Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-11
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the tuition, bat be 10 learning something
Wien WI 20 Of gteat talpe 70 him. There
Is no question that the South has learned
Within The past year moro Of thar which
VIII DC OF lasting use 70 il than during the
2 sekPerisbOeSt % abe pseViOtls gay yeaFs.-
Ole Of its most painful Lessons Is that the
world can get along quits wen without It,
and particularly the North; which, It has
Z Always .had the fancy, was living upon il.
The South has seen the North plling M its
solid wealth outsrsWing IL in enterprise,
resources, population, education, literature
-eVerythipg that makes and measures civ-
tlt1ation-and could only account for the.
tRct on the ground that by some trick of
tEadfswg had rmGasged to absorb the pro-
hts OF its system of slavery. The SOGtb.
srn people have really believed that the
.. Moth a0d West, which lave eIothed and
fed them, were absolutely dependent upon
them. They stole from US, at Que sWoOp,
'h9pllfeds of EqilhOps III doliSFs, Snpposing
i would cripple US, AND break MS down,
but they were much mistakens. They have
learned, or will learn, that while they, With
all their thieying, have been half starved.
there has been no material augmentation
OF prices With as, and no dimiuutiOn Of
. BupPIiesG and that, in This day of their
SharPest distress, the North is suffering
less than Il not uRfrequeniIy does during
an ordinary financial revulsion
Dixie IS going 20 IA manual labor school.
9TH 81 hts help from the negroes, he has
been Obliged TO take or bis coat, roll an his
sleeves, and heR and dig and build, aud
: mhEet and run. Were il not for the effects
OF the short EatiOns and the tobacco and
the bad whisky, he would come out Of the
war very much improved physically, and
With o1ne new itieas on the subject of la
h0F.-- .aAf0 In ri, tJ,.-a 49,.
moro genuine white labor performed at the
SOuIh, within the last year, than during
the Previous half century They have
learned that 5hey can work, and learned
something OF what work can accomplish.
They have LEARNED something also ns To
what Il is 70 work under drivers, TO bend
ethsShoyel,Nnd tbe hoe under 4 military
tSsk-mastes. The discipline of the service
e9d the military snbordinatiOn which the
ehiyaiEy have experienced, cauuOt fail to
do them great good, discriminating the,
dempralizipg effects Ofcamp lite.
Dixie - lehrnipg his place in. the world.
Nothingis 30 difficult, and nothing so pain.
fuls 70 many young man, ns tie process
OF learning exactly where he belongs in the
world, as man of muscle and q Imam of
mental reaourees. Some men never learn
their placeGs hut they are blockheads.-
Some learn it only by n good sound fog-
gtng. Dixie has always carried a very
high hVaas talked 10 loud dictatorial tone.
Dragged OF his courage and his proves,
ana assumed, both in social and political
NE, t9e supreme seat. Dixie has already
had his hat knocked over his cyes and his
= heels tribped up. In short, he has been
whipped and has been shown that he has
only aWaGgered and bullied and brow beat
en- heretofore, IN safety, because the North
.'WgS Peaeeable aud good natured. He has
N4p9red about htmsslf before the nation,
bun no has been aOofed in the sight of ali
the world, and theWorld has learned that
he taspoEt tue Puissant chap which he rep
resented himself to be. He has been hui
initiated by SGT Of people whom he hns
very heartily desPised, whom hc has called
oy low andeuRly names, and whom he had
always faucied were almost immeasurally
his Interiors.
Dixie has learned, or will learn, another
thing. viz: that civilization built upon At
rican slavery la weak, and that a civilizn-
tion based upon free white labor is strong.
The South has always worshipped power.
and has always courted aud admired the
powerful. 1t had fopdly believed that
those who lorded it Over slaVes, aud led u
rgPprtluR lie. and fought duels, aud were
-seAceuStolnsd to The use Of firearms from
rhildhoOd, and regarded labor as degrh-
.dingS were the only men In America who
mad dhreBe and spirit, and gen0iae per-
eeual ppTee. They had believed that The
White slaves Of the NORTH could never
stand before them-that they were a. weak,
"a tPlntleSSa, low brood Of simpl6tObs and
sPQlleoppq. They have met tho ssmudSills.'
and have learned that the mudsiils ore
liner spPerioFs7--thUt they are larger,
stronger better fed and moro truly brave
THAN they. They have learned, that power,
fNFNNtA fFuINt -
N0Fthi independent Of its numerical sunk-
4Eiority. They have learned that the North
Il the more powerful simply because It is
trae.s that they are weak simply be-
eanse their system OF labor and style of
4 civilization ,mads them 3d.
Another thing, and very important one,
that Dixie has learned, or is-learniDg, lei.
Z that pblitiatans .are.yery unsafe leaders and
slaYeholdeEs very poor paymasters. The
:, Sopth mas been ruled by shareholders, who, ,
10 t9En, have been led by the politicians
The number of shareholders in the South I.
AS related TO the total white nopulRtiou fs
small; end this war begun and carried on
IN bShait ot slavery, and in behalf OF the
schemes Of sel6sn politicians, has been
the ruin pecuniarliY, OF that great SOUTH.
err majority instituted BY the non-slayt-
holding whites. Tho soldiers who have
= :, fought the battles Of slavery are mostly
tnose whose interests are opposed to slave
; ~. They have been led in fight which
could never result 10 anything hut damage
10 them, II successful. Unless the duliest
q scholars, they have learned to attend to
thetr own political affairs, aud not to Ill
low themselvesto be led by the nose bV
politicians. A revelation at the North by
politicians irrespective OF the people,
would be an impOssibility. The politicians
sbAFgalned away the North to the South,
but the people wo1li not stand II, and the
lFattpEs AZ the North were sileneed Ia an
hour after Sumter fell. Dixie will do yer7y
well as soon as he learns that his real eui-