Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-21
Emancipation by the South.
The "system" to be Changed from
"ChRtteIU 10 "FeudRI'-An Extra
ordinary Theory.

that few days after the publication of the
Presidents Emancipation Proclamation, it
was rumored that that document was hur-
ried out in order TO circumvent JEFF. Davis,
who, it was said, was about to issue a sim
liar proclamation. This was treated by
the public as an idle rumor, scarcely worth
a moments notice.
Whether the knowledge of the facts had
any influence upon the President, know
not but am IN possession of information
which satisfies nae that the Confederate
poWers-both civil and military-do con-
template the immediate and total abolition Of
chdttsE Slavery. The process is going on
daily, aud has been for months. The seiz
ure Of negroes belonging TO Union men;
the removal of slaves from place to place,
without the consent of their owners, Gpon
pretence of putting them out of the reach
of the Federal forces the compulsory mus
tering of both slaves and free negroes into
service of the rebels as teamsters, laborers,
pioneers, &c, (thus creating confusion and
destroying ownership are all parts of
plan for creating military necessity" for
declaring universal freedom of the black
rRcel
But, you will ask, what Willtbey gain by
such course2 If they do what Lincoln
threatens, what will there be to fight about?
do not think it requires extraordinary
wisdom to see that they will gain a great
deal-possibly their Independence. they
will make friends of nearly a million native
born Americans, capable of bearing arms,
whose sympathies, SO far as they have any,
has heretofore been with US and they will
secure the active sympathy of all the enc
mics of American Democracy in Europe,
and thus, perhaps, secure the recognition
of their existence as a nation, together with
commercial and other treaties.
By the advice aud connivance of their
aristocratic symPalhisers in France and
Great Britain, the South is TO adopt and
put into immediate execution the old Euro
pean feudal system, with such notifications
as will adapt it TO the condition of the
condition of the country aud to the spirit
of the age in which we live. This system
of slavery, they are now persuaded, is bet
ter than the old one which they see daily
crumbling to ruins. They feel that it will
make solid and enduring Foundation for
great Aristocratic Power, and will at the
same time be more profitable, industrially
and commercially, than that system of chat
tel slavery, which, for half century, has
been the reproach of America through all
the nations.
A secret society, resembling the K. G. O.,
and embracing all the members of the Con-
federate Government, and the greater por-
ton of the officers of their army, are sworn
to put this scheme into execution. 1t is to
be done as military measure-no discus
sion is to be allowed-all opposition is to
be crushed out summarily, as the Union
sentiment was at the beginning of the re-
sellion. The status of the negro, as well as
the landless white man. is to be fixed by
military DEGREES, and continued by legisla-
tive and judicial sanction. The State Gov
ernments are gradually to disappear, Mex
leo and the islands of the Gulf are to be
absorbed, aud great aristooratic Empire
is to overshadow and control the destinies
western hemisphere. None of the free
States or northern slave States are iVanted
there being a Democratic element in all
of those States which would cause trou-
BILE.
The Northern States Eastern, Western
and Pacitic-are TO be divided and render
ed antagonistic, if possible. The develop
meuts of the next six months will show
that this is substantially the rebel and Eu.
ropeau programme for crushing out repub.
lican democracy in America. Who can say
that it will not succeed? Liucolu's pro
clRmntion gives them infinite trouble. They
were not yetready. IL may cause them to
precipitate measures, and precipitation may
ruin them; and it may cause delay in the
execution of their scheme, but all can see
that delay may prove equally fatal.
On the same subject tue Journal of yes
terday says editorially:
To every close and dispasslonate obser-
yer of recent events it must be obvious that
there is movement on foot in the South
that looks TO a remodeling of their slave la
Dor system. The keen sighted leaders of
the southern rebellion would utterly fail to
equal themselves in political acumen, were
they to fail to see the impending necessity
for this.
But how to achieve it is the great ques-
ton. To do it unaided and alone against
tue whole power of the Government, they
find impossible. What shall hinder them
from again appealing to Europe for an alli-
auce at once political and commercial2-
Certainly no repugnance of feeling, nor
constraiut of consciencei But Europe
says to them, Your system of slavery is at
variance with all our record of Instrumentation
against human servitude. We shall stuItify
ourselves IN the face of christendom by an
alliance With you under your present system
of slavery 45oLiSh that and ioe nil reeo0y;z.