Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-17

ment of march and battle, all the circum-
stance of war, TO give play for his powers.
Consequently, in this country, so far, be
has not fallen in with his forte. His let
tiers have generally been copied by the
American press, on account of the prestige
of his name, but both their style and sub
stance have been voted bore. Making
due allowance for the amount of sectional
prejudice that has Influenced the Judgment
of most of our exchanges, we must say
that his letters are trite enough, but still
they are passable enough, and from less
uupretending name, would not be likely
to excite comment one wAyaor the other.
I We have been somewhat interested. how
ever, in his last letter dated at Charleston,
April both, and finished at Savannah, Ga,
May Cd. Any one who is at oil acquainted
with the South Carolina character, will
easily realize the force of many of his OBJ
servatious about the people of that State.
We believe he has come neater sketching
it than any man we have reId after
lately. What he says may be taken
in full, far no writes with all his
English prejudices fully enlisted in praise
of the features of South Carolina So
ciety as no has seen it on the plnnta-
tious. He glories in the mouarehial nspi-
rnttons of South Carolina, and it is these
aspirations, he says, that are filing her.
1t is her hatred of free institutions-her
love of privileged classes and landed
AristOcracy, and her contempt for white la
Dor that has compelled her to separate
from those who do not. sympathize with
such ideas. We quote what Mr. Russell
says on this head:
From all quarters has come to my ears
the echo of the same voice; it may Ue
fcigned, but there is no discOrd in the
note, and 1t sounds in wonderful strength
and mouOtony all over theconntry. Shades
of George Ill, of North, of johnson, of
all who contended against the great re-
bellioA which tore these colonies from
England, can you hear the chorus which
rings through the State of Marion, Sumpter:
and Piuckney, and not clap your ghostly
hands in Triumph That voice says, aft
we could only get one of the royal race of
England to rule over us, we should be con-
tent" Let there be no misconception on
this point. That sentiment, varied in a
hundred ways. has been repeated to me
over and over again.
\ Imagine these and an inf
mite variety of similar sentiments uttered
by courtly, we'll educated men, who set
great store on nice observance of the usa-
ges of society, and who are only moved to
extreme bitterness and anger when they
speak of the North. and you will fail to
conceive the intensity of the dislike of the
South Carolininns tor the free States
There are national antipathics on our side
of the Atlantic which are tolerably strong,
and have been unfortunately pertinacious
and long-lived. The hatred of the Italian
for tho Tedesco, of the Greek for the Turk,
OF the Turk for the Russ, is warm and fierce
enough to satisfy the Prince of Darkness,
not to speak of few little pet aversious
among allied powers and the atoms Of COM
posite empires; but they are all mere indif-
ference aud neutrality of feeling compared
to the luminosity evinced by the gentry"
of South Carolina for the "rabble of the
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