Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-28
fFor the Intelligcnccr.
SECTIONAL STRIFE--NO. o.

| Nc5srS. Eaitor&:--In my last commune
cation | intimRtcd that the causes of strife
between the two great geographical diri-
sions of our country were imaginary; in
! fact, manufactured to order hy trading
politicians. Parties have n NATURAL ten
dcncy 10 become ultra to rush into cX-
trcmcs. 1t is unfortunately the law of
their being. The Southern demagogue
takes advantage of this principle. In
the public mind is always on this subject
sensitive in the extreme. Fear, suspicion,
distrust, either consciously or unconscious
", at all times occupy the breasts of the
dominant race. Not all the patrols that
pass the door by night can bcstOw COM
pictc feeling OF security Here are the
materials of a mighty political engine,
ready TO be constructed and employed by
the Southern Gcmngogne. He tells his
Southern neighbors tale, o, how false, y,
how our hearts abhor the imputatioa, that
the Northern people hate the Southern,
Ithut we are furious .fundfics, that we are
ready 10 do them all manner of evil, to deny
them their equal rights in the Union, to
load them with oppression. to eXtirpate
their domestic institutions by physical
force And, MS the Southern slIvCh older
has adroitlv coricd from Asiastic despots
the happy art Of preventing, by physical
force, all lcouuter-iniormution, all reason
ing. all argumen: opposed to his pre-cOn-
ccived opinions and prcjudiccs, all accu-
satons of us, however false, however
atrocious, must go unconradicted except
along the borders. If any candidate tries
to incuIn!e q little candor, a little moderA-
ton on these exciting topics, he is soon
represented rs 'unsound, untrue to the
South on the great slavery issue" He is
denounced as unreliable, and sent TO the
shades of retirement. In Legislative AS
semblies. the most violent. extreme. hot
headed partizans, ifthcy 90 not bear down
all before them, always wiCld an influence
not at all proportional to their talents,
their knowledge, their wisdom or their
virtue. "No vice" says Adam Smith i'll
his Theory OF the Moral Sentiments, sis so
odious to partizans as the one virtue OF
candor." Hence the candid, moderate,
discreet man is near y alw"ys ovcrborne'
and swept away by the tide OF folly, vio-
lcncc, and ultraism. His influence is de-
strcved in his own party, and he sees men
cuioying its confidence and promoted to
places Of honor and profit, whose intellect
and whose morals he is compelled to
dcgpisc As specimen of party violence,
look at tho late speech of Mr. Wignll, Of
Texas. on the Homestead Bill as reported
in the papers of his O1cH party. | have
before called the attention OF the reader to
this proclivity Of Southern men to buy the
slavery issue into every discussion. It's
ebony hide. its woolly head, and its odor-
ferrous carcass must be dragged into tho
consideration Of every national question,
whether they can afford airy lighy on the
subject or not. The Homestead Bill pre-
sents high questions OF national policy
Reasons might hc urged both for ana
against the measure sufficient TO employ
the mind of Mason, or Madison, or Clay. or
Webster. Not so thought Mr.. ~igta!i-
He gets on his high, black, woolIcy horse
and bclabors us soundly. The free States,
with opuleuce exceeding anything found
up0n earth. except in one single spot, have
no money to carry on war. Ihey nave
no cotton: but the South has coton.w
And the bloody minded South VIII
send this cotton to England ard
and sell it for money, and with this money
our lob is to he done up in short order
\ Southern army is to winter in BoSton.
These are not threats ut all. Mr.. Wigtait
disI;lins TO threaten. When he gels
among us with his Southern army, we VIII
stand no more chance than little troop
ofmanikens. when Jack the G:ant-kllleF
fell upon them with his club. This mans
language towards the citizens of the free
States is full of prejudice, rancor hate ana
malignitv. In short his speech has every
f,ult. and it is difficult to believe him sin
cere He has the bad taste to attribute
cowardice to vast masses Of men OF the
I AncIo-Saxon race, separated from his
C,nTIpss Southern heroes 10y nothing but an
| imaginary geographical line. He sees on
Iv one man in the Senate, from the free
/ States, addicted TO gun powder ana h"ir
triupars while as q matter of course, ms
1 Southern friends are perfectly inmlil"r
with per.ussion caps and explosive mate
rails. Oh. it was just snch preiudices as
stbcse existed in the minds OF tue ignorant
and vulgar, which century after century
made England aud France waste th"iF
STRENGTH upou each other IN aimleSS
useless, unnecessary wars. And IL Is sucn
men ms this that have contributed to write
tho history of the ages in blood, and, rs
Mr. Jefferson says, 'rcnder 1t doubt
FIJI whether this fair green enrth OF
onrs deserves any better appeIlauon thah
thnt of a vale of tears Fellow citizens
of the free States, let us beware how we
vote for another slave State to come III
r.o,, h.vond the limits of the Union or We
NAY have at Washington gentleman
Fr,,,, Cuba. marient as a sontherh sun can
make him" plotting with Mr., Wigtail, to
r,y,o,a our towns and villages with hre
and sword. and to winter armies IN boslon'
Philadelphia and New YORK:
All other legislators, in all other ages
and nations think it necessary, IN some ue-
c-.,.,. NJ least, to consult the fixed opinions
,bo daliberate judgement of thos" for whom
'''N L-,.nn tho hnuDhtV nobility