Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-04
From the St. Loui. Democrat.l
AristoeraeIes In panger.

1t has long been cheeringly evident that
Democratic principles were gaining inn
menseIy in Europe. The best efforts of
the privileged classes IN Britain, and on
the Continent, could not neutrnlize the
popular effect of the American example of
| free government. These efforts largely
consisted of satire upon our republican in
stitutions, and in orNcular assurances
that they soon must end As, however,
1.-THE lapse of nearly three-quarters of a cen-
tury only augmented our felicity, the Bit
teiness of this ridiculc and tho confidence
of these Vaccinations greatly diminished.
Monarch and lord were forced to yield
still more to the increasing demand of the
people for just share in their own gov
ernment. England, France, Rnssia, por-
tons of Germany, and even Austria, con-
spicuously exhibited this distinguishing
| tendency of the age. This grand move
ment was still progressing against strenu-
GUS opposition, when the present rebellion
broke outand swiftly developed into gigan-
tic proportions.
However the issue might be disguised
from multitndes here, the world abroad
saw that the rebellion was one against pop
uiar freedom. It was against the suprem-
acy of the people at u national ballOt-bOx.
Everywhere the elated foes of such SUI
premacy proclaimed that it must fall for
ever. With many grateful exceptions, the
British press have since been aud still are
incessantly declaring that the end of the
American Republic is ut hand, that the
democratic bubble has burst, that the
folly of self-g0Yernment is at last demons.
str,itrd, and that the so-CRlled "Experi-
ment of FrcedOmn has utterly fIiled.-
Clearly, however, these averments nre ba-
sed upon the assumption that the insnrrec-
ton will not be crushed. Shouldn't be,
republican institutions and democratic
principles will have acquired from this war
| n lease of the world forever. They will
be placed at one upon the swift march to
supremacy everywhere. For it would then
be cOnclusively shown that a genuine re-
public can also he grand and enduring
nation, guaranteeing the equal elective
| franchise of every citizen, and maintain
i lug itself as well against internal rs against
foreign foes. Aristocraeies could not de-
\ light in such q solution of the American
| problem. ANY probability of such re-
suit must fill them with alarm. In pro-
portion TO its probabilityi would be their
dread, aud their efforts to avert a consum-
nation SO disastrous to their hereditary
interests. Undoubtedly their influence
would be cast into the scale for the rebel
| devoted, ingeniously and powerfully, to
the "aid and comfort of the traitors to
freedom.
i Here is an explanation Of British SYM
pathy with the Confedentes. The sup
preston of the American rebellion will be
followed By the worldwide triumph of de-
mocracy. Particularly in England, where
parties are now opposed on the question of
the extension or Limitation of the peoples
rights, would the moral effect be immedi-
ate aud Irresistible. The liberal party,
whose organs now embrace the Federal
cause, would ride rough shOd over their
opponents, whose organs ARE therefore now
making such immense efforts tO'preventthe
success of that cause This is doubtless
the secret of the daimus of the London
Tines and kindred British prints, whose
really Formidable influence is daily WELD
ed against our government.
The lesson is a plain and deeply impress
sivc one to every citizen. and especially to
each citizen from n foreign land. Our
cause is that Of mankind. Defeat in it is
the ruin of that glorious freedom, pur-
chased by the blood of ancestral heroes,
whose strong arm conquered it from the
very aristoeracy now struggling with trai-
tors to destroy il. We have come down to
the corner stone of the Republic, and are
Sighting around that. The question is the
red one of 5T6. The main difference sim
ply is that then the tories assisted the
arislocracy, and now the nristocray are
assisting tho tories. It is the self-same
fight for the constitutional supremacy of
the people. The first grand triumph es-.
tablished this nation sis a beacon of Iiber-
~ to the worIdn As such it has shed .
kindly and increasing light till now, when
the world Is gazing In deepest sOlicitude to
see it its grateful beams are to be forever
extinguished or to glow with a new and
immortal radiauce.