Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-17

among allied powers and the atoms OF COM
posite empires; but they are all mere indif-
ference aud neutrality of feeling compared
to the luminosity eVinced by the 'gentry"
of South Carolina for the "rabble of the
North"
\ 4 r "
Now, however, she will have free trade,
and will open the coastinS trade to foreign
nations, aud shut out from it the hated
Yankees, who so long monopoIized and
made their fortunes by it. Under all
the varied burdens and miseries to which
she was subjected, the South held fast to
her sheet anchor. South Carolina was the
mooring grosnd in which it found the surest
hold The doctrine of State Rights was
her salvation, aud the fercer the storm
ragged against her-the more stout dema-
gogy, immigrant preponderNnce, and the
blasts of universal suffrage bore down to
her, threatening to sweep away the vested
interests of the South in her right to gov
ern the Stutes-the greater was her conf
dence and the more resolutely she held on to
her cable. The North attracted "hordes of
Ignorant G ermNns and Irish," and the scum
of Europe, while the South repealed them.
The industry, the capital of the North in
creased with enormous rapidity, under the
influence of cheap labor and manufactur-
ing ingenuity and enterprise, in the viii
lagos which swelled into towns, and the
towns which became cities, under the un-
envious eye of the South. She, on the con-
trary, toiled on slowly, clearing forests and
draining swamps to find new cotton grounds
and rice fields, for tho employment of her
own industry and for the development of
herionly capital-"involuntary labor" The
tide of immigration waxed stronger, and
by degrees she saw the districts into which
she claimed the right to introduce that
capital closed against her, and occupied
By free labor. The doctrine of sQuatter
"sovercignty," and the force of hostile
tariffs, which placed heavy duty on the
very articles which the South most re-
quired, completed the measure of injuries
to which she was subjected, and the spirit
of discomfort found vent in fiery debate
in personal insults, and in acrimonious
speaking and writing, which increased in
intensity in proportion Us the Abolition
movement, aud the contest between the
Federal'principle and State Rights, became
more vehement. lam DESTROYS of showing
in a few words, for the information of Eng.
lish readers, how it is that the Confederacy
which Europe knew simply as a political
entity has succeeded in dividing itself.
The slave States held the doctrine, OF
say they did, that each State was indepcn.
dent a. France or England, but that fol
iHgent to deal with foreign nations, aud tC
impose taxes for the purpose Of paying tbs
expenses of the agency. We, 1t appeats
talked of American citizens when there
were no such being at all. There were in
deed, citizens of the sovereign State &
South Carolina, or of Georgia, or OF Flor
.la, who permitted themselves to pass un
der that designation, bnt it was merely as
matter of personal convenience. 1t viii
, be difficult for Europeans to understand
this doctrine, as nothing like it has beer
heard before, and no such Confederation
OF sovereign States has ever existed in an
country Of the world. The Northern mel
deny that it existed here, and claim TO
: the Federal Government powers not com
pattblo with such assumptions. The,
have lived for the Union, they served il
they labOred for and made money by it,
| A man as New York man was nothing
I as an American citizen he was grea
deal. A South Carolinian objected t
lose his indemnity ia any description
) which included him and a "Yauke
: ciockmRker" in the same category
3 The Union was against him; he re
membered that be came from race of Eng
lish gentlemen who had been prosecute
by the rePresentatiVes-for he will not cal
: them the aneestors-ofthe Puritans of Nev
England, and he thought they were animu
1, ted by the same hostility TO himself d
was proud OF old names, and he felt plea
sure in tracing his connection with OIL
: families 10 the old countrY. His plaEtd