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


pire With happy. hopeful thousands, and
makes its valleys resonant with the music
of their energetic Iabors that buiIds
cities and towna, bridges rivers, tunnels
mountains, and sends laundering over
roads Of iron. aud roaring along great riv-
erI, the lives aud fretghss of great, bnsy,
+ working. energie people
Bun again says this expOuuder of Sou.
Ihern society, in the labor of.one form OF
society there fs the elective franchise; in
tho other there is not" Mark well this
feature OF this model socialism 1t is pro-
posed in this prospective Repu5Lie to abol-
i.h the elective franchise, right as dear
to the American citizen as his life, prin-
eiplc a. sacred as his reli ion. Theround-
ed aristocrn,s say they will do whatever of
thinking, of legislatiug aua governing may
.lc necessary TO insure the qniet and iran.
! quillity of their blissfil Utopia. They'll
none Of this demucsncy-the fond and
foolish offspring of that glitlering general
I it's penned by thp idiot Jeffvrson-which
gives to the poor man. in the bnllot-box,
such mighty engine foe tho redress OF
grievances Oh no! For. Tin demo-
cratic government" they say ''the reins of
power comes from the heel Of society"
while in their happy arrangement of things
it procceds from the head, the rounded
head, of society. But le.it not be forgot
ten that the heels might become disaaect-
sd and Trip up the model social corpora
! ton.
Mr.. spratt, in concluding his parallel
between the two systsrns::says, in his model
Republic: "The Ship of State ha. the bal
last of a dfsfranchised class; there is no
possibility of political upheavnl." a
something always dreaded by artstocra-
cies. Y This figure, cOmptrtug 1t lower order
to ballast, is eminently erroneous. Ballast
Is dead weight; u DISTINGUISHED class, if
common reasoning. If experience and his
tory, with its lessons, be not oil false, is
more like Numbering volcano than like
the ballast in a ships hold. Especially Is
this true If it consist of those who have
once enjoyed the immunities of freemen
aud citizens.
Having instituted his comparison of the
two systems of society, Mr. spratt OF
course gives the preference to tue social
aristocutcy: and he thea goes on at
great length, to show that there is, and
ever has been, a contest going on between
the two systems, which, he says, sis not
ended with the dissolution of the Union,
for the agents Of that contest still exist
within the limits of the Southern States
In other words, there is yet in tho South
enough of. the democratic element to dis
pute the supremacy of the social lords
But If secession aud the formation of a
slayehoIdiug Government should prove
successful, this element would at once be
driven To more congenial soil, for it new.
or would submit, having once tasted the
sweets of liberty, to be deprived of all that
constitutes American citizenship. And
this is the result desired by those who are
fomentiug revolution in the South. They
favor the re-Opeuiug of the slave trade, to
prevent the gradual loss Of tho institution
in the BORDER States; to furnish to the
South cheap labor, and that subject
class on which to rear the fair proper
tons of their social aristocraCy; to
drive out by competition of labor, and
by grinding and oppressive lNws-among
them the abolition of the Elective fran
elise, and indeed all democratic form
of gOvernment-that middle and lower or
der of the white population, who are hos
tile to slavery, and whu have TINS far pre-
vented, by their presence, the realization
of these long cherished Utoptan visions,
Limited space coupels MS to be content
for the present with this brief and super
fetal view of the subject. Tho topic is
one OF great scope and vital Importance.
A scheme has been laid for the destruction
of those institutions which we have
been taught from Childhood to reverence
as sacred. That plot to overturn the
liberties of people, devilish as 1t is, is
here declared openly. Can We not see,
and hear, and realize it? Are we blind
and deaf to its fearful importP Shall we
tnmely crouch aud let this despo,ism ride
over us2 Working men, mechanics, farm.
ers, merchants, of Virginia. are you ready
to be distrNuchtsed, or to take the alterna-
tive Of being driven away. We coujurG
every candid and tettsctiug man, no matter
Wha: his party predictions, to read earn
estly, thoughtfuily. this despotic manifesto
and then answer 70 himself, IL ho is ready
to take his position in subject class. tc
he ruled BY this "sounded,r but crue
''aristOcracy."
TuEY have a clerical excitement ir
Springfield Mass. Rev. G. J. Adams, who