Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-28

North Carolina and Kentucky are in a SIM
liar condition, and would act in view of
the same motives. a=aEl s.t=.s
Take South Carolina aud louisiana
There are no two States in the Union so
thoroughly isolated from each other, or
that have interests so little in common.
There is no commerce between the two,
and very little personal intercourse One
can hardly imagine subject ON which
they would act together outside the open-
ing of the sluve-trnde. The moment II
difference of opinion arose. South Cnroli-
ma would take her hat and break up, or
walk out OF, Southern Confederacy with
ns little compunctiOn rs she broke up the
Charleston Convention. and as she is now
undertaking to, break up the Government
OF the United States. Hereafter she will
acknowledge no obligations that will con-
tilct with her wbims or caprice. Her
present. movement is like the first step in
vice-this taken, NIL others follow in regu-
lar gradation, till every moral or legal tie
is Observation-Disclosures sclfishncss, cruel
ty and passion reign supreme.
Already is the South tasting the bitter
fruits OF social and legal disorgnnization.
1t is notorious that the secession move
meut is now controlled by the poor whites,
who have nothing to lose, or by mobs of
SOlIIluLllScS1 WHO STnOTuce inc
worst dcsperodoes in the community, and
who are already like the cow-boys of the
Revolution, levying black-muil on all who
have anything to be plundered. The
planters would gladly stay the tempest,
but their power has Departed Between Il
mob of white on the one hand and slaves
on the other, their position is most haz-
ardous and dangerous one. They may
find out too late that the wrecking of all
legal ties may, in the end, be turned to
their own destruction.
Such is the goal to which secession
leads. 1t is anarchy, in whatever light
viewed. Our only escape and salvation
consists in the rigid enforcement of the
laws. We know that obedience to them
has made US, rs nation, what we arc
without such obedience there can be no
government, and without government no
society, nor wealth, nor progress, but vio-
lence, bloodshed and rapine. A success
! ful example, like that proposed by South
C"rolin" might prove infectious, and travel
northward rs we'll as southwark We
have here among us not few apoIogists
aud advocates of secession. The great
question for us TO decide is, whether this
sentiment shall spread till Mexico is re-
pcAted on our own soil: whether law or
the base passions of the human heart, are
to be the guide of our conduct 1t is one
which involves not only our political, but
social existence.
If there be grievances, there is proper
tribunal to which TO apply for redress
The refusal to aprear before it admits that
they would be rcdressscd, or that no good
cause of complaint exists. Our Govern
ment to do justice must execute the laws.
BY refusing to do so it commits the gravest
ofcrimcs, because it brings into peril the
lives ""d property of each Individual
Our only safety is here. The true way to
deal with an obnoxious law is to enforce
it. But, while on the statute book, it
must be the rule of conduct for States as
we'll as individuals.