Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-28
Prom the n v, Tribune,
signs OF Civilization,

signs OF Civilization.
There never WINS hald,r lAtuily than
that Of The rebel Shareholders Never did
engineers so hoist themselves BY lheir own
petAtdS, Only litlle whils ago, aud
through the length aud breadth ot that
terFllsry which Il Cursrl the slave power,
M irFemrdiable and irresponsible incubus,
haughtily silsIc"d all discussion OF its
merits, and owning m respect Tor the forms
Of law, dispensed i,s tule rcyengrJ by the
hands Of Vigilance Committees aud inOO',
When We remember that only little while
ago, II was high treason against the ma es'
" OF man owning To whisper . doubt oil
the wisdom aud justice VI the institution
that travellers went about, II not with
blinders over their eyes, at least with gags
in their mOuthS-lhAt ii was dangerous
Tor them to have so muGh AS a Northern
newspaper In their pOckets-that the
Slaveholding police, with ait lis violence
aud terrorism, was vigorous and effective
when we remember all this, aud now
observe that Ia every quarter Of the Con-
fedsrAcy, slavery is nj the mercy Expresses
printed without let and speeches uttered
without hindtanCe, We hegin to understand
the old prOVerb about the madness OF those
whom the gods wish TO destroy.
Wherever the Yankee soldier goes be
establishes newspaper. No sooner does
he occupy town AIIOrding typographical
materials, than he begins 10 issue peSti'
lent Abolition journal, sufficiently OuIspO'
ken ~ drive all the pAtriarChs mad in the
ueighbOrhOOd. These soldiers newspA'
perS have already been established, or ~
least issued, In Virginia, the CRrolinaS,
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky,
Tennessee, and perhaps In other SlaVehOl'
ding States. We have before Us IA list Oi
these Abolition sheets printed 10 what
must, with such influences, soon be the
Free SOuth-prinIed, edited, bought and
read by our soldiers, and not, OF course,
By them alone. The facilities al the slave
fOr learning to read must now be consider.
able, 10 soy nothing OF the opportunities
afforded to whites whose early education
has been neglected. The schools will, oil
necessity, speedily follow the newspapers.
The " Institution" is certainly getting
into u most perilOus position, For, ever
since We have heard anything about it, we
have been informed, principally by its most
fervent supporters, that it deIested schools
OF all wicked things in this wicked world
that spelling promoted id6dclity auC
that reading made men fAOAtical-th0
popular Ignorance was public safety aud
popular enlightenment public peril-tha
the smaller the number Of the educated
class the greater was the stability Of th'
political body. See what Common School!
have done for the North See what news
papers have done for New England SCI
how the art of printing has promoted un
belief, and skeptclsm, and the incOntinen
cy Of the married and single, until nj
New England Is no better than very baC
SOdom-whiIe wel-well, il you want purt
intlexibls and inimitable virtue, and en-
lightened, incorporating aud ratioua
religion-you must look to US
Who has not heard and read this sort o
loose assertion over and over again ?
Within the last few years, II las been tbt
warp and the wool Of speeches wlthOu
sense, and Of sermons without grace, o
irrational reasoning and Of hottomless so
ciAl philosophy. Jack Cade never held
reading and writing in deeper detestS'ion
The consequence was, that the STAKEHOLDER
who would not have his boy grow up with
out that culture which lends is chief grace
70 human character, who feared 10 see hi!
child hestiAlized utterly by the noxious In
aHenees Of the plantation, was forced 4
send him 10 the North for an OdueStiOn
while Northern goVernesses RSFe impoTtoG
for the training Of the misses. But % BIZ
indignation AT Abolition fanatics grol
more aud more tervid, the Planter wa
forced to take still another ground. HI
did not mince the matter. He acclaimed
as We have seen, most loudly in behalf 0
ignorance. lie sneered at Yankee Com
mon Schools. He rallied At Yankee books
He denied the value Of popular mentA
cultivation altogether. II wisdom mean
anything more than Rkill in getting worl
out Of slaves, and cotton and tobacco GU
Of the ground, then ignorance was mos
certainly bliss, and wisdom most certainl!
folly.
Times have changed. The unbridlei
license Of the plantation has eliminated il
an insurrsction. The necessary iuvasio,
of Southern territory has carried with i
not only the arts Of war, but the arts o
peace. The soldiers of the Union marche
to the notes Of nob!er civilization tina,
the planter With all his cheap philosophy
has ever dreamed OF, and although i
might not have been difficult, with but
moderate exercise of common sense, /,
have kept him out Of the Southern terrific
ry, it will not be by any means easy to dis
lodge him now that be is already there
Should the Government rigidly coufscate
not merely the blacks, but the lands OF tht
guilty, an opportunity will DO afforded 0
exhibiting to the Patriarchs specimen o
the advantages Of free and requited labor
With the introduction Of Yankee thrift nnt
enterprise, the production OF the Soutl
may be doubled. The wasted and ne
elected soil will again exhibit It's fertility
The Iecuperation will be complete. Peace
will return Indeed.
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