Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-01


ness. Its abolition would, in our judge
rnent, be striking the enemy at his most
vulnerable point, precisely where We can
best sunder the sinews of his strength, and
deal him the most fatal blow. 'sas' 3si
Moreover, 1t would not only bring to the
assistance OF the Federal arms the coop
GRAFTON of the whole colored race in the
Union, but would secure us, what we now
lack, the sympathy and the moral aid Of
the whole civilized world, and remove all
danger of coming into conflict with either
France or England. The war would be
seen then likely to effect result with
which Englishmen and Frenchmen could
sympathiLe, and, instead OF wishing for the
success of the Southern Confederacy, they
would wish with all their hearts for tho
success of the Federal arms. 1t would do
more than this. 1t wonld bring toithe aid
Of our volunteer force from one hundred to
two hundred thousand brave and statwart
volunteers from the free States, aye, aud
even many from the slave States them
selves, who Willnot, aud cannot be induced
to volunteer their services in aiwar which,
even if successful, promises to leave the in.
stitntiOn of slavery not only existing, but
more firmly established than ever. Ev-
erybody knows that slavery is ut the bot
tom of the whole controversy, and that the
real object of the Southern leaders is not
simply to protect slavery against abolition
movement where it exists, but to extend it
over the whole Union, aud make the Amer
lean republic a great slaveholding repub-
lie. And there are men in large numbers
amongst US. men who have had no sympa-
thy with abolitionists, who see and under
stand very we'll that, even were we sue
cessful in putting down the present rebel
lion, no real Union between the North and
tie South could be restored, and that no
durable peace between them could be re-
eitNblished, if slavery continued to exist.
These men enter not and will not enter
heartily into the war, unless they see clear
" and feel fully assured that it will result
in the final and total extinction of slavery
throughout the Union, and all the territory
it may now possess or hereafter acquire.
.r SLAVE LARoR AND FREE LABOR.
The present rebellion proves, what
thoughtful and fnr-seeing men in all sec
tions of the Union have long seen and said,
that the preservation of the Union with
the slave system of labor extending over
one-half of it, and the free labor system
over the other half, is, in tue ordinary
course of human events, nn impossibility.
Senator Seward, or rather Mein Herr Die
fenback in our ReVieU before him, was
right in saying there is an "irrepressible
conflict" between the two systems. They
cannot long co-exist together in peace
and harmony there is an irrepressible
tendency in each to exclude the other; and
no possible wisdom or prudence on the
part of any administration can harmonic
their co-existence under one and the same
government. You must make your cleo
ton between the systems, and adopt for
the whole country either the slave system
or the free-labor system and the real
Significance of the contest in which we are
now engaged is, as to which of these sys-
TENS shall be the American system.
However homogeneous in race or charac-
ter, habits or manners, may be the people
of country in the outset, they separate
and grow gradually into two distinct peo-
pies, with almost entirely different ideas,
habits and customs, ii one-hnlf of them
in the one section adopt the slave system,
and the other half, in the other, the free
labor system. We have already in the
United Statee, notwithstanding our COM
mon origin, our common language, the
similarity OF our laws, and our habituHl
intercourse, grown almost into two dis
tinct nations. The Confederates are
Americans indeed, for they have been born
and bred on American soil; but they no
longer retain the original American char
acter; while in the free States, batting the
alterations effected by foreign emigration,
that character is substantially preserved.
We of the North are the same people that
made the Revolution, won American Inde-
pendence, and established the Federal
Government. This divergence showed it
self even Mt the time OF the Revolution; I;
and it has been growing greater and great
er from the beginning of the present CEN
tury; and if the two systems OF labor are
continued on American soil, must continue
to grow still greater and greater, till the
people of the two sections grow up into
two absolutely distinct and mutually hos
tile nations, no longer capable, but by the
subjugatiOn of the one by the other, of
existing under one and the same govern
rnent. The only way this divergence can
be checked, the unity and homogeneous
ness of the whole American people re-
covered and preserved, is by the assimila-
ton of the labor systems of the North and
the South.
We of the North cannot and ought
not to accept the labor system OF the
South. But the slave States, by their uu-
provoked rebellion, have given US an OPP
portunity of performing an act of long de-
layed justice to the negro population of
the Union, and of assimilating the South
ern labor system to ours. This assimiln-
ton is the bottom of the Southern rebel
lion, and the South has risen in arms
against the Union chiefly for the purpose
of extending her labor system over all the
free States. In doing so she gives us tho
right, in our own self defence, to extend
our free labor system over all the slave
States-a right which, but for her rebel
lion, we should not have had under the
Constitution.
THE GAIN OF LIBERTY.
If this nroYe a disadvantage to the south