Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-29


ONCE This order of the Department applies to
every variety OF stamps
NR-postmasters within the Wheeling distribu-
t,on will zee that the old stamps not used on let
ten for more than six days after the new ones are
received at their offices. - ,o,,,, \,
Monday, August 20th, 1sGl-lw
at Might all have been Prevented"
OF course it might; this whole disturb
ance, this civil acar, an expression which
conveys in itself disasters and dangers
and horrors that in this country the pres
ept generation have not reckOned among
the possibilities, might have all been pre-
vented, and might all have been prevented
by the North. The men who have acted
with jeff Davis and against the men COM
posing the present administration so long
that they cannot change in their hearts,
though they profess to in their voices
constantly tell us that sit might have been
prevented" We admit it; it might have
been prevented in the beginning, and it
might be stopped now by precisely the
same means. 1t was prevented for long
time. The way in which it was pre-
vented, and in which it might still have
been prevented, aud in which it might
now be stopped, is by the entire and
unconditional submission of the North
to tho South, of the right to the wrong
of the constitution to treason. 1t is
only necessary to bring back the Polk,
Pierce and Buchanan rule, to inaugurate
u new government in which all the honors
and rewards shall be given to the South,
in which the main policy, the leading Pur-
pose shall be the perpetuation, the strength
ening and the extension of human slavery.
Bring back Floyd, and Cobb, and Thomp-
son into the cabinet, place jeff. Davis,
and Slidell. and Mason over them, the
power behind the throne, and it "will be
stopped" All that they asked was ito be
let alone" They had the power of the
government, attained by fraud and cOrrIp-
ton, and they used it for their own pur-
poses; and the people of the free States
would not "let them alone, but took their
own affairs into their own hands, and de-
termined that while yielding to the South
all its constitutional rights, they would no
longer submit to have their own violated
or ignored.
Hence all the trouble. Mr.. Clay, of Ala
bama, spoke the true southern sentiment
when he said that when we can no longer
rule the Union, we must break it up. And
when that party, through whose suPrema-
CIV they had SO long ruled it, went down in
the general disgust and indignation of the
people, when the organization was over
thrown which had annexed Texas-:he I'M
grateful State that returns all our benetac-
tions with treason and rebellion-had re-
pealed the Missouri compromise, had at
tempted to fasten slavery upon an unwil-
ling people at the point of the bayonet,
had done everything the south demanded
and had imposed every humiliation
on the north, then the men who could
no longer rule attempted to destroy.
There is no Inconsistency when the men
who talked submission before the war talk
peucenow. The two mean the same thing.
The remedy that would have prevented the
outbreak is equally sufficient to restore
peace; it is the unconditional submission
of the North to the South. Whenever the
North will consent to accept m inferior
and subordinate position, to take whatever
policy the South may dictate, to admit
the equality of free labor with slave labor,
to do and to suffer everything that they
should have to do, if they were whipped,
then we can have 'peaee," then the diff
Guilty can e "settled." And this is the
peace, this is the settlement that the North
ern sympathizers with treason advocate ns
the only means of restoring them to the
only thing in the government that they
value, the plumber of the Treasury.
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