Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-09
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We AcoBPT THE RESULT.
In a country ike ours-uomiualiy, if
not really, a Republican cOuntry-whatthe
people will is law. aud what the people
now clearly will is War, prolonged War-a
War, it would seem, not only for the ex-
tirpation of negro slavery. but for the ex-
tirpation of the white masters of slaves
The cod of such war no man can foresee,
but if ever successfully ended, the end
must be for all that region OF the country
that stretches from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande what Jamaica or Hayi are, pic
Ruin, Ruin, Devastation, Desolation. we
shall destroy not ouly the produce, but tue
producer. The black race itself is per
ishiug, aud more will perish in the coilis'
ion of antagonist mind and matter-tlli:
in the end, what WAS the baroarlsm OF
America two hundred years ago, must oe
the barbarism of the South in some lS9O
or 1000.
Nevertheless, this is peoples Govern
ment, and what the people will is Law
The elections now over, since that OF Con-
necticut last spring. declare this peoples
Law. aud we must either accept it, or aban-
don our native land Ne may mourn over
it: but it is OF no avail. We may protest.
ALI that is left OF us.-uhat Monarchy,
not Republicauism, is the normal state OF
mau,-if this result be the fixed decree OF
the people
In accepting this result, we have right
TO hold "Ihc Government" -tor IT may DC
as we'll admitted. now, Mr.. Lincoln is tine
Government" de faciO though not "the Gov
eminent" de jure, ss much ''the Govern
men,'' as the Emperor NapoleOn,-we baTe
a right, we say, 10 bold "tbc Government
10 vigorous prosecution of the var, and
IN the early close of it. The whole bound
less resources of the Northern people are
now at its feet-mOuey, men, tue purse
and the sword. There is nothing it chooses
TO ask for, of life, liberty or property that
is not lis. We have ceased now to DE CHI
gems, and are but subjects, as other people
are subjects, mot citizens. Our State Banks
are cIoven down; our State Judiciary is
powerless our States themselves are but
record courts for Federal Dictatorship
The Provost Marshal OF the United States,
a Col. Fry, is the Chief Justice OF the land.
There will be struggles, of course, before
all this is owned up to.-there ever have
been struggles, sgaiust all Caesarian, Crom-
welliau or NapoleOnic usurpation; and IN the
end, it is possible-it is barely possible
that the spirit OF British Liberty, Unborn
in the Auglo. Saxon race, may be renewed,
even in Republican mini IL IS possiple,
Mgqna Charta may be Reconstructed, aud
Hd6eas Corpus; barely possible,-but his
tory shows but one revocation of people
from this our degradation, after a like civil
war. aud its consequent usurpations:-and
that was the revocation of our Augio-Sax-
ON ancestors, first, from Cromwell, through
Monk, the army chief, into despotism
under Charles the I'd, aud nexttrom Charles
the 2d's despotism, by revolution, under
James the Cd The spirit of this British
Liberty may yet exist in our people,-but
We see none of it wnere it ought most to
exist-among the indigenous population of
New England. Their Fanaticism on ne.
groes overruIes all the Liberty legacies of
their British ancestors,-and in all proba-
bility before they will re come to the res
cue, we have got to go through some Gen
erai Monk, some Charles the I'd Despotism,
lin order to reach some reign of some
William and Mary.
But, be the future what it may be, this
is our country, our land, our home,
and be it the Despotism of King,
or the Aristocracy of Shoddy and lobby,
OF the Oligurchy of Capital. springiDg
from a gigantic national debt,-we are
bound to live in it, endure it, and make
the best of it,-availiug ourselves of every
due opportunity to revive the spirit of
Constitutional Liberty, and to arouse the
people to return to those hereditary
precious institutions, they have been losing.