Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-06

ment, bring it to anarchy and ruin rathe
than it should not succeed.
Let US premise that Governor Andrew
Johnson recognized the true necessities O.
the case when be represented Tennessee,
setiment, especially at the Maryland Insti-
tute meeting the other night. ali bank.
stand iu the way of free government, PM
them down; or if slavery, or aught else
does the same thing, they must give way to
it," was the substance of what he said,
Aud now, going back TO the
of this conflict, and travelling all the way
down through the history of terrible events,
where will any citizen of Maryland locate
the bulk of the disloyal sentiment with us
but with the great slave counties of the
State? We do not need specifications in
this case, for the merest possible glance at
events proves the soundnes5or-Ih position
thus assumed, not forgetting at the same
time the fact that where the loyalty has
been true, as in the case of Gov. Hicks and
others in those communities, it has been
of the most intense and efficient kind.
We had occasion, more than year ago,
to chronicle the advent OF deputation of
rebel representatives from one of the prin.
cipal slaveholding counties to Mr.. Jeffer-
son Davis, on behalf of "down. trodden
Maryland" and the formal reply ofthe Int
ter, expressing sympathy and promis-
ing them great things he was never able TO
perform; and now, whilst we write, we bave
lying before US in the columns of one Of our
city papers, issued yesterday, and as an
item of current news, the following, copied
from Richmond paper:
"PnEsENT TO GENERAL LER.-We have
seen the beautiful gold spurs sent to Gen
eral Robert e. Lee by some of bis friends
and admirers in Prince Georges county.
Maryland. They were very neatly orna-
meuted and suitably inscribed. BY all the
rules OF chivalry General Lee has won his
spurs as true knight, and so the ladies
aud gentlemen of Prince Georges have EN-.
Phaticaily pronounced, and bestowed them
accordingly. Long may he wear them
Richmond Sentinel.
Now such manifestations as this, and
others kindred to it, do not come from AL
legheny, nor Frederick, nor Carroll couu-
ties, nor Harfold nor Cecil; aud when the
great slavehoIding counties of the State
following the lead of South Carolina and
Mr.. stepheus-magnify the Importance of
slavery iu this conflict, and furnish all pos
sible encouragement to war which has
brought great invading armies into our
State, who will fail at last to recognize the
Gnimus of the murderous wrong doing, and
proclaim at last that polieEin in dealing with
it here which shall render it inocuous in
the future?
And as for the cry of "Abolitionist," !" re.
ferred to by Judge Blair as of possible
force in this case, let all loyal men laugh
it to scorn. Until we do as Governor
johnson aud other loyal Democrats aud
loyal men of every party do in the Border
States, who have escaped from the bloody
despotism set up auo.oedly by slavery-uu.
til we resolve to grapple it by the throat
as it flies at the throat of free gov
ernment, and strangle it 1oheneuer Il man
ifssts its pocer and its purposes for ms
chief-so long will the Union sentiment
be weakened in energy, and unable to cope
with it to anything like equal advantage.
Let US remember that the Rebel Confed-
eracy, the Slave Oligarchy the Government
or usurpatiou whose "corner stone is based
on stauery," is not to- day daruted, abashed,
humbled greatly. although squalid with
want, swathed in rags, gaunt, horrible in
its starvation and misery. 1t still Vaunts
its power; still breathes forth its ferocious
mutterings against free government; and
even in what seems to be its death strug-
gle, is making provision to restrict the right
to participate in self-government to the few
it would tolerate. With its own prints de-
precatiug its abuses of power, its purposes
to establish 'aristocracies or mon
srchy" IS the upshot of all that has been
achieved in its career of blood, its sympa-
thizers here pat it on the shoulders, still
urge.it onward in its career of fdesolationan and
even send its chief champion in its bloody
raid upon the soil of Maryland those ems
hlsmatic instruments which might incite
him to another inrosd hither, 10 more
wholesale murder, desolattop, and every
evil. Let the people of Maryland at last
rseog"ize their foe, and let them provide for
him accordingly.
Finally, in matter of this great impor-
lance, let US not be misunderstood. The
ground has long ago been taken by US that
Slavery has received its death blow in
Maryland aud cannot much longer be of
much service to anybody on its old basis,
When experts" IN dealing with the insti-
tuition put negroes at q Eve dollarR apiece,
no one can doubt hut that lis history is