Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-02

fact in the secession programme that as
early as. the goth of December last, in the
port Of Spezia, in Sardinia, a council Of
officers, of whom, Mr. Miller, of this city.
was one. had been called to see who WAS
willing 10 desert the service and join the
Southern traitors. Even that early the
programme was well matured. 1t was
understood then that the Southern move
meut was monarchical movement, and
among the inducements held out to officers
was the idea that they would be noblemen
and occupy very high places in the
military service of the new government,
inst as noblemen in the European
countries have preference. Take this cir
cumstance, as narrated by Mr.. Miller,
and couple It with what Mr.. Russell, of
the London Times, writes about the desire
Of the South Carolinians fora "prince fthe
blood 10 rnle over them, aud ehave very
satisfactory clue TO what is operating on
the Southern leaders in this rebellion.
But these proofs, nor the many others that
in times past hive been adduced. are not
all. Our attention has been called to
communication in the Richmond Why, of
the 25th ult., in which the whole theory
of popular elections is derided. The wri-
ter critisizes severely any proposed altera
tons in the constitution of the State look
ing to more power on the part Of tue peo-
pie. He says:
Every sensible man in Virginia must he
disguised. by this time, with the Yankee
system Of popular elections inaugurtted
here by the so-called Reformed Constitu-
ton. Who at this day will have the bold
ness to deny, that it has proved miserd-
bic abortion and m insuiierable oPpres-
sion? For the time necessary to DC con-
sumed ia restricting the right OF suffrage,
Al least, TO those who pay their taXes--and
changing the mode of electing Judges
Justices OF the peace, commonwealth at
torneys. commissioners of the revenue,
shcriiTs, clerks, constables, &c, and the
tenure of Office of some of them from n
:erm Of years, to continue during good be-
havior-I, for Que of the taxpayers OF the
State, in view Of every burden which peace
or war may impose, am willing to pay them,
If need be, one hundred times the costs of
their daily sessions. would no more
think of calculating the expenses OF tho
Convention, il these are to be the subjects
Of elaboration, than would the costs Of
tue war in which we are engaged.
Some articles in recent numbers of the
Charleston papers, are much stronger than
even this extract. 1t, taken in connection
with the many evidences which have been
recently presented, OF the designs of the
Southern conspirators, ought TO be sufti-
Gent TO bring to his senses every mis-
guided and deluded secessionist in Western
Virginia. No man who does not want to
see despOtism established in place of our
republic, can be n secessionist 1t means
despotism. As the National InteiIigtReer
has ably argued, it can end in nothing save
either despotism or anarchy.
The manifest tendencies OF the Southern
leaders, for many years back, have been in
the direction of monarchy. We have files
now Of papers, which we have long pre-
served, showing how hearty was the hatred
of leading men in Richmond and other
places. for free institutions.
During the Presidential campaign of
1856, leading South Carolina paper, the
Guardian, Said
Slavery is the natural and normal con-
dition OF tue labOring man, whether white
or black Tie great evil of Northern free
society is, thai il is burthened with ser.
vile class of Mechanics and Laborers, uh-
fit for self-government. and yet clothed
with the attributes aud powers Of citizens.
Master and slave is relation in society.
rs natural ana necessary as that of parent
and child. and the Northern States will yet
have TO introduce it.
The Richmond Enquirer, on an occasion
previous TO this, said:
Repeatedly have we asked the North,
Has not the experiment of universal liberty
failed? Are not the evils of free society
insutferable? Aud do not most thinking
men among YOU propose to subvert and
reconstruct il? Still no answer. This
gloomy silence is another conclusive proof,
added TO many other conclusive evidences
We have furnished, that free society in the
long RIM is an impraeticable form Of so
eiety; il is even starving, demoralized and
insurrectienary. Two opposite and con-
hicung forms of society cannot, among
civilized men. c0-exist and endure. The
one must give way aud cease to exist, the
other become universal. If free society be
unnatural, immoral, unol,risiisu, it must
fall and give way TO slave soeiety-a sys
TEN old as the world, universal as man.
The SOathside Deaoerat, in the campaign
Of Sc, used this language
We have got to hating everything with
the prefix Free, from free negroes down
and up through the whole catalogue
free farms, free labor, free society, free
will, free thinking, free children aud free
schools-all belonging TO the same brood
of dannable isms. hut the worst OF all
denominations Is the modern system of free
schools. The New England system of free
schools has been the cause and prolific
source Of the infidelity aud treAsoRs that
have turned her cities into SOdoms and
a.-.n.-.ka anh her land inIn the common