Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-28
wHAT Is CoNsER7Ar1sMl
A Very Interesting and InStruetiv
Article.
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There are in this country at present two
kinds Of conservatives those Of one clasl
seek only to preserve slavery, and rather
than have that injured would prefer, uS Nc
Seymour'1 right hand man recently said ia
his presence, TO "let the rebels 90" Til,
other class, the true conservatives, desire
with the President, above allthings, to pre-.
setVc the Union, and are not willing that
any minor aud partial, aud, ne it has been
proved, injurious interest, shall be preserv.
ed, " il stluds 10 tue way OF the. preSPtva,
tion Of the UniOn, The one class says il
effect Let the Union perish. 50 slavery lis
preserved; the other says, let slavery per.
isb, SO The UnlOn may stand. This condi,
tiOn Of opinion is no novelty in the pOliti
cal history Of nations. The conservation
ofsone particular interest or instiIutiou is
often mistaken for tue conservaIion-of the
State: aud SO injurious may be this error
that the interest guarded may be tha,
which, above all others, erdAngers the
State. .ui.G
Very naturally the politics Of any nation
may centre about some element Of its soeia
organisation which involves possible dau.
ger, or 10 the eradication or Limitation Of
which the national prosperity Is immedi.
aIely concerned. Euglish history furnishe,
a ready illustration OF this teOdency 10 the
long political struggle between the kingi
and their subjects, respecting the preroga,
tive ofroyalty. ltwSs from the extension
Of this prcrogatiye, if from any quarter
that Englisbmen unprecedented the subver,
sion Of their established rights; and upon
this single pivot turued the political des,i.
ny Of England, frouihe subscription ofthC
NagHd Chsria by King John to the sisning
Of the Bill Of Rights by William OF Or,
auge.
Tho prominence which royalty had Ii
English politics slavery has had ia our own
In this connection the parallel betweer
the histories Of the two nations is
somewhat remarkable, In both, th,
dangerous element was for u long tune
disregarded, because the people were coa.
hdenI Of their ability TO resist whenever re,
IisiGnee should become necessary, lnBalh
despotiim would have been the final TrSait
It Entertainments threatening the seSdtny
Of the people had been suffered 10 "a d
unchecked. Ia both, two strong pirliel
were deVeloped-the one seeking to fore
stall the danger by consIitu,iouaIIy limit
ing the power which thteateaad it, whil,
the other soaght to extenuate aud enIarpt
the same power BY open aud active sympa
thy, 10 both, the struggle eliminated 10
civil war and it is noticeable that the twt
armies pow nlRrShallsd In opposition OF
this continent arc respectively descended
from the very Roandheads aud Cavalier,
that met In battle at Narston Moor.
Now it is clear that the true couserva,
tiIes were the democratic Puritaus, ant no
the aristocratic Cavaliers. 1t was ou theil
side, therefore, that speh men as Milton
at the time, and MRcIulGy, as historian
ranged themselves
Il may be said that there was time
when.a similar opposition 70 loyalty would
have subverted the State rather than saved
IL; that there was a time when even en-
croaehmentS similar TO those OF Charles I
would not have been frAught With danger
We might, indeed, go back TO an era il
history when the arbitrary power Of III,
throne was absolutely indispensable to pro,
gress. Thus was itl'iu Asia 10 the age o.
Hsr1es. But civilization, ss It ascendi
through various grades, varies also III,
conditions Of its progress; aud, as national
prosperity runs ia the tSmS line with civ.
illz4tiun, its conditions are equally yariA.
Fbls, And what E&s~Faaissl yesterday laS.
comes conservative to-day. Protestautisu
ID the tenth century would have been ex.
tIeue rAdisalism, because the terrible pow.
es lodged 10 The Church must, by any re.
volutiou, have passed into still worse bands
bat 10 the tifGssntb century the conditions
had changed, and Protestantism was Of ali
things the m6stcolstrvatiSS. yUgnHfF
II through ordinary movements, in time.
Of peace, the conditions Of feonseryatism;ar,
varied, bow much, more through the move,
ments Of reyolutionl Thus it was only
Attes the shock Of battle had disturbed
some settled notions, that the Euglish peo
pie rose TO The necessity nStlnesslf tiim.
ting The prer0gatiye OF ChaFiss {, bat Gtsr
OF cutting Of hiS bead. 10 like mauneI
Il "a