Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-13

/ Fog years past he hunanitariAns of
Esglaad have Isetured as on the sin aad
shame Of American slavery. Since the
eivl var broke out, ne have bssn further
notified that 90 long As the Federal Coz
eminent manifested disposition 70 respect
sIavery as State right. We could not eE-
peet the sympathy Of our piOus mother
country. Exeter Hall insisted upon IT tia.
the time had come Rben-stste rights 0.
no State rigbts-goverumens was justified
/ in striking direetly At slavery. If slavery
was not thus assaulted, then the war for
the Union Was mere cham, and England
ought not to permit IT to go on.
This argumentis now lbandoued, and the
English press is OF upon another track
It has suddenly aroused itself TO the horrors
Of seryiIe insurreetion those same .hor-
rors which our government has SO ease-
fully sought to avoid. Speaking of the
contemplated deseeat upon the Southern
eoass-now, We hope, from the news yes.
terdsy, 3 fixed ard successful faet-the
London Noraag Herald, of October 25th,
says:
"But the capture of New Orleans would
be, We are convinced, aterrible misfortune
/ TO all parties, aud IN every point Of view
I Il would crafty, for the moment. the
wounded pride of the North, delight the
EanatieiEm of the Abolitionists, and revive
/ the linking Epirits Of the army II would
I be especially satisfactory 70 the CONNER
eial Jealousy aud TindietiTe rivalry Of New
I York. But It would be followed by eoRse-
quenees which would revolt humanity,
strike horror and CONSERVATION in the
Northern people generally, and arouse vi
/ Glen: reT1ision Of feeling even in the New
/ England States. For the first effect Of
/ total defeat of the Confederates at that
/ point, followed by the landing of FEEDER
I al force, and the occupation Of the greatest
/ city in the South, would be 10 light the
flames of 4 serTile inyuFreeiiou exactly
where the conhsgration would be the most
/ frightful, and the means Of eItinguishing
( it the most wanting"
( The idea is here; that the United States
are not justified IN attacking the rebels in
their weak places, becsuse, forsootb, they
are weak, and serious consequences might
ensue. 1t is enough to say in reply that
serVile insurreetion is no part Of the plan
Of the Southern Expedition; and lift should
occur it would be a mere incident-an ae-
cident, for which only the rebellion itsel;
can bejusiIy held responsible. We have
been assured all the time that the Slaves
we're happy, Weil-frd, attached TO their
masters, and, in an humble way, devoted
and altogether faithful to the Coufederacy,
of which Stephens says they constitute the
cornerstone. II thisis true, and if the reb-
els have not been lying to the world all the
time, there will be NO iuSurrectiOn. Ifthc
contrary is tie truth, it is simply an alb
surdity to expect the government to stay
its hand from seIf-preservAtiou lest dam
age be done 20 its would-bc destrOyers.
The other part of the HeyaIds argument,
that the North would be up in Indignation
that there "would be revolution even in
the New England States" Us more thor
oughly set forth in the following extract:
/ One such vietory l5ouLd do more TO dilgust
the North Uith The lrdr and their rulers than
tiseniy ditgEGeeJiI dGtedts. We need not
say how utterly impossible It would render
the coutest-it would be absurd TO speak
OF the reunion-of the South. No man Of
AngIo-SRxon blood would yield allegiance
10 the enemy that had done this thing; no
man worthy Of the name would lay down
his arms till signal vengeance had been Ia
ken.
The London Herald forgets what the at
situde Of England has conelusively shown
throughout the war, that men usually bear
the calamities of others with exemplary for
titude. The British people, for instance,
have witnessed the suffering of our Gov
erumcnt in much the same spirit as the
j physioIOgist when intently studying the
phenomena Of a vivi-seclion We find no
fault with that. 1t has its counterpart in
the calm philosophy with which We study
the failure of the English crops. The
brotherhood of nationsn is an incomplete
science.
To speak more plainly of this thing, the
London Herald mistakes not so much the
humanity as the intelligence of the loyal
people of the country. As the Buffalo En-
Press has we'll remarked, our people will
never foment servile insurrection-but
they will make the distinction very broad
ly between the acts of Government, strain
ing every effort for its preservation and
the incidents of that effort. servile iusur-
rection, in the first place, is not probable /;
IL 1t happens, 1t will be the fault of the
rebellion; and the horrors which would
eusue would be, SO far as possible, mitigated,
and not encouraged, by our armies. II
our generals have erred toward slave
ry, it mas been, thus far, in the way of
kindness. 1t may happen that We shall
sec servile iusurreetiOn suppressed by mar
tial law under Northern soldiers, but they
will never inaugura,e it.