Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-02

The Return OF the south to Rarbar-
ism-.phe Gradual ana sure E1Ilnc-
ton of Popular Liberty Among
prom the New York Times.l
tits natural, when wide difference hR<
grown up between the ideas of a people,
or of the ruling classes, and the structure
of their social and political organizations
that they should seize the occasion OF a
great revolution in their external relations
to recast their systems of government and
society. that harmony may exist between
their theories and fact-between their sup
posed interests and welfare and the laws
which are TO protect and defend them
The South is now awaiting itself of such
an occasion. Having accepted slavery AS
the natural basis of society. the hrst step
is to yes. Government in the hands of the
few, in which labor-which is always to
be owned, and never hired by capital
is to have no participation. To labor,
education and the right of suffrage is
necessarily denied, because, If allowed,
they would upset the government and So
ciety based upon the dogma assumed. The
only end OF such a system is a despotsm
more absolute than any yet established, as
all examples OF free government must ne
vigorously excluded from the Eastward;
Ell times, knowing no better system, sub
mitted quietly to the condition in which
they found themselves placed.
The Convention Of Virginia, which, pos
sessiug all the rights and powers vested in
society, carried that State out of the Union,
took the iuitiative in recasting the political
system of the South. For this purpose it
appointed a committee to determine the
charges that were necessary and proper
1t decided that every community is natu-
rally devided into two great interests, Ia
Dor aud capiaL-thGt capital belongs to the
fsID, and labor to the many; and that capital
owing labor should be vested with the au-
thority of legislating for it, as well rs for
any other interest. In this way, the two
can never come into collision, nor the peace
of society be threatened. The north the
report states, already presents full proof,
and an awful warning, of the danger OF
not subjecting labor to capital. The curse
| of the North is free schools and universal
suffrage. The former are supported by the
rich to teach the poor to envy and hate
them; and those agrnrian doctrines which
aid in dividing, by force, the wealth of the
few among the many. The suffrage gives
tue power to carry the theories begotten
by education into effect, aud should be
abolished, or so far restricted that the tangs
can all be drawn from restless, unprincl-
pied and needy popnlace.
The report referred to has the merit not
only of perfect traightfOrWardness, but OF
Iirrefutable logic, reasoning from the prem
Uses assumed Wherever Slavery exists,
society must be founded in force. The
knowledge of their rights, and the power to
enforce them, must be taken from the en-
shaved and nOn-property holders.
We do not blame the South for the step
It has taken. It could take no other after
it refused to make any provision for the
Termination of SlaVeTy. What chiefly con
Germs the North is tue establishment, by
Its side, of status aud institutions
thoroughly antagonistical to its own genius
rs we'll US that of modern society, ana o
those views of the progress of the race IL
freedom and intelligence, which it has
been considered the peculiar function anC
privilege of the United States to realize
II is an attempt to convert part of thest
States into the grossest bLrbarism from
free society emerged, on the very grount
that such barbarism is the normal stat
and most perfect condition of man.
The position assumed is equallylantng
onistic to the political systems and idea
of the Old World, which encourage fire.
schools as the stepping stones to more com
plete aud perfect political rights. Tit
only value OF modern CIVILIZATION tA iu u!
tendency to enfrnnchise not only the mind
but the body, to raise the weak withou
depressing the strong, except so far as tn
latter resist the progress alike of reason
and Christianity.
The principles involved in the contes
with the rebellion are thus daily pre-
senting themselves in clearer and clear
err light. This is as it should be-
They are consolidating the North into :
most perfect unity of idea and purpose
The Free School system is its bright
est ornament. 1t is our boast that we take
the meancst subject that England cast
upon our shores, and give him an educH
ton, at public expense, if he chooses L
receive it, that qualities him to return ant
enter any University in the Kingdom. W.
give to every man voice iu the enactmen
Of the laws he is to obey, In all this W
only anticipate the march of all countrie
where the Christian Religion prevails, Blu
the South. Shall we allow the lie to b.
given to all we bold dear? Will othe
countries encourage revolt which is n
much an insult to their civilization as u
our own2