Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-18

'uelh Ieeh'esS oil tne terrible end. Warm,
ardent passionate, they have listened to
their pressand orators denouncing in terms
of-uumeasnred bitterness the people of the
North, and painting, on The other band,
the most glowing picture of the great +
ness and unstinted prosperity of Southz
ern Republic, ttiltheir hearts have takeu
fire and bnru With fierce, lurid fSme
that must, if not quenched, consune aot
only their own civil liberties, but the peace
of the xholenatiop. -,ly5lT ,4Iq
Its no longer any use to say that the
Southern States 1--WE mean those that
have seceded) wish to Withdraw from
the Union on account of Slavery
as regulated by the Constitution. This
is the argument in tue border slave
States, hitched on, too, further South, the
more surely TO catch the populace and
precipitate them into SevoIution. But fu
the Gulf region, from Texasto Florida, and
up the AtIaWtc coast to South Carolina,
the tempting bait beld up before the eager
masses, wasun independent republic, with
free trade in every commodity, that saOuld
shower down upon them all the luxlries
the wide world oyer-incluItug slaves at
such nominal prices as would enable the
poorest man. to have dozen at least. The,
dictun, that Cotton is King. was resolved
as the solemn gospel truth; and according
ElE twas Anticipated not only thai. they.
should becomea great commercial people,
once freed from the bonds that bound
them to the North, bnt that they should be
the greatest, aud rule with the scepter of
their throned monarch the whole COM
mereial and manufacturing world. The
Southern people have been taught for
years by their political apostles that the
North, on account of her manufactures
and the protection which they must and
would have, was an incubus on their pro-
gressi aud that her great material prosper
ity was all at their expense. To prove
that this is the chief reason for desr-
ing to be rid of the Union, We
need but refer to the very general.
expectation on the part of the South
of an alliance, with England-an, al
lance which With their own prices for
cotton, and with free trade land English
goods Oh their,own terms, has in the pros
pective or possible future been the means
of Grazing the planters in all the cotton.
growing States. When we add to these
seductive arguments, the facts that the
manufacturing north and the agricultural.
west are hostile to the pet Institution Of
the South, and desiroussof 5ceufining It
within its present limits; that the Southern
party under the guise of Democracy, which
had benin power so ioug that tthad become
second nature, have been defeated, and are
about to have the fatltngs of the. govern
ment taken from them; that nearly all the
men who moulded public opinion in the
South have been the recipients of goverp-
ment Offices, now about to be taken rom
them forever, 1t is MOI so inexplieable after
all, that under the combination OF .cirrum.
stances the Southern people, stimulated to
phrenzy, should forget for time their
honor and their fealty to the Constitution.
Will England recognize the new confed-
eracy as an independent government
as such. enter in:o treaty of amity.-
t-whI she even give them the moral support
of her approval2 wethink not, and base
our opinion on, as much as anything else,
the tone ofthe English press. TIE Lsudon
,Eeoaomist, in an able article on this very
suBieet, holds this Iaugaage:
There is something truly astounding in
the sipfntuatiou which seem to possess the
Epoliticiansin the Southern STATES Of Ame.
rica. They have not only persuaded lIenl-
selves into something that has all the
strength, &c not the ifellectual lveigbt, of a
mora. aI.conVietion that the cause OfiSlavetS
lis holy and sacred cause in wbiehithey
who suffer loss are heroes and mattYrs--
but they have also fully persuaded tbem-
selves that all who differ from them are
the unfortunate subjects Of mere fancifdl
hallucination which the slightest pressure
of real self-iuterest will dissiPate az once.
They seem really 10 believe that England
Is as ready TO support them, if tbey can
but offer her sufficient interested motive
for doing so, as she would BE, for similar
Inducements, to sustain Italy agafnst
Austria or Prussia qgainst France.
It is lSmentable to see such fnfatuadon
as this. Have South Carolina and: :Geotsta