Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-02-03

pie in tho Spanish deportation or depletion
Of the Moors-7the precedent would fall far
short of our case. y
Afterward writing to 81, dc Musnier,
who had attributed the defeat OF. this plan
10 the absence of Mr. Jefferson, who was
in France, and Mr. Wythe pho was then
member Of the Judiciary Department, Air.
Jefferson says iiBlt there were not wailt-
ing IN that assembly men of rrtae enough
70 propose, and talent enough TO yindicate
this clause, Bnt they saw the time for
doing 1T With Success was not yet arrived,
aud that an unsuccessful effort, nS too often
happens, would only rivet still closer the
chains Of bondage, aud retard the moment
delivering this oppressed description ofmen.
What a stupendous, what an incomDro-
heusible machine is man Who can endure
famine, stripes imprisonment, aud death
itself, in yindicatiOn of his own liberty,
and the next moment be deaf to all those
motives, whose power supported him
through his tTtllr and inti;ct on his fellow
man bondags one hour Of ishieA Is fadngft
tlitA more HlfytI5 L6an ages of ttdt tv1ich he
To5e an re6eiAgB 20 oppose. But we must
wait with pqiicnce the workings of au
oyerruliug Providence, and that that is
preparing thezds!iyerancc of these oar snt-
ferng bfstbrCu when the measure of their
tears shall be full, when their groans shall
have involved heaven itself in darkness,
doubtless God of justice will awaken 10
their distress, and by diTusing light and
it6erality among their oppressors, or, at
length by his ertermtnqfiHy thunder. mani
test his attention to the things Of this
world, and that they are not left to the
guidance Of blind fatality
a.. q
ritY, there has been great political npos-
tacy- The fathers looked upon slavery rs
gTent evil that should be gotten elear off
ms soon as possible, and that too by "legis-
latiSe enactment Our modern statesmen
declare il to be HgOodp thing--a Diviue
iR9titttiOu.a You might as well CRY, Sirs,
Lord God, the Pope. That We may see
clearly this "great apostacy,Y wish to
make few quotations from leading South
ern Journals. will begin with those of
our own State. The Richmond Examiner
says, Until recently the defence of slavery
has labored under great difficulties, be-
Cauee its Hp0logists flor they were mere
apologfsts) took halfway grounds. They
confined the defence of slavery to mere no.
gro slavery thereby giving up the slavery
principle, admitting other forms Of slavery
to be wrong, Tho line of defence, hoWey-
or, isnow chnnged. The South now main-.
taius that slavery is right, natural and ,ieces-
sary, and does not depend on difference of
complexion. The EGlos Of the Stare States
Justify the hotdlng Of tVhits men ia Gond-
GJe.P Tho Riohmond Enquirer holds the
following; "Repeatedly have we asked
the North, has not the experiment
of universal liberty failed2 Are not
the OWLS Of FREQ society insufferable -
And do not most thinking men among
you propose to subyert and reconstruct il /?
Still no answer: This gloomy silence is
another CONCLUSIVE proof added to many
other conclusive evidences we have fur
nished, that free society, in the long run,
is an imprRcttcRble form of society 1t is u
everywhere starving, demortllzing and in
surrectionary. We repeat, then, that poli-
cy and humanity alike forbid the existence
of the evils of free society to new people
and coming generations. Tteo oppOSfte and
conflicting forms Of soctety cannot, among
eiUitizea men, eo-erist and endure" Mark
that. 'S2he one must !qipc lray aud cease 10
eriet, the other become Unireysdl. Iffrce So
cicty be unnatural, immoral, nnchristian,
it must fall and give wny to slave society,"
social system old as the world, universal
as man."
Now, sir, ye have the subject fairly
stated-"frec society and slavery cannot
co;e&ist and endure" We must all be
freeaor nll be slaves. We must destroy
slavery or it will destroy us. Which will
we do?
From a work by George Fitzuk; entitled,
tFree Society Failure,n the same paper
quotes and endorses tho following senti-
ments
GLite and liberty are not inalieuable.
The Declaration of Independence is exu-
berantly false, and arborescently fnlla.
CiOus.D
"Two hundred years of labor have
made white laborers pauper bGuditti.n
"Free society has failed, and that which
is not free must be substituted"
Slavery, black or WHITE, is right and
neeessury"
!, Nature y has MADE the 'geak IN g.iaa and
The Charleston lEercuEy says: tISEuvery
Is the natural and normal conditioa of nc
idIori1g man, irdether YuITB or black"
might very greatly extend these quo,
tations, but it is not necessary, Enough
has been quoted to show this great falling
away from first principles. These first
principles gave birth to our national intle-
pendence. The second, to rebellion.-
These quotations also show that slavery
is not, in the principles of pro-slayery-
lists, confined to the colored man, but
that they extend to the white-to theiweak
in mind and body, whether white or black,
How many poor men have we that viii
vote for a pro slavery Constitution 2 Evz
cry poor man ought to arise with All his
might, and strike down every effort that Is
made to Incorporate these principles in the
Constitution. The advocates of slavery
in the now State are the enemteS.Of the
poor man-tyiug him with chains equal to
those that now bind the black man,
There is light ahead. The signs in the
Convention are hopeful. The propositions
of Mr.. BRttelle are a move in the right di-
rection. That the importation of slaves,
into the new State for permanent residence,
should be prohibited by the Constitution,
il a nrnnnaifinr, tInnt ill mat ,n;tl, -.