Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-07

The Designs OF the Rebel Chiefs
against Free Government exposed.
From the Baltimore American.
izse he.Ee6els.areastil doing the5 can
to settle their newly gotten up tyranny on
firm basis, are afFording additional proofs,
as they have opportunity, to establish the,
fact that, With their power once consolfda-
ted and placed beyond danger from any
outside assault, the chances for anything
like the old systemsof free government in
the States whose rights they have usurped
would be forever destroyed Indeed, they
do not any longer seek to disguise their
love TOR q more 'fafistocratic" system i;
they boast of It, labor hard to impose it
npon the people. Aud whilst it was thought
that mere policy would dictate forbearance
until the danger to their usurpation might
be considered by them at an end, embold-
ened by their success in getting their iron
yoke upon the necks of the people Of the
South they have come out undisguisedly
by ignoring all law aud all justice; their
savage "tmpressmenta" having had the
effect, apparently, to break down even the
remains of a feeble opposition, as the
masses of the deceived and wronged down
there shrink back from any direct conflict
with the military despotism for the time
holding forth at Richmond. .5a
1t will be recollected that when the
London Times Special was on his tour
in the South the declaration was made to
him that when the rebels were once sue.
cessful the restrictions on vottng were to
be of the most stringent kind-that "for-
eigners," especially foreign born, were to
stand no chance down there alongside of
those native to the soil, thus destroyinp all
hope of citizenship on the part Of any from
other portions of the world who might de-
sire to make the South their home. II was
but little time ago, too, that we had oc.
casion to quote from the columns of the
Charleston Mercury the significant and in
sOlent declaration that ga slaveholding
people are peculiar people, and they can
not admit an upguarded intercourse with
every other people without danger to them.
selves"
Well, from the time landings were made
at Plymouth Rock and at jamestown from
the time Lafayette and DeKalb and Steu.
ben came here to fight our battles, this
continent ir all the length and breadth ap-
Propriated to that system Of free govern
ment favored by the first corners, and af-
forwards established by Washington and
Adams and Jefferson, was considered as
dedicated to the use of the, oppressed of
every land; was gladly made their asylum
when such were compelled to flee from the
despotic tyrannies of the old world and
living and thriving here under the kindly
influences, these refugees have paid back
to the country the benefits they have re-
ceived an hundred fold, aye, thousand
fold aiding in pushing it forward on the
road to greatness, helping to establish its
power, whilst thereby securing their own
happiness.
But all that is to be done away with. so
far as one large section of this Continent is
in the case, if the Rebel chiefs can but
succeed. Aud if there is any foreigner
here, any Irish or German citizens. who
has hitherto aattered himself that with
''peace," on the basis of Disuniou, he
would be free to establish himself as n
citizen, uuder Rebel rule, let him at last
dismiss tue pleasing anticipation, for the
gate to Dixie is to be slammed in his face I:
or if he is suffered to enter, be must stand
there branded ns an anterior, an alien. to
be such while life lasts, as the first sten
toward the. establishment of.au exclusive
citizenship-au ''aristocracy, into which
be can meyer find entrance. Aud now for
the directprOof ofalI this We have living
before US copy of the Southern Illustrated
News, published at Richmond, and it's ar.
ticie summing up the events OF, tie .dav
contains the following, which we hope
every foreign born citizen will carefully
scan and then hand to his neighbor, that
all may thus know what is at stake in this
great conflict. We quote:
"Mr Clay, of Alabama, has introduced
bill looking to the repeal of the t,eutraI-J
lzation laws. The second section provides
tnat NO person of foreign birth who was
not a citizen of the Confederate States nj
tue time of the Inauguration of the perma.
nent Government ofthe Confederate States
shall be allowed to pote for any Officer. civil
or political, State or Confederate, unless
ne has voluntarily and faithfully served in
the armies or uavies of the Confederate
States during the eristfng sOar, aud has been
natuFalized ia accordance with the proyis-
ions Of certain nets heretofore passed.'''s
E So much for the bill introduced by a
member from one of the principal Cotton
s'ates-Alabama-in, the Rebel Congress.
Now. for the view taken of it down IN Dir
'e, giving words of the Richmond Nsv,
for the same. That paper says: ll
The bill meets with very general an.
prevail. and will, we trust, soon become =
law. Ethnologists hnYa tlecidnd -. -