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

q part of it, we have not a shadow of u
doubt. How this result Is to BE brought
about We cannot divine; still less can
we see how 1t is to be avoided. Slave.
nv is the cause of this stupendous out
break. Those who are one by every
tie of race, faith, history, and even materi-
al interest, have been in imminent
peril of a disunion, which would have
entailed ruin on both, simply by the jeal-
Gus, insoIent and aggressive spirit engen-
dered by slavery. The nation will never
forgive the assassin who has struck such II
blow at its heart even when the deep
wounds inflicted in his murderous though
unsuccessful attempt shall have healed
One party now insists that the war iswag-
ed to parry the culprit's blows the other
that4it is meant to overpower and inflict
coudign punishment on the culprit himself
There will not, Weimagine, be much dif-
ference between them when once the pow
erful and desperate sailant of the nation
alslife has beer q sad manaeled, :, as
he will at length De, tdUdgh perhaps after
a long and hard figHt. After having dis
quieted the whole republic for the last 30
years, and caused inhumerable toften un-
recorded) outrages on Northern citizens
sojoulning in the South, and having involv-
ed the country in war which will cost
incalculable treasure and many precious
lives, besides causing sudden and violent
check to the nationalcareer which it will
take n generation TO recover from, this
monster criminal will not be set at large
again to enter upon another cycle of agi
lation and mischief. A deep presentiment
therefore, prevades the general mind that
this war is to be the end of slavery.
The elevation OF the poor whites of the
will hn n nj
beneficent change. Far outnumbering, rs
they do, the slaveholding population even
in the Gotten States, they form through
their ignorance and political degradation,
so low and despicable caste that their
condition is hardly above that of the slaves
themselves. But the agitation of the war
will teach them to look up, to think, and
to assert their rights, and emancipation
will convert them into powerful auxilia-
ries in the removal of a system under which
they have been such sufferers.
Another result of the war will be to ce-
ment and strengthen the Union of the
States, and the unity of the American peo-
pie, II glorious result, and one which will
go far to compensate the bitter woes and
even the blOodshed which we are paying
for it. The history of the Swiss "Bnndi
of federation affords proof that such will
be its tendency. The Swiss cantons, orig
inally three, hnye Mt length become
twenty-three, and their union, though often
shattered by secession, was never so solid
as at present Blood has been the terrible
but necessary cement of their federation.
Through the strifes and collisions of civil
war society of free states learn the ines
Unable value and absolute necessity ol
federal union Despotic and irresponsible
power ia one of the necessities of war.
We submit just now.tO the loss of hq6eos
corpus and the inviolable s0nctity of the
household, because VIC are in a state OF
war. For that state of war we are in
dcbted to the temporary disruption of the
Union; ana if that disruption should be
perpetual, hostilities between the separi-
ted States would inevitably be perpetuatei
too, and with them, the despottc military
rule which they entail. Our fathers
learned the value of the Union from the
political weakness and financial disasters
of l6s3-9O. We are likely to be Taught
it even more impressively by this war.
The American people will come out of it
more deeply convinced than ever of the
wisdom of the Father of his Country,
when he admonished them, in his farewell
address, to cherish the Union as the indis
pensable condition, not Ouly OF security
they so highly Prized
That It will be followed by u higher
moral tone, an increased energy, an Accel-
Grated national development, admits of no
doubt War, like the tempest and tornado
of the physical world, generates, by ~
purer and more settled condition of the
elements, n clearer aud mole bracing NOR
al atmosphere, affording increased capaci-
ty for activity and increased aliment for
growth This war, waged directly in be-
half of great moral interests, will have that
effect in a pre-eminent degree.
1t will bring America into more inti-
mate, vital and potential relations with
the other nations. No result of the warts
more certain than this. Hitherto our
country, though pursuing its caree. OF
progress with unprecedented raptdity, has
been so intensely occupied with her ownaf-
fairs, and so rigidly neutral in respect to
those of other countries, that she has been Il
sort of recluse in the midst of hecommuni
ty of nations. Vague impressions of her
rapidly growing greatness have gone to the
ends of the earth, but an incredible ignor-
ance has prevailed respecting her true char
Actera and institutions. It is not many
years since the Shah of Persia asked Sir
John Malcolm whether the people of the
New World, that werS so much talked
about, lived ON the outside of the earth or
the inside. In 1881 hotel stood on one
of the qusys Paris lit may be there yea
displaying the sign, ttf7Otel de z UBipers a
dss Etdt UniS." Hereafter mankind will
know that the United States are on The
outside of the earth, and the inside of the
universe. Thc, war which is shaking this
continent is causing tremor throughout
the globe. Ended, as we doubt not it will
be, in the triumphant assertion of our ma
tional unity, it will leave America thereaf-
ter ga power in the worldn-her institu-
tions known, her character appreciated,
her strength felt, to the remotest nations
and that, too, as heretofore, but with in-
creased weight and directness, on the side
ofnutb, peace and freedom.
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