Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-10-24


and cougratuIattng each other that they
bad sailed before it commenced, and were
safe at sea. How they pitied the poor fell
lows ashore, exposed to all the dangers of
the gale, and especially those who were
compelled to walk through the streets of
cities, where the bricks were falling from
the chimueys. aud the houses, even, were
liable to be overturned by the force of the
wind.
! The Georgia Chronicle is equally con-
| gratulatory over the security which be-
longs to the system where, as the Douglas
7 candidate for Vice President says, :.Capi-
tai owns labor and pities the northern
States. which are exposed to all the dan
/ gers of domestic violence from bands of
lawless banditti, who are going to exalt
the guiiIotine, tear down the temples of
justice, sack the city and the plain, aud
ovcrturn society. Who does the reader
suppose are these terrible fellows? Has any
one here heard of them? Does the friend
~ note of warning fall on ears that are
closed in false security? They are the
Wide Awakes! Here is what the CRroni-
ieLe says of them:
''Norther1 people fancy that we have a
rumbling volcano in our midst; we feel
secure because we know we can control
ourselves aud govern ourselves. But
throughout the north lawlessncss is rife.
Mobs grow by breath-the rabhIe hold
torchstufs in one hand, ballot in the
other. Men gaze upon and enjoy the
spectacle of the semi-military organiza-
/ ton, the marching Wide Awakes. Ten
thousand of them do doubtless make
grand display.
Bnt what are they? Rulers? Whom
do they rule? They rule the hour, and
passion rules them. 4 very little circum-
stance might drive those ten thousand
torch-bearers to general confagration.
They are ripe for anything except self
government. With proper appliances and
daring leader-some spawn of the Points
they might in three days erect the bar
ricades in Broadway, tear stone from stone
of every prison house, uuchain a monster
more terrible than thousand pestiIences,
| and in blood inaugurate revolt. Revolt
/ against what? Against society, against
law, against property, against all govern
ment. What shall hinder them? Reason?
Reason does not reign. The law? These
| make the law, and elect the judiciary and
executive. The military? They are the
military. Public sentiment? These are
! the public sentiment, embodied and ncar-
nate. Let loose these 6ends, and what
can control them? There is nothing to
control them save public virtue and intclli-
gence, and these are gone. What holds
society together then? Nothing but the
mere accident that these men have not
tasted blood and have never tested their
powers. Fire and unchain this lawless
| rabble once, and who shall know the end I?
! These demonstrative Wide Awakes may
yet, should the signal be given, commence
drunken bacchanal, to end in the wild
orgies OF blood, of carnage, lust and ra-
| pine. Let the north look well 10 herself.
Let her guard her own interests She is
only nursing wrath; and the time may
come much sooner than expected that
these semi-military organizations, the
| sport of the hour, shall erect the guillo-
tine, tear down the temples Of justice
sack the city and the plain, and overturn
society. We are free from all such dan
gers. 1t is the north that really is in peril
| If disuniOn come; let her reflect upon it,
let her prepare for it, let her avert it if she
can while yet she may"
We have no doubt that these words,
| 'ON'Ish 'Hu EluiCuious as tneN look, arc
honest and sincere. The creduIity that
can believe, as some men have been made
to believe, that the purpose of the Re-
pubiicans is TO invade the South, may
easily believe that the Wide Awakes in
tend to piIIage the North. The view is not
more absurd in the one case than in the
other. The South is in just as much
danger as the North not bit more the
Republicans designs are just as attocious
as the Wide Awake: purposes not bit
more; and Capt. Wallace and Capt. Trim
BILE, with our Wide Awakes, will COM
mence their sack of Wheeling, just about
the time they are under orders to march
on Richmond or Harper's Ferry.