Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-09
Nd Great Con.nlrnnr.

LL4G HEeet conspiracy
We print in another column, an able
aetiele from the Ssv York Post, relative %
the real ulterior designs of the secession
leaders in the South. The writer as
sumes, and sustaius the assumption with
the admissions Of Mr.. slidell and the war
like attitude of the South, that conquest
is the second act in that drama, of which
secession is the 6rst.
As time passes and events thicken, the
real object of all this secession hnbbub
becomes apparent. Murder will out-so
viii treason-so will all sorts of rascality.
For many years, Southern Democracy has
controlled our Government. For long
time men, who look not to the preserya-
tion Of what We have, bat to the conquest
of what We sever ought to possess, have
governed public opinion in the Southern
portion of the Union, and have succeeded
In a great measure in controlling the ac-
tiOn Of tie Government. They have had
eoVetouS eyes fixed on some of our tropical
neighbors, and hAYe exhausted many
schemes for their requirement. The feel
ing Of Southern politicians seem to be
that they must have additional territory
for the spread Of their peculiar and fla
vorits Institution. They have started an
idea Of "seetiouar' interest, and finding
that their section is not, and never can be-
come equal to the Northern part of the
Republic, in intelligence, production and
power. They have resolved at whatever
hazard to enlarge their own importance by
the acquisition of Southern territory. The
destruction of the Democratic party has
dashed the hopes entertained of making
the General Government subsidiary to
their sshemes. As soon as Mr. Lineoln's
election became inevitable these men began
the work of educating the Southern mind
aud infaming the Southern feelings up to
the point of destroying our government;
and from that time to this the most false
and inhammatory appeals have been made
TO the prejudices aud passions of the Sou
thern people. That they have succeeded
but too well every one knows. And yet
how many are there. either North or South,
who know the real object of Southern
politicians They say their rights" are
no longer secure in the Uniun-that the
government will make war on their inter-
ests. That is the kind of talk employed
to gull the masses, whose support must be
obtained; but the leaders, those who touch
the secret springs OF revolution, know, aud
would say SO if they dared, that that rea-
son for secession does not exist, and if it
did would be an insufficient one.
This Southern revolution has progress.
ed until South Carolina and all the Gulf
States, and, it is reported, Texas, have
declared themselves out of the Union; and
their representatives are now at Montgom-
cry, in secret session, devising a govern
ment for the new Confederacy. What the
form Of government will be remains to be
seen. Ono thing is certain. liza Southern
Confederacy shall be established, the form
of government will be dictated by the cot
ton and sugar States, and from what we
know of theleading politicians in those
States, and their Interior objects, we may
well conclude that their government will,
even at first, have decided squirting to-
wards despotism. Tho opening of the
African slave trade is one avowed inten-
ton Of the new regime. It cannot be de-
MED that tho chief interest the border
slave States have in the iustitution con-
nistS In supplying, At good prices, labOrers
to the Gulf States. Are they then ready
70 go into oonfsdsracy whose .arst work
will DO to destroy their largest Interest,"
Reopen the African slave trade, and tho
very day it takes eject Virginia IOsesmOre
than hundred millions of dollars. Even
+ this were not so, slavery would be cru
cited in Virginia, By making Pennsylvania
a foreign power. There could then beno
retaining Of fugittves, no marshalls to
capture them, no Executive 70 call out the
army and navy to enforce Fugitive slave
law. In ten years slavery would
be driven out of Virginia-and yet
Virginia Is asked, nay, commanded 70
take the fatal step of secession to pre-
serve this very Institution. 1t would be
suicidal, not only as affecting that, but,
every other interest Of our people. By
oNSH ~ 49, ~" SHONAA Sn"AS UAen4 anu
enemies of our nsiEhbors, Ohio aud Penn
SyiTauia. We should make Virginia, and
especially Northwestern virginia, the battle
ground land 1t ,night DO dark aud bloody
Oae,) for marauainE parties Of fanatics from
North and South. We would be ruined;
our agriculture, Our manufacturing and
mechanic arts, our peace, Our all, would
be destroyed.
Aud Why, in humanity's name, shall all
this be doae7 1t is not that our honor
shall be yindieatodi not shat our rights
shall bssmaineained. They are so already.
and oTsr shall be. 1t is to be done tia,