Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-13
I Tie Conservative Press on the POST
office Espionage.
From tho Missouri Democrat.l
Err AGGRESSION on the RIGHTS OF
CITIZENS.

! ANOTHER AGGRESSION on THE RIGHTS OF
/ CITIZENS.
! The bill "concerning the publication
and circution of abolition and inccndiary
documents has passed the Senate OF Mis-
| souri-thc wise, humane and enlightened
! Scnate--the same body of Conscript
| Fathers, which has passed the cminently
patcrnll aud Christian measure for trans
porting free negroes, children of the State,
I into the paradise of slavery, without the
! embarrassmerts of their little accumnla-
F.. tions, which arc to be coniiscated as q
! preliminary to the confscation of them
selves. The two bills are consistent with
each other and with the character of the
Assembly Which has originated them
! Companion pieces, they reveal the pro-
scriptiYe, dcSpOtic nature of slavery in the
clcarest light, for they are drawn in the
very image and coloring of the institution.
: Neither natural nor acquired rights
neither the rights of man nor the rights
of the citiZe l-are sacred from its ruth
less, suicidal tyranny. The people of the
United States speak i'll spirit OF SELL
! righteousness and complacency of the in
toIerence Of kingly and imperial rule, OF
the outrages upon liberty, which are COM
mitted By Kaiscrs, Cars and Emperors,
their living contemporaries; and yet they
seem TO be all the while unconscious that
the prO-slavery Democracy, who rule the
slave States, are more intolerant and I'M
lust than any crowned head that has arisen
in Naples, Vienna. ST. Petersburg or Paris,
within the century. If we examine that
organization in the light of its acts or its
doctrines every mark of the boast will be
found on its front of many heads. What
has Louis Napoleon done but to expcl his
enemies, and establish censorship of the
press? The world has rung with the in
fanny of these acts j; but it is certain that
he has done nothing so bad as that which
the pro-slavery party in this country arc
doing habitually-for the latter make n
powcrless and a wholly inocuous class the
victims of their fear and wrath. And it is
not less certain that expressions of hosti-
ity to his throne may be uttered with less
danger in the very shadow of the Tuillicr-
les, than the expression Of anti-snTcry
opinions i'll the streets of Richmond,
Charleston or Augusta. The free express
sion of opinion is not only crime for
which there is no mercy and no forgive
ness and to what can this DC attrlbu-
ted but to the institution OF slavery
itself? There is no inherent dePravity in
the Southern character. On the contrary
ii is naturally humane, generous, bold and
independent The dark, ominous aspect
which it wears in political life, is but the
reflection of the dcformCd idol which it
worships rs q household and II national
god. But should it not be enough to ar
rest the pro-s!avcry men in their self
destructive career, when they see that the
policy which they are pursuing is the same
policy which the hoary tyrannics OF the
earth have pur5ucd from the dawn OF his
toric times to the present day? The gcncr-
&c sign of all forms of dcspotism is their