Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-09-12

Wherever moonbeams touch with tranquil glow.
The waves are full Of whispers, wild and sweet;
They call to me; necessarily they beat
Along the boat from stem to curved PROV.
Comes the careering wind, blows back my hair,
All damp with dew TO kiss mo unaware -..fa. rl
weet sounds on rocky shores the distant rote,
oh, could we float forever, little boat, -.I
Under the blissful sky, drifting alonel
Extract from the Spe ech h OF Gov. PeIr.
point at the Great Union Mass Meet
Ing, RS,SteubenvIlIe, ON the Sth'
You will pardon me If 1 say that after a
careful review of the whole subject, after
consulting the sentiments of the South, as
we'll as OF the North, it is my deliberate
conviction that this is a warfare between
the two antagonistic systems of civiliza-
tion in this conntry-a conflict between
free and slave labor. This was really the
spirit of the notification of 1882, and it has
been advancing ever since, The result of
my observation has been that Republican
institutions and slavery are utterly incom.
patible. Where slavery exists the Repub-
tlican theory becomes fallReious. They
cannot exist together. They wall not ex-
list together, Slavery has been in exist
/ eneel eterjsince the Government swaaform-
led and tho slave power has -heen- deternaia-
led e. overthrow our ipstitu ions and adopt
anofher form Of G6yefnment more suited
to its tastes.
! do not advance this as my own opin-
ion merely, but as the opinion of the prin-
cipal men Of the Southern States also.-
Listen to Stephens, Rhett, Ksitt, Garnet
of Kentucky, Hinton of Virginia, aud, in
deed, nearly all the leading men of the
slave States, and you have the same voice
in reference to the change of our form of
government. What Is this concurrent de-
| ductfon? 1t is that slavery and free In
! institutions are incompatible. The fathers
declared the same thing, but believed chat
slavery would soon yield to the progress of
4 freedom. Now We have the bold RyowRl,
and the bolder blow to effect it, that free
dom shall yield to slavery. Their funda-
mental doctrine is that capital should own
the labor of the country and that those
who own the capital and the labor shall
rule the country, make all.the laws, and
execute them Es-
/ think they were right, and l will tell
you why Think they are right. They hold
| that the masses can neverybe qualified to
participate safelyiin the sovereignty of the
country, and viewing it from their stand
point, and with such facts as they have
before them, they are right. 80
You cannot own slaves proftably unless
You own them in large bodies of three or
! four ,hundred-unless you drive them
i lyourself when you have but few. To own
large numbers of slaves you must have
large plantations of three or four thousand
acres Of land. The masters and their
families live in seclusion, almost ex-
-lclusieyly to themselves, surrounded by
their negroes. He brings the school
teacher to his own house, and in this ex-
'IcIusitAhess his sons are prepared for coll
lege. +, .-.1.. H. I'D. i.,si,.. -
comprise the great majority. They live in
miserable cabins at the CROSS roads and
j scattered over the plantations. They have
made the acquaintance of very few school
masters, and 20 per cent OF the adults
icanhot read. They look up To the slave
holder almost as submissively as the
slaves themselves. They get all their po-
4 liEical opinions ftem the mastersi and no
one scarcely, ever is found aspiring to
lanything higher than to be an overseer
on a plantation. They are ever ready to
q do AlIithe dirty work of the nabobs, and
sun az their bidding, especially 10 the
polls. The masters despise labor, and SO
do the poorwhites, and hence this squalid
condition bripgs ppon themjtha contempt
of the slaves themselves, whom they unite
4 with the mastersip calling "the poor white
1 trash" The poor whites thus get to des-
lpise themselves, and rarely ever hope for
anything better than thu, POOREST fare and
the most miserable existence.
These poor men are. commanded by
, 1.-The Shareholders to call any one who
differs with them in political opinions, an
s'Abolitionist.n They become in all things
! the mere lick-spittles of the rich. 'ti1
slo Thus il is that the siaveholders, seeing
the condition to which slavery has rednc-
ed the poor while populations proclaim 70
the world that the working classes are not
fit to vote aud should not be allowed q
vote. Hence they pronounce against uni
yersal Suffrage, and cay that Republ blicau-
lfsm win answer only where population il
Isparce, but win met do for refined society,
ETheyIdare not tolerate education for the
poor whites, because they might become
nnmanageable and Sbetfound voting ac-
cording to their own opinions and against
lthe despotismlof the masters e.
Such is. the: kind of talk they indulge II
.Iabout q governing class. The lew shoult
ITuis the many; and popular goyernmen
breeds vulgar people Gbey lo9k upon IN
! Icommonis people, who live by their owI
n TorkI in the North, with profound con