Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-11-21
The south Carolina rerrorism.

their pitcher to the well once too often-
They do not seem TO know that the sys-
tenn of violence aud terrorism which they
pursue may have other effects than the
ends of agitation which they contemplate.
I They forget that men are rational beings,
/ governed by rational motives, and that all
appeals to their fears, their passions or
| their propeusities are likely to be transient
in their effects. They have already re-
solved the society of their own State, and
/ some other neighboring States, into II con-
dition resembling that of the French cap
ital when Danton and Marat determined TO
! choke Jacobinisn into every man, wheth-
er he would or not. Under the pretext
that they are ali unanimous on the subject
of disunion, they crush down the express
! sion of opinion which they suppose incon-
slstent with their own convictions and
purposes.
Innocent strangers, who visit them for
4 recreation, health or business, are treated
with want of hospitality characteristic
! rather of New Zealand than of anv civil
liked nation. What the Mobile REGISTER
calls Yankee-phobia, prevails, and no
dog in the hot season was ever rabider
than are these zcalots. Aschool
teacher from Massachusetts lands from the
steamer at Charleston, and is instantly sent
back, rs if he were a person infected with
disease. gentleman of Philadelphia
takes his wife to Florida, for the sake of
enjoying better climate, and he is men,
aced with violence unless he returns A
poor printer, even, engaged for the Mercury
office. is denounced and banished because
he discloses the fact that his fingers had
once played among the types of the 7Fi-
6uns building. The exhibition of some
Lincoln medals by accident in a show case
at NRVp (lFlRans
and the unconscious offender only escapes
from the merciless judgments of Judge
Lynch by the fortunate interposition of the
authorities.
This virulent jealousy of the men of the
North finds counterpart in the suspi-
cions with which the southern leaders
regard their own people, and which forces
them to suppress every sign of dissent or
reluctance. Every proposition for getting
at the sound and sober sense of the COM
munity, for consulting the really loyal and
substantial citizens, the men of property
and calmness and consideration, is rapidly
hurried out of sight The dcmagogues
will have it all their way. Thus, the time
for holding the Convention is hastened;
objections to the method of raising mill
tary supplies are not heard; the coopera-
ton of other States, (of which they doubt y
IS proclaimed unnecessary; and incessant
hery appeals are made to popular pre-
JUDGES. Reason and good sense are stiled
In the midst of the clamors raised by the
hot-headed deciaimers. When the people
of Charleston prog ose to choose theil own
delegates to the Convention, alarm in in
stantly taken by the leaders, and they get
up scheme for a sort of parlor nomina-
ton, TO be made by a few men assembled
in back room. So much, indeed, do
they distrust any unfettered manifestation
OF the popular will, that they require each
candidate for the Convention to BE SOL
EMMY pledged to their mad project of
secession before he is allowed to run
They not only force the issue, but they
force all the instrumentalities.
A forced and unnatural condition of
this Kind is scarcely compatible with the
continued peace and order of society. II
must either produce a reaction. in which
the sober, law-loviug and Uuion-loyino
men will make themselves heard, and that
In way not very friendly TO slavery or it
will drive that class beyond the bounds
OF the State. But such men once driven
away, society will have lost its balance
wheels, lite conserving Influences, its mol.
orators and guides, and will then be left
TO the tender mercies of the mob or the
servile class. Southern society has two
dangerous elements in it, a low, excitable,
seml-barbarous white class, which is full
of Prejudices; and the negroes, who are
not SO ignorant but that they will know
when their opportunity shall come. Let
the infatuated damagogues drive the oniet.
er people away, or nullify their power by
imposing an utter silence upon them. and
those classes must come into the ascend
ant. Dreadful as the alternative is and
most profoundly to be deprecated il il
nevertheless the alternative which the, mol
incians are forcing upon their less active
fellow -citizens.
1t those fanatics, instead of deafepipp
themselves by the outbursts of their own
eloquence, had taken time to listen 70 the
lessons of the day, they would have learned
one Important truth. The Republican par
" of the North has been built uD n,ainIv
by their violence and madness. Eyery
honest democrat here will tell them ms
much. There cagerness to push slavery
anead at all hazards-their Mexican wars
their herce threats in Congress, their re-
peal OF compromises, their Sumner out.
RACES, their Kansas foruys, their. brealfino
up OF national conventions. etc. have rrivs
en- the hrst and strongesteimpuIses to tba,
grand movement of thought which has
oYerWhelmed the traditional party of the
uat1on. without these aids the RepubIi-
can party could not have ACCOMPLISHED in
twenty years to come the triu1onhs rsSici,
1t has achieved in fonr years with sncb
apparent ease. Slavery has SO unveiled
us innate malignity by these premature
exposures of itself that it has become
hldeons in the eyes of thousands who
would have otherwise remained blind to
~. me Q, same infatuated course pursued in
the South will be followed with the same
ehectS. Men will reason think. act for
themselves, aud the effort TO restrain them