Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-08


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Arch-BIshop PureeIIs Experiences
In Europe--ExtrRCt from his Lee
ture In Cincinnati last Monday
Night.
A United States traveller in Europe, du-
ring the last eighteen months, can retain
none but painful impressions of the change
which is there manifested in public senti-
ment with regard to his native or adopted
home. America, whilst its people remain
ed united under the egis of Constitution
which, Notwithstanding imperfections in
herent in all that is human, was justly re-
garded as the wisest aud freest enjoyed by
any people, ancient or modern, was the
pride of the world. The down-trodden
and oppressed of all nations docked TO her
for happiness, security and freedom; and
only tyrants feared, hated or euVied her
The eye of the lover of human rights saw
but TO admire, the tongue was loosed but
bless her.
| 1t is not so now. In the cabinet of
kings, in the editorials of journalists, in
the conversation of tourists in rail cars,
I in hotels, in social reunions, the question
of her approaching dismemberment and
! final dissolution is everywhere discussed.-
1t is differently answered, as the speakers
are influenced by malevolence or regret.
The experiment of peoples fitness for
self government is said by many TO have
failed because it was tried on scale too
vast. The gigantic members were too dis
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ing impulses. We possessed the largest
territory of any of the nations of the world,
and we were not satisfied. We were to
perish by our own greatness.
Others contended that a people could not
long survive the fatal contest between the
Declaration of Independence aud the Con-
stitution of the United States, the one as
serting that all men are born free, sover-
eigu, aud independent; the other, that mil
lions may be slaves.
A third class of theorists maintained that
the principle-"the majority must rule"-
would lead to inevitable ruin. 1t was the
conservation of might against right, of er-
ror against truth, and of folly against wis
dom. While we were yet in comparative
infancy, it is said, all these defects aud
vices of the system were held in abeyance;
but, when once grown, the conflict with
LuGuA Mho ho4IEGpEoo6luAU huu utshS-
trous. add nothing of the caustic re-
proaches everywhere made of the want of
public virtue, as attested by our own news
papers in their hideous details of "fraud,
bribery, aud corruption" in every depart.
lnent of the administration. Such, if / am
allowed here to give utterance to what
have seen and heard, is the Indictment
drawn up against us by the fault finders,
the Jobs comforters, and the would-be
philosophers of Europe.
| Iv To all these objections, which are equal
directed against the South and the
North, the response was obvious: That we
had been compelled to try experiments in
| government, because those long in force in
the Old World had been found wanting,
that the systems now in nse among the
Europeans are, at least, as defective, if not
worse than our own; that, however they
may disguise the facts that events from
| time to time disclose, their public func-
tionaries are not whit houester than
ours; that their people are more oppress-
ed and have less chance than ours of ris-
| ing from their depressed condition; that,
as these charges are alleged against the
Unionists of the North, war, which was
commenced by the South, was bad rem
edy, and that when, by the aid of God, we
shall have crushed the rebellion and re-
stored the Union aud peace, we will revise
the Constitution, place this instrument aud
the Declaration of independence in har-
mony with one another, safe guard the
Supreme Court of the United States by
proper checks, supports and sanction, and
profit by experience, to retain the good
and eliminate the evil of the past.
shall not say that these were all the
latent, or patent, sources of disunion to
which our attention was directed on the
other side of the Atlantic. The most pIau-
sible, taken from theIantagonistic interests
OF the South and the North, that clamor-
ing for free trade aud this for protective
tariff, l shall leave statesmen to answer.
But the argument which it was the Uuion-
lists place most frequeutly to use in vindi.
cation Of the Union, was the enumeration
of the wrongs committed on US by the
South simply to prevent those which she
dared not say were committed, but only
feared might be committed against herself
by the North.
Sac kept millions of men in bondage, for
bidding them to marry, which st. Paul
calls doctrine of devils, and forbidding
them to be educated. She trailed in the
dust the flag under which she and we
had prospered, and which was respect
ed and honored as il futtered on every
sea. She seized the glorious river tor
whose free navigation the nations wealth
was paid 10 the frat Bonaparts in
the purchase of Louisiana, and planted
cannon on its banks TO intercept western
commerce. She spoke of concessions and
compromises, and she never proposed this
one compromise, which verify believe
would have converted even abolition foes
into friends-namely. that after given
period, say fifty, seventy, or an hundred
years, she would abolish slavery, and in the
meantime, as the Northern States had
done, fit her slaves, by education, to be
men. The North could have terminated
the war with such an enemy in three
months, by proclaimiug the emancipation
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