Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-30
The Pre.Ident,s ProelamatIon.


That slavery and the aristocratic notions
engendered by it, are the foundation of the
present rebellion. is fact too abyious for
discussion Every complaint made by the
South against the North has been caused
by feeling of prospective danger to the
institution. say prospective, for they re-
ally had no just cause of complaint 10 the
past, So long as they could make the
Union subserye this interest, they were
willing to remain in it, but as soon rs Mr..
Lincoln, a man whose views were antago-
nistic to slavery, was placed at the head of
the nation, they revolted and few to arms,
although they had the assurance that none
of their rights would be interfered with by
him or the party he represented. Do
those who now assume that slavery is not
the cause of the war, believe that il would
have been the same had Breckenridge been
elected2 think not. At least those pa
pers that take this position now, were a
few years ago warning US that in order TO
conciliate the South and save the country,
we should elect this pro-slavery candidate.
Breckinridge's election would only have
postponed the rebellion; nothing less than
an ignominious submission of the will of
the free North to that of the shareholders
of the South, would have prevented it,
Suppose your anti-slavery papers and
speeches quit teaching your children that
slavery is wrong, and we may yet remain
with you,n said Wigfall in the Senate.
Ifit is true that slavery is the foundation
of the rebellion, was it not wise in Mr..
Lincoln to strike at the root of the evil, ss
he has done in his Emancipation Proclama-
tion2 believe the loyal thinking portion
of the country will answer in the afirma-
tive. tits to be expected that some, hav-
ing more at heart the interest OF slavery
than of the Union, will raise an indignant
howl about "abolitionists." But, as the
loyalty of majority of them has never
heretofore been above suspicion, they can
do no harm. Yet the people note the
newspapets and men who prognostieate
| evil from this measure. Look at your own
neighborhood. 1t is not the secession
sympathizers-men who have opposed the
war from the beginning, and are eternally
crying out "abolitionist." From the head
hound-Jeff Davis, down to the lowest
whelp, we may expect one long, loud cry
Ia unison at this staggering blow at trea-
son. -
There is no rational, sensible man at the
NOrth-or the South either, who believes
that the rebellion can ever succeed, without
the aid of some foreign nation! 1t is
equally clear that NO foreign power will
take sides with slavery. Hence the persis-
tent, and TO some considerable extent sue
cesstul efforts of the rebel agents in Eu-
rope TO make the people believe that this
is not war on their part for the perpetu-
alton of slavery, and that the true friends
of the negro are not in the North bnt in
the South, and even limiting that the
South itself may emhncipate. the slaves
Mr.. Lincoln's proclamation is a conYin-
cling answer to all such averments, it shuts
the door against foreign Intervention, and
thereby blasts every rebel hope of success;
it eradicates the only stain on our national
eseutcheon; it blasts out the lost relic of
the dark ages from theonly civilized nation
that retained it; it takes treason and REBEL
liou. up by its roots, that it may bloom and
| flourish no more forever. -. -h-s n
But what will we. do with the negroes
after we free theml Nothing. Lee them
be where they are. la the language of Dr..
McGlintoek, "the great want Of our coun
try after the war is over will be labor; the
great want of the South will be the labor
of colored people. in the production Of cot
ton and rice. Ezpatriate them, and you
will be willing. ten years hence, to bring
them back again as free laborers, by offers
of bounties nd'free passages" S. 81. q.
4 Welks6tiEg, Sept. 90. ita.,