Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-08

be liberated that Seestnon took place. The
very party in power has proposed to guar
antee slavery forever in the States, II the
South would but remain in the Union.-
Mr.. Lincoln's Message proposes no free
dom to the slave, but announces the sub
lection of his owner to the will of the
Union; in other words, to the will of the
North Even after the battle of Bull Run
both branches OF the Congress at wash
ington passed resolutions that the war is
only Waged to uphold that (pro-slavery)
Constitution, and TO enforce the laws (many
OF them pro-slayery), and out OF one hum
dred and seyenty.twO votes in the Lower
House they received all bat two, and in the
Senate ali but one vote. As the army
commenced its march the Commanding
General issued an order that no slaves
sh ould be received into or allowed to follow
the camp"
Now, in view OF what has happened-in
view of these deliberate acknow Judgments
by those who are the representative men
Of the Institution of slavery, the world will
say that it has done all that laid in its
power to provoke its own fate. We know
the devlish arts resorted to by South Caro-
lima to 'sproduce Southern Union" at a
time when in States like Tennessee and
Kentucky, and Maryland and North Caro-
lima, she could hardly muster corporals
guard to abet her evil practices; when. in
the gniiicantlanguage of Mr.. BOyce, there
was wanting a"conviction ofits necessity"
Well, there is not a "Southern Union,"
that thing so much desired, now; and since
every device has failed to produce one,
the last card is to be played, and the whole
outside world which will not give into the.
wishes of South Carolina, are at last to be
fO no Ia at uNfn he la yaH- nj
aristocracy have the power to bestOW; all
are to be denounced as "Abolitionists :"
Let them beware lest such a course, pursu-
ed to its farthest conclusions; cause that re-
suit in the North even more completely
than has yet been wituessed-a Northern
Union
There was another conclusion arrived at
by this same Mr, Boyce, OF South Carolina,
in the letter to which we have referred,
ard what is more, it is getting Of late to be
the conclusion of all sensible men. Civ
ing his reasons why South Carolina should
not rush upon her fate in leading of in a
Secession conspiracy, he said:
"For the various reasons have stated,
object in as strong terms as can to the
secession of South Carolina. Such is the
intensity of my conviction on the subject,
that if Secession should take pLdee-of trhich
existence of such sTUPENDoUs AADSBss--
I shall consider Tie insitvtioR of slavery az
DOOMED, aud that The Great God, in our
6liHdness, has made US the Instruments Of its
destruction."
Now, we ask the people of Maryland to
consider well these conclusions, arrived at
by one of the most distinguished men of
the State which is, above all, responsible
for the untold horrors and crimes abroad
in the land, and consider whether the term
''Nbolitionist," coming FROM that region,
from the favorite Rebel commandant at
Charleston, should have any terrors for
loyal men, What are the views of Mr..
Boyce as to the fate ProUoked for itself by
Slavery, but those given thirty years ago
by another distinguished son of South Car
olina-quoted by us the other day, and
what utter folly is it to suppose that such
stuff as worn-out epithets, falsely applied,
can stay a mighty revolution which is
achieving more than its projectors bargain
ed for when they, with so much alacrity,
set it on foot.
Then, we say, letthe traitor Beauregard,
and his imitators everywhere, persist in
their mad folly. They threw down the
gauntlet, and the civilized world has taken
1t up, and no championship for slavery will
in The end avail, whilst what they do now
to aggrayate the conflict will but aggravate
the evils they have brought upon them.
selves. After what has occurred in rela-
tiou to slavery, who can fail to believe, in-
deed, with one of them, that "the Great
God in" their "bliudness, has made" them
"the instruments of its destruciionr' In
the depiorabIe straits to which they have
arrived arrogance is sadly out of place;
assumption is uttesly absurd. With no
prospect whatever Of ultimate success, let
them give them some evidence of regret, OF
pain for the slaughter and ruin they have
brought upon their section; let them not
needIessly provoke a worse feeling of dis
gust and horror from the world at large by
further attempts to infiame malignity, as a
murderous substitute, albeit poor one,
for real power. They may intensity ha-
tired; they cannot, by such additional mad
ness and folly, determine the great result.
The nIlitary situation before Fred
- erioksburB.
Prom Letter In the New York Times.
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