Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-04

moro gpardedly. IVY e commend the fol-
lowing paragraph to the seader. 1t fore
shadows certain ''improvementsn upon the
form ofgoverpment CONSTRUCTED BY Wash
ingtou, Jefferson aud other sYirginians: :
mo foreigner who comes among us after
the struggle is over shoulH ever enjoy the
elective. franchise. If we cannot check the
spread over our territory of that spawn of
ignorance and crime which flows in end
less issue from the prisonsand .dens Of cor
ruption in the marts of Efrope, we can at
least shut out it's canksring effects from
the vitals of our body p5lItic. We sadly
need, too. a property qualification for ma :
tive as well as foreigner. It is hardly ne
cessary to repeat the trite 4rgpment of the
greater interestedness ol the property
holder in the successful administration of
government than of himspho has nothing
at stake. FINALLY we should cur
tail the number of officefs elective by the
people. These, and we might suggest 9TH
ers, are some of the features in our social
organism which have occurred to us as
sadly needing alteration.
If these sentiments tWsrs not in strict
accordance with what III rebel leaders
professed before they made war on us, we
might pass them by as the'windy bombast
of some Yirginian or South Carolinian
snob, gone mad with dre3ms of cbivalry.
But compare the passage te have quoted
with those which follow, and see how con-
sistent is their spirit.
In an essay by ]. Quitmaa Moore, pub
lished some years ago in the Charleston
JCorcUr,, the yvritar says.
"Those pestilent and persicious dogmas
the majority shall rule1-a in their
practical application, the fightful source
of disorders never to be qubted-philoso-
phies the most false, and patsions the most
wild, destructive and ungoyernable. The
institution of an hereditary Senate and Ex.
ecutive is the political form best suited to
the genius and most expressive of the ideas
of the South"
In letter captured byIpur forces on
Barnwells Island, South olrolina, NJ. R.
H. Garnett, of Virginia, writes to VIM. H.
Trescott:
Unjust acknowledge, myadear sir, that
/ look to the future with alnost as much
apprehension as hope. You may we'll OBJ
ject to the Democrat. Democracy, in its
original philosophical sensedis, indeed, iiu-
compatible with slavery and he whole sys-
TEN of Southern society"
This is the kind of "sound political in
formation" diffused by "tht thinkers" of
the southern States among those who ssit
on stumps by the roadside, ,"and who are
so superior to the men of NeN Eugland.-
Is it perhaps also the kind which our
northern Difusionists would like to incul-
cate here2 Have these vulgatians SO long
aPed the plsutattou-mHn1ers oftheit SOUTH
ern masters, that at last they too have an
ambition to be noblemen, members of "an
hereditary senate" paying court to ian
hereditary executtve2" Does Mr. Brooks
entertain the fond hope that by taking
thought, and difFusiug sound political in
formation, he may one day be hailed as
"my Lord Brooks?'
We cannot read without a smile of con-
tempt the puerile and visionary schemes of
these crazy Shareholders, who tdink to turn
back the hand of Time; and revive in the
nineteenth century the absurd aud effete
institutions of the fifteenth. But what
shall we think of the little band in the free
States which-living in the midst of free
schools, aud amongst an intelligent people
who do not sit by the roadside on stumps-
yet dreams that it can lead by the nose
twenty millions of freemen, and make them
the tools of slaveholdiug ambition.