Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-14

be on he side Of my country, for the support
oflGe general autIority, and for De mantle
nance of he Povers Of he UHiOH.-[specch
Of Henry Clay, August LIST, 1850.
EyERY arrival from England brings
Iresh evidence Of the strength and bitter
ness Of the hostility with which the Eng
lish papers regard u.s. It is surely time
that we ceased to pour the profits Of our
trade into the hands of the men who are
trying to destroy US. We ought to sub
stitute other manufactures for those of
England. to take our own where they can
be furnished, and those Of any other coun-
try rather than of England, at least till
this practical sort Of argument has salts
fed the English people that 1t is not for
their interest 10 pretend neutrality and
give their real sympathy and aid TO the
most atrocious rebellion that treason ever
organized against civilization and freedom.
A century of noble deeds will not efEace
from the English character the stain which
Il has received from the course Of its gov
eminent in our affairs. From no other
government had We right to expect so
much in a war for the maintenance Of
constitutional liberty, and against an in
surrection for the demonstrations! and
barbarOus propagation Of slavery. No
other government has treated us with so
great unfriendliness. No other people
have so belied their professions and tram
pied on their principles as the English
people did when they declared for the ex-
tension of slavery and for immunity to
priyateors. 1t will be strange if the time
does not come when England will bitterly
repent that, instead Of seizing the occasion
TO draw closer to her in tho ties of amity
the only great power that was her natural
ally. she has meanly taken advantage of
our distress aud added TO our difficulties
by lending her moral influence, and in no
light degree her material aid, to the cause
Of slavery.
The great North is not to be beaten in
this war. 1t may last long, and may ex-
haust her, aud put her back on the mighty
march Of empire in which her advance
was the chief offence against England, but
history is not TO be reversed in her case
The Southern race will not conquer the
Northern-no more now than in the olden
time. Neither will slavery triumph over
the white masses, and when this our trial
is over, and the hour Of England's trial
shall come, she will sec that the gravest
error, as 1t is one of the darkest crimes in
her history, has been her course towards
the only other great free power on earth
ALI the accounts which we receive from
the South, and Of which we have given
from time to time eopiOus extracts, rep
resent much dissatisfaction and distress
prevailing. The pleasant programme Of the
leaders who drove or entieed the people
into rOvolt, has NOT been ~eosrAPi;sLsi,,
This programme was unOpposed secession,
or a slight brush with an easy victory,
prompt recognition by foreign powers, the
acknowledged omuipotenee of cotton, a
Southern empire stretching TO the 1sthmus,
and the Northern States, after domestic
instruction and the triumph of pro-sla-
very party, begging for admission into the
Southern ooufederaey on such terms as
might be RraciOusly conceded, the frat be-
ingthe universal recognition Of slavery.
Il is rather bad to exchange these pleas
ant anticiPatiOus for the hard realities OF
ports bloekAdsd, coasts threatened by the
enemy, banks suspended, trade destroyed,
fields ravaged, winter coming on with a
ssant supply Of clothes, and good whisky
selling in the camps at dollar pint.
Whether all this win tend to the devel-
opment of a Union seatimenl, to spring
into activity upon the first important re-
verse to the eOnsederates, OF whether 1t
will madden to desperation a people al
ready dsmoraliEed anddisheartenet.s isPer-
haps about an even probability. Usoder
the eOereiye system upon which seeessiO.H
has been organized and carried forward, it
Is evident that the confederate government
has brought iuto the Geld a much isreer
proportion OF rs strength and resaureea9
than We have been able to accomplish.
But how long the people can stand This /