Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-13
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liieed in the United statss,,is = laHsats5le
tFifiFr = and that whilst Il is the duty OF
all able. bodied men TO perform alithdry
4 service In behaiRofthe Confederate States
that ait IL only the Legitimate right OF the
property holders and tax payers to gats
Now, Is mot that q pleasant revelation Tor
the thousands who are called upon 10 take
up arms In order 70 improve upon our old
fashioned system of free goSsrnment
How It lnnst nerve their arms 70 know that
sveFy blow they strike Is a direct assault
upon that right night which has hitherto
been the noblest distinction between them
selves and the millions trodden down by
the despotism. of the Old Worldi Like
the serts of Rnssia they may be driven 70
the field with arms in their hands to DO the
behests OF their prond masters they may
pour out their blood IN any quarrel forced.
upon Them but rs for having anything TO
do with controlling their own desytuies,
4 Why that Is too much to expect under q !;
hf0b1s u Jlse order of things F
Rnfihef, 20 get w close as possible alougs
ode S0hth CaroIfnA-thU model State OF
tie nror5 a new 0ligarchy y==tt is proposed
that ss6nly members Of the Legisiature sHlill
be eleeGed by the restricted pOp6lar voters
and that all otkee cdieIs. county.a we'll iis
State, shall either be chosen by the kegls.
Iature, or appointed by new appointing
powers"
| 1It is not prOmising 2rOgramme t"r the
masses of Virginia, the pIundered, OPpress-
| ell, thousands, now giving their best blood
under tile foolish delusion that they arc
enlaFging their liberties or escaping pros
| peetive oppression Can it be that the
descendants ofthe men whose derry tespon-
ses followed the appeals Of Patrick Henry
are TO bow their neeks TO the aecursed
yoke now preparing for them2 Drifting
hOpelessly onward to an evil destiny un,
der the bad Influences around them, IS not
the time at hand when they will see their
danger, when they will make some effort
to redeem themselves. when by counter
revolution they viii drive out tho iema~
Cogues now seeking by fair pfetexts to
steal away their liberties 2
aud let it beobseFved that these ProPos-
ed measures are the results OF no sudden
impulse, are CAUSED not alone by the pres
sure Of present, circumstAneesj but they
are born of deliberation, of a set purpose,
reaching forward from the views entertain-
ed by these men in the past AS long since
as November last, before this attempted
revolution was under way, the great poltt-
ical oracle of Tue Cotton Obligarchy-De
BOWS Review = f5reshadowed tie VsEy
nleasures aOD Contemplated By tie Confeder-
Richmond Dispateh, which warmly en-
dorses his views. We quote:
"De Bows November Review has an ad-
mirable article, entitled the p erils of
Peace The obvious danger of an immense
Yankee immigration, which will abolltton-
izs the Border States 1T the ballot-bOx,
unless such restrictions are placed upon the
right of snffIage AS i1iH pIspeaf iheM from
evsr haUiag a Uote, ara painted in letters OF
light. We have eflea referred to this dang
ls-tI-stsast-iA- I
10 time, Will render all the blood and treas
ure expended in this war entirely profit
less. The same writer also contends that
while our present foreign population, which
has proved so gallant and faithful in the
Southern cause, should retain the posses
sion of every right which they now have,
the same privilege should not be conferred
upon future emigrants to this country.-
He also expresses the opinion that no Eu-
ropern, and, We may add, Northern citizen,
now residing in the South, unless it be one
who is still an alien, will condemn n feel
ing which does not deprive Northeners or
foreigners, now visiting here, of any right
which they possess, but only proposes to ex-
clude hereafter those who are now endeav-
ofing to deprive every Southern man OF
his Iiberties.'
We see by this that so long ago as last
fall this movement now on foot 10 yir-
ginin was contemplated, and whilst the last
part of this parAgraph-to use an express
i've phrIse-tstlraws il mild" since 1t was
given to the world we had had Mr.. Davis
ediet OF banishmeut, which has bad The
effect Of driving away tens Of thousands
of good citizens from States like yirginil.,
to be followed up By sequeststlion, de-
privarion OF right to vote, and every
other outrage which tyranny can always
dnd an excnse in the plea Of "military
necessity, or something equivalent
Moreover on the l2sh day OF last No
| vem6er-ths same month IN wli'ih De
Rhett made. n speech in Charleston which