Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-25

A feature of society here, or, at least, o.
such portions of 1t as we see in the CALLER
les and in the privileged seats on the floor,
each day, is that the women and children
are all secessiOnists. One thinks of APP
plying. the Scripture to them, each time
that he sees them clap their hands at Sc
cession remarks, which says, "forgive them
+ for they know not what they do" Ger
tHinlS they do not. 1t Woald be doing
I them an injustice to suppose so. Hon. J.
I S. Carlile's remarks to some of them, a few
evenings ago, thought were quite forci-
! BILE. At the place where lac boards, there
are quite a number of them, aud they had
/ got to heAr that Mr.. C.. was a devoted
\ Union man-one who, under no circum-
stances, would reuounce the Stars anu
Stripes. And so they made playful as
sauit upon him, and expressed their won
der how he could be go devoted to the
Union. "Why, ladies'" said Mr.. c., ''if
your beau ideals could succeed in break
ing up this Union, and separating the free
/ from the slave States, it would be the sor-
| riest thing in the world for you all. All
along the far-stretching border on the
lnorthward, arsennlE, forts, custom houses,
police, vigilance committees, military and
civil enC1mpments wOnld have TO be es-
tablished. So likewise along the Ohio riT-
er, upand down; and so, likewise, along the
sea coast; and SO in the interior to sup.
press domestic instructions. And all
these exclusive OF the regular and large
standing army and navy that would have
to be kept. What would you think ladies
of your fathers and brothers and friends
being kept employed TO such an extent in
this way? What would you think of the
tax you would be obi ed to pay forit2 Do
you think you could enjoy these luxuries-
that society-thatfreedom prestige
that honorable society that you now enjoy?"
The ladies had not thought of all these
things and they confessed in answer to Mr..
c., that the prospect was not so inviting ON
that side of the picture. But it is exactly
that trne side that they do not look at
They hear of nothing but chivalry-of
plenty of negroes and no hard work for
white people-Of their rights, their honor,
aud their oppressions-of bloody Adolf
tionists and Black Republicans-and they
think that they will have the happiest and
easiest and most Oounteous time in the
world II they once get away from the Nor
| them States. II is the physical aristocracy
ofthe whole secession movement that seems
to charm them.
But it is not the ladies alone that look
to the HristOcracy of the movement They
get their cue from high quarters pre-
sumo that you have read the report of SIR.
PrestOn's commissioner from South Caro-
lina), speech on last Tuesday, and if you
have you will notice how zealously be at
tempted to fdsCinate the members of the
Convention and the people of this part of
the State with the idea that the only true
civilization, the only genuine and reliable
society in the United States WAS that which
rested upon African Slavery as its corner
stone. Said he:
''At the North, in the free States, the
pure, the simple, the isolated, the excIu-
stve, the absolute principle upon which all
political and social organism is construct
! cd, IS that of pure Democracy, saving a
scarcely reconcilable modification in the
shape OF vague and indefinite system of
representation. There can be no other
principle introduced into the Northern So
ciHlismsr save this, in Its utmost and oE-
tremest intensity. Il is the vitaliEing
| principles it is the breath of life TO tho
| Northern institution. Now, the
modification of this principle Mt the South
| IS so essential, that it cannot co-exist with
the same principle in its unrestricted form
a. have exhibited at the North. At the
South 1t is modified, it is controlled, it is
made absolutely subject. The recognition
of specific property is essential 10 the
vitalization of the political organism
Now, this indicates that the instant you
engr0tt one of these rules into the forms of
the other section, that instant the section
which you have invaded perishes. Ifyou
institute property as an element of North
ern political or social organism, you de-
strOy tue whole system which exists at the
North If you exclude it from the South,
I you suhvert the whole system on which
the Southern civilization exists"
As another, and furnishing q sDecimen
OF this sort of talk and feeling, give you
the following paragraph from an editorial
In tue Richmond Dispatch this morning:
All Impartial observers express but one
sentiment about LincOln's speeches, and
that is profound contempt and disgust The
Republicans have been imposed upon by a
counterfeit article. His intentions are
honest enough; he means to do the worst
they can desire, but still, they have aspi-
rations after dignity, and he is evidently a
very vulgar and indecent old man. Sew
ard, Sumner and others, though themselves
OF obscure origin. have enough of the inn
itatiTe qualities of that African race whose
cause they especially espouEe, to catch
something of polish by attritioa with good
society, though none of them are equal in
this respect to well-bred Virginia family
servant"
p. S.-Str. f. II. Norton, of Wheeling,
arrived here yesterday from Washington.
This city was his home when boy
Messrs. Dent, Alfred Barbour and Camp
hell Tarr, returned from Washington this
; evening, where they had been to get Sena-
tor Douglas TO come over here aud make
speech. he will come, l learn. G.
The Inauguration Ball.
| The preparations for the inauguration
ball are rapidly progressing. Tickets are
being sent 10 the various principal cities