Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-08
s.Th. Trne GLORY OF tn. Wnr.n


The Cambridge LHtelIigencer, one of the
most widely circulated and ably edited of
the local journals ofdaryland. and which
is published in the large slaveholding
county of Dorchester. gives hearty vel
cometO the Proclamation Of the President
and in the course of its remarks describes
the influence of the slave institution in
this wise:
I'VE have never doubted that the war
which the rebels have inaugurated, would
prove to be the destruction of slavery.
We so warned the people at the time that
1t began, and events have already proved
the truth of our prediction. 1t is truly,
on the part of the rebels, war of freedom
to tho black man of the South. But this
is not all. There is another sense IN tohich
this Is a0ar of freedom. There ore other
men in the South to be freed as well as
black men. The white men of the South
need the strong arm of the government
to lift the yoke from their necks.' These
have endured a slavery far transcending
that of the blacks The social system Of
the South has never been anything short
of ndespotism-a tyranny equal to any of
the age. The mind has forever been
bound here. Freedom of opinion has
never been tolerated below Mason and
Dixon's line Men have not been permit
ted to hold, much less express, their own
opinions. A man might cOnscientiOusly
have believed slavery to be burden upon
the state, but he dare not let tho public
know that such were his convictions. He
would at once be prescribed in his bust
ness, and happy indeed might he be if he
escaped without a coatof tar and feathers.
Freedom of speech and the press was u
thing unknown in the South.
moreover all the legislation has been
in favor of one class of the community.
The Shareholders, though constituting but
one twenty-seventh partOf our population,
have ruled absolutely the commonwealth.
Andeyen Shareholders, themselves ruling,
have not permitted themselves to do as
they pleased with their own property.
About two years since, the legislature
passed law forbidding any one from
freeing his own slaves either by manumis-
sion during lifetime, or by will after
death. Here is blindness as we'll as
tyranny. Such acts are lasting disgrace
to our manhood. They cnslave the master
rs much as his negro.
Let the mind be free Let the facul-
ties be unfettered! There can be neither
prosperity nor happiness where these are
enslaVed. II is degrading TO any people
We shall never accomplish our magnificent
destiny until these are free. The war is
unbinding them. The true glory ofthe trGr
is not that 1t ii6srates The black, but the trhite
men Of the South They are already begin
ming TO shout for joy. Aud when the war
closes, they will join their voices in one
loud hallelujah TO the God OF Liberty for
their deliverance. We look with pride
aud joy TO the good time coming when
American freemeu shall be free in deed, as
well as in name"
This is, every word of it, true; aud the
longer the war is protracted, the more dis
tiactly will the truth be seen by the white
labOring classes of the South. They have
been heretofore little more than the serfs OF
the aristocratic veholding classes, steep
ed in their prejudices. misled by their false.
hoods and wholly dependent upon their in :
terests. But the light is beginning to
break through the darkness 10 which they
have long been held. democracy, and
slavery, or the whole system of Southern
society,"" said Mr.. Garnet, of Virginia, in
his letter to Mr.. Prescott, of South CARROLL
ma, "are. Incompatible" and the working
men among the whites WILL soon be of the
same conviction.