Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-19

ANoTHER southern revolt, that of South
Carolina against the Montgomery Confed-
ericy, is rapidly becoming fixed fact
The mOst obstinate folks in the world
are the cotton lords and cotton leaders
about Charleston. They wont keep step
Of their own accord to the music of the
Union, or any other music: they can't be
driven Into 1t, nor they can't be ,Coaxed.-
That South Carolina is abrave TO "a fault,
We don't mean to deny. AS proof of it
look how fearlessIy she threatened Uncle
Sam, for weeks, that he didn't take the
spuuky garrison out of Fort Sumter. she
would do it for him; and how when said
Uncle concluded not 20 remove Major
Anderson, she resoIutely came to the same
conclusion. No, We don't intimate that
the Palmetto State isn't brave enough for
ordinary occasions, bnt the difficulty is
she is not big enOuEh;-therei is not enough
Of her, her territory is not sufficiently Cx-
tensiVe; her people are far apart and
NOT nearly ps numerous as they might be.
This WAS the cause Of her sad ruisbaps in
the Montgomery Convention. The reason
why she eouIdn't get constitution aud a
President to suit her, was that che hadn't
suficiency of votes. And now that she
has been out voted, she proposes to repu-
diate the action of the Convention. Mr..
Spratt, one of the leading spirits of Charles
ton, and powerful champion of the open
ing of the slave trade, comes out in the
Aereatry in an address of I've columns, in
remembrance against the new constitution.
Says Sir. Spratt:
"If. the clause (against the slave trade)
be carried into the permanent government,
our 1Oh0ie movement Is DICTATED 1t will
abolitionize the border States-it will
brand our institution. Slavery cannot
share government with Democracy il
cannot bear brand upon it; thence anoth-
er revolution. It may be painful, but We
must make it. The Constitution cannot be
changed without it. 1t is doubtful il
another movement will be so peaceful; but
no matter, no power but the convention
can avert the necessity"
Now, that is very nice talk, but Messrs.
SPratt, Rhett, 4 Co. must bear in mind
that they will have Gen. JEFF. Davis to
deal With, instead of Mr.. Buchanan; and
that, as no is of different school, he
might insist ON taking them through
course of sprouts essentially different from
tho nOn-cOerciou policy they have been ac-
customed to.
We cannot help thinking that this is a
bad beginning for the new nation. If such
determine hostility is to be incurred right
at the outset, what will it not be when the
edIcts of the Convention go fully into eff
fect-wheu they begin to bear down on
the tax pnyers-whsn they make drafts for
the milttary-when, in short, they begin
that system of eztortion and oppression
which Is the infallible resort of such gov
ernmeats as is about to he inaugurated.
When the Southern people have felt the
Weightof their Executive 8 power, they will
begin to vince, and ere long there mustbe
general reaction, not for causes of which
South Carolina complains, Int for others
infinitely more just and potent.
If South Carolina determines not to
submit, Gen. Davis is the kind of a man
to determine that she shall and so it is
not Impossible that folks down that way
may have some fan, all to themselves.