session ofthe national domain! Ignore #
when the the liberties of speech and press
arc attacked! Ignore it, when the actual
settler claims the rirgin soil, and the
SIaveholding capitalists claim it alsol To-
more it, when the pltntiug interests SEEK
to establish and lnatttain its exclusive sn-
prenacy in onr ecoiomical policy! IL
uoreit, indeedl Ignre the fire that con-
sumes the corner pose ofyour housed Ir
more the storm that bfeaks the rudder and
tears to tattcrs the sdils of your shipI-
| Conjure the rcvoltei elements with II
meek Mount Vernon lecture! Pour unon
the furious waves the placid oil Ofa quo
tation from WaShingtCn's farewell address
! [Cheers and laughter.
It is true thOy tell US they will enforce
the luwsnud constitution we'll enoughl-
/ But what laws? Those that free labor de-
mand, or those that slay very give US? What
! constitution? That of}Washington and
Madison, or that of Slidell, Douglas aud
T"ney? Loud and long conti"""'
Tue conflict stands there with the stub
born, brutal force of reality. However Sc
vcrely it may disturb the nerves OF limid
gentlemen, there it stands and speaks the
hard, stern language of t1et. under
stand well that great problems aud respou-
slbilitieS should be approached with care
and caution. But times like these de-
mand the firm action of men who know
what they will, and lcilL il, not that eunuch
policy, which. conscious of its own unpro-
ductiveness, invites US blandIy to settle
down into the imbccile contentment of
general impotency. They cannot ignore
the conflict if they would, not but have
nerve enough to decid it if they could.
AS to the
THREAT OF THE SOUTH TO DISSOLVE THE
UNION.
Mark we'll what position the North will
take, IT hy revolutionary act against our
national government you should attempt
to cut loose from the Union The terrific.
Fss are the pFopessy of the GgS9 S9a Is dSss dESssh
tneS me 6ni0n @ give up their right to the ePrdper-
ty oftqe Union. Thatproperty, ,theterritories,
will remain where the Union remains, and
the slave power would do well to first con-
slider how much blood it can spare, before
it attempts to strip the Union of single
sqaure foot of ground. Tremendous
cheers.
HOW TO Settle THE 1RREPREssIRLE con-
FL1CT.
There is but one way of settling the '.ir-
repvessible conflict" 1t is not by resist
ing the spirit of the times and trying 10
! ncutralize its impelIing power: for you at
tempt that in vain; bWt II is by neWlr0{izin0
The obstacles u hich haze thro.on hemscfres in
| its path. There is no other. The ire
iprcssible conflict will rage with unabated
fury uutil our social and political dcYcl-
mcnt is hnrmonized with the irreprcssible
tendency of the age.
That is the solution which the Eepubli-
cans propose. Their programme is simple
and consistent:
| Protection of our mutual and constitu-
tioual rights.
Non-interference with the social and po-
liticaI institutions existing By the legiSla-
tion Of sovereign states.
! Exclusion of slavery from the national
Territories; they must be free because they
are national. FImmense chcering.1
Promotion and expansion of free labor
| by the homestead bill and the encodrage-
ment of home industry. CCheering renew
ed.J
THE WEAKNESS OF THE SOUTH Is MAR.
But we arc told that tue people of slave
States are warlikc race, and that they
will gtin, by fnrcc, what VIC are unwilltn &
peuceably to conccde. War! What u
charm there is in that word for people OF
colonels and generals! Well, since that
old German monk invented that inSignif-
/ cant black powder, which blew the strong
holds of fcudalism iuto the air, war falls
more and more under the head of mathe-
NAUTICAL sciences. Don Quixote, who, un-
doubtedly, would have been hero in the
seventh century, would certainly be the
most cgrcgious fool in the nineteenth.
have nothing to say about the bravery of
! the Southern people, for anght care they
may be Drawer than they pretend to be;
but invite them candidly to open their
eyes, like sensible men.
will not compare the resources of the
South, in men and money, to those of the
North, although statistical statements
/! would domoustrate the Overwhelming SUI
peEiority of the latter. We can afford to
be liberal, and for argument sake, admit
that the South will equal the North in
numbers; and if they insist upon it, excel
Jus in martial spirit. But it requires very
little knowledge of military matters to un-
derstand thut, aside of numbers, equip
ment, courage aud discipline, the strength
of an army consists in its ability to cou-
ceutratc its forces, at all times, upon the
decisive point. Providence is,on the side
of the big battalions, said Napoleon. That