Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-28


acrimonious, insulting. Dreaming euthu-
siasts, wild fanatics are their favorite
flowers of rhetoric; and these phrases are
applied to the mighty millions Of great
Commonwenltus, such Is Ecw York,
Ohio and Pennsylvania, individually in
f.riOr in strength. oprlgncr aEd num-
bcrs, only 10 She great powers of Eu-
rope, and uniteGly ,Gv"ncirr with giant
strides 10 a position o. wealth and
rosperiry such as The sun Gercg before
looked upon in his course. Evcl Mr Stock
ton, in the very proposition which was
Spurned with such sovereign contempt,
! echoes this cuckoo note of fan0ttcism-
: Now if we cannot render good, national,
/ political reasons fer uur oyin!ons; if VIC
! cannot show that the interests, the wei
fare and the happiness of the white man
forbid the AfricGnization of the North
American continent, let us bear the brand
! Of faRaticism on our tOreheads all our
days. Our ancestors formed the national
constitution, amongst other cogcnt reasons
for the sake of greater security. And they
were right. Their project has become a
complete success. If not now threatened
/ with the advent of this African, ebony
war, we might hail the commencement of
| Il millennium of peace, wealth and prosper
itv Where could we find foreign enemy?
/ Who else except the Wigftlls, the Browns
the DaviseS, the KeItts, the IIammonds, the
Mcmmingcrs and the other tenants Of the
/ Whippy Swamp and the Everglades, IS so
out of love with life, so much in love with
death, as to provoke MS to the combat
National generosity is 4 dclusion and Il
dream. The weak are never free from in
suit, witness Turkey, Hungary. Sicily,
Tuscany, Venitia ROmagna. Yet there is
not n dcspot, not constitutional sovereign
/ in Europe, but would be slow and rcluc-
| tant to attack the United States. But why
/ slow and reluctant to attack us? Because
we are strong Because New York con-
! tains three millions and a half of the An
! glo Saxon aud Gcrmaric races. Because
| PENNSYLVANIA contains three millions aud
| Ohio Two millions and a half OF the same
great races Because all the other free
| States are aboundng in strength, wealth
/ and numbers. Because Massachusetts her
self, with about oue-eighth of the terrific
rial surface OF Virginia, has more than
million of free white inhabitants and
I greater wealth than any community of
| similar numbers outside of Great Britain
nnd Holland. Virginia, with from sixty
( three to s;xty-Gvc thousand square miles
! of territory, has now probably about one
million of free white inhabitants, allowing
/ literally for increase since the last census.
Aud free white inhabitants are the only
! inhabitants to be counted in computing
military strength. The slaves are mega
! tive quantity In case of war they are to
! be regarded as an element of national
weakness. Just as truly as Ireland was
an clement of national weakness to Eng
land, before the days of Catholic cmanci-
| patton. while tho adhercnts of that ancient
| Christian sect were denied the common
rights of humanity II New York, with
/ territorial surface of about forty-siX thou
I sand square miles, had abidcd by her an
/ cicnt slave system, she would according to
! the ratio of Virginia, have been entitled to
| six or seven hundred thousand free people
and two or three hundred thousand Sooty
| slaves Virginia has naturally = milder
| climate aud richer soil than New York, and
while both communities we're equally adict-
/ ed to slave trading and slave-hoidng, she
! cxcclcd New York in wealth and numbers
| almost in the same proportion that New ork
now excels her. Pennsylvania has about
/ the same extent of territory as New Iork,
! and under slave regimen would be en-
( titled to about the same amount Of popu-
/ Intion free and cnslaved. Ohio hus
smaller territorial surface, scarcely amount
! ing to forty thousand square miles, and OF
| course, with slave system must have
| still smaller population. The rule Of
| proportion will inform MS what the popu-
| lation of the other Northern and Western
States must be under such system. And
under such II system is It possible that We
I could be as secure from European insult
and aggression rs we now are. During
! the war OF 1912, Sir Charles james Napier
offered the British Ministry to invade the
Southern States with u single regiment,
! with the express intention of raising
slave insurrcCtion That Is, he proposed
| to make an Old Brown raid on an extern
,lo1irrhtnI bn said
| with the prospect Of burning towns, and
of deserving hell by royal command.-
But Great Britain, herself, was then
great slavehnlding power, subject to like
! insults in her numerous slave colonies,
and her ministry percmptoriiy refused
better and perhaps wiser man took the
same view Of the subject while Sir Charles
james Napier was in his crandlc, or at
! farthcst. not out Of the nursery. This was
James Madison, the father of the constitu-
/ ton. In the forty-third number Oi the
] Federa!ist he is cxerting all the powers of
his great and comprehensive mind to per-
suade his countrymen to adopt the Con-
! stitution. After calling their attention 10
The dangers to be npprehended from civil
strife and foreign hostility. he adds the
following remarkable words, Il take no
notice of an unhappy species of population,
aboundlng in some of the States, WHO,
during the calm of regular government,
arc sunk below the level of men but who
in the tempcstuous scenes of civil violence
may emerge into the human character,
and give a superiority of strength to any
party with which they may associate them
/ selves See Fcderalist, AID number, page
2O3. Mr. Madison was right, and the oh
scurc and proiigatc men, who are, now
cxcrting their puny strength to undo the
the mighty work of his hands, are wrong.
If while the Union lasts, while the Con-
stitution, which we have so often sworn
to support, shall remain in force, the South
shall be invnded, the invaders. whether