Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-28

creased the political power Of tie North.
ern States. More than 5,OOO.OoO have
been added TO their number from abroad:
thnt addition has enabled them 10 grasn
and hold the government. That govern.
menf, tFOm the necessities Of their nature
they are Forced to use againstus. Slavery
Was within its gulsP, ,atnd forced to the op-
lion OF extinction in the Union, or indie
psndenre out; Il daTeS 10 Striks, aud II as
srrtg ffs efgipl 10 nationality, and its right to
recognition among the leading social svs-
tens ofthe world.
Such, then, being the nature of the con-
test, this Union has been disrupted in the
effort OF slave society to emanciDate IT,
self; and tue mOmentous question now to
We determined is, shall that effort be sue
resstnl! That the Republic of the South
shall sustain her independence, there Is
little question. The form Of our society
IS too pregpOnt of intel llectuaI resources
snd military strength TO be .subduef, IT,.
!n us nroduetsi Il did not hold she bounds
OF h'nlty ana peace upon Rll the leading
If'Iions OF The world. Bur n he f16epeG-
afnes Of thss SouLh is tksre iurely tFe smanei-i
paff'on Of dome'tie 'iaVery3 That is greatly
TO nc doubted. Our property in slaves
will be established. II ii has stood In a
Government more than half OF which has
oeen pledged to its destruction, it will
surely stand 10 a Government every mem
Der OF which viii he pledged 10 its de.
icnce. But will-it be established as a
moral Institution of society, and stand the
sole exclusive social system of the South
,Ehat is tue impending question, and the
thet IS yet TO be recorded. -That'it will 80
stnnd somewhere nt the South do not
snteStain the slightest, question 1t NAV
pe oyefiooked ,e or disregarded now. HhGs
Dfen ne U'tdt question Of thiS great eonIroper-
~, II has cnergized the arm of every man
VINO acts a part il this great drama. We
may shrink from recognition of the fact
we may decline to admit the source of our
authority; refuse to slavery an invitation
to the table which she herself has so bonn.
ttully spread; but not for that will il re-
main poWerless or unhonored. II NAV he
abandoned by Virginia, Maryland, .Missou-
ri South. Carolina herself may refuse 10
espouse it, The hireling lAborer from the
North and Europe may drive it from our
seaoosrd. As the South shall become the
centre OF her own trhde, the metropolis of
her own commerce, the pauper population
OF the world will pour upon us. 1t NAV
replace our slaves upon the seaboard, as Il
has replaced them IN the Northern tStatns, I.
but concentrated In the States upon tI,e
Cult II will make its stand, Condensed ia
the point at which the labor Of the sInyr
tntnscends the wants of agriculture il
will How to other objects; it will Law its
giant grnsp upon still other departments OF
!nuustry its every step will be exclusive
1t will be unquestioned lord Of each do
main on which it enters. With that Dpr.
teet economy of resources, that Iust aDDli-
cation of power, that concentration nj
forces, that security of order which results
4 70 slavery from the permsneut direction Of
lls pest intelligence, there Is no other form
OF hnmanl labor that cam stand against il
and i will build itself home and cree
ior itselt, at some point within the nrcsent
UNITS OF the Southern States, a struuturt
ot imperial power and grandeur--R rlo.
rious Confederacy of States that vii
stand aloft and serene for. ages amid III,
anarchy of democrhcies that will rec
arOnnd it-,1..Ii
BUTT may be that TO his end o,,o,5.r r,,o.
tEtion ia6y be nsesSSary. Il is to be apnre.
hended that this contest between ,lenncrn.
cy and slavery Is nor yet over. 1t IA Ger.
tain that 7bOth forms of society exis,
within the limits of the Southern States
both are distinctly deveIoped witJ,in
the limits of Virginia and there. Wheth.
or We perceive the fact or not, the war
already Hges. IL that State there arc
about 100000 slaves to about / 100000
whitesi and as at least as nIanV sl,JpsI n,
masters are HeeeSsdTy to The eoNs.iiution oj
StGrs society about 100000 of the while
population are in legitimate relation 10 the
slaves, nnd, the rest are in excess. Like
an excess Ofalkali or acid in chemical ex-
perlments, they nre. uuixed in the socinl
compound. WithOntIegitimatec connection
with the slave, they are in campptition
with him. They constitute not n mari of
slave society," but democratic society =
In so far as there is this connection tI,e
otate IS slave; in So far as there is mt If
ls democratic; and HAs States sneak onIv
from their sOciRl condition, As INTEREST,"
not intellect, determine their politicRl nc!
tiOn, 1t Is thus that Virginia has been nm
declued-that she does not trnIy know
whether she is of the North Or South in
tuls great movement. Her people are in
dYidnally noble, brave, and patriotic. and
they will strike for the South in resistance
/ 10 physical aggression; but her poIiticnI
action IS, at. present, pHralyzed by this
unnatural contest, md as causes of disin-
tegrahon may cOutinne-must continue
1t the slave trade be not re.opened-as
mere will still be a market at the South
ior her slares-as there will sill he patper
labor from abroad to supply their places
aad more abundant from iuIiustritl fIisso!
j lutiOus at the North, and the ons rsee
/ mustineroase as.the otheris diIninishedL
u ls'to be feared thatthere tho slave must
ultimately fail, and that this great State
must lose the institution, and bend her
proud spirit to the yoke of another demo-
cratic triumph. In Maryland, Missouri.
7. hentncky, and even Tennessee and North
CSrolina, the same facts exist, with chances
Add even it this State (south Cnroliual
tue ultimate esultisnot determined. The
slave condition here would seem to be es-
taollshed. There is here an excess of one
hundred and. twenty thousand sIoves srS
here is fairly exhibited the normal nature
Of tue Institution. The officers OF tbe
l lStatethre ElREe-oMn nerE and tLn ,..r,rano..,