Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-28
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produce from the Charle4ton .Vsreary, a
lengthy but able article, from ths pen Of
Leonard W. Spratt, Of South Caroline,
known to many OF our readers as one Of
the leading expouents of Southern Opin-
ion. This letter bss been called out ry
the actiou Of the Soutbera Congress III
reference to the prohibition Of the foreign
slave trade-acdon, wN are told, which
iSmost offensive To the leading spirits of
the Palmetto State. Mr.. Spratt being re-
garded as f0remos. among her champions
Of the peculiar views of the Palmetto the
Orists, is put forward as their exponent, in
order that not only the iignitntics at Mont
gomery, but mankind at large. may know
why South Oa,olina is not satisfied, md
what it is that will placate her; and his
letter derives It's Importance not from, It's
ability logical production, nor even
from its doctrines were they the writer's
only, but because they are the principles
advocated by the ruling clnss of nearly
one half the Republic.
In entering upon this task. Mr.. Spratt,
with commehdable logic, begins At the
beginning. He digs down 10 the ma
ked rock, and lays his foundation
bold and broad. He scorns the petty
shams, the despicablo subterfuges, with
which less confident men cover up in gilt
tering aud meaningless phrases, their real
meaning. He, with bold hand, takes
the Southern doctrine and strips from it
allits parAphernalia. and lays 1t before us
naked in its deformity. Coming from such
a source, we accept his dogmas as the
creed for which Southern revolution has
been initiatedi aud we only regret that in
the brief space allotted to US, we cnunot
give them the consideration which the
magnitude of the subject merits.
The fundamental truth on which Mr..
Spratt builds his argument, is comprised
in those two words, uttered, it is said, for
The first time by William II. SeWard-the
'.trrepressiLie Conflict" The assertion OF
such conflict has never been exclusively
a Northern doctrine; for the South Caro-
lima school Of politicians have proclaimed
it for years; but never have NC seen it so
frankly avowed. so fearlessly declared as
in the article now under consideration
Perhaps, We should not be quite SO conf.
dent Of that, either; for Mr.. Preston, in adj
dressing the Virginia Convention the other
day, used substantially the same language
and avowed identically the same doctrine.
But he was just from Charleston, fresh
from the teachings of his illustrious tu-
tors, with, we doubt not, half dozen of
Mr.. SPratt's letters in his pocket, from
which he drew his inspiration. but what
We.mean to say is, that not until recently
have the advocates of this newfangled
theory Of Southern Society been SO bold
and ontspoECn. But now that South Car
olina has given TO the world such full,
unmistakable exposition Of her wishes
and intentions, We ask every rejecting
man to ponder deeply the principles in
VOWED. They are the vital principles, the
hearts blood of human freedom.
The argumeut ia begun With the declar-
alton that ''tLe South is now in the forma.
ton of IA Stare Republic The .'contsst
between the North and the South" We are
told, sis between two forms of society"
"The one is a society composed Of one
race, tie other OF two The one cmbodies
in its political structure the principle that
Equality is the right Of man; the other
that 1t is tie right Of fquals Oniy.p Equali-
ty the right Of equals! Aud who are the
equals, the majestic equals who have this
sacred rightH Thosewho could grind into
the dust; with aristocratic heel, white me-
chnnics with akins rs fair and spirits as
proud as their own, because God or rnisfOr-
tune had ehanred to make them poor. The
equality of equals indeed The kings OF
Europe fght for such equality but the
blood that bAIhed American soil in the
orershndowing gloom of the years that
tried mems sOuls and their devotion to n
sacred principle, was shed to establish the
equality of man.
.'EThs one rmbOdytnR tho principle that
equality is the right Of man, expands upon
tho horizontal plane of pure democracy
the other embodyiug the Principle that 1t
Is not the right of man, has taken to itself
the roap,ded form of a social aristocraey.'
a 'OeiaI aris'Oerasy-aud in rounded form.
Aye, delicate aud fastidiOus ''aristoera-
cy,' that could scent "poor white trash
across a piaRtanOa--s reined and polished
aFistocraey, sHbsistinE on the enforced la
Dor Of a subject class, dsemIng all labor
mental, and all laborers. black or white,
fitted Only for the substratpm Of that socie-
y, OF which the graceful rounded arls-
tosrAey. are the upper layer. Aud this de-
ligbtfnl, ROUNDED, amOo,h, graceful, flOw.
ing ariSSocraey is the embodiment OF the
dictum thar la11al;,x. IL ,oI ~. -,,L, &c