Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-06

03-i NSSA 0AN ONuGE EuuluoulhS eats grass,
wont eat me, wont eat me, no danger, no
danger !" aud SO saying he pursued his
studies with the most provoking Calmness
Now can assure the public, that the abo-
lItiOnists have no horns, scarceas they are.
have seen several with their hats off,
Not only go but they are like ordinary NOR
tails in other respects. Lord Monbodde
asserts that our great ancestors had tails,
just like those of our COngeners, still in-
hAbtting the forest; that, in fact, we have
sadly degenerated from the type our fore
fathers. Now these abOlitionfsts are lust
as degenerate as their neighbors; they are
as destitute of cRudal appendages as the
''rest OF mankind" As to their pedal ex-
tremities, from actual inspection am euual-
y sure, that they wear elongated boots and
shoes. such as are seen in society at large.
In other respects their characters are not
so easily defended. "They are not like
the polite and wise. All shy, slow things
with circumspectiYe eyes.n On the con.
trary they are often impulsive, moved to
compassion without waiting to scan very
nicely the merits of the sufferer. They can
not be sublimely indifferent to human tears
and human blood. They are often so de-
ficient in worldly wisdom, that they know
iHgly and adVisedlyg pursue a line of con-
duct in diametrical opposition to their own
selfish interests, merely in hopes of pro-
noting the happiness of their Countrymen
and OF mankind at large. The reckless un. /.
Ss!HShness of such men must forever expose
them to the hostility of that numerous
class with whom self interest is the sole
and supreme law.
But, say the papers before mentioned,
the abohtionists got up an agitation, and
thereby provoked our "Southern brethren
to violence. If the Rbolitionists would
have let their agitation alone, we might
have escaped the difficulty. When more
than thirty, years ago, our English cousins
wished to shake off the intolerable weight
of Lord Eldou and the Court of Chaucery,
when they wished tn abolish their rotten
boroughs and reform their parliamentary
system, every high tory conservative in the
fast anchored Isle, denounced the dema-
gogues, as they called the reFormers. If
the demagogues would let the people
alone, there would be no agitation, no
commotton. The people would not call
for legal or parliamentary reform. "Yes,n
said the Rev. Sydney Smith, the winds
would let the waves alone, there would be
neither shipwrecked mariners nor stranded
vessels; if the gentlemen would let the
ladies alone, there would be neither for
saken damsels nor weeping widows In
short, if ten thousand things were let
alone, that never will be let alone, that
never can be let alone, the situation of the
world would be very different from what it
is" And he told them in eloquent and
ever memorable words, that if they wished
to get rid of NgitatOrs aud agitation, they
must conform their institutions 10 the die
thtes of natural right; they must eliminate
out of them, everything offensive TO the
natural conscience. Then the demagogues
would abandon their trade, or, if they con-
tinued, the people would disregard them,
This is the trUe remedy, make ali laws aud
Institutions morally right, and then defy
investigation. Man is a short-sighted be-
ing. His vision can not take in the whole
scope of things. He ought, therefore, to
keep close to the standard of moral recti-
tude, otherwise he may be defying the
force of natural and moral laws, With
whose YindictiTe power he is little ac-
quRinted. When the old man-hunters first
fetched thVir cargo of suffering humanity
to jamestown, they, in the darkness OF
their Ignorance, could not foresee that they
were -entailing weakness, poverty and ad-
Versity on half u continent !; that theyWere
intlicting the greatest possible injury on
two races of men. Butt instead of being
ftuty-hearted bRrbarIaus, they had been
enlightened, instructed men, they would
have said the thing is morally wrong,
and therefore by all means to be avoided.
Oh 1t our ancestors had refused to be con-
cerned in the OdiOus commerce, what enor-
nous calamities would we, their posterity,
have escApedl
But are the abolitionists guilty of the
blOodshed that now desolates our land
They have discussed, they have examined,
they have argued the slavery question. Be
1t remembered that they have right to
discuss, to examine, to argue the slavery
question. In doing so, they wrong no
man, they injure no man. Men have met
for discussion; they have right to meet
for discussion. They have published to
the world their opinions. They have a
right to publish their opinions. 5
In publishing their earnest opinions,
men are obeying one of the strongest and
most useful instincts of human nature.
All improvements in manners aud morals
originate in this propensity. AS swell COM
plain of birds for flying in the air, OF of
bees for making honey, as of men for pub
fishing their opinions. Moreover suppose
we regret the dissemination of their ideas,
how. are We to prevent it, except by resort
ing TO that most pernicious of all meas.
ures, the application of physical force to
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humble Judgment the twsddle of the class
of newspapers before mentioned is as silly,
rs sickeniug, as pernicious as any equal
amount of trash ever issued from the press,
not even excepting that OF their pro slavery
allies on the other side of the Atlantic. l
do not uuderrate the mischief occasioned
by the circulation of sHCh sheets. But
while they steer clear of actual treason,
they must be freely permitted. to inspire
the wise aud good with uualterable dis
gust, to initiate their dupes with low. and
otry and debauch their morals. II We can
endure them, surely they might forbear
with the abolitionists, and we must endure
them, for TO employ physical force against
them would be morally wrong. And moth
ing morally wrong can ever be truly exPe-
dent. 81. F.4a. WILBEREoRcE.
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